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Seeing Our Recommended Charities in Action
Between November 25 and December 10, 2025, we traveled to Rwanda and Kenya to deepen our understanding of how our recommended charities create lasting change in…
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Research and Evidence
How We Evaluate Charities | The Life You Can Save
At The Life You Can Save, every recommendation we make begins with a question: How can we ensure a donation does the most good possible? Or,…
Effective Giving
How We Prioritize Health Interventions at The Life You Can Save
At The Life You Can Save, our mission is simple but ambitious: to improve as many lives as possible, as effectively as possible. When it comes…
What we mean by high-impact charities
When we give money to a nonprofit, we assume the money will be used to do good. But that’s not always the case. Some organizations accomplish…
Free resources on high-impact giving
Want to learn more about extreme poverty and what you can do about it? Check out these free online courses Giving 2.0: The MOOC Giving…
The case for giving internationally
The world is making rapid progress toward ending extreme poverty. However, across all countries, 1.1 billion people are experiencing multidimensional poverty (UNDP, 2023). This means that…
Common objections to giving internationally
1. I already give enough. I prefer to invest in my own community. While we have a natural desire to support our local communities, there is…
Why focus on extreme poverty?
The Life You Can Save uses the Global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) to define extreme poverty, offering a nuanced understanding of its multifaceted nature. By considering…
Great reasons to support high-impact nonprofits
Giving is a matter of justice. Most of us know that while we may work hard, external factors help bring our efforts to fruition, and these…
Partnerships
Partnering with IDinsight’s Dignity Initiative to Advance Dignity through Data
As our organization continues to expand our charity evaluation framework to account for the complexities of global development, we are delighted to announce a new partnership…