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The Better Giving Guide: A Practical Guide to High-Impact Giving
Choosing where to give can feel overwhelming. The Better Giving Guide from The Life You Can Save makes it simple, helping you make confident, evidence-based choices about where your donation can do the most good.
Turn uncertainty into impact
Take the guesswork out of giving, with your guide to high-impact donations
In The Better Giving Guide you’ll find practical steps for choosing causes, evaluating effectiveness, and understanding how experts measure real impact.
How Do I Choose a Cause to Support?
Explore ways to make your compassion go further. Our guide helps you identify high-impact areas, while empowering you to make smarter, more effective choices about where to give.
What Makes a Charity Effective?
Learn how to spot organisations that create lasting impact. Our guide shows simple ways to recognise transparency, efficiency, and real outcomes.
How Do I Give with Real Impact?
Discover how to make every donation count. Our guide explains how experts verify results and cost-effectiveness, so you can give confidently through trusted evaluators.
“Thank you for providing a clear case for giving generously, a helpful guide for targeting an amount to donate, and valuable recommendations for effective charities to support… If I couldn’t choose where to give, I simply didn’t. Now, I can simply trust the experts to do the research that I’m frankly too busy to do myself, and I am confident that my donations can make a real difference.”
— ANNE, UNITED STATES
“Thanks to your work, we likely donate more to charity than we would otherwise, and it is highly likely that our contributions do more to ease suffering in the world than if we researched individual charities ourselves. Thank you.”
— MICHAEL B, UNITED STATES
“Thank you for providing a service like this one. It’s great to see that you work hard to analyse where to donate to make a bigger impact.”
— CECIL E, AUSTRALIA
Maximize Your Impact Fund
The Maximize Your Impact Fund addresses all dimensions of poverty, including education, health, and living standards, and also accounts for the disparities women and girls experience when living in extreme poverty.