Lead exposure carries a similar health burden as HIV/AIDS and malaria, but receives less than 0.1% as much funding. Pure Earth is active in various countries to fight exposure to this toxic metal, which has been shown to damage both mental and physical health. We recommend Pure Earth as a Promising Charity based on our […]
Severe malnutrition is still a huge global problem. To treat it in low-resource settings, an intervention that is generally considered best practice is community management of acute malnutrition (CMAM), which consists of providing underweight children with a nutrient-enriched peanut butter formula alongside basic medical care. Taimaka, one of our Promising Charities, delivers CMAM through community […]
Mental health conditions are among the leading causes of lost wellbeing worldwide, yet access to care remains out of reach for most people in low- and middle-income countries. Friendship Bench Zimbabwe has spent 20 years working on this problem in one of the most extreme cases: a country with only a handful of psychiatrists serving […]
In December 2025, we launched the Happier Lives Fund (HLF), the easiest way for donors to support the best charities we’ve found so far and the with one donation. How much money was raised? How much impact will it have? After finalising the disbursement of the first batch of donations to the charities, we […]
We are writing a sad update concerning an HLI-recommended charity, Network for Empowerment & Progressive Initiative (NEPI), which ran a project called STYL that targeted young men with criminal backgrounds with CBT therapy and cash transfers to reduce crime. The started recommending NEPI as a ‘Promising Charity’ in November 2024. As of […]
RuPaul (a personal icon of mine) is famous for saying, “If you can’t love yourself, how in the hell you gonna love somebody else?” It’s catchy, it’s empowering, and it feels like a perfect summary of the modern wisdom towards improving your happiness. But today, I want to flip it. What if the path to […]
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