News & Updates

KickStart Launches Bundled MoneyMaker Pumps that Include Everything Needed for Cash Crop Farming Dar es Salaam, November 1, 2009. KickStart Tanzania is now packaging its award-winning MoneyMaker pumps with everything a smallholder farmer might need to quickly set up the... continue reading »

In 2006, KickStart made a commitment at the Clinton Global Initiative to help create 80,000 new businesses that would lift over 400,000 people out of poverty forever. We were invited back to present an update on our commitment during a... continue reading »

The first fiber optic cable landed near Mombasa, Kenya recently, significantly increasing Africa's connection to the world. BBC journalist Rory Cellan-Jones spoke with KickStart's IT Director Martin Rogena about what this means for KickStart, Kenya, and East Africa. Day Two: Water or the web?. continue reading »

Real Good Not Feel Good is a simple framework donors can use to focus their giving. We hope that Real Good Not Feel Good becomes a movement of donors and social entrepreneurs committed to creating lasting change in the world. continue reading »

As of January 31, 2009, KickStart has helped more than 400,000 people get out of poverty and start on an upwards spiral of prosperity. 400,000 is a tiny fraction of the 1.1 billion people living on less than $1/day, but... continue reading »

Thanks to all of KickStart's friends who cast their votes, Martin Fisher won OneWorld.Net's Person of the Year award. Read more about the award and Martin's Q&A with readers of OneWorld's blog Perspectives... continue reading »

Victor Agisa, one of KickStart's salesmen, tells of his ordeal during the worst of violence last year, and of the heroic efforts of one family to save his life. Victors story.pdf... continue reading »

KickStart has been recognized with a number of prestigious awards this year. With your help, we can win another. OneWorld.net has chosen Martin Fisher as a finalist for their Person of the Year Award. The competition is tough and the... continue reading »

Join us on Facebook Causes! Use the "Share This" link to post to Facebook, Digg, MySpace and other social networking sites.... continue reading »

CLAREMONT, Calif., Sep 24, 2008 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- The Drucker Institute at Claremont Graduate University has announced this year's winners of the Peter F. Drucker Award for Nonprofit Innovation. KickStart International, a San Francisco-based organization that fights poverty in... continue reading »

In September, Martin was honored by Design News magazine, a leading publication for design engineers, with their Engineer of the Year award. Click here to read the article.... continue reading »

KickStart Co-Founder Receives $100,000 Lemelson-MIT Award for Sustainability for his work to transform the lives of thousands of poor African farmers through a combination of technological and systematic innovation. continue reading »

Welcome to KickStart's new website.We hope that you find it interesting and informative.We would like to thank the Zennstrom Philanthropies for their generous grant to make this possible.  And we like to thank the team at Mule Design, who really... continue reading »

To make real progress in tackling the worlds most pressing problems, donors need to be able to distinguish between the "Real Good" and the "Feel Good." continue reading »

To download a PDF of a brochure on our human-powered irrigation pumps click here.... continue reading »

KickStart's Kenya Country Director John Kihia explains to our friends at the Case Foundation what it was like to grow up in a poor isolated village.  John and his siblings have gone on to earn advanced degrees and become successful in a variety... continue reading »