Your fundraising fuels the whole fund for the cause area you chose. Each fund backs a portfolio of top-performing organisations, recommended by independent evaluators, so your donors' support is spread across several proven programmes.
Below you'll find the organisations each fund currently supports, what they do, and what $1,000 raised for the fund makes possible. Impact figures are estimates in US dollars, based on cost-effectiveness research from independent evaluators. For the latest detail on any fund, follow the links to its fund page and deep dive.
Global Health Fund
$1,000 raised for the fund is estimated to improve approximately 151 lives when split across the fund's charities.
The fund currently supports organisations including:
Against Malaria Foundation: funds insecticide-treated bednets that protect families from malaria.
Evidence Action: provides safe drinking water through its Dispensers for Safe Water programme.
Helen Keller International: gives children vitamin A supplements that prevent blindness and boost immunity.
New Incentives: uses small cash incentives to raise childhood vaccination rates in northern Nigeria.
Taimaka: treats and prevents child malnutrition through community-based care in Nigeria.
For the most up-to-date information, see the Global Health Fund page and the Global Health deep dive.
Mental Health Fund
$1,000 raised for the fund improves approximately 45 lives when split across the fund's charities.
The fund currently supports organisations including:
StrongMinds: provides free group talk therapy for people with depression, delivered by trained community facilitators in Africa.
Friendship Bench: trains lay health workers, many of them grandmothers, to deliver talk therapy in their local communities.
Action for Happiness: runs wellbeing courses that teach people practical, evidence-based skills for a happier life.
For the most up-to-date information, see the Mental Health Fund page and the Mental Health deep dive.
Climate Solutions Fund
$1,000 raised for the fund mitigates approximately 600 tonnes of CO₂e when split across the fund's charities.
The fund currently supports organisations including:
Clean Air Task Force: pushes for science-backed climate policy and advances zero-carbon fuels and next-generation energy technologies.
Future Cleantech Architects: advocates for policies that cut emissions from heavy industry in the EU and beyond.
Opportunity Green: gives economic and policy guidance to decision makers to decarbonise aviation and shipping.
Project InnerSpace: works to accelerate next-generation geothermal energy around the world.
For the most up-to-date information, see the Climate Solutions Fund page and the Climate Solutions deep dive.
Women's Empowerment Fund
$1,000 raised for the fund empowers approximately 80 women when split across the fund's charities.
The fund currently supports organisations including:
CEDOVIP: prevents gender-based violence in Uganda through community-led programmes that challenge harmful social norms.
Family Empowerment Media: runs radio campaigns in Nigeria that expand access to family planning.
Lafiya: delivers reproductive healthcare, including self-injectable contraceptives, to women in Nigeria who want it but can't access it.
For the most up-to-date information, see the Women's Empowerment Fund page and the Women's Empowerment deep dive.
Animal Welfare Fund
$1,000 raised for the fund helps approximately 5,250 animals when split across the fund's charities.
The fund currently supports organisations including:
Anima International: campaigns to strengthen protections for animals across Europe.
The Good Food Institute: advances plant-based and cultivated meat as alternatives to factory-farmed products.
Sinergia Animal: works to end extreme confinement for pigs and chickens in Latin America.
The Humane League: wins corporate commitments to phase out cages and crates for farmed animals.
For the most up-to-date information, see the Animal Welfare Fund page and the Animal Welfare deep dive.
Good to know
Examples are illustrative, not exhaustive. Race for Impact retains discretion to allocate funds within each cause-area fund, guided by impact, independent advisors and current evidence. Independent advisors review each fund regularly, so the organisations it supports may change as evidence evolves.
Race for Impact does not evaluate individual charities. Our cause areas and funds are based on the research of third-party, impact-focused evaluators and advisors our team has found to be particularly well-suited to help donors do the most good per dollar, according to their recent investigations.
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