Transform global security by driving systemic solutions to biological threats imperiling humanity.

Nuclear Threat Initiative — Biosecurity programme

Giving What We Can — the nonprofit organisation behind this website and donation platform — is a community of effective givers. We provide the support, community, and information donors need to do the most good with their charitable donations. Donating to this program supports our core operations.

Giving What We Can

The Environmental Portfolio is one of High Impact Athletes’ four giving portfolios, which allow donors to spread their giving across multiple charities. When you give to HIA's Environmental Portfolio, your donation will support what HIA believes to be the most effective climate initiatives, as well as improvements to the global food system.

High Impact Athletes’ Environmental Portfolio 

The Founders Pledge Global Health and Development Fund aims to stand up to the vast global inequalities in health, wealth, and opportunity.

Founders Pledge: Global Health and Development Fund

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.

Against Malaria Foundation

Good Energy Collective is a women-led, worker self-directed policy nonprofit that is advancing community-centred, equitable policies for nuclear energy.

Good Energy Collective

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.

GiveDirectly

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.

Family Empowerment Media

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.

Helen Keller Intl— Vitamin A supplementation programme

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.

GiveWell: Top Charities Fund

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).

Risks and Resilience Fund

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.

Center on Long-Term Risk

Animal Advocacy Africa works to empower animal advocates who are (interested in) doing work to reduce farmed animal suffering in African countries. AAA shares knowledge, provides connections, and helps advocates build the skills to run an impactful animal advocacy organisation. 



Animal Advocacy Africa

The Patient Philanthropy Fund invests contributions and will deploy funds when they are needed most to safeguard and improve the long-term future.

Founders Pledge: Patient Philanthropy Fund

Malaria Consortium's seasonal malaria chemoprevention (SMC) programme distributes preventative antimalarial drugs to young children during times of peak malaria transmission.

Malaria Consortium — Seasonal malaria chemoprevention programme

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.

The Humane League (Corporate campaign programs)

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.

Unlimit Health (formerly SCI Foundation)

The Founders Pledge Climate Change Fund supports highly impactful, evidence-based solutions to the “triple challenge” of carbon emissions, air pollution, and energy poverty.

Founders Pledge: Climate Change Fund

80,000 Hours provides research and support to help people switch into careers that effectively tackle the world’s most pressing problems.

80,000 Hours

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.

Giving What We Can Charity Elections

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.

GiveWell: All Grants Fund

Cool Earth aims to fight global warming through fighting deforestation in the rainforest.

Cool Earth

New Incentives’ mission is to save lives in a way that does the most good per dollar. Guided by evidence, they provide cash incentives to increase childhood vaccination rates.

New Incentives

The Life You Can Save works to end extreme global poverty through the power of effective giving.

The Life You Can Save

Fortify Health aims to prevent and reduce anaemia at scale in India by fortifying wheat flour with iron.


Fortify Health

Healthier Hens is a new animal welfare nonprofit, incubated by Charity Entrepreneurship in 2021, that is searching for cost-effective interventions to reduce pain and suffering caused by bone health issues in egg-laying hens.

Healthier Hens

Dispensers for Safe Water distributes chlorine dispensers in low-income communities to treat water so that it’s safe to drink.

Evidence Action: Safe Water Now

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.

Fish Welfare Initiative

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.

Effective Altruism Funds: Global Health and Development Fund

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.

Effective Altruism Funds: Animal Welfare Fund

Longview Philanthropy connects the world’s leading philanthropists with outstanding opportunities to protect future generations.

Longview Philanthropy

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.

Center on Long-Term Risk Fund

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.

Founders Pledge

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.




High Impact Athletes

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.

Wild Animal Initiative

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.

Faunalytics

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.

Suvita

Charity Entrepreneurship is a research and training programme that incubates multiple effective charities annually.

Charity Entrepreneurship

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.

Animal Charity Evaluators: Movement Grants fund

CHAI (a multi-institution research group based at UC Berkeley) 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.

Center for Human-Compatible Artificial Intelligence (CHAI)

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 Air Task Force

Animal Advocacy Careers (AAC) seeks to address the career and talent bottlenecks in the animal advocacy movement, especially the farmed animal movement.

Animal Advocacy Careers

ALLFED works to make the world’s food supplies resilient to global catastrophes through research and alliance building.

ALLFED

Giving Green is a research and advocacy initiative promoting cost-effective giving to fight climate change through public guides for donors, businesses, and investors.

Giving Green

Magnify Mentoring supports a global community of people who are motivated to have a positive impact with their careers and lives.

Magnify Mentoring

GiveWell's Unrestricted Fund is the maximally flexible way to support GiveWell and its grantmaking. The Fund may support any GiveWell priority — including grants to high-impact programs and GiveWell’s operations.

GiveWell: Unrestricted Fund

Charity Entrepreneurship is a research and training programme that incubates multiple effective charities annually. Its Incubated Charities Fund allows you to support its Incubated Charities that do not have their own GWWC page. Donations to this fund are used to advance incubated charities' seed grants when these charities finish the program.

Charity Entrepreneurship: Incubated Charities Fund

StrongMinds is scaling effective depression treatment in sub-Saharan Africa, leveraging existing government and NGO infrastructure to bring proven therapy to its patients’ communities.

StrongMinds

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.

Lead Exposure Elimination Project

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.

Effective Altruism Funds: Long-Term Future Fund

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. 

Good Food Institute

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.”

Sightsavers — Deworming programme

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.

Animal Charity Evaluators

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.

Centre for Effective Altruism

The Founders Pledge Global Catastrophic Risks Fund supports highly impactful solutions to help prevent the most severe global catastrophes.

Founders Pledge: Global Catastrophic Risks Fund

The protracted civil war in Yemen is the world’s worst humanitarian crisis, with 21 million people estimated to be in need of aid. GiveDirectly’s Yemen Zakat Fund lets Yemeni families choose for themselves how best to meet their needs and build resilience.

GiveDirectly: Yemen Zakat Fund

The Animal Welfare Portfolio is one of High Impact Athletes’ four giving portfolios, which allow donors to spread their giving across multiple charities. When you give to HIA's Animal Welfare Portfolio, your donation will support charities that focus on the industrial animal agriculture industry.




High Impact Athletes’ Animal Welfare Portfolio

The Nuclear Weapons Policy Fund directs funding to projects aimed at reducing the probability of large-scale nuclear warfare.

Longview Philanthropy: Nuclear Weapons Policy Fund

Deworm the World, a programme of Evidence Action, collaborates with governments to run mass deworming programmes in schools located in at-risk communities.

Evidence Action: Deworm the World

GovAI’s mission is to build a global research community dedicated to helping humanity navigate the transition to a world with advanced AI.

Centre for the Governance of AI (GovAI)

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.

Rethink Priorities

Action for Happiness promotes mental health and wellbeing by providing information, evidence-based resources, public events, educational services, training, and community activities.

Action for Happiness

The Global Health & Poverty Portfolio is one of High Impact Athletes’ four giving portfolios, which allow donors to spread their giving across multiple charities. When you give to HIA's Global Health & Poverty Portfolio, your donation will support charities that HIA believes are improving as many human lives as possible per dollar donated.

High Impact Athletes’ Global Health & Poverty Portfolio 

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 The Humane League’s corporate campaign work.

Effective Animal Advocacy Fund

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.

Social Change Lab

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.

Effective Altruism Funds: Effective Altruism Infrastructure Fund

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.

Secretariat to the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Future Generations

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.

Animal Charity Evaluators: Recommended Charity Fund

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.

Global Health and Wellbeing Fund

The Emerging Challenges Fund — managed by Longview Philanthropy — directs funding to highly effective organisations working to safeguard the long-term future of humanity.

Longview Philanthropy: Emerging Challenges Fund

The Maximum Good Portfolio is one of High Impact Athletes’ four giving portfolios, which allow donors to spread their giving across multiple charities. When you give to HIA's Maximum Good Portfolio, your donation will support their three fields of change: global health and poverty, animal welfare, and climate change. 

High Impact Athletes’ Maximum Good Portfolio

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.

Industrious Labs

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.

Giving Green Fund

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.

Teaching at the Right Level Africa

Effective Altruism Australia supports Australians to find and fix the world's most pressing problems.

Effective Altruism Australia

The Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security (CHS) conducts independent research and analysis aimed at preventing and responding to public health crises. 

Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security

The Happier Lives Institute is a nonprofit research organisation searching for the most effective ways to measure and increase global wellbeing.

Happier Lives Institute

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.

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