Last night we reached our target!!! We’ve been overwhelmed by the response of so many generous people out there. Thank you for joining us in supporting organizations dedicated to fighting some of the worst problems in the world!
We’re Chappolini, donthnrmepls, FMyLife, ValueH, and xx23xx. We play online poker. Now we want to give back. That’s why beginning today, April 4, until midnight Pacific Time April 20, we will match donations of up to a total of $300,000 to seven highly impactful charities. This means that for every dollar you donate, we donate a dollar to the same charity as well. Join us in tackling some of the world’s most pressing problems!
Against Malaria Foundation
Malaria killed more than 400,000 people in 2015. Using an insecticide-treated bednet at night, when mosquitoes are most active, is one of the most effective ways a family can protect themselves from malaria. The Against Malaria Foundation (AMF) facilitates the distribution of these bednets in regions where malaria is prevalent. The large-scale distributions are monitored closely to guarantee that the nets reach their destination and are used correctly. Relying on strong evidence that insecticide-treated bed nets reduce child mortality and malaria cases is one of the key reasons AMF is GiveWell’s top pick for saving lives.
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Schistosomiasis Control Initiative
Schistosomiasis is a parasitic disease carried by freshwater snails infected with one of the five varieties of the parasitic flatworm Schistosoma. It infects an estimated 258 million people and is considered a Neglected Tropical Disease. The Schistosomiasis Control Initiative works with governments in sub-Saharan Africa to create or scale up programs that treat schistosomiasis. This is commonly referred to as "deworming". GiveWell recommends them as a top giving opportunity.
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GiveDirectly
Give Directly provides low-income households in developing countries with unconditional cash transfers. They use mobile payment providers to make sure the funds reach the intended target. Recipients usually spend the money on assets and consumption and do not increase their spending on non-essential or harmful goods such as alcohol. Give Directly is currently piloting an unconditional basic income (UBI) programme. GiveWell recommends them as a top charity.
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Good Food Institute
The Good Food Institute is working to transform the animal agriculture industry by promoting the development of competitive alternatives to animal-based meat, dairy, and eggs. They connect scientists, investors, and entrepreneurs to advance this growing market sector and provide advice for plant-based and cellular companies. Animal Charity Evaluators recommends them as a top giving opportunity. Matching for GFI is currently capped at $150,000.
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Machine Intelligence Research Institute
The Machine Intelligence Research Institute (MIRI) conducts research to ensure smarter-than-human artificial intelligence will have a positive impact. As more and more human cognitive feats come to be reproduced by artificially intelligent systems, we can expect to encounter a number of unprecedented risks and benefits. These under-explored questions will only become more pressing as progress in computer science allows AI systems to act with increasing autonomy and efficiency. MIRI was recently awarded a 3-year grant by the Open Philanthropy Project.
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Clean Air Task Force
The Clean Air Task Force works to help safeguard against the worst impacts of climate change by catalyzing the rapid global development and deployment of low carbon energy and other climate-protecting technologies through research and analysis, public advocacy leadership, and partnership with the private sector.
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Raising for Effective Giving
The impact of different charities varies widely. REG empowers people to make better giving choices by promoting the idea of effective giving, providing donation advice to individuals and organizations, and supporting fundraising campaigns and events. They helped us select the charities for this matching challenge. Over the past few years they have proven that they are a highly successful organization. Donations to REG will only be matched up to a total of $25,000.
| Name | Amount | Comment | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Anonymous | USD 5000 | ||
| Anonymous | USD 5000 | ||
| Jaime Surenkamp | USD 520 | ||
| Miriam Martinez Biarge | USD 206 | ||
| Zachary VanNatta | USD 50 | ||
| Devin Humbert | USD 100 | ||
| Alexander Kunkel | USD 30 | ||
| Jarno Luoma-Nirva | USD 10 | ||
| Naoise Dolan | USD 75 | ||
| Alison Finch | GBP 200 | ||
| Tobias Dahms | EUR 30 | ||
| William Kenyon | GBP 10000 | ||
| Nick Bodnaruk | USD 5000 | ||
| Brian & Mary Jo Highland | USD 1000 | ||
| Jennifer Dayrell | USD 100 | ||
| Michal Usowicz | USD 10 | ||
| Max Newton | USD 100 | ||
| Brian White | USD 4000 | ||
| Michael Garson | USD 100 | ||
| Nicolas Ziegler | USD 250 | ||
| Anonymous | USD 5 | ||
| James Lippard | USD 1000 | ||
| Antonio Termeer | USD 20 | ||
| Matt Anderson | USD 250 | ||
| Kay Stricklan | USD 50 | ||
| Anonymous | USD 50 | ||
| Amanda Warner | USD 3000 | ||
| Nicole Love | USD 50 | ||
| Zachary Jordan | USD 15 | ||
| Peter Knapp | USD 200 | ||
| Zachary Newman | USD 50 | ||
| Patrick McDonnell | USD 365 | ||
| Levi Rogers | USD 20 | ||
| Susan Rafian | USD 500 | ||
| Eshaan Patel | USD 33 | ||
| Ryan Harrison | USD 100 | ||
| Philippe Chabot | USD 50 | ||
| Magda Altman | USD 20 | ||
| Anonymous | USD 500 | ||
| Anonymous | USD 3000 | ||
| Bobbi Bowman | USD 150 | ||
| Eric Hansford | USD 5000 | ||
| Duncan Cottrell | USD 100 | ||
| Janis Rodden | USD 250 | ||
| Louisa Berky | USD 100 | ||
| Derek Lessing | USD 1000 | ||
| John Sheridan | USD 5000 | ||
| Femi Nylander | GBP 6000 | ||
| Femi Nylander | GBP 3000 | ||
| Amy Dunn | USD 150 | ||
| Alison Haddock | USD 50 | ||
| Anonymous | USD 500 | ||
| Mary Cooper | USD 50 | ||
| Anna Louie Sussman | USD 250 | ||
| Diane H Walsh | USD 50 | ||
| Frederick Freyer | USD 50 | ||
| Ben Lewis | USD 50 | ||
| Rachael Smith | USD 50 | ||
| Barbara Bowman | USD 50 | ||
| Simon Robbins | GBP 100 | ||
| Daniel Kalla | USD 60 | ||
| Madigan Kim | USD 50 | ||
| Richard Ngo | USD 150 | ||
| Anonymous | EUR 200 | ||
| Simon Robbins | GBP 100 | ||
| Max Ghenis | USD 20 | ||
| Helen Smith | USD 100 | ||
| Anonymous | GBP 1000 | ||
| Jonathon Brauer | USD 100 | ||
| Uri Katz | USD 1500 | ||
| Ronald and Gayle Faye | USD 100 | ||
| Luca Dinelli | USD 50 | ||
| Luke Stebbing | USD 7500 | ||
| Jim McAteer | GBP 15 | ||
| Cheryl Hunston | GBP 150 | ||
| Elizabeth Stanton | USD 50 | ||
| Anastasia Orth | USD 104 | THANK YOU REG, EAF, Chappolini, donthnrmepls, FMyLife, ValueH, and xx23xx for giving me the opportunity to double my impact. TRULY AMAZING!! | |
| Miro Ahti | USD 100 | ||
| Malcolm Kennedy | GBP 20 | ||
| Scott Nelsen | USD 200 | ||
| Andrew Mitchell | GBP 200 | ||
| Andrew Mitchell | GBP 50 | ||
| Daniel McLaughlin | USD 1000 | ||
| Brandon Milton | USD 150 | ||
| Anonymous | USD 1000 | ||
| Anonymous | USD 75 | ||
| Anonymous | USD 15000 | ||
| Jack Despain | USD 50 | ||
| Alex Davis | USD 10 | ||
| Anonymous | USD 150 | ||
| Hannah Woodcock | GBP 372 | ||
| Andrew Mitchell | GBP 50 | ||
| Anonymous | USD 1000 | ||
| Joe Kelly | GBP 1000 | ||
| Richard Mead | GBP 250 | ||
| Stian Reimers | GBP 250 | ||
| Dena Scher | USD 1000 | ||
| Anonymous | USD 500 | ||
| Pam Peters | USD 250 | ||
| Rebecca Ledingham | USD 50 | ||
| Vebjorn Tveiteras | USD 100 | ||
| Kathryn Asher | USD 198 | ||
| Salome Bechtler | CHF 5000 | ||
| Kathryn Asher | USD 750 | ||
| Harshdeep Singh | USD 50 | ||
| Anonymous | USD 30000 | ||
| Lisa Wade | USD 260 | ||
| Christopher Mohar | USD 500 | ||
| Max Ghenis | USD 6000 | ||
| Fred Peterson | USD 500 | ||
| Anonymous | USD 100 | ||
| Patrick Coleman | USD 100 | ||
| Nick Wilmes | USD 500 | ||
| Anonymous | USD 900 | ||
| Tiffanie ONeill | USD 50 | ||
| davidak | USD 50 | ||
| Max Khesin | USD 1000 | ||
| Matthew Rehmann | USD 100 | ||
| Anonymous | USD 100 | ||
| David McFadzean | USD 20 | ||
| Evan Rapoport | USD 520 | ||
| Anonymous | USD 100 | ||
| Daniel Smith | USD 2500 | ||
| Thomas Price | USD 20 | ||
| Seth Wickstrom | USD 972 | ||
| Jeannine Sherman | USD 10 | ||
| Tristan Eagling | USD 20 | ||
| Enid Lythgoe | USD 50 | ||
| Barbara Kropik | USD 50 | ||
| David Boffa | USD 500 | ||
| Anonymous | USD 3000 | ||
| Larry Bassett | USD 1000 | ||
| Síofra Robinson | USD 250 | ||
| Daniel Erway | USD 50 | ||
| Anonymous | USD 30 | ||
| Luke Ravenscroft | USD 50 | ||
| Ramiro de Ávila Peres | USD 250 | ||
| Boris Krstic | USD 25 | ||
| Anonymous | USD 500 | ||
| Anonymous | USD 500 | ||
| Marc Cortese | USD 180 | ||
| Patricia Haddock | USD 208 | ||
| Liana Ching | USD 1000 | ||
| Anonymous | USD 2000 | ||
| Anna Louie Sussman | USD 30 | ||
| Thomas Strohmann | USD 100 | ||
| Naoise Dolan | USD 50 | ||
| Aimee Presswood | USD 90 | ||
| Aaron Blauer | USD 50 | ||
| Maxime Viens | USD 20 | ||
| Mattias Lundbäck | USD 50 | ||
| Eric Woods | USD 50 | ||
| Andres Rodriguez | USD 500 | ||
| Stephen Stackwick | USD 50 | ||
| Sarah Stanley | USD 200 | ||
| Steven Schrembeck | USD 1000 | ||
| Anonymous | USD 5200 | ||
| Denis Drescher | CHF 5000 | ||
| Stephanie Miller | USD 50 | Thank you | |
| Michael Broadhead | USD 1000 | ||
| Brian Ottens | USD 500 | In both individual magnitude and scale, animal suffering is worthy of whatever we can do to alleviate it. I’m proud to partner with you to help. | |
| Vinoth Jude Thirukkumaran | USD 500 | ||
| Abhi Kumar | EUR 50 | ||
| Trish Kelly | USD 50 | ||
| Evan Rapoport | USD 1000 | ||
| Anonymous | USD 75 | ||
| Anonymous | USD 10000 | ||
| Miranda Lewellen | USD 75 | ||
| Kaspar Etter | CHF 5000 | Great initiative! | |
| Anonymous | USD 75 | Thank you so much for including GFI among your most impactful charities for this matching challenge! | |
| Richard Schwall | USD 8000 | ||
| Ariel Nessel | USD 50000 | Wow, much gratitude for matching this donation. I hadn't considered making donations till year end after I saw how well I did this year. | |
| Victoria Ramm | USD 50 | ||
| Clare Bland | USD 100 | Such an amazing opportunity to double my impact! Our planet's food system is at breaking point, and plant-based and clean meat is the answer! Better for the environment, human health, AND animals. WIN-WIN-WIN. Thank you REG, EAF and your anonymous donors! | |
| Brett Thompson | USD 250 | Let's go GFI! | |
| Rachael Adams | USD 50 | For creative solutions - GFI | |
| Terri Humphrey | USD 75 | ||
| Anonymous | USD 50 | I am excited by the promise of clean meat and what it means for animal suffering, and think GFI is the best way for me to help bring about the clean meat revolution. | |
| Adam Tarshis | USD 5000 | ||
| Robert Helderman | EUR 1000 | ||
| Michael Alexander Fotinatos | USD 150 | ||
| Brittany Chambers | USD 50 | Huge thanks to the five anonymous donors for making my gift go twice as far for the future of food. Thank you for including GFI in this challenge: a tremendously important organization addressing dire global problems with real solutions. | |
| Jaime Surenkamp | USD 500 | Love the work GFI is doing. Keep it up. Clean meat and plant based meat are the future and the future is ready now! | |
| Rachel Atcheson | USD 500 | Very excited for my money to be going twice as far - thanks for the opportunity! | |
| David van Eijnatten | EUR 50 | ||
| Steven Schrembeck | USD 1000 | Eat ya vegetables | |
| Luis Garcia | USD 50 | ||
| Anonymous | USD 50000 | ||
| KYK | EUR 100 | Great stuff, keep going! | |
| KYK | EUR 400 | ||
| Anton Miebach | EUR 75 | Clean meat is probably the best solution to substantially reduce the negative effects of livestock industries on environment and animal suffering. | |
| Anonymous | CHF 50 | ||
| Anonymous | USD 4000 | The people at The Good Food Institute are doing remarkable work to address the serious and complex issues that exist in our food system. We are thrilled to support this organization. | |
| Bruce Friedrich | USD 250 | ||
| Anonymous | USD 10000 | ||
| Andrew Kirschner | USD 100 | ||
| Maik Heimann | EUR 100 | ||
| Rita formisano | EUR 50 | ||
| Henrik Johansson | EUR 5000 | ||
| Manig Loeser | USD 1000 | ||
| Josh Kwan | USD 225 | ||
| Anonymous | EUR 100 | ||
| Pierre-André DEVOILLE | EUR 150 | ||
| Naoki Peter | CHF 800 |