Your dollar of giving goes a lot further in the poorest parts of the world. I've selected 3 charities representing a variety of highly impactful health and economic interventions recommended by GiveWell, a third party evaluator.

Looking to make the most out of your donation? Donating to the Developing World Fund is the best way to make sure your money is going to substantially improving and saving lives. This fund includes vetted, high impact-per-dollar charities with two goals: treatment of preventable illnesses and alleviation of extreme poverty. Even a modest donation can have a big impact when you donate to highly effective organizations that are helping people to meet their most basic needs. For example, highly treatable diseases can be cured with very small amounts of money (Against Malaria Foundation can distribute a long lasting insecticidal net for every $5 donate. Anti-parasitic medicine can be distributed by Evidence Action for less than $1 a dose). Providing cash flow and microloans to people in the world’s poorest regions enables them to improve their quality of life and find increased independence. How many lives can you save with your donation today?

Geeks for Good is made up of charities that are notable for their rigorous design and data driven focus on solving the world's problems. Got a charity you think deserves inclusion? Let us know! Donations+matching made to the fund using the blue "Donate" button will be split equally among the three charities. To donate to the charities individually, click on their respective links

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Top Charities supported by GiveWell published in November of 2020. These are US based charities. SCI Foundation couldn't be included since it doesn't have a US-based tax entity to donate to. See original list here https://www.givewell.org/charities/top-charities Read more about GiveWell at givewell.org. This is how GiveWell summarizes who they are https://www.givewell.org/about "GiveWell is a nonprofit dedicated to finding outstanding giving opportunities and publishing the full details of our analysis to help donors decide where to give. Unlike charity evaluators that focus solely on financials, assessing administrative or fundraising costs, we conduct in-depth research aiming to determine how much good a given program accomplishes (in terms of lives saved, lives improved, etc.) per dollar spent. Rather than try to rate as many charities as possible, we focus on the few charities that stand out most (by our criteria) in order to find and confidently recommend high-impact giving opportunities (our list of top charities)." This is how GiveWell summarizes how they choose Top Charities https://www.givewell.org/how-we-work/process "GiveWell's mission is to find outstanding charities and to publish the full details of our analysis to help donors decide where to give. Our focus is on finding and reviewing the most outstanding charities possible rather than completing an in-depth investigation for each organization we consider. We identify top charities by assessing them along four criteria: Their evidence of effectiveness, cost-effectiveness, transparency, and room for more funding. Learn more about our criteria here. This page discusses our process for identifying and researching GiveWell’s top charities, as well as some of the context behind what our process has been in the past and how it has evolved to its current state."

Many charities do great work, but it's not always clear which you should donate to. Which will do the most good? Givewell is an organization dedicated to finding out how to best use donations of money to improve the world. This fund is the set of charities they recommend as of 2018 that Cisco will match donations to. You can learn more at givewell.org Givewell also endorses some organizations that only have nominee status in Brightfunds. You can help them become eligible for matching funds by donating to them and requesting matches on this site. The nominee organizations (as of October 2019) are: Givewell-endorsed (1st choice) Malaria Consortium Helen Keller International Sightsavers END fund Givewell-recommended (2nd choice) Project Healthy Children

Want to make the most out of your donations? These are organizations recommended by givewell.org and/or thelifeyoucansave.org

Organizations selected by Givewell to do the most good per dollar donated.

Charities that enable people in extreme poverty to improve their quality of life. Focus areas emphasize promoting economic self-sufficiency and empowering community leaders for compounding impact, and going beyond saving lives to reducing concrete measures of acute suffering. Charities selected had low overhead and high transparency in their activities with high effectiveness-per-dollar as determined by watchdogs such as Giving What We Can and GiveWell, and on the ground as opposed to policy or research and development work.

Charities that help the future generation