1000 Days Fund

What 1000 Days Fund does

1000 Days Fund (legally Yayasan Seribu Cita Bangsa) is an Indonesian non-profit foundation, founded around 2018–2019 and headquartered in Denpasar, Bali, that develops cost-effective solutions to prevent child stunting in the critical first 1,000 days of life. It partners with district health offices (Dinas Kesehatan), community health centers (Puskesmas), village health posts (Posyandu), and Indonesia's national family planning agency (BKKBN) to train Community Health Workers (CHWs/kader Posyandu), distribute in-home educational tools, and advocate for systemic CHW professionalization policies. Direct beneficiaries are pregnant women, mothers, and children under two in rural and frontier Indonesia, where stunting affects roughly 1 in 3 children; program intensity is greatest in East Nusa Tenggara (Manggarai Barat, Rote Ndao, Timor Tengah Selatan, Kupang) with growing operations in North Lombok, West Manggarai, South Sumatra, and Java.

The organization's product and program portfolio is anchored on three core assets: Smart Charts/Posters (colorful, life-sized wall-mounted educational posters covering six stunting-prevention pillars and embedded with unique QR codes for distribution tracking), Smart Blankets (iconographic blankets for newborn-care education), and Kader Academy (a WhatsApp chatbot delivering CHW certification courses). Supporting infrastructure includes four Stunting Centers of Excellence in NTT serving as midwife and CHW training hubs, a 5T Cadre Approach (Trained, Equipped, Supervised, Incentivized, Secured) and a 4x4 Care Model (four formal visits plus four in-home screenings per mother-child pair), plus a QR-code-based monitoring dashboard. A planned AI-powered M&E layer using the Colectiv qualitative-analysis tool targets 24-hour feedback loops from household visits by 2028. The technical stack deliberately uses low-cost printed goods plus WhatsApp-native delivery to operate in low-bandwidth environments.

Revenue is philanthropic: cash grants from institutional funders including Quantedge Advancement Initiative (multi-year, undisclosed), Forest Carbon, LINE Foundation, and SwissCham Indonesia, alongside in-kind CSR commitments from Kredivo (200,000 Smart Charts) and government-program partnerships with BKKBN (2,500 midwives trained). Individual donations flow through the website, Every.org for international contributors, and Kitabisa for Indonesian domestic contributors. Distribution is free to households, governed by signed MoUs with district governments that define Smart Chart quantities (typically 250+ per signing) and designate trained CHWs as install-and-counseling agents. As of September 2025 the organization reports 61,712 cadres trained, 655,806 households reached, and 88,000+ Smart Charts distributed, with an independent Behavioural Insights Team evaluation documenting a 19% stunting reduction in Manggarai Barat and Rote Ndao between 2021 and 2024.

Name

1000 Days Fund

Legal name

Yayasan Seribu Cita Bangsa

Website

https://1000daysfund.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

2019

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

The 1000 Days Fund is an Indonesian non-profit foundation that prevents child stunting by training community health workers, distributing Smart Charts and Smart Blankets to households, and advocating for CHW professionalization policies across rural Indonesia.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Public Health Services

NAICS

Voluntary Health Organizations (813212)

SIC

Services-Social Services (8300)

akta.pro primary industry

Behavioral Health & Substance Use Public Health Programs (BPAIAJAK)

Keywords

• Child stunting prevention
• Community health workers
• Maternal child health
• Public health programs
• Nonprofit health foundation

Headquarters

HQ city

Jakarta

HQ country

Indonesia

HQ region

Asia

Offices5 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D, Supply Chain

Revenue model

1. Philanthropic Donations: Individual and corporate donations are solicited through the organization's website and third-party platforms (Every.org for international donations, Kitabisa for Indonesian domestic donations). Donors contribute to fund Smart Chart production, CHW training, and program delivery.
2. Institutional Grants: Multi-year grants from institutional donors such as Quantedge Advancement Initiative (QAI) and other foundations support specific programs including the Stunting Center of Excellence and community health worker professionalization initiatives.

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

1000 Days Fund develops and distributes low-cost physical educational tools (Smart Charts and Smart Blankets) for household-level stunting prevention, and trains and certifies Community Health Workers (kader Posyandu) via a WhatsApp-based Kader Academy. The organization also co-designs Centers of Excellence with district governments to professionalize CHWs and advocates for formal CHW incentive regulations at the district and national levels.

Product overview

1000 Days Fund operates as a non-profit organization developing cost-effective solutions to prevent stunting in Indonesia. The organization offers a portfolio of products and programs centered around three pillars: (1) Smart Charts/Smart Posters - colorful in-home educational tools with QR tracking codes; (2) Smart Blankets - educational blankets with stunting prevention messaging; (3) Kader Academy - WhatsApp-based certification platform for Community Health Workers. Supporting infrastructure includes four Centers of Excellence training facilities in East Nusa Tenggara. The programs implement the 5T Cadre Approach (Trained, Equipped, Supervised, Incentivized, Secured) and the 4x4 Care Model for maternal and child health.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Smart Charts (Smart Posters / Poster Pintar) Colorful, life-sized educational stickers installed in homes of pregnant women and families with children under two. Each Smart Chart serves as a 6-in-1 stunting prevention kit covering iron/folic acid supplements, vitamin A, exclusive breastfeeding, nutritious diet, immunizations, and sanitation/hygiene, with growth tracking measurements for children 9-24 months. Every chart contains a unique QR code enabling real-time distribution tracking and stunting hotspot identification.
• Smart Blankets (Selimut Cerdas) Educational blankets featuring easy-to-understand iconography and graphics about newborn health and the first 1,000 days of life. Designed to educate and empower parents on stunting prevention behaviors through visual content accessible regardless of literacy level.
• Kader Academy WhatsApp-based learning and certification platform for Community Health Workers (kader Posyandu) covering stunting prevention topics including growth monitoring, Smart Chart installation, nutrition counseling, and quiz-based certification. CHWs access courses, take quizzes, and receive certification entirely through WhatsApp. Certification is certified by Indonesia's Minister of Health.
• Center of Excellence (COE) Training Hubs Designated training hubs where selected village midwives and CHWs attend intensive stunting prevention programs (lactation management, anthropometry, growth chartbook use, pregnancy management) and return as surrogate instructors to their villages. Four COEs operate in Manggarai Barat, Kupang, Rote Ndao, and Timor Tengah Selatan regencies.

Quantifiable outcome

• Stunting prevalence reduced by 19% (7.5 percentage points) in Manggarai Barat and Rote Ndao districts between 2021–2024, outperforming 18 of 22 other districts in East Nusa Tenggara
• +8 more outcomes

Named customers3 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

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AI maturity

App detail

Integration2 records

AI capability3 records

Feature4 records

Partnerships

Twelve partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• Yayasan Amanah Bangun Negeri (YABN)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 14 August 2025YABN partnered with 1000 Days Fund in North Lombok to support the Gebyar Posyandu Desa event recognizing 300 Posyandu cadres with Purwa, Madya, and Utama Cadre Pins. YABN contributed to training assessments and multi-stakeholder support for cadres in Bayan Subdistrict.
• Persada Capital InvestamaminorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 14 August 2025Partnered with 1000 Days Fund and YABN to support the North Lombok Gebyar Posyandu Desa event and community health cadre strengthening initiatives.
• BKKBN (National Population and Family Planning Agency)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 27 December 20221000 Days Fund partnered with BKKBN to deliver Indonesia's largest midwife training program, training 2,500 midwives across Banten, West Java, Central Java, and East Java. These midwives cascaded training to PKH bidan and Posyandu cadres, reaching approximately 7,500 additional cadres and an estimated 150,000 parents across 2,500 villages. The partnership distributed over 40,000 Smart Posters at the household and facility level.
• KredivocoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 21 June 2022Kredivo, a leading digital credit platform in Indonesia, partnered with 1000 Days Fund to distribute 200,000 Smart Charts to households in Frontier, Remote, and Disadvantaged (3T) regions of Indonesia as part of its CSR initiative. This extended a 2021 collaboration that distributed 43,000 Smart Posters across Java, Sumatra, Bali, Kalimantan, East Nusa Tenggara, Sulawesi, Maluku, and Papua.
• Forest CarboncoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 4 April 2022Forest Carbon continued its partnership with 1000 Days Fund to support stunting prevention around the Sumatera Merang Peatland Project in Musi Banyuasin, South Sumatra. Forest Carbon provided USD 26,223 (Rp 376,766,819) in 2022 to train up to 12 village health workers and kader as health and wellness key persons for communities in the project area. The collaboration focused on deploying Smart Charts and providing basic health services for pregnant women and mothers with children under five.
• Community Health Impact Coalition (CHIC)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner1000 Days Fund is a proud member of CHIC and participates in its Activate Calls and advocacy efforts. The organization leverages CHIC's advocacy platform to push for standardized CHW training, professionalization, and recognition globally. CHIC's 'Nothing about us, without us' principle aligns with 1000 Days Fund's approach of amplifying CHW voices in policy spaces.
• Community Partners International (CPI)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerCPI co-hosted the CHW Symposium 2025 alongside CHIC and the Financing Alliance for Health, providing a global forum for CHW advocacy. Resi Budiana from 1000 Days Fund was a panelist at this symposium.
• Financing Alliance for HealthminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerCo-hosted the CHW Symposium 2025 themed 'The Role of Global Health Actors in Supporting Sustainable CHW Financing,' bringing together global health actors to discuss CHW financing challenges and solutions.
• Bayu BuanaminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerBayu Buana supported the 1000 Days Fund's Volutrip to Manggarai Barat, enabling future changemakers to witness grassroots action and the organization's field work firsthand.
• East Nusa Tenggara Provincial GovernmentcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerThe provincial government signed an MoU with 1000 Days Fund and co-established Centers of Excellence in four districts (Manggarai Barat, Rote Ndao, Timor Tengah Selatan, and Kupang). The government provides political backing, data sharing, and alignment with provincial health priorities.
• Research Advisory Board (RAB)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerThe RAB comprises leading experts in malnutrition and policymaking. Dr. Zulfiqar Bhutta, a prominent global health researcher, participated in RAB meetings. The board provides independent review and credibility to the organization's research and impact data.
• Behavioural Insights TeamcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerThe Behavioural Insights Team conducted an independent implementation study and mixed-methods evaluation of the 1000 Days Fund's CHW programs in Manggarai Barat and Rote Ndao, producing evidence on trust as a critical driver of impact and the causal pathways from CHW training to stunting reduction.

Scale indicators12 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• PATH: Global non-profit that designs and advances maternal and child health, nutrition, and digital health solutions across low- and middle-income countries. Comparable scope of integrating tools, training, and policy advocacy for stunting and child health.
• Last Mile Health: Non-profit that recruits, trains, equips, and pays community health workers in Liberia, Sierra Leone, and other countries. Closely comparable operating model — investing in CHWs as the primary delivery mechanism for maternal/child health in underserved areas.
• Nutrition International: Global non-profit focused on micronutrient deficiency and stunting prevention through iron-folic acid supplementation, vitamin A, and zinc programs in Asia and Africa. Directly comparable mission and target beneficiaries (pregnant women and children under two).
• Alive & Thrive: Initiative managed by FHI 360 focused on maternal, infant, and young child nutrition across South and Southeast Asia, with a similar playbook of training frontline workers, behavioral change communications, and partnership with national governments to reduce stunting.
• Helen Keller International: Global health non-profit running large-scale nutrition programs (vitamin A, iron-folic acid, infant and young child feeding) across Asia and Africa, with significant Indonesia presence. Comparable mix of community health worker engagement, household-level interventions, and government partnership.
• Concern Worldwide: International humanitarian organization with dedicated nutrition programs targeting stunting, maternal undernutrition, and infant feeding in emergency and development contexts. Comparable focus on community health workers and household-level behavioral change.
• Wahana Visi Indonesia: Indonesian member of the World Vision partnership, focused on child welfare, health, and nutrition across Indonesia's frontier regions. Comparable operating geography (including NTT), community health worker engagement, and household-level health programming.

Broad incumbents

• Save the Children Indonesia: Major international NGO with extensive Indonesia operations spanning nutrition, health, education, and child protection. Operates at much greater scale and breadth, but with overlapping maternal and child health / nutrition programming and similar government partnership model.
• UNICEF Indonesia: UN agency with a major country office in Indonesia running nationwide stunting prevention, maternal nutrition, and immunization programs. A vastly larger and broader incumbent in the same problem space with similar government partnership dynamics.

Emerging players

• Living Goods: Non-profit social enterprise that supports digitally enabled community health workers in Uganda, Kenya, and elsewhere, with comparable focus on training, equipping, and incentivizing CHWs as a scalable model for community health delivery.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Compliance1 record

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Profiles4 records

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