The Reach Alliance began in 2015 at the University of Toronto as the Reach Project, a student-led, faculty-driven, multi-disciplinary research initiative dedicated to investigating the pathways to success for innovative programs that are reaching the world’s most marginalized populations.

A unique partnership between the University of Toronto's Munk School and the Mastercard Center for Inclusive Growth, Reach has developed a unique methodology to uncover how and why certain development programs are able to reach the world’s poorest of the poor. The Reach Alliance will scale the Reach methodology to six other top universities by 2022.