HRW exists to protect us all from human rights violations. No matter how dangerous or chronic a scenario, they investigate, expose, and CHANGE the injustice. Their work is relied upon by every major international tribunal to provide the evidence needed to bring an end to war crimes and other human rights violations. 

The biggest inequities on this planet still have to do with where a person happened to have been born. I'm convinced that GiveWell's grant fund is the single best place to give if you want to push as hard as possible on this problem.

Climate Change Fund uses scientific and evidence based methodology to tackle real problems.
We only have one planet, let's do what we can to protect it.

Hard to keep up with tech sometimes. We need more investigations into how it's being used, and for whose benefit. 💻

I have been blessed with so much abundance and this is a great cause to help.

Good journalism educates everyone. History documentaries  are a great way to learn.

When I was in first grade, I planted a tree in my backyard that I got from school for Earth Day. I loved watching it get bigger and bigger. Today it's taller than me!

St. Jude's is such a special organization doing the work of the Divine, taking care of children without causing families to worry about cost. Let's help enable them to do that.

Sending a prayer for everyone during the Pandemic.  

Effective organization combining direct cash transfers to incentivize vaccines for children. Thank you @lcaviola for introducing this org!

Cash transfers, vaccinations, and rigorous research all in one small startup doing good!

As someone that grew up in area codes where the access to abundant educational opportunities were limited, I can appreciate the impact that they can have in a child's life. Nevada Rise Academy seeks to provide kids with opportunities that they wouldn't ordinarily have.  The small team of dedicated staff demonstrates their dedication to the mission of the school every day, and I'm proud to support them on their journey to empower more of the Las Vegas valley's children.

Ella Baker Center has long been doing the work of fighting the cycle of poverty and incarceration - especially at the interface of youth and prisons. They implement community programs to empower those most hurt by the criminal justice system, they police the police, they campaign for divestment from prisons, and they demand financial accountability from the Alameda Sheriff's Dept. They offer many modes of additional engagement, e.g. podcasts, educational events, book talks, and more, at an impressively high frequency. I'm new to following Ella Baker Center, and I'm inspired by the excellence, commitment, and reach, of this organization.

To defend the defenders of the Amazon Rainforest. The lungs of our earth

Animal agriculture is the #1 cause of climate change; so, GFI's advocacy and research to make meat alternatives healthy and mainstream is critical. Check out the movie Cowspiracy for an accessible intro to the facts.

Equitable, non-car transportation is a huge lever for making the world better.

I listen to KUOW all day for unbiased reporting on local, national and international issues.   

The potential to avert such a significant amount of CO2 per dollar is an immediate, highly effective strategy to conserve our CO2 budget and buy time for further efforts in policy change, carbon capture, research and development, etc. to hopefully turn the tide of this climate crisis.

Looking at Coalition for Rainforest Nations page and its supporters' comments introduced me to the important work they do

We are in times of upheaval.  Many lives are being uprooted due to circumstances beyond their control.  They need love and FOOD!

Inclusive and sensible housing policies are desperately needed in California to make living here more affordable for all. This scrappy group of lawyers is doing the hard work to put those in place.

I love Sonoma county and I love animals. This is a small group of people that could use all the help they can get!

 de la Tierra is helping support the long-term survival of the Kofan in a time where their continued presence on Earth is needed now more than ever. They are a magical people who are protecting the Amazon for the benefit of all people on earth. We all need to be lifting up communities like this as much as possible. 

I give because I believe that we all owe the teams at MAPS an enormous debt of gratitude for their tireless work in bringing the healing of psychedelic and plant medicines to those who need it the most. MAPS was arguably the primary catalyst for what we call the psychedelic renaissance. The impact that this organization is having and will have for future generations and our collective well-being gives me so much hope.

I gave because strong people don't watch others stay down. They pull them up.

I pledged 10% of my income to charity through the Giving What We Can pledge and Malaria Consortium was #1 on GiveWell's top charities ranking.

FinMango is such a great organization fighting for education, advocacy, opportunity, and equality for everyone!

540WMain is an excellent local organization in Rochester, doing the work we need done, to bring our community together.

CPE has a lot of deep, data driven research and policy papers available on their site. They are already working with a number of police departments like Seattle, San Jose, and Minneapolis. 

To support a healthy livelihood for children and families in poverty💛

Our researchers investigate human rights crises in some 90 countries around the world. Their work has led to significant change.

– We address the underlying causes of human rights abuse around the world 

– We help bring about change at the highest levels of society, by compelling government and international institutions to take action 

– We stand with victims and activists to prevent discrimination, to uphold political freedom, to protect people from inhumane conduct in wartime, and to bring offenders to justice.

– We make a lasting impact on human conditions, by helping bring violators to justice, pushing for stronger laws and fostering international cooperation to advance human rights 

– We have a 30-year track record of raising awareness and advancing successful strategies for ending human rights abuse, often partnering with local groups and human rights defenders to achieve our goals

Human Rights Watch

The GiveWell Top Charities Fund supports evidence-backed giving opportunities that save or improve lives most per dollar donated.

[GiveWell](https://www.givewell.org/) - We find and recommend outstanding giving opportunities and publish our research to help donors give more effectively and with greater confidence.

All donations here support our Top Charities Fund. Learn more and view past grants at [givewell.org/top-charities-fund](https://www.givewell.org/top-charities-fund).

GiveWell

Supporting highly-impactful, evidence-based solutions to the triple challenge of climate change, air pollution and energy poverty.

## The Founders Pledge Perspective

Climate change is one part of a triple challenge surrounding energy production. Not only does most current energy production lead to damaging carbon emissions, the effects of which are devastating ecosystems and changing our planet beyond recognition, it also pollutes the air and leaves many of the world’s poor without sufficient energy. This adds up to an environmental and humanitarian crisis.

Thus, we face a triple challenge: we not only need to drive down carbon emissions to near zero by mid-century, and drastically reduce air pollution, but we need to do so while supporting work to reduce global poverty that will often be accompanied, or even driven, by increased energy consumption.

We aim to take a holistic approach that recognizes the global nature of this challenge, as well as the fact that, despite its urgency, we are still in the early days of climate action. This means that the solutions that we focus on will not only reduce emissions now, but will do so in a way that avoids future emissions, while also creating opportunities for the world’s poor and eventually ending energy poverty entirely.

We aim to do this in three ways:

- **Audacious advocacy**: By focusing our grantmaking on organizations leveraging large amounts of money through policy advocacy. There are highly effective organizations with budgets in the millions of dollars which have influenced government innovation budgets, orders of magnitude larger than their costs. By looking for opportunities with leverage like this, we can have an outsize impact.
- **Accelerating low-carbon innovation**: By finding and funding advocacy opportunities that strengthen the energy innovation eco-system or promote particularly neglected technologies. As the success of solar has shown for electricity, the availability of cheap, low carbon alternatives to our current energy sources can make a very significant difference. Efficient, low-cost technology can spread around the world without inter-governmental cooperation or expensive policies to spread around the world, making it a more robust strategy in a world where climate action will often not be the first priority of policy makers and the public.
- **Focusing on blindspots and bottlenecks**: By focusing on areas neglected by other stakeholders, we can ensure that fund dollars make as much difference as possible. While some technologies, such as solar, enjoy widespread popularity and significant policy support, this is not similarly true for other approaches, resulting in a huge imbalance in resource allocation. By finding and funding advocates for overlooked solutions, such as carbon capture and storage technology, we can ensure we are making the most of every tool available to us in the fight against climate change.

Managed by two members of the Founders Pledge Research team, the Climate Change Fund identifies and supports sustainable, evidence-based solutions to the “triple challenge” of carbon emissions, air pollution, and energy poverty.

## Our Approach to Grantmaking

When evaluating potential grants, we consider several key points:

- **Counterfactual impact**. Our grants are designed to create a meaningful outcome that would not otherwise have happened. In particular, we aim to make grants that otherwise wouldn’t have been made, rather than those which just take the place of other philanthropists’ donations. This means that you can rely on the Funds to create meaningful, real change, rather than just maintaining the status quo.
- **Impact-driven philanthropy**. The goal of this fund is maximal positive impact, irrespective of this impact being “sexy” or visible. This means we will focus on opportunities that others focused on clear attribution of their work or shiny outcomes might neglect. For example, we are very comfortable funding organizations to increase their general capacity and strategy when we perceive this as their bottleneck to higher impact, rather than being tied to specific outcomes or deliverables.
- **The organization’s funding gap**. Not all organizations are set up to scale up their programming and many can’t productively absorb large amounts of unsolicited funding. We evaluate all potential grantees’ capacity for growth and consider how much money they could put to good use.
- **Organizational strength**. Particularly with unrestricted funding, it’s important to have trust in the leadership and capacity of the organizations we support. We look at their track record of success and their transparency about failures as well as successes, and we only support those organizations which are exceptionally well run.
- **Time-critical opportunities and funding certainty**. While Founders Pledge members give to our top climate charities regularly, sometimes there are time-critical opportunities which require fast decisions. Or there are needs for certainty of funding streams to allow new hires and start new campaigns and programs. We will use the Fund to make grants that enable such short-term opportunities and stability for high-impact funding opportunities thereby increasing the impact compared to individual giving to specific organizations.
- **Portfolio approach**. Because most climate damage comes from particular severe outcomes – with a world of 4 degrees of warming being much worse than twice as bad as a world with 2 degrees – and because every particular strategy – such as energy innovation – might underdeliver, we pursue a portfolio approach to maximize positive impact. This means we will diversify our bets in ways that, when one approach fails (such as energy innovation), the others we promote (such as carbon removal) can be expected to be particularly important and still available. This maximizes the expected impact of your donation in a world characterized by huge uncertainty about the success of different high-impact solutions.

## Frequently-Asked Questions

**Can charities apply for money from the Fund?**

The Funds do not generally accept applications from charities. If the Fund Managers choose to open up an application round, this will be publicized. Charities are requested not to send unsolicited applications for funding.

**How frequently will you make grants from the Fund?**

Fund Managers will review grant-making decisions on a quarterly basis. Decisions will be made based on the value of Funds and the available options for high-impact grant-making. We may sometimes delay grant-making if we believe that waiting for more promising opportunities will be more impactful. Conversely, we may disburse funds outside of our quarterly review dates if we become aware of a particularly promising and time-sensitive funding opportunity.

**How will my contribution be used?**

All funds are granted out. The Fund is not an investment vehicle. The Fund does not use any percentage of contributions to cover staff time or other overhead costs. Every dollar contributed to the Fund will be used to make grants directly to end-user organizations creating a real difference.

## More Questions?

To learn more about the Founders Pledge Climate Change Fund, please visit [founderspledge.com](https://founderspledge.com/funds/climate-change-fund) or email the Fund Managers at [funds@founderspledge.com](mailto:funds@founderspledge.com).

Climate Change Fund

The Markup is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates how powerful institutions are using technology to change our society.

As a nonprofit newsroom, our journalism exists to serve the public. And that’s why we have embraced a Show Your Work philosophy. Whenever possible, we will publish the underlying datasets and code that we use in our investigations, as well as a detailed methodology describing the data, its provenance and the statistical techniques used in our analysis. We invite academics, journalists, policymakers, consumer activists, and community organizers to engage with our findings—after all, this is for you.

We also want our stories to reach you where you are. That means we will publish our stories on our own site and also through distribution partnerships with other media.  And because we know many different types of audiences—including those we don’t know about!—will be interested in our work, we encourage you to freely republish our work under the terms of our Creative Commons license. 

The Markup

Water + Education + Business/Income + Safe Shelter = Building Self Reliant Communities, One Family, One Village at a time . . .

Our latest business initiative in Kenya is Beehives. We have started two apiaries with 25 hives each in two separate villages. The beehives are a long term investment that we expect to pay big dividends in self reliance for these communities. A purchase of 25 Beehives is about a $4000 investment. We received a generous donation from a donor who wishes to remain anonymous. Would you like to be part of the next 25 hives to start another village on the road to self reliance? Make a donation and designate Beehives in your comments. 

The home for Meleon and her children has been completed and on March 27, 2021 her home was blessed by the local minister. Meleon is very grateful for this blessing of a new home made possible for her and her children through your generous donations. Thank You!


Gabriel, Caroline and Emmanuel, 3 of our students live with their widowed mother, Meleon, in this mud hut that has reached the point of collapse. Funding of $500 has been provided. We need to raise an additional $500-$1000 to build a new home with solar lighting and a water tank to store rain water off the roof. This will provide a clean, dry and safe environment with adequate lighting to do studies. It gets dark at 6:00 pm in Kenya year round.  The water tank will eliminate long treks to fetch water for cooking and drinking.

Thank you for your support! We have reached our goal of 100 DFG's Kits to be distributed in 2021. 
We are currently having a campaign to purchase "100" Days For Girls Kits with Reusable Washable Sanitary Pads to keep girls in school all month, every month. Period. Each kit costs $10. We purchase these kits from a Days For Girls Sewing Enterprise in Kenya. So besides keeping the girls in school purchasing these kits also provides income to women in Kenya who sew and put the kits together. Thank you!

Mission Statement 
No End To Love promotes self reliance with education, clean water, business initiatives and improvement of living conditions.

*Education sponsorships support students in finishing their primary and secondary educations. Our focus after high school is finished is to concentrate on job skills and income producing activities. 

*Communities thrive when there is a clean, reliable and accessible water source. We assist communities in rehabilitating springs and establishing community based rain harvesting systems. We work along side Chip Morgan of Africa Water Bank (https://www.facebook.com/www.africawaterbank.org/) in Kenya to accomplish these initiatives.

*We support projects and initiatives that result in income opportunities for both individuals and communities. Projects range from raising chickens for eggs, meat and market, goats and cows for milk, meat or market. We establish gardens in communities for the production of food for consumption and market.

*Clean, safe, dry and adequate living accommodations are essential for families to thrive. We provide solar power for homes where electricity is not available. Students achieve better results in school when basic home lighting is available in the evening hours so they can study and read. 

Money raised through fund raisers and direct individual donations go directly to No End to Love’s humanitarian and charitable purposes. Administration costs are self funded and supplemented with 5% from proceeds from our Savers Clothing Drives. We have no staff or rent to pay but there are always some expenses involved when running an organization. 
No End To Love Inc. is recognized by the US Internal Revenue Service as a 501(c)3 non-profit organization. Contributions to No End To Love Inc. Are tax deductible under IRS 501(c)3 regulations. 
Tax Exempt DLN: 26053553003810, EIN # 84-4844337
No End To Love Privacy Policy. Any information obtained through posts messages, ad campaigns or other interactions with our page will not be sold, shared or otherwise distributed to third parties. We maintain the right to use information collected to market our products and promotions to you.

No End To Love Inc.

PBS's mission is to inform, to inspire, and to educate.

PBS and more than 350 local stations offer every American opportunities to experience new places, explore new ideas and discover new worlds.

Public Broadcasting Service

Exists to end the greatest cause of suffering on the planet: the exploitation of animals for food.

Mercy For Animals exists to end the greatest cause of suffering on the planet: the exploitation of animals for food.

Mercy For Animals

The destruction of healthy forest systems causes so many different problems. Trees provide a habitat for animals, purify water sources, control flooding and erosion and help to replenish the soil with nutrients needed for farming. When farmers can’t grow anything their farms fail and they have no option but to move to the overcrowded cities looking for work. Often they have to resort to selling themselves or their families into slavery just to survive.

We start by hiring the local community to plant trees. This gives them a decent income so they can provide for their families again. As the reforestation effort goes on, healthy forests begin to emerge and all the negative effects of deforestation begin to disappear.

Eden Reforestation Projects

Families never receive a bill from St. Jude for treatment, travel, housing or food – because all a family should worry about is helping their child live. Treatments invented at St. Jude have helped push the overall childhood cancer survival rate from 20% to more than 80% since it opened more than 50 years ago. St. Jude is working to drive the overall survival rate for childhood cancer to 90%, and we won’t stop until no child dies from cancer. St. Jude freely shares the discoveries we make, and every child saved at St. Jude means doctors and scientists worldwide can use that knowledge to save thousands more children.

St. Jude Children's Research Hospital

A Center for the Study of Buddhism and Tibetan Culture

Gaden Shartse Thubten Dhargye Ling, a center for the study of Buddhism and Tibetan culture,  was founded in Los Angeles in 1978 by the late Venerable Geshe Tsultim Gyeltsen. Since being named “Land of Flourishing Dharma” by His Holiness the Dalai Lama, the center’s mission has been to share with the world the precious teachings of the Buddha Dharma, and to extend assistance to exiled Tibetan monastic communities in India.

Establishing a vibrant urban dharma center requires diligence and patience, and GSTDL was housed in several locations throughout Los Angeles before settling in its current address in the Belmont Heights neighborhood of Long Beach in 1996. Throughout the years, what has been most constant is the clear vision and quiet determination of its humble founder, whose purpose was to share the Dharma as both lived tradition and personal experience.  

For three decades, GSTDL has maintained a consistent and rigorous teaching schedule, with Geshela focusing on the major works of Nagarjuna, Shantideva, Atisha, Je Tsong Khapa, and the Kadampa masters. Known for his great personal warmth, Geshela held a very traditional and uncompromising approach in teaching essential Lam Rim (Stages of the Path) and lo-jong (mind training) texts. Geshela also invited eminent masters His Holiness the Dalai Lama, the late Kyabje Zong Rinpoche, and the late Kyabje Lati Rinpoche, to confer major and minor empowerments of deities such as Yamantaka, Vajrayogini, Vajrasattva, and Cittamani Tara, and to grant commentaries.

Gaden Shartse Thubten Dhargye Ling

We use cash transfers to increase immunization rates in Nigeria.

Childhood vaccines prevent an estimated 2 to 3 million deaths every year. They are recognized as one of the most cost-effective child health interventions in low-income countries. Yet, an estimated 19.4 million infants around the world did not receive routine vaccinations in 2018. In Nigeria, 40% of under-five deaths are from vaccine-preventable diseases – low immunisation rates are a significant contributor to its high under-five mortality rate (120 deaths per 1,000 live births). North West Nigeria, where the program operates, is the region with the lowest vaccination coverage in Nigeria.

See RCT findings here: https://www.newincentives.org/evidence

New Incentives

Nevada Rise Academy is a tuition-free public charter school serving kindergarten through 5th grade students in Las Vegas.

Through rigorous academics, high-quality instruction, and intentional character development, Nevada Rise Academy Charter School places every kindergarten through 5th grade student on a path to college.

At Nevada Rise Academy, we believe that every child, regardless of demographics or socioeconomic status, should have the opportunity to choose college and should have access to the foundation that will make that choice possible. We begin building that foundation on the first minute of the first day of kindergarten. 

We employ the following components to unlock the potential that enables all students to RISE!

 Culture of achievement enables students to learn in a structured environment.
Excellent teachers deliver rigorous curriculum with high expectations.
Literacy is crucial to success in all other academic subjects.
More time in the school day gives our students the support they deserve.
Character development unlocks the full potential of every student.

Nevada Rise Academy 

Advancing racial and economic justice to ensure dignity and opportunity for low-income people and people of color.

Ella Baker Center for Human Rights

Protecting the rainforest and our climate by supporting Indigenous peoples.

Since 1996, Amazon Watch has protected the rainforest and advanced the rights of indigenous peoples in the Amazon Basin.

We partner with indigenous and environmental organizations in campaigns for human rights, corporate accountability, and the preservation of the Amazon's ecological systems.

Amazon Watch resists the destruction of the Amazon by challenging disastrous development projects and natural resource extraction and by promoting indigenous rights.

The Amazon is the world's largest terrestrial carbon sink and plays a critical role in regulating the global climate. Yet this global treasure is at great risk – already more than 20% has been deforested, and new fossil fuel extraction, mining, large-scale hydroelectric dams, and highways cause even greater deforestation and run roughshod over indigenous people's rights and territories. Amazon Watch protects millions of acres of rainforest every year by partnering with indigenous peoples – the best stewards of the forest – to directly challenge the corporate and government powers that threaten the Amazon and our climate.

Amazon Watch supports and promotes indigenous-led alternative solutions to climate change, natural resource extraction, and industrial development. The knowledge, cultures, and traditional practices of our indigenous partners contribute greatly to sustainable and equitable stewardship of the Amazon and all of Mother Earth. Amazon Watch promotes these indigenous-led solutions, such as green development and autonomous solar power, and expands capacity for indigenous leaders, especially women, to maintain their autonomy and sovereignty for the stewardship of their ancestral territories.

Amazon Watch joins with the climate justice movement to address the fact that the most vulnerable – especially indigenous people and people of color – bear the brunt of environmental destruction, corporate greed, and climate change and are often excluded from top-down solutions. Addressing climate change and environmental destructive must also redress past harm, bring bad actors to justice, support activists who put their lives on the line, and build solidarity. Amazon Watch holds governments and corporations accountable, defends Earth Defenders against threats and attacks, holds open the doors of the international stage for our indigenous partners, supports bonds of solidarity between indigenous peoples, and channels outside support for our indigenous partners.

Amazon Watch

Share your zoo photos and stories with us, plus get the inside scoop on zoo animals and happenings.

Woodland Park Zoo

Developing the roadmap for a sustainable, secure, and just global protein supply 🧫🌱

The Good Food Institute (GFI) is a global network of nonprofit organizations developing the roadmap for a sustainable, secure, and just protein supply. Industry alone will not meet this challenge at the scale or speed we need. GFI is accelerating the transformation of the food system by identifying solutions and mobilizing resources to make alternative proteins the default way meat is made.

GFI is a network of nonprofits around the world strategically based in the most critical economies for alternative protein advancement. In Asia, Europe, Brazil, India, Israel, and the U.S., GFI’s teams are mobilizing the international community to use markets and technology to replace harmful practices with ones that are better for the climate and biodiversity, for food security, and for global health.

GFI’s Focus
As a nonprofit, GFI is uniquely positioned to accelerate the transition to alternative proteins by focusing on three programmatic priorities:

-Cultivating a strong scientific ecosystem | GFI’s science and technology teams map out the most neglected areas that will allow alternative proteins to compete on taste and price. GFI meets these challenges by developing open-access research and resources, educating and connecting the next generation of scientists and entrepreneurs, and funding research that benefits alternative protein development across the sector. 

-Influencing policy and securing government funding | GFI’s policy teams ensure that alternative proteins are a part of the policy discussion around climate change mitigation and global health. In every region where GFI has a presence, teams advocate for government funding and incentives to transition to alternative proteins and are paving the way for the approval of novel proteins such as cultivated meat.

-Ensuring industry prioritizes alternative proteins | GFI’s corporate teams are creating a transformation of our global meat supply. GFI works to replicate past market transformations by showing companies of all sizes, from startups to multinational corporations, how alternatives to animal products can be profitable while meeting environmental, social, and governance goals.

Reimagining meat
The very real threats of climate change, global food insecurity, antibiotic resistance, and pandemics require us to imagine a different future of food. Alternative proteins are the solution that will securely and sustainably feed the world.

GFI’s global community of scientists, policy experts, and corporate specialists are creating a world where alternative proteins are no longer alternative.



The Good Food Institute

Bike East Bay works for safe, convenient and enjoyable bicycling for all people in the east bay.

Bike East Bay (formerly the East Bay Bicycle Coalition) works for safe, convenient and enjoyable bicycling for all people in the east bay.

Bike East Bay

Create and serve an informed public, one challenged and invigorated by an understanding and appreciation of ideas and cultures.

KUOW is the Puget Sound region's #1 radio station for news. Our independent, nonprofit newsroom produces award-winning stories, podcasts and events.

Mission // To create and serve a more informed public.

Vision // Broaden conversations. Deepen understanding.

KUOW Public Radio

CRN seeks responsible stewardship of the World’s last great rainforests through innovative strategies.

The Coalition for Rainforest Nations assists tropical governments, communities and peoples responsibly manage their rainforests. 

Healthy rainforests protect against a changing climate, generate needed biodiversity and provide safe habitats.

Launched by Coalition members in 2005, the United Nation’s REDD+ Mechanism, designed to incentivize conservation and contribute to the battle against climate change, now includes around 90% of the world’s remaining rainforests. 

A first in human history!

The Coalition for Rainforest Nations seek responsible stewardship of the World’s last great rainforests through innovative strategies which integrate social, economic and scientific rationales to achieve environmental and social sustainability.

The Coalition for Rainforest Nations seeks to create sound and long-lasting opportunities for environmental sustainability, social and economic advancement, strengthened capacity and international market reform in a manner that enhances tropical forest stewardship, biodiversity conservation and global climate stability by reversing the destruction of tropical rainforests.

Coalition for Rainforest Nations

Ending hunger through community partnerships.

As one of the nation's largest food banks, we strive to end hunger through community partnerships. Help aid our mission: $1 can provide 3 meals

Second Harvest Heartland

California Renters Legal Advocacy and Education Fund is working to restore a legal environment in which CA builds housing equal to its needs.

California state law prevents cities from denying housing proposals that comply with objective zoning standards, general plans and environmental laws.

In practice, cities often deny housing proposals anyways because there is no statewide enforcement agency. New housing production inevitably plays a role in the lives of California renters. Denial of housing proposals means fewer options available to renters as our population grows and our rental stock ages; Home owners have housing security while renters depend on new housing.

Cities that deny housing proposals are denying renters a home in California. 

CaRLA is a 501(c)3 that holds municipal governments accountable when acting in violation of California State laws. We pursue legal action where developers have not, bringing suit against cities that fail to approve compliant housing. We work for California’s renters, not homeowner wealth.

CaRLA

Pets Lifeline is a nonprofit organization focused on advocating or providing services for animals. It is based in Sonoma, CA. It received its nonprofit status in 1984.

Pets Lifeline

Protecting the Amazon Rainforest by Strengthening Indigenous Communities

 De la Tierra's mission is to preserve the Amazon Rainforest by promoting thriving Indigenous communities, merging modern advancements with ancestral tradition through education and empowerment.  Restoring harmony, health and balance to the Earth and her inhabitants through a rich quality of life.
 
De la Tierra envisions a future where strong, culturally intact, sovereign communities progressively steward their local bioregions in a sustainable, low impact and reciprocal way.  Where the health of the community is a reflection of the health of the land.

de la Tierra

The Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies supports psychedelic and cannabis research, education and policy reform.

Founded in 1986, the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS) is a visionary 501(c)(3) non-profit organization ushering the safe and ethical use of psychedelics as tools for healing and growth on individual, familial, societal, and planetary levels.

MAPS’ top priority is ethically introducing global access to MDMA-assisted therapy as a treatment for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) through regulatory approvals and training certification for therapy providers, as well as public education, policy reform, and building community support networks.

How Your Donation Will Help

While the MDMA drug development program is the main priority of MAPS, the organization's programs include research into other psychedelic compounds and provide critical resources for researchers around the world interested in studying psychedelics. These resources include assistance with protocol development and regulatory guidance, in addition to providing study drug and training for investigators. As part of its commitment to open science and open praxis, MAPS publishes its research protocols, treatment manual for MDMA-assisted therapy for PTSD, published articles, and investigator's brochure on its website for free download, and actively collaborates with third-party researchers and institutions. Researchers and institutions around the world are building on the body of research that MAPS has produced.

MAPS operates a global network of intersectional education and research programs focused on the careful study of the risks and benefits of psychedelics. The education programs include: harm reduction and peer support through the Zendo Project; policy and advocacy efforts focused on community organizing and reducing barriers to research; a conflict resolution initiative for peace-building; and an active fiscal sponsorship program for fledgling mission-aligned organizations. MAPS also produces myriad educational materials, training workshops, and conferences, both physical and virtual. MAPS builds its global community of support through: outreach at events worldwide; a robust social media presence; and interviews and publications in various global media outlets. All of this work is supported by MAPS’ general operating fund. 

MAPS aims to transcend geopolitical and social boundaries and intentionally cultivates interactions with thought leaders in a broad range of interest areas and outlets that demonstrate the broad applications of the healing potential of psychedelics, and to proactively build trust and common ground with those most likely to have resistance to psychedelics.  

A Tipping Point for Psychedelic Medicine

MDMA-assisted therapy is poised to be a true breakthrough for psychedelic medicine and is the first psychedelic therapy to enter a Phase 3 clinical trial. This trial recently cleared a critical interim evaluation, with analysis confirming a 90% or greater likelihood that the final results will show significant effectiveness in treating PTSD. Achieving FDA approval for this treatment could be the tipping point to shifting psychedelics into the medical mainstream. This shift has the potential to unlock previously unavailable resources for the investigation of psychedelic-assisted treatments applied to our most critical mental health challenges: trauma, depression, addiction, anxiety, and more.

When administered in a clinical setting with trained therapy providers, MDMA has proven to be a powerful adjunct to therapy, which assists individuals in processing traumatic experiences in a deep and profound manner, leading to the alleviation of suffering. Clinical research indicates that MDMA may catalyze therapeutic processing by allowing participants to stay emotionally engaged when revisiting traumatic experiences, without feeling overwhelmed by anxiety or other painful emotions.

FDA approval of MDMA-assisted therapy for PTSD could help millions of people who are suffering from trauma. A long-term follow-up study published in June 2020 demonstrated that 67% of the study volunteers (N=91) who had PTSD for an average duration of 17.8 years were still in remission and no longer qualified for a PTSD diagnosis at least 12-months following the completion of their treatment. 

While MAPS is the engine that powers this research, passionate supporters are the fuel that feeds our fire. We are inspired to press on towards the finish line of this 35-year marathon.

If you have any questions, please email us at giving@maps.org.

MAPS

YTB: Youth-Adult partnership of giving & receiving to support positive youth development. https://tinyurl.com/reciprocitytimes

Youth TimeBanking Global is a community service practice for supporting youth to increase awareness of community organizations and expand their social connections.  YTB is experiential learning in the interests of building community.  YTB introduces youth to principles of co-production and servant leadership.  When youth are involved with community, they strengthen their connections to their community and learn about Civic Engagement.  As youth continue with YTB they experience co-production -- a model in which each person contributes to the design and delivery of projects or services. https://ytb.tiny.us/news

YTB's Vision is that all youth transition to adulthood with the experience of contributing service to their community.  YTB is a system of service exchange that leverages the talents, capabilities, and energies of youth so that they are viewed as partners and co-producers to achieve shared goals and work towards shared visions in our communities.

Youth Earning Time Credits For Community Service Activities - Youth TimeBanking is a nonprofit that provides youth with service opportunities through its network of community organizations. YTB is timebanking customized for youth, a program of giving and receiving where youth earn YTB time credits for their service contributions. Youth take care of Little Free Libraries and community gardens, design logos, participate in virtual events, work on anti-bullying projects, and more. YTB time credits can be exchanged for resources or services, such as cell phone minutes, refurbished technology, sports gear, school supplies, arts-crafts supplies, books, coaching sessions, digital inclusion, lessons, a gift card to support the local economy, etc. YTB is a youth-adult partnership in which youth develop strengths, make community connections, and experience something bigger than themselves.  YTB helps youth as they help others!

YTB Global

Prevention, control and treatment of malaria and other communicable diseases  among vulnerable populations.

Our mission is to improve lives in Africa and Asia through sustainable, evidence-based programs  that combat targeted diseases and promote child and maternal health. 

We will accomplish this together with partners and all levels of government, by:

designing and implementing cutting edge research, surveillance and monitoring and evaluation;
selectively scaling up and delivering sustainable evidence-based health programmes;
providing technical assistance and consulting services that shape and strengthen national and international health policies, strategies and systems and build local capacity;
seeking to ensure that our experience, thought leadership, practical findings and research results are effectively communicated and contribute to the coordinated improvement of access to and quality of healthcare. 
Our areas of expertise include: 
disease prevention, diagnosis and treatment
disease control and elimination
health systems strengthening
research, monitoring and evaluation leading to best practice
behavior  change communication
national and international advocacy, and policy development


Malaria Consortium

FinMango is a non-profit on a mission to solve complex problems that endanger the financial health of young adults in transition. 

Our mission is to solve complex problems that endanger the financial health of young adults in transition. We believe in financial equity for all and operate as a learning organization that leverages data, technology, and partnerships. 


FinMango

A virtual non-profit organization & antiracist education brand that promotes justice for all.  

540 provides an online hub for accessible education that promotes justice for all. We create a cultural shift in perspectives and practice through learning rooted in social justice and anti-racism.

540WMain

Research and action think tank promoting police transparency and accountability via research, partnerships, and public discourse. 

Today, the commitment of equity and inclusiveness within the police department itself and throughout the service community remains strong. Center for Policing Equity’s work continues to simultaneously aid police departments to realize their own equity goals as well as advance the scientific understanding of issues of equity within organizations and policing.

As CPE grows and partners with law enforcement agencies across North America, we hope that you will join us in this groundbreaking effort to chart a new course for equity in law enforcement.

As a research and action think tank, Center for Policing Equity (CPE) produces analyses identifying and reducing the causes of racial disparities in law enforcement. Using evidence-based approaches to social justice, we use data to create levers for social, cultural and policy change. Center for Policing Equity also holds a 501(c)3 status.

We are research scientists, race and equity experts, data virtuosos, and community trainers.
We use data to build fairer and more just systems.
We partner with law enforcement and communities. Our aim is to bridge the divide of communication, generational mistrust, and suffering.
But most of all, we are the path that science can forge towards public safety, community trust, and racial equity.

Center for Policing Equity

Mary's Place believes that no one's child should sleep outside. We provide safe, inclusive shelter and services that support women, children, and families on their journey out of homelessness.

Since 1999, Mary’s Place has helped hundreds of women and families move out of homelessness into more stable situations. We provide safe, inclusive shelter and services that support women, children and families on their journey out of homelessness. Across nine emergency family shelters in King County, we keep struggling families together, inside, and safe when they have no place else to go, providing shelter, services, resources, community, and hope.  

Meals, showers, and laundry facilities–children are connected with schools. In the evening, families in shelter eat dinner, do homework, socialize, and prepare for the week ahead. Each day, Housing Specialists work with families to address barriers and empower parents to build family stability, secure housing, and prepare for employment. Kids do homework, participate in fun and enriching activities, and go on outings and adventures in Kids Club. 

Children with life threatening illnesses should not be living in cars and tents awaiting chemo or dialysis. Families who have lost everything in the struggle to get their child well have a place to receive care and support in shelter at Mary's Place Popsicle Place shelter program.

Still, capacity is limited and hundreds of families are outside each night in cars and tents. Mary’s Place Diversion program and team of mobile outreach specialists work with unsheltered families where they are, to address barriers and help move them quickly into stable housing, bypassing a shelter stay.

The women’s drop-in Day Center in downtown Seattle provides meals, showers, laundry, access to resources, safety and  relationship to over a hundred women each day.

The support of the community keeps our doors open. The path out of homelessness can be long and challenging. Each person that finds housing is ultimately responsible for his or her accomplishment, but often a community of support, education, and advocacy has helped along the way. 

Mary's Place

We're finding solutions to the world’s most pressing problems through evidence-led and thoughtful approaches to impact.

Founders Pledge is a community of over 1,700 tech entrepreneurs finding and funding solutions to the world’s most pressing problems. Through cutting-edge research, world-class advice, and end-to-end giving infrastructure, we empower members to maximise their philanthropic impact by pledging a meaningful portion of their proceeds to charitable causes. Since 2015, our members have pledged over $7 billion and donated more than $700 million globally. As a non-profit, we are grateful to be community-supported. Together, we are committed to doing immense good.

Founders Pledge

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Life has been kind to me and it's my mission to share that kindness with the world. 

Designer, researcher, and manager. Helping people that fix things and fixing things that help people.

Co-founder & Head of Product @ Every.org. Especially excited by small nonprofits doing big things for underprivileged people and our planet.

Let's change the way we eat, let's change the way we live, and let's change the way we treat each other.

I believe in gratitude+action and that together we can build a better, more just world. Cofounder & CEO at Every.org

Advisor, co-founder & ex-COO of Every.org. We're all connected in this world and nonprofits help with healing.

Indigenous Woman. Aspiring Regenerative Human. Actor. Activist 

Ex-cofounder and Head of Engineering at Every.org. I work so others can receive the level of support I've personally benefited from.

Engineering @ Every.org. I believe we can all do good together.

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