The Life You Can Save (TLYCS) is a nonprofit organization that encourages individuals to donate 1% of their income to effective charities. TLYCS was founded by Peter Singer, following the release of his book, The Life You Can Save: Acting Now to End World Poverty.

Impact

In 2021, TLYCS moved nearly $22.7 million to their recommended charities, either through the website’s donation platform or as a direct result of their outreach activities.^[1]

Recommendations

As of 2022, TLYCS recommends the following charities:

• Against Malaria Foundation

• Carbon180

• Clean Air Task Force

• Development Media International

• Equalize Health

• Evergreen Collaborative

• Evidence Action

• Fistula Foundation

• Fred Hollows Foundation

• GiveDirectly

• GAIN’s Salt Iodization Program

• Helen Keller International

• Innovations for Poverty Action

• Iodine Global Network

• Living Goods

• Malaria Consortium

• New Incentives

• One Acre Fund

• Oxfam

• Population Services International

• Sanku—Project Healthy Children

• SCI Foundation

• Seva Foundation

• Village Enterprise

• Zusha!

Further reading

Charlie Bresler (2015) ‘The Life You Can Save’, in Ryan Carey (ed.), The Effective Altruism Handbook, 1st ed., Oxford: The Centre for Effective Altruism, pp. 117-119.

External links

The Life You Can Save. Official website.

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charity evaluation | donation pledge | effective giving | intervention evaluation | Peter Singer | The Life You Can Save

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   The Life You Can Save (2022) 2021 annual report, The Life You Can Save.