This season, give where your impact is certain.

The Life You Can Save makes effective giving simple, transparent, and impactful this giving season.

✓ We replace the guesswork with evidence-based recommendations, directing your generosity where it saves and improves the most lives.

✓ By giving through us, you’re choosing to support the most effective organizations fighting extreme poverty.

Turn your Generosity into Measurable Impact

WITH THESE EFFECTIVE GIVING OPTIONS

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The Maximize Your Impact Fund: One Donation. Maximum Impact.

Extreme poverty affects multiple aspects of people’s lives, limiting their ability to meet basic needs.

The Maximize Your Impact Fund is our recommendation for donors who want to support a range of evidence-driven nonprofits addressing all key dimensions of extreme poverty including health, education, living standards, and barriers to women and girls’ well-being this giving season.

We pool donations from thousands of donors, and make strategic quarterly grants to the most effective programs fighting extreme poverty, ensuring your donation has maximum impact.

More Ways to Give Effectively

EVERY DONATION REACHES PROGRAMS PROVEN TO WORK

Best Charities List: You can’t go wrong with them.

Our recommended charities are carefully selected through our rigorous research and evaluation to ensure your donation supports only highly effective, evidence-backed interventions with high impact this giving season.

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Cause Funds: More focus. More impact.

If you want to support a specific area this giving season – such as Health, Economic Opportunity, Education – our cause-specific funds pool donations and direct them to the most effective organizations working in that field. 

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Match Opportunities: Your donation with double the impact.

For a limited time this giving season, every dollar you give to one of these organizations will be matched. Don’t miss the opportunity to double your impact!
Limits apply.  

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See the Impact of Evidence-Based Giving this Giving Season

When We Give Effectively, We Don’t Just Change Lives—We Maximize Impact.

12 years of expertise. Curated funds and vetted charities. Give with confidence.

100% of your donation goes to work. Transparent reporting. Measurable results.

Prevent disease, increase income, save lives—often for less than $10 per person.

Match your gift by Dec 31 and claim your 2025 tax deduction.

This Giving Season, join thousands of donors worldwide making effective giving a global movement.

$120m+ Directed

to the world’s most effective programs fighting extreme poverty

22 Recommended Nonprofits

rigorously vetted and proven to save or improve lives

12 Years of Impact

connecting donors with evidence-based giving opportunities

WHY DONORS TRUST THE LIFE YOU CAN SAVE

GIVE WHERE YOUR IMPACT IS CERTAIN

Now is the Moment to Act

No one can solve extreme poverty alone this giving season, but together we can make a real and measurable difference. When you choose to give through The Life You Can Save, your donation reaches interventions that save and improve the most lives per dollar spent.