Malaria Consortium
Seasonal Malaria Chemoprevention
The Seasonal Malaria Chemoprevention program protects children from malaria by distributing preventative medication at times of high transmission.
Top recommended charities by EAHK
Global health recommendations
Against Malaria Foundation
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.
Helen Keller International
Vitamin A Supplementation
HKI's Vitamin A supplementation program Improves child health and survival rates by partnering with governments across Africa and Asia to deliver lifesaving vitamin A supplements, essential nutrients, and complementary activities to millions of children annually.
New Incentives
Childhood Immunisation Incentives
New Incentives improves childhood immunization rates in Nigeria by providing cash incentives to caregivers.
Evidence Action
Deworm the World Initiative
Deworm the World prevents parasite related illnesses in children by collaborating with governments to run cost-effective deworming treatment programs.
Top Charities Fund
by GiveWell
The Top Charities Fund improves global wellbeing 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.
Climate-related recommendations
Clean Air Task Force
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.
Animal welfare recommendations
The Humane League
Corporate Animal Welfare Campaigns
THL's corporate campaign programs promote farmed animal welfare through industry pressure and advocacy
Faunalytics
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.
Good Food Institute
Alternative Protein Field Building
The Good Food Institute accelerate sthe transition of the world’s food system toward alternative proteins by developing and promoting plant- and cell-based alternatives to animal products.
Recommended Charity Fund
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.
EA Hong Kong’s Top Recommendations
Effective altruism is the global community and research field growing around the idea that if it’s good to make an impact, it’s even better to make as large an impact as possible. The problem is that there are limited resources, but unlimited causes of suffering. So effective altruism researches how best to use the resources, and takes action. It’s a combination of both compassion and rationality.
When you choose one charity, there is an opportunity cost. When you give your money to one charity, you lose the opportunity to give that money to another charity. Since the difference in impact between the most and least cost-effective interventions can be more than a thousand-fold — in many cases ignoring cost-effectiveness in global health means losing almost all the value that we could create — there is thus a moral imperative to fund the most cost-effective interventions.
People who want to do good invariably start from a place of compassion and caring about the suffering of others and tragedies that happen around them and around the world. And it’s because we want to make sure we do as much good as possible that rationality is needed to help overcome cognitive biases and evaluate different actions objectively. So one way to think about it is that the heart is the engine, and the head provides the steering.
At EA Hong Kong, we have picked out the charities and organisations that we believe can do the most good under different cause areas. We have partnered with Giving What We Can to direct donations to these charities through this page. This list is continually being updated based on the latest available research.