Project Report
| Jan 6, 2015
Celebrating a Great Year for Diabetes Prevention
By Carrie Hutchison | Communications
What a year! Many thanks to all who have helped us achieve so much in 2014 to help prevent non-communicable diseases (NCDs) such as heart disease, diabetes, cancer, and chronic respiratory diseases.
We spent more time on impact measurement this year. We believe we have helped more than 150,000 people lead healthier lives in India —gaining us recognition from the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI), which highlighted Arogya World in their 10-year commemorative brochure and the Drucker Institute, which named us as a finalist for the Peter F. Drucker Award for Nonprofit Innovation.
We made great strides in mDiabetes. Analysis of data from our mDiabetes initiative revealed that at least 15 percent of the text message recipients in India adopted or maintained four healthy behaviors simultaneously: they reported they exercised regularly, ate 2-3 fruits/day, ate 2-3 servings of vegetables/day, and avoided fried food. In 2014, Arogya World also won its largest ever grant to date: $260,000 from Cigna Foundation for our mHealth2.0 program. We are fortunate and grateful to have such a great partner—one that extends support far beyond the financial. We have already begun work on the mHealth lifestyle intervention program with partners Emory University, Vignet, and Madras Diabetes Research Foundation.
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Sep 30, 2014
Drucker Nonprofit Innovation Awards Finalists
By Carrie Hutchison | Arogya World
We are honored to be one of 10 finalists for the 2014 Peter F. Drucker Award for Nonprofit Innovation. The award is given by the Drucker Institute, which is closely aligned with the Peter F. Drucker and Masatoshi Ito Graduate School of Management at Claremont Graduate University in Claremont, CA. Arogya World was chosen for its mDiabetes program, a Clinton Global Initiative which spurs people to adopt healthier lifestyles through text messages.
Administered annually since 1991, the Drucker Award is granted to a social-sector organization that demonstrates Peter Drucker’s definition of innovation—change that creates a new dimension of performance. In addition, the judges look for programs that are highly effective and that have made a difference in the lives of the people they serve.
The winner will be announced later this month. The prize is $100,000, thanks to a generous grant from The Coca-Cola Foundation. In all, the Drucker Institute received 687 applications this year from nonprofits in 46 states and the District of Columbia. The annual budgets for these organizations ranged from less than $250,000 to well more than $10 million.
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Jul 1, 2014
mDiabetes - Thank you and Next Steps
By Carrie Hutchison | Arogya World
Many thanks to everyone for their support of mDiabetes.
With our robust measurement and evaluation procedures, we were able to establish proof of concept for mDiabetes in India. While the results are being finalized for publication, we have already presented first results at the World Diabetes Congress in December 2013. Experts agree that mDiabetes text messages persuaded at least 15% of the recipients to adopt, or maintain, healthy lifestyles. We estimate that mDiabetes in 2012-2013 allowed us to help 150,000 people in India lead healthier lives. That kind of measurable impact spurs us on.
Accumulating evidence from our mDiabetes program and others studies suggest that mHealth will be the cornerstone of a chronic disease prevention model that we are building for the developing world. mDiabetes was our mHealth1.0 offering—we want to evolve to mHealth2.0 and cover other NCDs such as heart disease and kidney disease. We also want to build a mobile NCD prevention app targeting Indians. These efforts, and our recent 10-country survey of 10,000 women on the impact of NCDs, will help advance our work.
Stay tuned for Global Giving Campaigns around these efforts.
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