Academic collaboration
University groups, research departments, and graduate programs can review the field protocol, replicate the demonstration design, or analyse the plot-level dataset under a data-sharing agreement.
Get Involved & Donate
Three concrete ways to help: partner academically, contribute analytical work, or fund the field program directly. All are tax-deductible to the extent allowed by law.
Ways to help
Pick the lane that fits your capacity
Most supporters contribute money. Researchers and analysts can contribute something the program is short of: independent review and analytical capacity.
Financial analysis volunteering
Accountants, analysts, and spreadsheet-fluent volunteers help households read their own ledgers, reconcile loan registers, and present program finances to reviewers.
Direct gifts
Unrestricted gifts fund demonstration plots, training packets, and microloan capital. Restricted gifts can be directed to a named project on the impact page.
For researchers
Academic collaboration
We host undergraduate research, graduate fieldwork, and external replication. What we offer is access to paired demonstration plots, rainfall logs, and household ledgers.
The dataset is small but unusually clean: every treated plot has a control plot on the same soil in the same season, and every household keeps a cost and return ledger. That structure is what makes independent review possible.
Collaboration is scoped in writing before access. A typical project is one planting season, with the analysis reviewed by the agronomy lead before any external publication.
- Replication: run the paired-plot protocol in your own study region.
- Analysis: work the plot-level yield and cost data directly.
- Fieldwork: supervise student research at demonstration sites.
- Evaluation design: advise on follow-up survey instruments.
Start a conversation
Tell us what you want to study and which districts you can reach. We reply within five business days.
For analysts
Financial analysis volunteering
The program teaches farmers to compute their own margin. Volunteers help make sure the instruction is sound and that the organization can present its own finances the same way.
Ledger instruction
Support sessions where farmers learn to fill in the cost and return spreadsheet. The requirement is spreadsheet fluency and the patience to let someone else do the arithmetic.
Loan register reconciliation
Reconcile village savings group registers against disbursement records and flag any variance before the quarterly board review. Prior experience with microfinance operations is helpful.
Financial presentation review
Review program reporting for clarity and defensibility before it reaches donors and government reviewers, using the same standard the organization applies to its field data.
Grant and donor reporting
Prepare narrative and financial sections of institutional grant reports, with strict sourcing: every claim traced to a plot record or a ledger line.
Why this matters more than it sounds
A household that can compute its own margin does not need the program to tell it whether an input was worth buying. That is the difference between a program that transfers goods and one that transfers judgement.
501(c)(3) public charity · EIN 99-2864574
Choose what your gift funds
Each tier maps to a specific program cost drawn from the 2025-26 budget. Amounts below are illustrative for this demonstration build.
$50
One-time or monthly
Field notebook stock
Printed field record books for six households, enough to keep a cost and return ledger for a full season.
6 ledger booksUSD 8 per book
$150
One-time or monthly
A training session
Facilitator time, materials, and transport for one accredited trainer to run a full agronomy session for a village group.
28 farmers per sessionUSD 5.35 per farmer
$500
One-time
A demonstration plot
Land preparation, seed, fertilizer, string line, and the paired control plot that makes the yield comparison credible.
1 treated + 1 control plotOne season of evidence
$1,200
One-time
Microloan capital
Recapitalizes the revolving fund so a household can buy inputs against a measured margin instead of borrowing at the rate they can afford.
About 2 loans of USD 58694% repayment to date
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Other ways to give
Employer matching programs, donor-advised funds, stock or securities transfers, and in-kind gifts of agronomic expertise all carry the same deductibility. Email info@ziap.org for transfer instructions.
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Confirm charitable status with EIN 99-2864574 on the IRS Tax Exempt Organization Search. We will never ask for payment details by email, and we will never charge a gift fee.
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Records & compliance
99-2864574
Form 990 and audited statements on request.
Program year
2025-26
Fiscal year closes June 30.