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2024 Recommendations (10)
These charities and funds are our top picks for 2024. Our research team has thoroughly vetted them as exceptional opportunities for impact.
by GiveWell
GiveWell's All Grants Fund supports 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 effectively improve the wellbeing of nonhuman animals by making grants that focus on one or more best-in-class opportunities.
by Longview Philanthropy
The Longtermism Fund — managed by Longview Philanthropy — directs funding to highly effective organisations working to safeguard the long-term future of humanity.
by GiveWell
The Top Charities Fund supports 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, especially potential risks from advanced artificial intelligence and pandemics.
Seasonal Malaria Chemoprevention
Malaria Consortium's seasonal malaria chemoprevention (SMC) programme distributes preventative antimalarial drugs to young children during times of peak malaria transmission.
Bednets To Prevent Malaria
Against Malaria Foundation (AMF) works to prevent malaria-caused deaths and illness by distributing long-lasting insecticide-treated mosquito nets in at-risk, low-income communities. The organisation also consistently monitors its impact through surveys and case rate data.
Vitamin A Supplementation
Helen Keller Intl partners with governments across Africa and Asia to provide millions of children every year with lifesaving vitamin A supplements and other nutrients.
Childhood Immunisation Incentives
New Incentives distributes conditional cash transfers to encourage caregivers to immunise their infants in rural Nigeria, helping them overcome barriers like the cost of transportation to a clinic and the loss of earnings from missing work.
by Animal Charity Evaluators
The Animal Charity Evaluators (ACE) Movement Grants fund promising advocacy projects around the globe working to reduce animal suffering. Applications are accepted annually and grants are determined by a review committee.
Can’t decide?
Donate to Giving What We Can funds
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. When you donate to this fund, the Giving What We Can research team will pool your money with other donors’ contributions and allocate quarterly, working with the evaluators and grantmakers they think are best suited to maximise impact. Currently, the research team consults with GiveWell when determining where to allocate funds.
by Giving What We Can
The Effective Animal Advocacy Fund directs funding to highly effective organisations working to improve animal welfare. When you donate to this fund, the Giving What We Can research team will pool your money with other donors’ contributions and allocate quarterly, working with the evaluators and grantmakers they think are best suited to maximise impact. Currently, the research team plans to allocate half of this fund to the Animal Welfare Fund (EA Funds) and half to The Humane League’s corporate campaign work.
by Giving What We Can
The Risks and Resilience Fund directs funding to highly effective organisations working to reduce global catastrophic risks. When you donate to this fund, the Giving What We Can research team will pool your money with other donors’ contributions and allocate quarterly, working with the evaluators and grantmakers they think are best suited to maximise impact. 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 Longtermism Fund (Longview Philanthropy).
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 it or if it’s recommended by an impact-focused evaluator. We encourage donors to read more about these giving options before deciding to support them.
Global health & wellbeing (18)
These programmes reduce hunger, poverty, and disease, and promote economic empowerment, education, and mental and physical wellbeing across the globe.
by Effective Altruism Funds
The Global Health and Development Fund aims to support funding opportunities that improve the health or economic empowerment of people around the world as effectively as possible.
Lead Policy Advocacy
Lead Exposure Elimination Project (LEEP) drives effective policies to eliminate lead poisoning across the globe. Its current focus is on ending the sale and manufacture of lead paint worldwide.
Family Planning Campaigns
Family Empowerment Media (FEM) is an evidence-driven nonprofit committed to eliminating maternal deaths and other health burdens from unintended pregnancies. FEM produces and airs radio-based social and behavioural change campaigns on family planning to empower women and men who want to delay or prevent pregnancy to consistently use contraception.
Childhood Immunisation Campaigns
Suvita sends text message reminders to caregivers in India to remind them to get their children vaccinated. It also builds a network of ambassadors who share information with new parents in their community about local vaccine clinics.
African Education Program
Teaching at the Right Level (TaRL) Africa is a nonprofit organisation that supports governments and organisations across sub-Saharan Africa to effectively apply the evidence-backed TaRL approach to improve foundational skills.
Direct Cash Transfers
GiveDirectly is a nonprofit that lets donors send money directly to the world’s poorest households. GiveDirectly believes people living in poverty deserve the dignity to choose for themselves how best to improve their lives — cash enables that choice.
Mental Health Programs
StrongMinds is scaling effective depression treatment in sub-Saharan Africa, leveraging existing government and NGO infrastructure to bring proven therapy to its patients’ communities.
Deworming Program
Sightsavers works on a range of programmes to prevent blindness, advocate for disability rights, and fight neglected tropical diseases. It improves children’s lives and future prospects by treating two neglected tropical diseases — schistosomiasis and intestinal worms — with an intervention sometimes known as “deworming.”
Deworm the World Initiative
Deworm the World, a programme of Evidence Action, collaborates with governments to run mass deworming programmes in schools located in at-risk communities.
Iodine Deficiency Prevention
The Iodine Global Network (IGN) is a nonprofit organisation working to ensure all people attain optimal iodine nutrition and children can reach their full cognitive potential.
Deworming Program
Unlimit Health (formerly known as SCI Foundation) works to end parasitic disease globally. To achieve this, Unlimit Health partners with both government ministries of health and affected communities to share evidence and expertise to end preventable parasitic infections and build resilient systems for good health.
Safe Water Now
Dispensers for Safe Water distributes chlorine dispensers in low-income communities to treat water so that it’s safe to drink.
Wellbeing Programs
Action for Happiness promotes mental health and wellbeing by providing information, evidence-based resources, public events, educational services, training, and community activities.
Deworming Program
The END Fund raises and provides capital for programmes to control and eliminate neglected tropical diseases (NTDs). It also provides technical and strategic support for NGOs, governments, and various stakeholders to advance NTD treatment programmes and delivery.
Media Health Campaigns
Development Media International creates evidence-based radio, television, and video campaigns to change behaviours and improve health outcomes in low-income countries.
Project Healthy Children
Project Healthy Children works with rural millers in low-income countries to fortify staple foods with vitamins and minerals to end malnutrition in Africa.
by GiveWell
GiveWell's Unrestricted Fund is the maximally flexible way to support GiveWell and its recommendations, as the Fund may support any GiveWell priority — including its grantmaking and its own operating expenses.
Human Wellbeing Research and Advocacy
The Happier Lives Institute is a nonprofit research organisation searching for the most effective ways to measure and increase global wellbeing.
Animal welfare (10)
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
The Humane League exists to end the abuse of animals raised for food. It does this by influencing the policies of the world’s biggest companies, demanding legislation, and empowering others to take action and leave animals off their plates. We specifically recommend The Humane League’s work on corporate campaigns for chicken welfare.
by Animal Charity Evaluators
Animal Charity Evaluators (ACE) Recommended Charity Fund supports the highest-value funding opportunities among its recommended charities, which are those that have the greatest impact helping animals per dollar.
Alternative Protein Field Building
The Good Food Institute (GFI) is an international nonprofit working to improve the food system by developing and promoting plant- and cell-based alternatives to animal products.
Animal Welfare Research
Faunalytics maintains the largest database of animal advocacy research, works with animal advocacy organisations on projects to improve their impact, and produces original animal advocacy research.
Wild Animal Welfare Research and Field Building
Wild Animal Initiative (WAI) works to improve wild animal welfare by expanding the field of wild animal research. By conducting its own research and helping support the needs of other wild animal researchers, the organisation aims to garner public and academic interest in wild animal welfare and identify evidence-based solutions to the struggles wild animals face.
Fish Welfare Advocacy
Fish Welfare Initiative is among the first organisations working to reduce the suffering of farmed fish. It does this by collaborating with industry and policymakers to make changes on fish farms, such as improving water quality and reducing stocking density.
Cage-Free Transition Support
Global Food Partners works with leading food corporations and egg producers in Asia to support their transition to higher-welfare cage-free egg sourcing and production.
Animal Advocacy Africa works to empower animal advocates who are (interested in) doing work to reduce farmed animal suffering in African countries. They share knowledge, provide connections, and help them build the skills to run an impactful animal advocacy organisation.
Global Food Systems Change
ProVeg is a global food awareness organisation with the mission to reduce global animal consumption by 50% by the year 2040.
Animal Charity Evaluations
Animal Charity Evaluators (ACE) is dedicated to finding and promoting the most effective ways to help animals. With evidence-based research, ACE helps donors, volunteers, and advocates effect positive change.
Reducing global catastrophic risks (19)
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 Founders Pledge Global Catastrophic Risks Fund supports highly impactful solutions to help prevent the most severe global catastrophes.
by Founders Pledge
The Patient Philanthropy Fund invests contributions and will deploy funds when they are needed most to safeguard and improve the long-term future.
Global Biological Policy and Programs
Nuclear Threat Initiative's programme on biological risk helps create a better future by reducing the risks of and preparing for potentially catastrophic natural and engineered pandemics.
AI Safety Research and Field Building
The Center for Human-Compatible Artificial Intelligence (CHAI) is a multi-institution research group based at UC Berkeley, with academic affiliates at a variety of other universities. CHAI aims to shift the development of AI away from potentially dangerous systems we could lose control over, and towards provably safe systems that act in accordance with human interests even as they become increasingly powerful.
Pandemic Prevention Program
The Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security (CHS) conducts independent research and analysis aimed at preventing and responding to public health crises.
Future Generations Policy
The Secretariat to the All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) for Future Generations raises awareness and facilitates cross-party dialogue on long-term policy issues. The APPG for Future Generations engages policymakers on topics such as combating political short-termism and mitigating global catastrophic risks.
Nuclear Weapons Policy
The Council on Strategic Risks’ nuclear weapons policy work seeks to analyse and address the development, diffusion, and use of strategic weapons.
Nuclear Information Project
The Federation of American Scientists is a nonprofit policy research and advocacy organisation founded in 1945.
Longtermism Research
Rethink Priorities’ Existential Security Team is working to cause the greatest expected increase it can to the value of the long-term future. It focuses on research and field building related to reducing existential risks — including the risk of human extinction.
AI Governance Field Building
GovAI’s mission is to build a global research community dedicated to helping humanity navigate the transition to a world with advanced AI.
by Center on Long-Term Risk
The Center on Long-Term Risk Fund supports promising projects and individuals that are working to build a global community of researchers and professionals dedicated to reducing involuntary suffering due to emerging technologies.
High-Impact Careers Support
80,000 Hours provides research and support to help people switch into careers that effectively tackle the world’s most pressing problems.
Global Priorities Research
The Forethought Foundation for Global Priorities Research aims to promote academic work that addresses the question of how to use our scarce resources to improve the world by as much as possible.
GCR Reduction Field Building
The Global Catastrophic Risk Institute is a nonprofit, nonpartisan think tank that evaluates threats to human civilisation and researches potential solutions.
Resilient Food Solutions
ALLFED works to make the world’s food supplies resilient to global catastrophes through research and alliance building.
AI Safety Research
The Machine Intelligence Research Institute is a nonprofit research organisation dedicated to ensuring the safety of advanced artificial intelligence.
GCR Reduction Field Building and Advocacy
Based in Geneva, Switzerland, the Simon Institute for Longterm Governance (SI) works to mitigate global catastrophic risks, building on Herbert Simon's vision of future-oriented policymaking. With a focus on fostering international cooperation, the organisation centres its efforts on the multilateral system.
Effective Giving Research and Advocacy
Longview Philanthropy connects the world’s leading philanthropists with outstanding opportunities to protect future generations.
AI Safety Research and Field Building
The Center on Long-Term Risk (CLR) works to address worst-case risks from the development and deployment of advanced artificial intelligence systems, with a current focus on conflict scenarios and the technical and philosophical aspects of cooperation.
Addressing climate change (9)
These programmes focus on mitigating the worst effects of climate change by promoting clean, scalable, and equitable solutions.
by Founders Pledge
The Founders Pledge Climate Change Fund supports highly impactful, evidence-based solutions to the “triple challenge” of carbon emissions, air pollution, and energy poverty.
by Giving Green
Giving Green is a team of climate scientists, economists, and impact evaluation experts with decades of experience working at the intersection of evidence-based policy and the environment. The Giving Green Fund strategically supports its recommended high-impact giving opportunities.
Climate Research & Advocacy
The Clean Air Task Force (CATF) is an international nonprofit that promotes technical and policy change for the climate. CATF values pragmatism and believes all promising options should be explored to prevent catastrophic climate change.
Clean Energy Innovation
TerraPraxis is a nonprofit that innovates and incubates scalable solutions for a livable planet and global prosperity. It focuses on the difficult-to-decarbonise sectors of coal, industrial heat, and heavy transport.
Climate Policy Campaigns
Evergreen Collaborative works to put bold climate action at the top of America's agenda. It’s building the ambitious, actionable policy roadmap for an all-out mobilisation to defeat climate change.
Decarbonisation Advocacy and Field Building
Industrious Labs develops advocacy campaigns to clean up industry. It builds networks of advocates, community leaders, and organisations to put industrial emissions on a path to decarbonise by 2045.
Nuclear Energy Policy Research & Development
Good Energy Collective is a women-led, worker self-directed policy nonprofit that is developing and advancing community-centred, equitable policies for nuclear energy.
Cleantech Innovation Research
Future Cleantech Architects is a cleantech innovation think tank based in Germany that focuses on high-impact research and development, targeting technologies that carry the potential to drive down greenhouse gas emissions disproportionately.
Effective Giving Research & Advocacy
Giving Green is a research and advocacy initiative promoting cost-effective giving to fight climate change through public guides for donors, businesses, and investors.
Effective giving and effective altruism (17)
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 Charity Entrepreneurship
Charity Entrepreneurship is a research and training programme that incubates multiple effective charities annually. Its Incubated Charities Fund provides seed grant funding for its most promising charities.
Effective Giving Research & Advocacy
The Life You Can Save works to end extreme global poverty through the power of effective giving.
Effective Giving Advocacy
Effektiv Spenden (German for "donate effectively") is a nonprofit donation platform that promotes effective giving in Germany and Switzerland.
Effective Giving Advocacy
Effective Altruism Australia supports Australians to find and fix the world's most pressing problems.
Effective Giving Advocacy
Doneer Effectief (Dutch for "donate effectively") is a nonprofit, independent donation platform that makes effective giving accessible in the Netherlands and Belgium.
Charity Research & Incubation
Charity Entrepreneurship is a research and training programme that incubates multiple effective charities annually.
Effective Altruism Field Building
The Centre for Effective Altruism's mission is to nurture a community of people who are thinking carefully about the world’s most pressing problems and taking impactful action to solve them.
Effective Altruism Events
The Centre for Effective Altruism's (CEA’s) events facilitate high-quality content and discussion spaces that foster growth, collaboration, and knowledge sharing between individuals and organisations acting on effective altruism principles.
Global Priorities Research
Rethink Priorities’ mission is to generate the most significant possible impact for others in the present and the long-term future. Using evidence and reason, it identifies where resources would be most effective and helps direct them there. It does this by conducting critical research to inform policymakers and philanthropists, and by guiding the development of new organisations to address key problems.
Social Movement Research
Social Change Lab is a nonprofit research organisation conducting social movement research to understand how we can most effectively tackle the world’s most pressing problems.
Mental Health Programs
Rethink Wellbeing’s mission is to nurture mental wellbeing at scale. To do so, it uses engaging, proven, and low-cost programmes, tailored to the needs of communities.
Effective Giving Research & Advocacy
Founders Pledge empowers entrepreneurs to do immense good by conducting rigorous charity research and advising its members on how to maximise their impact through strategic philanthropy.
Effective Giving Advocacy
High Impact Athletes guides high-profile athletes towards the most impactful charities and uses their platforms to grow the effective altruism movement. See their giving recommendations here.
Effective Giving Advocacy
Rethink Charity elevates the effective altruism community toward greater positive impact through incubating, operating, and funding high-impact projects.
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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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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