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Recommendations (10)
These charities and funds are our top picks. They are recommended by impact-focused evaluators our research team has vetted, and present exceptional opportunities for impact.
by GiveWell
The All Grants Fund seeks to improve global health and well-being by supporting the full range of GiveWell’s grantmaking to high-impact opportunities, including at organisations outside of its top charities.
by Effective Altruism Funds
The Animal Welfare Fund aims to improve the wellbeing of nonhuman animals by making grants that focus on one or more best-in-class opportunities.
by Longview Philanthropy
The Emerging Challenges Fund works to address global security risks from emerging technologies by supporting highly-effective organisations and projects.
by GiveWell
The Top Charities Fund seeks to improve global health and well-being by supporting the highest-priority funding needs among GiveWell's Top Charities, which are evidence-backed, high-impact, and highly cost-effective opportunities to save and improve the lives of people living in low- and lower-middle-income countries.
by Effective Altruism Funds
The Long-Term Future Fund aims to positively influence the long-term trajectory of civilisation by making grants that address global catastrophic risks with an emphasis on potential risks from advanced artificial intelligence and pandemics.
Seasonal Malaria Chemoprevention
The Seasonal Malaria Chemoprevention program protects children from malaria by distributing preventative medication at times of high transmission.
Bednets To Prevent Malaria
AMF's bed net programs protect people from malaria by distributing and ensuring the use of long-lasting insecticidal bednets in regions with the highest burden of malaria cases.
Vitamin A Supplementation
Helen Keller Intl's Vitamin A Supplementation program Improves child health and survival rates by partnering with governments across Africa to deliver lifesaving vitamin A supplements and complementary activities to millions of children annually.
Childhood Immunisation Incentives
New Incentives improves childhood immunization rates in Nigeria by providing cash incentives to caregivers.
by Animal Charity Evaluators
The Movement Grants Program builds and strengthens the animal advocacy movement by funding a diverse range of promising projects around the globe.
Can’t decide?
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Giving What We Can funds are a convenient option for donors who want to set up a single donation to support work in a cause area and don’t want to choose between our top-rated funds. All donations to this fund will be pooled and then allocated to particularly impactful giving opportunities within the fund’s cause area, based on our latest research. (Or choose the All Causes Bundle if you want to support all the high-impact causes we currently recommend.)
by Giving What We Can
The Global Health and Wellbeing Fund directs funding to highly effective organisations working to improve human wellbeing. Currently, the research team consults with GiveWell when determining where to allocate funds. See this fund's past grant rounds.
by Giving What We Can
The Effective Animal Advocacy Fund directs funding to highly effective organisations working to improve animal welfare. Currently, the research team plans to allocate half of this fund to the Animal Welfare Fund (EA Funds) and half to ACE's Movement Grants program. The Giving What We Can research team reviews the allocation of this fund at least once per year and so the Fund may grant to other opportunities in future grantmaking rounds. See this fund's past grant rounds.
by Giving What We Can
The Risks and Resilience Fund directs funding to highly effective organisations working to reduce global catastrophic risks. Currently, the research team plans to allocate half of the fund's budget to the Long-Term Future Fund (EA Funds) and half to the Emerging Challenges Fund (Longview Philanthropy). See this fund's past grant rounds.
All Causes Bundle
Can’t decide? This bundle allows you to split your donation across all three of our GWWC-managed cause area funds.
Other supported programs
Our donation platform also supports a number of other programmes that broadly align with our principles — in other words, all of these programmes are working on a pressing problem and taking a reasonably promising approach (based on their stated missions and programme descriptions). We’ve roughly ordered these based on our research team’s preliminary impression of which might be most interesting to impact-focused donors, taking into account factors like if we’ve previously recommended them or if they are currently recommended by an impact-focused evaluator. We encourage donors to read more about these giving options before deciding to support them.
Global health and wellbeing (15)
These programmes reduce hunger, poverty, and disease, and promote economic empowerment, education, and mental and physical wellbeing across the globe.
by Founders Pledge
The Global Health & Development Fund seeks to significantly improve the lives of the most vulnerable people by granting to high-impact projects working on global health and development.
by Effective Altruism Funds
The Global Health & Development Fund aims to improve the health and economic empowerment of people around the world as effectively as possible by granting to promising global health and development projects.
Lead Policy Advocacy
LEEP seeks to eliminate lead poisoning across the globe by advocating for policies that prevent lead exposure, such as ending the sale and manufacture of lead paint worldwide.
Family Planning Campaigns
Family Empowerment Media aims to reduce maternal deaths and other health burdens related to unintended pregnancies by enabling informed contraceptive decisions through educational media campaigns
Childhood Immunisation Campaigns
Suvita works to increase childhood routine immunization in India through text message reminders and a network of ambassadors
African Education Program
TaRL Africa enhances learning outcomes for children’s basic reading and math skills in Sub-Saharan Africa through the evidence-based Teaching at the Right Level approach.
Direct Cash Transfers
GiveDirectly improves the wellbeing of people living in poverty and affirms their dignity by sending cash directly to the world’s poorest households and letting them choose for themselves how best to spend it to improve their lives.
Mental Health Programs
StrongMinds seeks to improve mental health in sub-Saharan Africa by using group talk therapy to treat depression in women and adolescents
Deworming Program
The Deworming Program works to improve health and social outcomes for school-aged children by supporting and promoting schistosomiasis and intestinal worm treatment programs.
Deworm the World
Deworm the World prevents parasite related illnesses in children by collaborating with governments to run cost-effective deworming treatment programs.
Deworming Program
The Deworming Program prevents parasitic infection and seeks to build resilient systems for good health by supporting schistosomiasis deworming programs in low-income countries and partnering with ministries of health to support country-owned solutions.
Safe Water Now
Safe Water Now increases access to safe water by treating water with chlorine so that it's safe to drink
Wellbeing Programs
Action for Happiness's wellbeing programs foster global wellbeing and happiness by offering evidence-based happiness tools and fostering supportive social networks.
by GiveWell
GiveWell's Unrestricted Fund seeks to improve global health and well-being by providing GiveWell with flexible funding for their comprehensive grantmaking activities and operational needs, allowing for the advancement of research and identification of high-impact giving opportunities. The Fund may support any GiveWell priority — including both grants and GiveWell’s operations.
Human Wellbeing Research and Advocacy
HLI improves global wellbeing by conducting research on the measurement of wellbeing and applying wellbeing research when identifying and evaluating cost-effective policies and interventions
Animal welfare (8)
These programmes improve animal lives, reduce extreme suffering, and promote a sustainable and just food system through policy, research, and advocacy.
Corporate Animal Welfare Campaigns
THL's corporate campaigns program promotes farmed animal welfare through industry pressure and advocacy
by Animal Charity Evaluators
The Recommended Charity Fund aims to improve the wellbeing of animals globally by supporting organisations ACE has rigorously evaluated and believes to be highly-impactful.
Alternative Protein Field Building
The Good Food Institute accelerates the transition of the world’s food system toward alternative proteins by developing and promoting plant- and cell-based alternatives to animal products.
Animal Welfare Research
Faunalytics strengthens animal advocacy by providing animal advocates with important research and strategies that improve their effectiveness in saving lives. It conducts original research, offers direct research support to advocates/advocacy orgs, and maintains the largest database of animal advocacy research.
Wild Animal Welfare Research and Field Building
Wild Animal Initiative seeks to advance wild animal welfare science through research, funding, and professional services, with the ultimate goal of improving the lives of wild animals responsibly and at scale.
Fish Welfare Advocacy
FWI Identifies and implements welfare improvements for farmed fish in priority contexts, particularly India.
Animal Advocacy Capacity Building
Animal Advocacy Africa aims to strengthen animal welfare in Africa by empowering local animal advocacy organizations and individual advocates with skills, knowledge, and resources to effectively mitigate the rise of intensive farming practices and enhance farmed animal wellbeing.
Animal Charity Evaluations
Animal Charity Evaluators helps reduce large-scale animal suffering by finding and promoting what they've assessed to be the most impactful organisations helping animals.
Reducing global catastrophic risks (13)
These programmes leverage research and policy to help safeguard the future from large-scale risks related to AI, nuclear security, and natural or engineered pandemics.
by Founders Pledge
The Global Catastrophic Risks Fund aims to reduce global catastrophic risks by granting to promising projects
by Founders Pledge
The Patient Philanthropy Fund seeks to grow the available resources to reduce existential risk by acting as an "emergency fund" for safeguarding the long-term future of humanity -- investing contributions and waiting to deploy them until exceptional opportunities appear and funds are needed most.
by Longview Philanthropy
The Nuclear Weapons Policy Fund seeks to reduce the risk of nuclear war by funding promising projects, such as those that increase understanding of the new nuclear risk landscape, identify effective risk-reduction strategies, inform policymakers about how to tackle the persistent risks from nuclear weapons, and strengthen the capacity of the field.
Global Biological Policy and Programs
NTI's Global Biological Policy and Programs seeks to transform global security by driving systemic solutions to biological threats imperiling humanity.
AI Safety Research and Field Building
CHAI's AI Safety Research and Field Building program promotes the beneficial use of AI through research, field building, and thought leadership.
Pandemic Prevention Program
The Pandemic Prevention Program aims to fortify global health by conducting pioneering research and policy analysis to enhance preparedness and response to infectious diseases and public health crises.
Future Generations Policy
The APPG aims to safeguard the wellbeing and interests of future generations by providing education, support, and advice to decision-makers and policy makers and facilitating cross-party engagement and dialogue on combating short-termism and identifying ways to internalise concern for future generations into today’s policymaking.
AI Governance Field Building
GovAI aims to enhance the management and influence of global policy decisions regarding advanced AI by developing a global research community and engaging with key stakeholders to navigate the challenges and opportunities presented by AI advancements.
by Center on Long-Term Risk
The Center on Long-Term Risk Fund supports promising projects and individuals working on long-term risk mitigation related to advanced AI.
High-Impact Careers Support
80,000 Hours facilitates high-impact careers by providing research and support to help people switch into careers that effectively tackle the world's most pressing problems.
Resilient Food Solutions
Alliance to Feed the Earth in Disasters (ALLFED) aims to build resilience to global catastrophic food shocks through research, development, and policy recommendations.
Effective Giving Research and Advocacy
Longview Philanthropy seeks to positively influence the long-term future by guiding philanthropists to highly impactful funding opportunities.
AI Safety Research and Field Building
The Center on Long-Term Risk AI Safety Research and Field Building program addresses worst-case AI risks through research, identifying grants, and field building.
Addressing climate change (6)
These programmes focus on mitigating the worst effects of climate change by promoting clean, scalable, and equitable solutions.
by Founders Pledge
The Climate Change Fund aims to address climate change by supporting highly impactful, evidence-based solutions to the “triple challenge” of carbon emissions, air pollution, and energy poverty.
by Giving Green
The Giving Green Grantmaking Fund addresses climate change by supporting a research-backed selection of high-impact climate giving opportunities.
Climate Research & Advocacy
Clean Air Task Force's Climate Research & Advocacy program promotes technical and policy change for the climate by developing pragmatic pathways to a zero-carbon energy system across electricity, transport, and industry sectors.
Decarbonisation Advocacy and Field Building
Industrious Labs seeks to address climate change by decarbonising heavy industry through advocacy, capacity building, and research.
Nuclear Energy Policy Research & Development
The Good Energy Collective supports the equitable adoption of advanced nuclear energy by developing and educating about nuclear policies that align with progressive values and justice-centered climate goals
Effective Giving Research & Advocacy
Giving Green's Effective Giving Research & Advocacy program seeks to advance climate action philanthropy by evaluating and recommending what they've assessed to be the most cost-effective giving opportunities in climate.
Effective giving and effective altruism (12)
These programmes focus on outreach, capacity building, fundraising, charity incubation, and evaluation related to effective giving, effective altruism, and promoting high-impact philanthropy.
by Effective Altruism Funds
The Effective Altruism Infrastructure Fund aims to increase the impact of projects that use the principles of effective altruism by increasing their access to talent, capital, and knowledge.
by AIM (Charity Entrepreneurship Incubation Program)
The Incubated Charities Fund fosters charitable impact by providing seed grant funding to new, promising charities graduating from Charity Entrepreneurship's Incubation Program.
Effective Giving Research & Advocacy
TLYCS aims to combat extreme poverty by connecting donors to highly effective giving opportunities, and inspiring and empowering philanthropic actions.
Effective Giving Advocacy
Effective Altruism Australia's effective giving program promotes effective giving in Australia through research and advocacy.
Charity Research & Incubation
The Charity Entrepreneurship Incubation Program at AIM fosters charitable impact by researching, training, and incubating effective charities.
Effective Altruism Field Building
The Center for Effective Altruism aims to increase charitable and career impact by nurturing a community of people who are thinking carefully about the world's most pressing problems and taking impactful action to solve them.
Global Priorities Research
Rethink Priorities aims to drive critical global improvements by conducting in-depth research and consultancy to improve the lives of humans and animals both in the present and in the future — through guiding evidence-based allocation of resources and neutering the development of organisations addressing these essential priorities.
Social Movement Research
Social Change Lab seeks to maximise the impact of social movements by conducting research on the best ways to accelerate positive social change.
Effective Giving Research & Advocacy
Founders Pledge seeks to maximise philanthropic impact by conducting rigorous charity research and educating entrepreneurs about how and where to give effectively to help solve the world's most pressing problems.
Effective Giving Advocacy
HIA seeks to maximise philanthropic impact by guiding athletes and their supporters to highly-effective donation opportunities
Charity Elections
A charity election is a school-wide event in which high school students vote among three charities to decide which will receive up to $2,000 in sponsored funds.
Effective Giving Research & Advocacy
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About Giving What We Can
Co-founded in 2009 by moral philosophers Toby Ord and William MacAskill, Giving What We Can is a global community of effective givers and a resource hub for people who want to help. We curate a carefully vetted list of charity recommendations, offer resources and guides so you can make a bigger difference on the problems you care about, and work to change the norms around charitable giving to inspire people to give more, and more effectively.
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