Founder's Pledge Recommendations

In addition to promoting GiveWell-recommended charities, Founder’s Pledge evaluates and promotes charities working in a variety of different cause areas, which can all be found here. 

To protect our planet from the worst impacts of climate change, we must reduce carbon dioxide and other climate warming emissions nearly to zero within a few decades. The only way to do that is through unprecedented technical innovation that displaces the use of coal, oil, and gas – or scrubs the carbon out of those fuels – at an affordable cost.

Coalition for Rainforest Nations (CfRN) assists tropical governments, communities and peoples conserve their rainforests. Healthy rainforests protect against a changing climate, generate needed biodiversity and provide safe habitats. Due to the Coalition’s innovative leadership, around 90% of the world’s remaining rainforests are now included under the United Nation’s REDD+ Mechanism to incentivize conservation. 

StrongMinds provides life-changing mental health care to Africa’s poorest women afflicted by the debilitating illness: depression. Our simple, evidence-based and cost-effective group talk therapy model has been delivered to over 50,000 women since 2014, as we strive to reach 2 million women by 2025.

The Iodine Global Network aims to reduce iodine deficiency globally by advocating for national salt iodization programs, tracking progress on iodization, and providing global and country-specific guidance on related programmatic and scientific issues.