I believe that every person deserves the right to improve their mental health.

Inspired by Effective Altruism, here is my cent to help these women live a happier life. Thanks StrongMinds to give me this opportunity!

Inspired by Effective Altruism, this is a neglected cause area where we can help others in a cost-effective way.

Happier Lives Institute has concluded that Strong Minds is one of the most effective charities out there in terms of increasing wellbeing: https://www.happierlivesinstitute.org/donation-advice.html

Strong Minds is doing great work to help people and very effectively! :) 

StrongMinds provides life-changing mental health services to women in Africa using innovative community-based group therapy.

According to the WHO, depression is the leading cause of disability worldwide, and is a major contributor to the global burden of disease. In Africa, an estimated 66M women have depression and 85% have no access to treatment. Since 2014, StrongMinds has treated over 200,000 individuals for depression symptoms, with 80% measuring as depression-free after therapy. When a woman recovers from depression, she is more engaged in the community and her economic activity increases. Her family eats more meals and her children go to school more often. When you invest in mental health, you invest in the future of an individual, their family, and their community.

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We target opportunities where small investments can generate extraordinary impact and create lasting change.

There are many charities that address global poverty and suffering. 

With our Global Health & Development (GHD) **Catalytic Impact Fund**, we try to find the strategic pressure points where modest funding unlocks transformational change. 

By prioritizing these leverage points, we help donors maximize their impact in building sustainable, long-term solutions to global poverty and suffering — saving and improving as many lives as possible with each dollar.

What does catalytic impact look like?

- **We trigger systemic improvements**: We support investments that create new long-term infrastructure or increase the cost-effectiveness of existing systems.
- **We remove key bottlenecks**: We identify and remove barriers that stand in the way of accelerated impact.
- **We crowd in capital**: We provide early-stage funding that attracts substantial follow-on investment for cost-effective opportunities.

### Our Approach to Grantmaking

When evaluating potential grants, we consider several key points:

- **Counterfactual impact**. Our grants are designed to create meaningful outcomes that would not otherwise have happened. This means that you can rely on the Funds to create meaningful, real change, rather than just maintaining the status quo.
- **Impact-driven philanthropy**. This fund prioritizes the highest-impact solutions to challenges. We assess where the gaps are, which opportunities may be neglected by other funders, and where the biggest wins are in terms of making the biggest difference.
-  **The organization’s funding gap**. Not all organizations are set up to scale programs and some may not be able to productively absorb large amounts of unsolicited funding at any given point. 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**. Sometimes there are time-critical opportunities which require fast decisions. 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.

### Frequently-Asked Questions

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

Founders Pledge reviews [requests for funding](https://www.founderspledge.com/requests-for-funding) from organizations, but does not guarantee we can fill funding requests.

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

In general, Fund Managers will review grantmaking decisions on a quarterly basis, based on the value of Funds and the available options for high-impact grantmaking. We may disburse funds outside of quarterly review dates if we become aware of a particularly promising and time-sensitive funding.

**How will my contribution be used?**

All funds are granted out — 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 GHD Catalytic Impact Fund, please visit [founderspledge.com](https://founderspledge.com/funds/global-health-and-development-fund) or email the team at [funds@founderspledge.com](mailto:funds@founderspledge.com).

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Passionate about helping charities to do as much good as possible, through effective altruism.

I found out about every.org when they ran a site-wide donation matching program a while ago. I appreciated the idea of being able to leverage my own giving that way and found the site to be trustworthy and easy to use.

I have a hypothesis that when multiple charities are sharing one pool of matching funds, it creates an additional incentive for donors to participate. So I'm sponsoring one myself and inviting some friends to give.  And any visitors who stop by this page are most welcome to join in!

I've chosen six charities for a "test drive" of this cool feature on every.org. These charities all have a good evidence base for being considered highly effective in some way, but it is difficult to compare them to one another apples-to-apples since they work on a diverse range of issues. There are several other charities that I am very excited about too, so please don't interpret this list as being my absolute favorites or top recommendations. 

The cheesy image I've chosen is from ChatGPT-5. In my defense, anything I drew myself would have looked worse! It is meant to convey a connection between Jesus Christ and the generous use of both our hearts and minds. Jesus inspired this fundraiser by encouraging us to love God and our neighbors, with all our hearts and all our minds, as He loved us. In the modern era, we have a lot of great charities to choose from, and a lot of evidence to draw upon in trying to be wise stewards of our resources.

Note: I'm a board member of [Christians for Impact](https://christiansforimpact.org) and invite you to check out that website for more information, but this campaign is not an official project of that organization, just something I am trying out as an individual.

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