Max news

20th anniversary

royal distinction for our founders

On the 21st of March we celebrated 20 years of Max Foundation, and the mayor of Bloemendaal surprised our founders Joke and Steven Le Poole with a royal distinction.

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Climate Resilience

Learning workshop Ethiopia

At the beginning of November 2023, we hosted our first learning workshop on Climate Change Resilience in Ethiopia, together with Plan International. Read our learnings here!

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Max Foundation wins

Rotman Innovation of the Year Award

Find the official press release from Grand Challenges Canada about Max Foundation's winning of the Rotman Innovation of the Year Award here!

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Expression of Interest

Healthy Village in Burundi

Max Foundation is looking for partner NGOs in Burundi, to implement the innovative Healthy and Resilient Collines programme.

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Impact Report 2022

Strengthening systems

We are very happy to share our Impact Report 2022 with you! In this report we explain why and how our approach to child health works.

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Progress monitoring

Healthy Village Ethiopia

Recently, our Data and Monitoring expert Remco Geervliet visited our programme areas in Ethiopia, joining the Ethiopia team and partner organisations in a joint supportive supervision visit.

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Inauguration

Max TapWater Bangladesh

On March 15th, the official inauguration of Max TapWater took place in Dhaka, Bangladesh! Max TapWater provides safe, affordable tapwater to households through mini piped water grids.

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Healthy Village Approach at

World Water Week

During World Water Week in August, we were in Stockholm hosting three presentations on the impact of our integrated approach.

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Max Foundation results

Impact longread

Click on the image below to go straight to our impact longread! In it, we explain how the Healthy Village approach made a 50% decrease in stunting possible in our programme areas, as well as why this is so cost-effective, and more.

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New Boardmembers

Max Foundation

Exciting news: we have an (almost) entirely new Max Foundation board for the upcoming years! We'd love to introduce them to you. Below you can find a little description of each boardmember, alongside their photo. Want to get in touch? Head over to the 'our team' section of our website to find their details.

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Television interviews

Max Foundation Bangladesh

Max Foundation Bangladesh started 2022 with a bang: with three television appearances on the popular programmes ATN News Hour Extra and Connect Bangladesh.

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World Food Day Show

by Right2Grow

This World Food Day, our consortium Right2Grow will be hosting the World Food Day Show at Pakhuis de Zwijger in Amsterdam. Join us!

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Passing of

Mr. Alamgir Chowdhury

We hereby sadly inform on the unfortunate and sudden passing of Mr. Alamgir Chowdhury, the Training and Capacity Building Manager of Max Foundation Bangladesh.

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Max Foundation innovations

as local government 'Best Practices'

Local government in Bangladesh has chosen to feature 10 of Max Foundation's innovations in their "Best Practice compendium".

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Government officials

visit Healthy Village

In October, district level government officials visited a declared Healthy Village in Satkhira district in Bangladesh. Bangladeshi Newspaper 'The Editor' wrote an article about it! Read the translation below.

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Max Foundation

Winter Newsletter

Read updates from the last couple of months - such as the Right2Grow launch in Ethiopia - as well as some exciting steps for 2022, like bringing our Social Enterprise Max TapWater to the next level.

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Max Foundation Bangladesh

wins prestigious award

Max Foundation Bangladesh wins a prestigious award at the Project Management Symposium and Excellence Awards for the Healthy Village Programme.

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Max Foundation

Autumn Newsletter

Read all about the South2 South learning sessions we've been having for our Healthy Village Approach, updates on some of the events we presented at over the summer, an introduction to the full team in Ethiopia, and more.

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Official launch of

Healthy Village Ethiopia

After signing the agreements, Max Foundation Ethiopia and Plan International now officially launched the Healthy Village Programme in Ethiopia on the 29th of May!

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Intro to Max Foundation

a World Water Week special

<strong>Click on the image to go straight to our introductory two-pager!</strong> Find out more about how we work, our programmes and approaches, and our impact.

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Announcement

Healthy Village Ethiopia

Find the official announcement of the Healhty Village Programme Ethiopia developed by Max Foundation and Plan International Netherlands here.

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Joke Le Poole featured on

The Female Founders Network Podcast

Max Foundation's co-founder, Joke Le Poole, was recently featured on The Female Founders Network podcast!

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Max Foundation joins

the Million Lives Club

Max Foundation is proud to announce that we have been selected to join the Million Lives Club

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Meet

Champa Begum

Meet Champa Begum who has started to cultivate a homestead garden full of nutricious foods - for her and her family to eat, but also to sell at the local market

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Max TapWater and the Delta Plan:

an interview with Riad

Riad Mahmud, Max Foundation Bangladesh Director, was interviewed by Joep Janssen from the Nextblue platform

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Impact report

2019

Our Impact Report 2019 is out! Read all about last years highlights, and the impact we've made, right here

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Max TapWater wins

Energy Globe Award

Max Foundation's business spin-off Max TapWater wins the national nomination for the Energy Globe Award

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