All the charitable programs and projects you can support through our website, all in one place.
Donors from Australia can make tax deductible donations to the programs shown below through our partners Effective Altruism Australia and Effective Altruism Australia: Environment. (More on how this works). To see the full list of programs available on Giving What We Can, please visit the international page.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
Seasonal Malaria Chemoprevention
Malaria Consortium's seasonal malaria chemoprevention (SMC) programme distributes preventative antimalarial drugs to young children during times of peak malaria transmission.
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.
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.
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.
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.
by High Impact Athletes
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.
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
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.
Effective Giving Advocacy
Effective Altruism Australia supports Australians to find and fix the world's most pressing problems.
Effective Giving Research & Advocacy
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.
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.
These programmes focus on mitigating the worst effects of climate change by promoting clean, scalable, and equitable solutions.
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.
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.
We believe the scale of global income inequality is so vast that most people living in high-income countries have significant power to affect the lives of others. (See where you stack up here.) To that end, we also help people support high-impact charitable programmes and projects via our donation platform and invite you to join the 9,974 people who have taken a giving pledge.
Donors who plan to make substantial donations can benefit from working with a philanthropic advisor. Please reach out to us and we’ll connect you with an appropriate person or organisation.
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