Where to Donate
We offer donors multiple options to make giving as simple and impactful as possible:
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Contribute to one of our Cause Funds: Pool your donation with others to maximise impact. Our research team allocates funds to the most effective opportunities across our recommended charities.
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Support a specific charity: Choose to give directly to one of our recommended charities — each one is carefully selected through our rigorous evaluation framework to ensure your donation supports highly effective, evidence-backed interventions with maximum impact.
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Develop a Personalised Giving Portfolio: Our advisors can help tailor your giving to align with your goals and values. Whether you take a data-driven approach or are guided by more personal motivations, we’re here to make your giving both meaningful and impactful.
Maximize Your Impact Fund
The Maximize Your Impact Fund is our recommended option for donors because it leverages the power of all of our research and evaluations, so your gift will have the highest impact with a defined strategy against multiple characteristics of extreme poverty. All the causes we address in our other funds, including education, health, living standards, and barriers to women and girls’ well-being, are funded within the Maximize Your Impact Fund. Managed by our team, the Maximize Your Impact Fund supports charities and interventions with a demonstrated impact.
Cause Funds
If there is a specific theme within extreme poverty you feel drawn to respond to, we recommend giving to a cause fund.
The themes supported in our cause funds are also represented in the Maximize Your Impact Fund.
Best Charities
If you are curious to dive deeper into the charities recommended by The Life You Can Save, you can review our list and learn in-depth about the work they are doing. Many of these organizations are allocated funding from our managed funds.
Personal Giving Portfolio
Our advisors can help tailor your giving to align with your goals and values. Whether you take a data-driven approach or are guided by more personal motivations, we’re here to help you develop a meaningful and impactful personal giving portfolio.
Support our Operations
We never charge donors fees because we independently raise funds to support our operations. Our tools and services are—and always will be—completely free, ensuring that more people can give effectively to high-impact charities.
From 2022-2024, our 3-year leverage ratio was 10:1. This means that for every US$1 we invested in spreading our message and helping people discover effective charities, we raised US$10 for our recommended charities.
A gift to us is an opportunity to amplify your impact and is as simple as allocating a percent in the donation process, or donating below.
