In Q4 2024, Canadians like you raised over $2.7 million for highly effective charities through our platform. $600,000 of it went to our Global Health Fund and GiveWell’s recommended charities which helped save an estimated 200 lives by providing vitamin A supplements to over 171,000 people, antimalarial bednets to more than 26,000 households, and vaccinations to 1,100 infants.
This giving season, we want to double the amounts raised to GiveWell recommended charities to $1.2 million dollars to save 400 lives and we’d like you to help us achieve that. In order to make reaching the goal possible, we’re announcing a $400,000 in matching funds for GiveWell recommended charities.
Matching funds
Thanks to three generous matching donors, we’ve set up a matching fund of $400,000 for new and returning donors to be matched until the end of the year. Your donations will be matched up to $10,000 dollar for dollar. The offer is available now until the end of 2025 or until the funds run out.
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When is the offer available?
November 19th, 2025 until 11:59pm December 31st, 2025 (or until the funds run out)
Note: If you are planning to donate via EFT using our donation form, we recommend that you complete your donations before the 20th of December as it takes some time for our payment processor to confirm that the EFT payment went through
Who is eligible?
First-time donors: Individuals who have never donated with RC Forward
Past donors: Individuals whose last contribution was made before 1st Oct 2024. Please use the same email address used for past donations.
What if I’m not eligible?
There are still a couple of concrete ways you can double or triple your impact with this matching funds campaign. You can help us spread the word and invite your friends and family to donate to these super effective charitable projects. You could be tripling your impact if you convince others to donate.
Some of the concrete steps you can help:
- Engage with this particular LinkedIn post to help boost its reach by commenting, tagging your friends in the comment and reposting
- Send out three personalized emails to someone who might be interested in giving to super effective charitable projects
- Take the Trial Pledge or 10% Pledge by Giving What We Can and promote it on your socials
Where are the matching funds from?
Several generous donors have committed a combined $400,000 in counterfactual matching funds on top of their regular giving. These funds will only be unlocked for GiveWell recommended charitable projects as match-eligible donations are made, ensuring that your donation directly triggers additional support.
Which programs does matching apply to?
- RC Forward Global Health Fund
- Antimalarial bednet distribution (Against Malaria Foundation)
- Implementing seasonal malaria chemoprevention to protect children (implemented by Malaria Consortium)
- Distributing vitamin A to combat childhood mortality and prevent blindness (implemented by Helen Keller International)
- Cash transfers to improve infant immunization (implemented by New Incentives)
What your donation can achieve
A $100 CAD donation could protect 7 children from malaria for a year
A $50 CAD donation could protect 21 people with bednets for 2-3 years
A $100 CAD donation could provide 35 children with vitamin A for a year
A $200 CAD donation could vaccinate an infant
