RC Forward offers Canadians a better way to support high-impact charities. Run by the team at Rethink Charity (a Canadian registered charity), RC Forward has empowered Canadians to tax-efficiently donate over $18 million dollars to top charities, creating a better world for people, animals, and the planet today and for the future. Join us!
We would love to help you achieve your effective giving goals. Check out our expert-advised funds, or keep scrolling to discover our featured charities, based on recommendations from top charity evaluators including GiveWell, Animal Charity Evaluators, Founders Pledge, and The Life You Can Save.
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Advised by experts, our funds are great if you care about a cause but aren’t sure which charity to support. Your donation will go to where its positive impact is expected to be the greatest, based on the expert advice of the charity evaluators or advisors guiding the fund’s allocations each quarter.
Donate to top charities recommended by Animal Charity Evaluators for their ability to help the most animals.
Support highly impactful, evidence-based solutions to the triple challenge of climate change, air pollution, and energy poverty.
Donate to charities recommended by GiveWell for effectively battling disease in low-income countries.
Donate to charities recommended by GiveWell for educating and empowering people experiencing extreme poverty.
Donate to this fund to support organizations working to protect the long-term future.
Choose a high-impact charity to support
We partner with high-impact charities working across a wide range of cause areas, so that you can give effectively to the causes you care about. Select a cause area to view all partner charities working on this cause.
Animal Welfare
The Albert Schweitzer Foundation advocates for farmed animals and promotes a vegan lifestyle.
Anima International works to reduce the suffering of animals to the greatest extent and in the most effective way possible.
ACE uses evidence-based research to help donors, volunteers, and advocates make informed decisions on how to help as many animals as possible.
Animal Equality works with societies, governments, and companies to end cruelty to farmed animals.
Mercy For Animals is a global non-profit that exists to end one of the greatest causes of suffering on the planet: the exploitation of animals for food.
New Harvest is laying the groundwork for the future of agriculture by reimagining the way we make animal products—using cells instead of animals.
Sinergia Animal is an international animal protection organization working in countries of the Global South to reduce the suffering of farmed animals and promote more compassionate food choices.
SVB promotes plant-based eating by organizing events and working with industry, restaurants, governments, and health professionals.
The Good Food Institute (GFI) is a nonprofit think tank working to make the global food system better for the planet, people, and animals.
The Humane League works to reduce animal suffering through hard-hitting corporate campaigns and education programs for consumers.
Wild Animal Initiative strives to understand and improve the lives of wild animals. Because that will only be possible through sound science, it supports pioneering research into responsible ways to reduce animal suffering in the wild.
Cause Research
ACE uses evidence-based research to help donors, volunteers, and advocates make informed decisions on how to help as many animals as possible.
GiveWell tries to identify outstanding giving opportunities and publishes the full details of its analysis.
IPA discovers and promotes effective solutions to global poverty problems.
Rethink Priorities is a research organization that conducts critical research to inform policymakers and major foundations about how to best help people and nonhuman animals in both the present and the long-term future.
Education and Outreach
CFAR runs workshops for adults to train effectiveness, discernment, and debiased thinking, and nudges them towards humanity’s most important problems.
CEA’s mission is to build a community of people acting on the principles of effective altruism.
TLYCS aims to change the culture of giving in affluent countries such that more donations are allocated to highly impactful non-profit organizations.
Climate Change
Carbon180 is a US-based environmental NGO that champions carbon removal solutions — a critical but largely neglected piece of the climate puzzle — through policy advocacy, business engagement, and innovation support.
CATF is dedicated to reducing atmospheric pollution through research, advocacy, and private-sector collaboration.
CfRN assists governments and communities in tropical nations to conserve their rainforests, thereby mitigating climate change and preserving biodiversity.
Cool Earth exists to champion the relationship between people, rainforest and climate.
TerraPraxis designs and implements strategies that leverage science, technology and energy innovation for a prosperous planet
The Good Food Institute (GFI) is a nonprofit think tank working to make the global food system better for the planet, people, and animals.
Human Empowerment
DMI runs television, radio, and mobile campaigns in developing countries to change health-related behaviours and save lives.
GiveDirectly allows donors to give money directly to extremely poor households with no strings attached.
Living Goods supports local community health workers in developing countries to go door-to-door to sell affordable health and household goods and to provide basic health counselling to families in need.
New Incentives provides cash transfers to low-income households in Nigeria to increase childhood immunization rates.
Village Enterprise equips and empowers first-time entrepreneurs in Africa with the resources and skills to start sustainable businesses and savings groups.
Long-Term Future
CFAR runs workshops for adults to train effectiveness, discernment, and debiased thinking, and nudges them towards humanity’s most important problems.
MIRI does research into aligning superhuman artificial intelligence with human values.
The Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI) is a nonprofit, nonpartisan global security organization focused on reducing nuclear and biological threats imperiling humanity.
ALLFED works to make sure everyone can be fed in global scale disasters.
Global Health
AMF provides funding for long-lasting insecticidal net (LLIN) distributions, to protect people from malaria in developing countries.
Evidence Action scales evidence-based and cost-effective programs to reduce the burden of poverty.
Fistula Foundation treats women suffering with obstetric fistula, a devastating childbirth injury that destroys a woman’s life.
Helen Keller International saves and improves lives by combating the causes and consequences of blindness, poor health, and malnutrition.
IGN 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 issues.
Malaria Consortium specializes in the prevention, control, and treatment of malaria and other communicable diseases among vulnerable populations.
Population Services International (PSI) is a global health organization that makes it easier for all people to lead healthier lives and plan the families they desire by delivering quality health products and services like contraception.
PHC supports governments to ensure the successful delivery of food fortification programs to tens of millions of people.
SCI Foundation supports governments in sub-Saharan African countries to develop sustainable programs against parasitic worm infections such as schistosomiasis and soil-transmitted helminthiasis (STH).
Sightsavers works in Africa and Asia to control and eliminate neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) such as schistosomiasis and intestinal worms.
StrongMinds is a social enterprise founded in 2013 to provide life-changing mental health services to low-income women in sub-Saharan Africa.
The END Fund is the only private philanthropic initiative solely dedicated to ending the most common neglected tropical diseases (NTDs).
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