Life Hangs In the Balance,
We Can’t Let Progress Stall.
Donate now to keep high-impact organizations
delivering life-saving interventions.
Life Hangs In the Balance,
We Can’t Let Progress Stall.
Donate now to keep high-impact organizations
delivering life-saving interventions.
Donate by card or direct debit to the Rapid Response Fund.
For more than a decade, The Life You Can Save has evaluated and recommended the most effective charities fighting extreme poverty, helping our community of donors do the most good with their gifts.
Together, we have raised over US$120 million for some of the world’s most impactful organizations.
This January, major foreign aid cuts left many charities without the support they relied on to deliver critical, life-saving programs.
In response, we partnered with Founders Pledge to create the Rapid Response Fund — a fast, evidence-driven lifeline that steps in whenever proven programs are put at risk by sudden funding gaps.
The Fund has already mobilized US$3.66 million and is turning donations into grants within weeks to keep antimalarial campaigns, child‑nutrition clinics, and frontline health workers operating uninterrupted.
Yet with nearly US$100 million in unmet needs, many essential programs remain at risk. Your gift fuels this quick‑turnaround safety net, shielding vulnerable communities while ensuring hard‑won gains in health and poverty reduction don’t slip away.
Help us Keep Critical Programs Alive
Decades of progress in health, education, and poverty relief are teetering.
A donation to the Rapid Response Fund will preserve life‑saving work in real time. Every dollar is steered to rigorously vetted organizations, so your impact lands where it matters most.
Why act now?
Progress Is Fragile.
Malaria prevention campaigns, nutrition programs and frontline clinics are freezing operations as institutional aid dries up.
Your Giving Is Powerful.
Individual donors are already filling gaps that governments left—every dollar keeps real people safe and healthy.
Evidence Drives Every Grant.
Our joint research team ranks opportunities by cost‑effectiveness, then deploys funds within weeks, not months.
Lives Can’t Wait.
The longer programs sit idle, the harder—and costlier—it becomes to restart them. Immediate support prevents irreversible setbacks
Real Impact, Real Results
The Rapid Response Fund has already raised over US$3.66 million, with US$1.6 million granted to high-impact programs, including:
| Recipient | Grant | Amount |
| Catholic Relief Services (CRS) | To support the distribution of antiretroviral drugs to treat HIV in Zambia. This grant is expected to provide approximately 450 years of healthy life for HIV patients. | US$300,000 |
| Catholic Relief Services (CRS) | To pay for five monthly household door-to-door distributions of antimalarial medication to at least 40,000 children aged 3 to 59 months. This preventive treatment is one of the most cost-effective interventions in malaria control. | US$300,000 |
| Population Services International (PSI) | To directly support 240 community health workers (CHWs) for 9 months across two Angolan provinces where malaria is considered hyperendemic. This grant will allow CHWs to provide primary healthcare and treatment to around 2,400 households, representing 96,000 people at risk of malaria. | US$300,000 |
| Sanku-PHC | To buy dosifier machines for 150 mills in Ethiopia, with the potential to reach 10 million people with fortified flour by the end of 2025. Through these mills, Sanku provides fortified flour for people affected by malnutrition at a cost of $0.12 per person. | US$250,000 |
| GOAL 3 – IMPALA | To implement 150 vital signs monitors across multiple hospitals in Malawi, cover one year of maintenance costs, and maintain financial stability while securing follow-up funding. Without support, 450-750 preventable deaths could occur annually in pediatric and neonatal wards across Malawi, where several implementation projects were canceled. | US$300,000 |
| Iodine Global Network | To cover the needs of the suspended UNICEF program in Madagascar other activities associated with monitoring, including analysis of survey results in Mongolia, lab costs for monitoring in some countries, and a visit by IGN’s Regional Coordinator to South Sudan to assist the country in designing a national policy on iodine nutrition. | US$50,000 |
| International Rescue Committee | Acute Child Malnutrition program, helping close 5% of their $2M funding gap and providing life-saving treatment for 800 children. | US$100,000 |
Your donation will help us continue this critical work, ensuring that no community is left behind.
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