[ { "slug": "athens-county-humane-society", "legacySlug": "athens-county-humane-society", "name": "Athens County Humane Society", "category": "animals", "categoryLabel": "Animals & Wildlife", "icon": "🐾", "mission": "A volunteer-driven nonprofit providing low-cost spay/neuter clinics, animal adoption/fostering, cruelty investigations, and Trap-Neuter-Return programs for feral cats in Athens County since 1910.", "hook": "Helping animals since 1910 with zero tax dollars β€” your gift covers the gap so low-income Athens County residents can spay or neuter their pets at reduced cost.", "region": "Athens County, Ohio", "scope": "Local/Regional", "isAppalachia": true, "isMedellin": false, "donateUrl": "https://www.athenshumane.org/donate", "website": "https://www.athenshumane.org/", "crossTags": [], "rating": { "text": "β˜…β˜…β˜†β˜† Charity Navigator", "tone": "warn" } }, { "slug": "shrimp-welfare-project", "legacySlug": "shrimp-welfare-project", "name": "Shrimp Welfare Project", "category": "animals", "categoryLabel": "Animals & Wildlife", "icon": "🐾", "mission": "The first organization, by its own description, dedicated exclusively to improving the welfare of the ~440 billion shrimp farmed each year, deploying humane electrical stunners and pushing producers away from cruel practices like eyestalk ablation.", "hook": "$1 helps ~1,400 farmed shrimp a year, by SWP's own estimate β€” and Animal Charity Evaluators has named it a Recommended Charity every year since 2023.", "region": "India, Central/South America, Southeast Asia", "scope": "Global", "isAppalachia": false, "isMedellin": false, "donateUrl": "https://www.shrimpwelfareproject.org/donate", "website": "https://www.shrimpwelfareproject.org/", "crossTags": [], "rating": { "text": "ACE Recommended", "tone": "top" } }, { "slug": "wild-animal-initiative", "legacySlug": "wild-animal-initiative", "name": "Wild Animal Initiative", "category": "animals", "categoryLabel": "Animals & Wildlife", "icon": "🐾", "mission": "Accelerates the academic field of wild animal welfare science through original research, grantmaking, and professional outreach to identify evidence-based interventions for improving wild animals' wellbeing.", "hook": "Wild animals face disease, starvation and natural disasters β€” WAI is building the science to actually help them, with $4.7M awarded to 72 research projects since 2023.", "region": "Global (US-based)", "scope": "Global", "isAppalachia": false, "isMedellin": false, "donateUrl": "https://www.wildanimalinitiative.org/donate", "website": "https://www.wildanimalinitiative.org/", "crossTags": [], "rating": { "text": "ACE Recommended", "tone": "top" } }, { "slug": "fish-welfare-initiative", "legacySlug": "fish-welfare-initiative", "name": "Fish Welfare Initiative", "category": "animals", "categoryLabel": "Animals & Wildlife", "icon": "🐾", "mission": "Reduces the suffering of farmed fishes by researching, testing and implementing welfare improvements β€” chiefly better water quality and lower stocking density β€” with partner farms in India, where most of its work happens, and a small team in China.", "hook": "FWI works with 150+ partner farms to improve water quality and reduce overcrowding β€” helping an estimated 1.9 million farmed fishes in India in 2025 alone.", "region": "India, China", "scope": "Global", "isAppalachia": false, "isMedellin": false, "donateUrl": "https://www.fishwelfareinitiative.org/donate", "website": "https://www.fishwelfareinitiative.org/", "crossTags": [], "rating": { "text": "β˜…β˜…β˜…β˜… Charity Navigator", "tone": "good" } }, { "slug": "aquatic-life-institute", "legacySlug": "aquatic-life-institute", "name": "Aquatic Life Institute", "category": "animals", "categoryLabel": "Animals & Wildlife", "icon": "🐾", "mission": "Drives systems-level change for trillions of farmed and wild-caught aquatic animals by reforming seafood certification schemes and building the Aquatic Animal Alliance coalition.", "hook": "ALI fights for the trillions of fishes, shrimp and other aquatic animals in the food system β€” its corporate work affects ~5,000 shrimp per dollar, by Animal Charity Evaluators' estimate.", "region": "Global (US HQ, France subsidiary)", "scope": "Global", "isAppalachia": false, "isMedellin": false, "donateUrl": "https://www.ali.fish/donate", "website": "https://www.ali.fish/", "crossTags": [], "rating": { "text": "ACE Recommended", "tone": "top" } }, { "slug": "sinergia-animal", "legacySlug": "sinergia-animal", "name": "Sinergia Animal", "category": "animals", "categoryLabel": "Animals & Wildlife", "icon": "🐾", "mission": "Reduces farmed animal suffering across the Global South through corporate cage-free and pig-welfare campaigns, undercover factory farm investigations and plant-based institutional meals, with national teams in Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Indonesia and Thailand.", "hook": "Sinergia Animal has secured 169 cage-free pledges and 26 pig-welfare commitments across the Global South β€” and ACE has recommended it every year since 2018.", "region": "Latin America, Indonesia, Thailand", "scope": "Global", "isAppalachia": false, "isMedellin": false, "donateUrl": "https://sinergiaanimal.org/donate-1", "website": "https://sinergiaanimal.org/", "crossTags": [], "rating": { "text": "ACE Recommended", "tone": "top" } }, { "slug": "big-life-foundation", "legacySlug": "big-life-foundation", "name": "Big Life Foundation", "category": "animals", "categoryLabel": "Animals & Wildlife", "icon": "🐾", "mission": "Protects wildlife and habitat across nearly two million acres of the Amboseli-Tsavo-Kilimanjaro ecosystem on the Kenya–Tanzania border, using community-based Maasai ranger patrols, snare removal and work to resolve conflicts between people and wildlife.", "hook": "Big Life says it hasn't lost a single elephant in its area to ivory poachers since 2018 β€” with a team of 600+ rangers, field staff and local experts.", "region": "Kenya, Tanzania", "scope": "Regional", "isAppalachia": false, "isMedellin": false, "donateUrl": "https://biglife.org/donate/", "website": "https://biglife.org/", "crossTags": [], "rating": { "text": "β˜…β˜…β˜…β˜… Charity Navigator", "tone": "good" } }, { "slug": "bat-conservation-international", "legacySlug": "bat-conservation-international", "name": "Bat Conservation International", "category": "animals", "categoryLabel": "Animals & Wildlife", "icon": "🐾", "mission": "Protects bats and their habitats worldwide through evidence-based conservation and cutting-edge research, recognizing bats as vital pollinators and pest controllers.", "hook": "Nearly 200 of the 1,500+ known bat species are threatened with extinction β€” BCI is protecting them with science, one roost at a time.", "region": "Global (HQ: Austin, TX)", "scope": "Global", "isAppalachia": false, "isMedellin": false, "donateUrl": "https://www.batcon.org/donate/", "website": "https://www.batcon.org/", "crossTags": [], "rating": { "text": "β˜…β˜…β˜…β˜… Charity Navigator", "tone": "good" } }, { "slug": "akashinga", "legacySlug": "akashinga", "name": "Akashinga", "category": "animals", "categoryLabel": "Animals & Wildlife", "icon": "🐾", "mission": "Builds teams of women rangers to protect wildlife and wild landscapes in Zimbabwe, Mozambique and Botswana, reporting more than 13.1 million acres under management and a 90% decline in elephant poaching in its Zimbabwe operations.", "hook": "Started with 16 women rangers in 2017, Akashinga now reports 13.1 million+ acres under management and a 90% decline in elephant poaching in Zimbabwe.", "region": "Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Botswana", "scope": "Regional", "isAppalachia": false, "isMedellin": false, "donateUrl": "https://www.akashinga.org/donate", "website": "https://www.akashinga.org/", "crossTags": [], "rating": { "text": "β˜…β˜…β˜…β˜… Charity Navigator", "tone": "good" } }, { "slug": "nelsonville-food-cupboard", "legacySlug": "nelsonville-food-cupboard", "name": "Nelsonville Food Cupboard", "category": "hunger", "categoryLabel": "Hunger & Food Security", "icon": "🍽️", "mission": "An all-volunteer 501(c)(3) food pantry in Nelsonville that has served Athens County residents since 1989, giving more than 600 families a month a 3-day supply of groceries in Ohio's Appalachian southeast.", "hook": "Entirely volunteer-run since 1989, this small Appalachian pantry gives 600+ families a month a 3-day supply of food β€” and individual gifts go a long way.", "region": "Athens County, Ohio", "scope": "Local/Regional", "isAppalachia": true, "isMedellin": false, "donateUrl": "https://www.gofundme.com/f/nelsonville-food-cupboard", "website": null, "crossTags": [], "rating": null }, { "slug": "athens-county-food-pantry", "legacySlug": "athens-county-food-pantry", "name": "Athens County Food Pantry", "category": "hunger", "categoryLabel": "Hunger & Food Security", "icon": "🍽️", "mission": "A volunteer-run nonprofit fighting food insecurity in Athens County since 1980, bolstered by the Joe Burrow Hunger Relief Fund endowment.", "hook": "Boosted by Joe Burrow's Heisman speech, this all-volunteer pantry has fought hunger since 1980 in what it calls one of Ohio's poorest counties.", "region": "Athens County, Ohio", "scope": "Local/Regional", "isAppalachia": true, "isMedellin": false, "donateUrl": "https://athenscountyfoodpantry.org/support", "website": "https://athenscountyfoodpantry.org/", "crossTags": [], "rating": { "text": "β˜…β˜…β˜…β˜† Charity Navigator", "tone": "neutral" } }, { "slug": "hapcap-se-ohio-foodbank", "legacySlug": "hapcap-se-ohio-foodbank", "name": "HAPCAP / SE Ohio Foodbank", "category": "hunger", "categoryLabel": "Hunger & Food Security", "icon": "🍽️", "mission": "A community action agency empowering Hocking, Athens, and Perry counties through the SE Ohio Foodbank (serving 10 counties), Head Start early childhood education, energy assistance, housing, and transportation.", "hook": "HAPCAP's Foodbank covers 10 Appalachian Ohio counties β€” your donation puts food on tables, heat in homes, and kids in Head Start classrooms.", "region": "Hocking, Athens, Perry Counties + 10-county SE Ohio foodbank", "scope": "Local/Regional", "isAppalachia": true, "isMedellin": false, "donateUrl": "https://secure.qgiv.com/for/hapcapweb", "website": "https://hapcap.org/", "crossTags": [], "rating": { "text": "β˜…β˜…β˜…β˜… Charity Navigator", "tone": "good" } }, { "slug": "kind-footprint-empower-the-barrios", "legacySlug": "kind-footprint-empower-the-barrios", "name": "Kind Footprint / Empower the Barrios", "category": "hunger", "categoryLabel": "Hunger & Food Security", "icon": "🍽️", "mission": "A small U.S. 501(c)(3) working in low-income neighborhoods of northern MedellΓ­n, running an ambulance and emergency-response service (Emergencias Apolo), coding classes (Recode the Future), food package deliveries and a Christmas toy program.", "hook": "Kind Footprint runs ambulances, coding classes and food deliveries in MedellΓ­n's low-income barrios β€” and gifts designated to a program go 100% to that program.", "region": "MedellΓ­n, Antioquia, Colombia", "scope": "Local/Regional", "isAppalachia": false, "isMedellin": true, "donateUrl": "https://kindfootprint.org/donate/", "website": "https://www.kindfootprint.org/", "crossTags": [], "rating": null }, { "slug": "dc-central-kitchen", "legacySlug": "dc-central-kitchen", "name": "DC Central Kitchen", "category": "hunger", "categoryLabel": "Hunger & Food Security", "icon": "🍽️", "mission": "Fights hunger and poverty by cooking scratch-made meals for D.C. shelters, nonprofits, youth programs and public schools β€” about 6.2 million in 2025 β€” while training adults facing barriers to employment for food-service careers.", "hook": "DC Central Kitchen served 6.2 million meals in 2025 and trains adults facing barriers to employment for food-service jobs β€” fighting hunger while creating careers.", "region": "Washington, D.C.", "scope": "Local/Regional", "isAppalachia": false, "isMedellin": false, "donateUrl": "https://dccentralkitchen.org/donate/", "website": "https://dccentralkitchen.org/", "crossTags": [], "rating": { "text": "β˜…β˜…β˜…β˜… Charity Navigator", "tone": "good" } }, { "slug": "412-food-rescue", "legacySlug": "412-food-rescue", "name": "412 Food Rescue", "category": "hunger", "categoryLabel": "Hunger & Food Security", "icon": "🍽️", "mission": "Uses its own volunteer-powered Food Rescue Hero app to redirect fresh surplus food from retailers to nonprofits serving people facing food insecurity in roughly 30-minute rescue runs, fighting hunger and food waste at the same time.", "hook": "Up to 40% of food is wasted while 1 in 5 Pittsburghers face food insecurity β€” 412 Food Rescue's app lets anyone become a 'Food Rescue Hero' in 30 minutes.", "region": "Pittsburgh/Southwestern Pennsylvania (app used by 20 partner orgs in 2 countries)", "scope": "Regional", "isAppalachia": false, "isMedellin": false, "donateUrl": "https://412foodrescue.org/donate/", "website": "https://412foodrescue.org/", "crossTags": [], "rating": { "text": "β˜…β˜…β˜…β˜† Charity Navigator", "tone": "neutral" } }, { "slug": "midwest-food-bank", "legacySlug": "midwest-food-bank", "name": "Midwest Food Bank", "category": "hunger", "categoryLabel": "Hunger & Food Security", "icon": "🍽️", "mission": "A faith-based, volunteer-powered nonprofit that supplies food to about 2,400 local pantries, kitchens, shelters and other nonprofits from 12 locations across the U.S., East Africa and Haiti, distributing 139 million pounds of food in the past year.", "hook": "Every $1 becomes $30+ worth of food, MFB says β€” and thanks to 37,000 volunteers, over 99 cents of every dollar goes to programs.", "region": "U.S., East Africa, Haiti (12 locations)", "scope": "National/Global", "isAppalachia": false, "isMedellin": false, "donateUrl": "https://midwestfoodbank.org/donate/donation-opportunities", "website": "https://midwestfoodbank.org/", "crossTags": [], "rating": { "text": "β˜…β˜…β˜…β˜… Charity Navigator", "tone": "good" } }, { "slug": "rise-against-hunger", "legacySlug": "rise-against-hunger", "name": "Rise Against Hunger", "category": "hunger", "categoryLabel": "Hunger & Food Security", "icon": "🍽️", "mission": "Engages volunteers to package nutritious meals for school feeding and other hunger programs while investing in longer-term food security, such as helping smallholder farmers in Malawi, with operations in the U.S., India, Italy, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore and South Africa.", "hook": "Rise Against Hunger packaged 68.9 million meals in 2025 and reached more than 7.3 million people β€” and your group can join in by hosting a packaging event.", "region": "Global (HQ: Raleigh, NC; operations in 6 other countries)", "scope": "Global", "isAppalachia": false, "isMedellin": false, "donateUrl": "https://www.riseagainsthunger.org/donate", "website": "https://www.riseagainsthunger.org/", "crossTags": [], "rating": { "text": "β˜…β˜…β˜…β˜… Charity Navigator", "tone": "good" } }, { "slug": "the-hunger-project", "legacySlug": "the-hunger-project", "name": "The Hunger Project", "category": "hunger", "categoryLabel": "Hunger & Food Security", "icon": "🍽️", "mission": "Helps rural communities in nine African countries, Bangladesh, India and Mexico end their own hunger by starting with women, mobilizing local leadership and engaging local government. In Africa it groups villages into self-reliant 'epicenters'.", "hook": "Since 2008, 90 Hunger Project 'epicenters' in Africa have become self-reliant. These are village-run community hubs that stand on their own after five to eight years.", "region": "Africa, South Asia, Latin America", "scope": "Global", "isAppalachia": false, "isMedellin": false, "donateUrl": "https://thp.org/make-an-impact/", "website": "https://thp.org/", "crossTags": [], "rating": { "text": "β˜…β˜…β˜…β˜… Charity Navigator", "tone": "good" } }, { "slug": "against-malaria-foundation", "legacySlug": "against-malaria-foundation", "name": "Against Malaria Foundation", "category": "health", "categoryLabel": "Health & Medicine", "icon": "πŸ₯", "mission": "Funds long-lasting insecticide-treated bed nets for malaria-endemic countries, mainly in sub-Saharan Africa and Papua New Guinea, relying on partner organizations to distribute them, with 100% of public donations buying nets.", "hook": "$2 buys a bed net and 100% of your donation buys nets β€” AMF has funded nearly 497 million so far, protecting an estimated 894 million people.", "region": "DRC, Chad, Ghana, Guinea, Malawi, Nigeria, Papua New Guinea, South Sudan, Togo, Uganda, Zambia", "scope": "Global", "isAppalachia": false, "isMedellin": false, "donateUrl": "https://www.againstmalaria.com/Donate.aspx", "website": "https://www.againstmalaria.com/", "crossTags": [], "rating": { "text": "GiveWell Top Charity", "tone": "top" } }, { "slug": "malaria-consortium", "legacySlug": "malaria-consortium-seasonal-malaria-chemoprevention", "name": "Malaria Consortium (Seasonal Malaria Chemoprevention)", "category": "health", "categoryLabel": "Health & Medicine", "icon": "πŸ₯", "mission": "Delivers seasonal malaria chemoprevention β€” preventive antimalarial medicine given door to door by community distributors during the rainy-season peak β€” to young children in seven African countries, reaching 22.5 million children in 2024.", "hook": "Just ~$1.50 delivers a cycle of preventive malaria medicine to a child, per GiveWell β€” roughly $2,000–$7,000 per life saved, depending on location.", "region": "Burkina Faso, Chad, Mozambique, Nigeria, South Sudan, Togo, Uganda", "scope": "Global", "isAppalachia": false, "isMedellin": false, "donateUrl": "https://www.malariaconsortium.org/mc-us/how-to-donate-to-mc-us/donate-now-to-mc-us", "website": "https://www.malariaconsortium.org/", "crossTags": [], "rating": { "text": "GiveWell Top Charity", "tone": "top" } }, { "slug": "helen-keller-international", "legacySlug": "helen-keller-international-vitamin-a-supplementation", "name": "Helen Keller International (Vitamin A Supplementation)", "category": "health", "categoryLabel": "Health & Medicine", "icon": "πŸ₯", "mission": "Supports government-run campaigns that give children aged 6 to 59 months a vitamin A capsule twice a year, mostly in sub-Saharan Africa, through funding, training, planning and monitoring β€” reaching 47 million children in 18 countries in the most recent year.", "hook": "$2 provides a child with vitamin A supplements for an entire year β€” GiveWell estimates $1,000–$8,500 per life saved, depending on the country.", "region": "Sub-Saharan Africa (Nigeria, DRC, and others)", "scope": "Global", "isAppalachia": false, "isMedellin": false, "donateUrl": "https://helenkellerintl.org/support-our-vitamin-a-work/", "website": "https://helenkellerintl.org/", "crossTags": [], "rating": { "text": "GiveWell Top Charity", "tone": "top" } }, { "slug": "new-incentives", "legacySlug": "new-incentives", "name": "New Incentives", "category": "health", "categoryLabel": "Health & Medicine", "icon": "πŸ₯", "mission": "Increases routine childhood vaccination rates in Nigeria by providing small conditional cash transfers to families who bring their children for immunizations.", "hook": "~$20 enrolls a Nigerian child in a vaccination incentive program β€” because 40% of under-5 deaths in Nigeria are from vaccine-preventable diseases.", "region": "Nigeria", "scope": "Regional", "isAppalachia": false, "isMedellin": false, "donateUrl": "https://www.newincentives.org/donate", "website": "https://www.newincentives.org/", "crossTags": [], "rating": { "text": "GiveWell Top Charity", "tone": "top" } }, { "slug": "fistula-foundation", "legacySlug": "fistula-foundation", "name": "Fistula Foundation", "category": "health", "categoryLabel": "Health & Medicine", "icon": "πŸ₯", "mission": "Funds surgical repair of obstetric fistula β€” a childbirth injury that leaves women incontinent β€” through 102 vetted hospitals and outreach partners in 36 countries across Africa and Asia, and says it funds more fistula surgeries than any other organization.", "hook": "An average of $624 covers a woman's fistula surgery, post-op care and rehabilitation β€” and the foundation has funded 135,000+ repairs since 2000.", "region": "36 countries across Africa and Asia", "scope": "Global", "isAppalachia": false, "isMedellin": false, "donateUrl": "https://fistulafoundation.org/donate/", "website": "https://fistulafoundation.org/", "crossTags": [], "rating": { "text": "β˜…β˜…β˜…β˜… Charity Navigator", "tone": "good" } }, { "slug": "living-goods", "legacySlug": "living-goods", "name": "Living Goods", "category": "health", "categoryLabel": "Health & Medicine", "icon": "πŸ₯", "mission": "Trains community health workers β€” predominantly women β€” to deliver life-saving medicines, diagnoses, and health education directly to families' doorsteps, preventing the leading causes of child death.", "hook": "Living Goods trains community health workers who diagnose and treat malaria, pneumonia, and diarrhea at a family's doorstep β€” reaching millions of people.", "region": "Burkina Faso, Kenya, Uganda", "scope": "Regional", "isAppalachia": false, "isMedellin": false, "donateUrl": "https://livinggoods.org/donate/", "website": "https://livinggoods.org/", "crossTags": [], "rating": { "text": "β˜…β˜…β˜…β˜… Charity Navigator", "tone": "good" } }, { "slug": "seva-foundation", "legacySlug": "seva-foundation", "name": "Seva Foundation", "category": "health", "categoryLabel": "Health & Medicine", "icon": "πŸ₯", "mission": "A global eye care nonprofit that restores sight and prevents blindness in underserved communities across 20+ countries in Asia, Africa, and the Americas.", "hook": "~$50 can restore sight to someone living with curable blindness β€” giving back independence, livelihood, and dignity.", "region": "20+ countries (Asia, Africa, Americas)", "scope": "Global", "isAppalachia": false, "isMedellin": false, "donateUrl": "https://www.seva.org/site/SPageServer/?pagename=donate", "website": "https://www.seva.org/", "crossTags": [], "rating": { "text": "β˜…β˜…β˜…β˜… Charity Navigator", "tone": "good" } }, { "slug": "fundacion-marina-orth", "legacySlug": "fundaci-n-marina-orth", "name": "FundaciΓ³n Marina Orth", "category": "education", "categoryLabel": "Education", "icon": "πŸ“š", "mission": "Reduces educational inequality by delivering robotics, English, digital skills, socio-emotional learning and career guidance to 8,000+ low-income students in 31 urban and rural public schools in MedellΓ­n and the NuquΓ­ region of Colombia's Pacific coast.", "hook": "A Peace Corps volunteer built one school in the Colombian mountains β€” 60 years later, her foundation's robotics teams are winning international medals.", "region": "MedellΓ­n (Antioquia) and NuquΓ­ (ChocΓ³), Colombia", "scope": "Local/Regional", "isAppalachia": false, "isMedellin": true, "donateUrl": "https://fundorth.org/en/donate-now/", "website": "https://fundorth.org/en/", "crossTags": [], "rating": { "text": "β˜…β˜…β˜…β˜† Charity Navigator", "tone": "neutral" } }, { "slug": "pratham", "legacySlug": "pratham", "name": "Pratham", "category": "education", "categoryLabel": "Education", "icon": "πŸ“š", "mission": "An Indian education nonprofit that uses its 'Teaching at the Right Level' approach to help children master reading and basic math, runs the ASER learning survey, and offers second-chance schooling and vocational training across 24 Indian states and union territories.", "hook": "Pratham's programs reached nearly 7.56 million children in 2025–26, and its Teaching at the Right Level approach is now used in more than 30 countries.", "region": "India (24 states and union territories)", "scope": "Regional", "isAppalachia": false, "isMedellin": false, "donateUrl": "https://prathamusa.org/donate/", "website": "https://www.pratham.org/", "crossTags": [], "rating": { "text": "β˜…β˜…β˜…β˜… Charity Navigator", "tone": "good" } }, { "slug": "camfed", "legacySlug": "camfed-campaign-for-female-education", "name": "CAMFED (Campaign for Female Education)", "category": "education", "categoryLabel": "Education", "icon": "πŸ“š", "mission": "Tackles poverty and inequality in sub-Saharan Africa by supporting marginalized girls to attend school and transition into confident young women leaders through its alumnae network (CAMA) of 355,000+ women.", "hook": "CAMFED has supported 9.3 million children to go to school across Africa β€” and its 355,000-strong alumnae network has itself helped 5.39 million students into school or further education.", "region": "Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe", "scope": "Regional", "isAppalachia": false, "isMedellin": false, "donateUrl": "https://camfed.org/us/donate/", "website": "https://camfed.org/", "crossTags": [], "rating": { "text": "β˜…β˜…β˜…β˜… Charity Navigator", "tone": "good" } }, { "slug": "educate-girls", "legacySlug": "educate-girls", "name": "Educate Girls", "category": "education", "categoryLabel": "Education", "icon": "πŸ“š", "mission": "Mobilizes 23,000+ community volunteers across 30,000+ villages in rural India to enroll out-of-school girls and improve foundational literacy and numeracy, and ran what it describes as the world's first Development Impact Bond in education.", "hook": "Educate Girls has mobilized over 2 million out-of-school girls to enroll across 30,000+ villages in rural India β€” work honored with the 2025 Ramon Magsaysay Award.", "region": "India (Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Bihar, Uttar Pradesh)", "scope": "Regional", "isAppalachia": false, "isMedellin": false, "donateUrl": "https://educategirls.us/donate/", "website": "https://www.educategirls.ngo/", "crossTags": [], "rating": { "text": "TLYCS Recommended", "tone": "good" } }, { "slug": "shes-the-first-girl-rising", "legacySlug": "she-s-the-first", "name": "She's the First (now part of Girl Rising)", "category": "education", "categoryLabel": "Education", "icon": "πŸ“š", "mission": "Now part of Girl Rising after an October 2025 merger, She's the First advances girls' education and leadership by partnering with 900 community organizations and 295 girl-led chapters in 62 countries on mentorship, leadership training and staff capacity-building.", "hook": "She's the First reports impacting 1.1 million+ girls in 62 countries over 16 years β€” and since merging with Girl Rising, the combined group reaches 3 million+ youth.", "region": "62 countries globally", "scope": "Global", "isAppalachia": false, "isMedellin": false, "donateUrl": "https://www.girlrising.org/donate", "website": "https://shesthefirst.org/", "crossTags": [], "rating": null }, { "slug": "books-for-africa", "legacySlug": "books-for-africa", "name": "Books For Africa", "category": "education", "categoryLabel": "Education", "icon": "πŸ“š", "mission": "A Saint Paul, Minnesota nonprofit that collects donated textbooks and library books and ships them by sea container to partner schools and libraries across Africa, sending more than 65 million books since 1988.", "hook": "Books For Africa has shipped more than 65 million donated books to all 55 African countries since 1988, about 25,000 books per sea container.", "region": "Africa (all 55 countries)", "scope": "Global", "isAppalachia": false, "isMedellin": false, "donateUrl": "https://www.booksforafrica.org/donate/donate-funds.html", "website": "https://www.booksforafrica.org/", "crossTags": [], "rating": { "text": "β˜…β˜…β˜…β˜… Charity Navigator", "tone": "good" } }, { "slug": "tarl-africa", "legacySlug": "tarl-africa-teaching-at-the-right-level", "name": "TaRL Africa (Teaching at the Right Level)", "category": "education", "categoryLabel": "Education", "icon": "πŸ“š", "mission": "Scales Pratham's evidence-backed Teaching at the Right Level approach across Africa, training government school teachers to assess children and teach to their actual learning level rather than their grade to close gaps in foundational literacy and numeracy.", "hook": "TaRL Africa's method has reached 7 million+ children in 17+ African countries β€” the Global Education Evidence Advisory Panel counts it among the most cost-effective ways to improve learning.", "region": "Sub-Saharan Africa (17+ countries; HQ: Nairobi)", "scope": "Regional", "isAppalachia": false, "isMedellin": false, "donateUrl": "https://teachingattherightlevel.org/donate/", "website": "https://teachingattherightlevel.org/", "crossTags": [], "rating": { "text": "TLYCS Recommended", "tone": "good" } }, { "slug": 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"Global", "isAppalachia": false, "isMedellin": false, "donateUrl": "https://opportunitygreen.org/donate/", "website": "https://opportunitygreen.org/", "crossTags": [], "rating": { "text": "Giving Green Top Pick", "tone": "top" } }, { "slug": "5-gyres-institute", "legacySlug": "5-gyres-institute", "name": "5 Gyres Institute", "category": "environment", "categoryLabel": "Environment & Climate", "icon": "🌍", "mission": "Fights plastic pollution through science, education and advocacy, running lab research, TrashBlitz community trash audits and a global ambassador network; co-founder Marcus Eriksen led the 2014 study estimating at least 5.25 trillion plastic particles afloat in the world's oceans.", "hook": "5 Gyres' Great Lakes microbead research helped spark the campaign behind the 2015 Microbead-Free Waters Act β€” proof that science can stop plastic at the source.", "region": "Global (HQ: Santa Monica, CA; ambassadors in 95 countries)", "scope": "Global", "isAppalachia": false, 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"rating": { "text": "β˜…β˜…β˜…β˜… Charity Navigator", "tone": "good" } }, { "slug": "global-greengrants-fund", "legacySlug": "global-greengrants-fund", "name": "Global Greengrants Fund", "category": "environment", "categoryLabel": "Environment & Climate", "icon": "🌍", "mission": "Pools donations and channels them as grants directly to community-led grassroots groups protecting the environment and the rights of people who depend on it, guided by volunteer experts β€” more than 20,000 grants in 168 countries since 1993.", "hook": "Global Greengrants puts money directly in the hands of grassroots environmental groups β€” 20,000+ grants worth $193M+ in 168 countries since 1993.", "region": "168 countries (HQ: Boulder, CO)", "scope": "Global", "isAppalachia": false, "isMedellin": false, "donateUrl": "https://www.greengrants.org/donate/", "website": "https://www.greengrants.org/", "crossTags": [], "rating": { "text": "β˜…β˜…β˜…β˜… Charity Navigator", "tone": "good" } }, { "slug": 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Gallia, Hocking, Jackson, Meigs, Ross and Vinton counties (SE Ohio)", "scope": "Local/Regional", "isAppalachia": true, "isMedellin": false, "donateUrl": "https://www.sojournerscare.net/help-sojourners/", "website": "https://www.sojournerscare.net/", "crossTags": [], "rating": { "text": "β˜…β˜…β˜…β˜† Charity Navigator", "tone": "neutral" } }, { "slug": "medellin-childrens-foundation", "legacySlug": "medell-n-children-s-foundation", "name": "MedellΓ­n Children's Foundation", "category": "children", "categoryLabel": "Children & Youth", "icon": "πŸ‘Ά", "mission": "A Denver-based US 501(c)(3) that funds community-led projects in and around MedellΓ­n, Colombia, focused on children's nutrition, education, health care and safety, including a neighborhood soup kitchen, a youth soccer program and a children's home.", "hook": "A MedellΓ­n mother who watched her children go hungry started a neighborhood soup kitchen β€” the foundation backs her alongside an orphanage and a youth soccer program.", "region": "MedellΓ­n, Antioquia, Colombia", "scope": "Local/Regional", "isAppalachia": false, "isMedellin": true, "donateUrl": "https://www.medellinchildrensfoundation.org/donations", "website": "https://www.medellinchildrensfoundation.org/", "crossTags": [], "rating": null }, { "slug": "children-of-medellin-fundacion-caminos", "legacySlug": "children-of-medell-n-fundaci-n-caminos", "name": "Children of MedellΓ­n / FundaciΓ³n Caminos", "category": "children", "categoryLabel": "Children & Youth", "icon": "πŸ‘Ά", "mission": "Founded in 2008, this Dutch-Colombian foundation promotes the social integration of 450+ children disadvantaged by poverty, violence, and addiction through comprehensive educational, sports, and cultural programs in MedellΓ­n's hillside comunas.", "hook": "What started as a Dutch volunteer playing soccer with street kids in 2006 is now sending MedellΓ­n's most vulnerable youth to university β€” 17 students and counting.", "region": "MedellΓ­n, Colombia (Carambolas, Bello Oriente)", "scope": "Local/Regional", "isAppalachia": false, "isMedellin": true, "donateUrl": "https://childrenofmedellin.com/done-ahora/?lang=en", "website": "https://childrenofmedellin.com/?lang=en", "crossTags": [], "rating": null }, { "slug": "friends-of-the-children", "legacySlug": "friends-of-the-children", "name": "Friends of the Children", "category": "children", "categoryLabel": "Children & Youth", "icon": "πŸ‘Ά", "mission": "Aims to break the cycle of generational poverty by pairing children with salaried, professional mentors from pre-kindergarten through graduation β€” a 12+ year commitment, \"no matter what\" β€” across 42 locations nationwide.", "hook": "96% of Friends' youth stay free of the juvenile justice system β€” with a salaried mentor walking beside each child for 12+ years, no matter what.", "region": "United States (42 locations)", "scope": "National", "isAppalachia": false, "isMedellin": false, "donateUrl": "https://friendsofthechildren.org/donate", "website": "https://friendsofthechildren.org/", "crossTags": [], "rating": { "text": "β˜…β˜…β˜…β˜… Charity Navigator", "tone": "good" } }, { "slug": "global-fund-for-children", "legacySlug": "global-fund-for-children", "name": "Global Fund for Children", "category": "children", "categoryLabel": "Children & Youth", "icon": "πŸ‘Ά", "mission": "Finds, funds and strengthens small grassroots organizations working with children and young people facing adversity, granting $7.4M+ to 293 partners in 40 countries in 2022–23; its partners have spanned more than 90 countries.", "hook": "GFC was the first flexible funder for 83% of its 2022–23 partners β€” small grassroots groups serving children and youth that bigger funders often haven't reached.", "region": "90+ countries", "scope": "Global", "isAppalachia": false, "isMedellin": false, "donateUrl": "https://globalfundforchildren.org/donate/", "website": "https://globalfundforchildren.org/", "crossTags": [], "rating": { "text": "β˜…β˜…β˜…β˜… Charity Navigator", "tone": "good" } }, { "slug": "love146", "legacySlug": "love146", "name": "Love146", "category": "children", "categoryLabel": "Children & Youth", "icon": "πŸ‘Ά", "mission": "Journeys alongside children impacted by trafficking and works to prevent it through survivor care in the US and the Philippines and its \"Not a Number\" prevention curriculum, which has facilitators in 21 US states.", "hook": "Named for a girl sold with a number pinned to her dress, Love146 has reached 62,000+ children through trafficking prevention education and survivor care.", "region": "United States and Philippines", "scope": "Global", "isAppalachia": false, "isMedellin": false, "donateUrl": "https://love146.org/donate-on-site/", "website": "https://love146.org/", "crossTags": [], "rating": { "text": "β˜…β˜…β˜…β˜… Charity Navigator", "tone": "good" } }, { "slug": "kidsave", "legacySlug": "kidsave", "name": "Kidsave", "category": "children", "categoryLabel": "Children & Youth", "icon": "πŸ‘Ά", "mission": "Helps older children in foster care and orphanages find caring adults and, where possible, permanent families through its Family Visit Model and mentoring in the US and Colombia, emergency evacuation work in Ukraine, and family reunification in Sierra Leone.", "hook": "Kidsave helps older kids in foster care and orphanages find caring adults and families through visits, events and mentoring β€” 30,000+ people served since 1999.", "region": "United States, Colombia, Ukraine, Sierra Leone", "scope": "Global", "isAppalachia": false, "isMedellin": false, "donateUrl": "https://www.kidsave.org/donate/", "website": "https://www.kidsave.org/", "crossTags": [], "rating": { "text": "β˜…β˜…β˜…β˜… Charity Navigator", "tone": "good" } }, { "slug": "corporacion-vamos-mujer", "legacySlug": "corporaci-n-vamos-mujer", "name": "CorporaciΓ³n Vamos Mujer", "category": "rights", "categoryLabel": "Human Rights", "icon": "βš–οΈ", "mission": "A feminist NGO founded in 1979 in MedellΓ­n that defends women's human rights in the city and three Antioquia subregions through work on economic empowerment, a life free from violence, and women's political participation, plus an annual rights-violations report.", "hook": "Since 1979, CorporaciΓ³n Vamos Mujer has stood up for women's rights in Antioquia β€” from MedellΓ­n's working-class neighborhoods to the region's rural peasant movement.", "region": "MedellΓ­n and Antioquia's Nordeste, Oriente and Suroeste subregions", "scope": "Local/Regional", "isAppalachia": false, "isMedellin": true, "donateUrl": "https://vamosmujer.org.co/sitio/apoyanos/", "website": "https://vamosmujer.org.co/sitio/", "crossTags": [], "rating": null }, { "slug": "the-exodus-road", "legacySlug": "the-exodus-road", "name": "The Exodus Road", "category": "rights", "categoryLabel": "Human Rights", "icon": "βš–οΈ", "mission": "Combats human trafficking by supplying local police with investigators, covert equipment and funding to gather evidence, training 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