Nutrition has a color.
Alethea Dopart had brand colors on her mind — “you usually see greens, yellows, sometimes orange” — as she guided me through the temporary headquarters of a startup that’s aiming to revolutionize the fight against undernutrition. This was the first day in new space for The Power of Nutrition, and its small, dark south London basement office is modest when you consider the organization aims to mobilize $1 billion in funding.
Dopart is the 10-person team’s communications manager, but it’s hard to tell who does what, at the moment. There is a finish-each-other’s-sentences dynamic at The Power of Nutrition, which has been incubating at the Children’s Investment Fund Foundation since its launch in April at the World Bank spring meetings. Joining The Power of Nutrition for the day as they unpacked boxes, the first thing I noticed as a fly-on-the-wall was how the team seems to share and swap roles without losing focus or getting off-message.
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Molly Anders is a former U.K. correspondent for Devex. Based in London, she reports on development finance trends with a focus on British and European institutions. She is especially interested in evidence-based development and women’s economic empowerment, as well as innovative financing for the protection of migrants and refugees. Molly is a former Fulbright Scholar and studied Arabic in Syria, Jordan, Egypt and Morocco.
