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The Maximum Impact Fund is now the Top Charities Fund

We’ve decided to rename the Maximum Impact Fund to better describe what opportunities this fund supports. The Maximum Impact Fund will now be called the Top Charities Fund.

We recently announced changes to our top charity criteria that include a new requirement for our top charities: that we have a high degree of confidence in our expectations about the impact of their programs. Alongside this update, we also introduced a new giving option, the All Grants Fund. The All Grants Fund supports the full range of GiveWell’s grantmaking and can be allocated to any grant that meets our cost-effectiveness bar—including opportunities outside of our top charities and riskier grants with high expected value.1The expected value of a grant is the value of the grant’s outcomes multiplied by the probability that those outcomes will be realized.

The new All Grants Fund is a complement to what we have called our Maximum Impact Fund, which is granted to cost-effective opportunities among our top charities. However, we’ve received feedback that describing the fund that supports grantmaking only to our top charities as having “Maximum Impact” is confusing in light of the opportunity to support a wider range of opportunities (with potentially higher expected value) through the All Grants Fund.

Based on this feedback, we’ve decided to change the name of the Maximum Impact Fund to the Top Charities Fund.

Only the name is changing—we aren’t making any further changes to the underlying fund beyond those discussed in our previous post, so any incoming donations designated for the Maximum Impact Fund will automatically be allocated to the Top Charities Fund. We will continue to use donations to this fund to support the highest-priority funding needs among our top charities each quarter. As before, we will apply the same cost-effectiveness bar across our grantmaking, regardless of whether the funding comes from the All Grants Fund or Top Charities Fund.

We appreciate everyone who provided feedback and hope that the new name provides more clarity about how donations to our funds will be used.

More details about our funds and their impact are here.

Notes

Notes
1 The expected value of a grant is the value of the grant’s outcomes multiplied by the probability that those outcomes will be realized.

Comments

  • marimuthu on September 15, 2022 at 3:32 am said:

    Greetings From REDS
    Respected Sir/Madam
    Our NGO has been registered with the Tamilnadu Society Registration Act of 27th of 1975 ( 2004 1ST June) for the past 15 years . Our Ngo has been doing well in various social service in backward blocks like Tiruchuli, Narikkudi, Kariyapatti, in Virudhunagar Distict, in Tamilnadu for the past 15 years. Ngo working for women and child health care, education skill development, economic Development and skill development AND leadership program for youth and women’s, Environmental protection, human rights and many more for women and covid19, dengue, malaria awareness programme.
    Respected sir , virudhunagar district,(Aspirational District) , Tiruchuli, Narikkudi, and Kariyapatti Tatal 130 panchyat Our area is a rural area and now it is rainy season so malaria like typhoid fever spreads to people. So we want to campaign to make people aware about it. 84 panchayats are the most backward areas. Can you give us funds to raise the necessary awareness and medical assistance to prevent the spread of viral fever in this area.
    Awareness campaign and awareness camp and disease prevention awareness bit notice will be published. Total cost of awareness per village is Rs 7500 INR. Please help to conduct camp in 5 villages sir. 37,500.00 INR (5 PROGRAMME 25 camp 187,500.00 INR)funds are required to run 5 camps. A photo and receipt related to the camp will be given after completion of the camp. And the camp will be conducted in your . 7500 families will benefit through this. We look forward to working with you for your positive response.
    Along with this, awareness about covid-19 and viral fever in humans will also be conduced.
    Thanking You.
    Yours Faithfully,
    (REDS NGO, Secretary P.Marimuthu).

    Organization Details :

    1. Name of the organization : Rural Education Development Society (REDS)

    2. Address of the Organization, 1 : 1/13, Aruppukkottai Road Thiruchuli, thiruchuli(po),
    Thiruchuli (tk), Virudhunagar District ,
    Taminadu, india. 626129
    Address of the Organization, 2 : 316, Palaya Post office street,
    Tiruchuli Post, Taluck,
    Virudhunagar Distrct,
    Tamilnadu, India, 626129.
    3. Contact Person : P. Marimuthu
    4. Designation : Secretary
    5. Cell : 09047082737
    6. E-mail : redsthiruchuli@gmail.com
    7. Register Number : 67 / 2004
    8. Date of registration : June 1, 2004
    5. FCRA registration No. : 076110035
    6. 12 AA Number : C. No. 101/156/CIT-II/2007-08
    RENUAL
    Unique Registration Number : AAAAR5648CE20215
    Document Identification Number : AAAAR5648CE2021501
    7. 80G : C. No. 102/156/CIT-II/2007-08
    RENUAL
    Unique Registration Number : AAAAR5648CF20072
    Document Identification Number : AAAAR5648CF2007201
    8. PAN No. : AAAAR5648C
    9. NGO Dharpan Id : TN/2017/0180725
    10. International Civil society Centre R/no : 1218-89-1-746f
    11. A, Local A/c Bank Details : Indian Overseas Bank
    A/C Number: 247601000023436
    MICR :626020206
    IFSC :IOBA0002476

    12. FCRA A/c Details : State Bank of India
    Account Number 40678843328
    Account opening Date 12/30/2021
    Account Type CURRENT
    Branch Code 00691
    Address State Bank of India, New Delhi Main Branch, 11, Sansad Marg, New Delhi-110001
    Swift Code SBININBB104
    IFSC SBIN0000691

    BRIEF HISTORY OF THE ORGANIZATION :
    Our organization REDS is registered body which was registered under Tamilnadu State Society Registration Act and to empower the deprived section of the society especially, Disabled women and disabled children. Our organization has been involving in creating awareness on women and children Development activities to enable their legal rights on healthy socio – economic development practice and focus on environment conservation and promotion of health and sanitation programmes in our project villages.
    VISION :
    Our organization enhance empowering the deprived section of the disabled persons by Education, Health, Environment and Economic development and enabling their Basic rights.

    MISSION :
     To Improve livelihood promotion for poverty alleviation to women and children
     To Promote Health and Environment Education of disabled persons
     To Enable Child Rights and Eradication of Child Labor issues
     To prevent HIV among disabled women and children.
     Protecting Human Rights
     Whenever human rights are violated lighting for its protection
     Labor law rights awareness Prog.
     Sc/St poor peoples education, economic and women and youth skill development

    MAIN OBJECTIVES :
    a) To Organize and strengthen the women SHGs and Children groups,
    b) To provide Life skill trainings and vocational trainings for vulnerable sections of community such as differently abled, and marginalized poor disabled women and children.
    c) To Promote alternative livelihood for the disabled persons, people living with HIV
    d) To provide Legal Awareness and right education for the children in need.
    e) To promote Environment Conservation.
    f) Protecting Human Rights women and child rights awareness Prog.
    g) Whenever human rights are violated lighting for its protection.
    h) HIDA/HIV, Malariya typhoid fever, COVID-19, Awareness Programme
    i) Skill Development for youth and women Training Prog.
    j) Environment and Global Warming Awareness Prog.
    k) Sc/St peoples Labor law and Human rights legal awareness prog.
    l) Organic manure manufacturing Training prog.
    m) Tree Planting prog.

    MAJOR ACTIVITIES :
    1. Formation and maintenance of the disabled women SHGs and disabled children groups
    2. Poor women and youth Sc/St peoples Income Generation skill trainings to disabled women SHGs
    3. Skill Development Programmes to vulnerable sectors such as differently, abled, Deprived SC and ST children communities.
    4. Computer Literacy Training Programmes for Deprived women and disabled children
    5. Awareness Generation Programmes to women and children in Education and health
    6. Sc/St Human Rights Legal Awareness Programmes
    7. Sc/ St Women Empowerment programes
    8. Child Labour Eradication Programmes
    9. Sports and Development Programmes
    10. Awareness Agricultural Training Prog.
    11. Formation of the Farmers Clubs
    12. AIDS Awareness Programmes
    13. Health Awareness and camps
    14. Water and sanitation Programs
    15. Tree Planting Prog.
    16. Awareness Against the Alhohalisiam & Tobacco Prog.
    17. Health care Awareness Prog.
    18. Labors law and women and child rights awareness Prog.

    Future plans :
    i) To Computer, Nursing and coaching Training Center.
    ii) To establish educational institutions.
    iii) To Micro Credit Loan for SHG (Economic Development)
    iv) To De=addition Rehabilitation Center
    v) To Evening Tuition Centre
    vi) To Old Age Home
    vii) Agriculture Development through Organic Farming
    viii) Awareness Generation Projects For Rural & Poor Women.
    ix) Consumer Welfare.
    x) Coaching Allied Scheme for Minority Community Students.
    xi) Training in Agriculture & Allied Subjects.
    xii) Tobacco Control Program.
    xiii) Alcoholism Prevention & Control Program.
    xiv) Center for Training on Computer.
    xv) (SGSY) Jan Vikas Program (Dairy)
    xvi) (SGSY) Training Program BPL Families.
    xvii) Women Labor and Childlabor.
    xviii) Ambulance Service to Animals in Distress.
    xix) Shelter House for Looking AFter the Animals.
    xx) Handicapped Care.
    xxi) Women Skill or Technical Training.
    xxii) Tsunami Relief and Rehabilitation Project.
    xxiii) Agriculture Development
    xxiv) Aids Prevention & Control For Prisoners.
    xxv) Youth Skill Training.
    xxvi) Jasmine Cultivation
    xxvii) Casuarinas – A Tree for Waste place Development
    xxviii) Dairy Farming
    xxix) Bulk Milk Cooling Units
    xxx) Feed Processing Plant
    xxxi) Poultry Farming
    xxxii) Agri clinics for Vermicompost
    xxxiii) Reproductive and Child Health
    xxxiv) Prevention of Women & Child Trafficking
    xxxv) Preparatory Training Program for X, XII Students
    xxxvi) Community Knowledge & Resource Center
    xxxvii) Watershed Management, Urban Slum Development, Rural Water, Income Generation, Housing for poor family.
    Our organization is doing all the above mentioned activities by our own contribution and donation from well wishers. But we cannot access fund continuously to sustain our project activities. Also our organization never received any grants from other funding source. So we humbly request you to inform whenever call for proposals to any theme and or concept. We are ready to implement the project as per your esteemed guidelines and funding other. Also we are abide by the terms and conditions of organization.
    Thanking you,
    Yours Faith fully
    (P.Marimuthu Secretary REDS)

  • Miranda Kaplan on September 16, 2022 at 8:42 am said:

    Hi, P. Marimuthu,

    If you would like to apply to be considered for evaluation and support from GiveWell, please complete the application steps here.

    Best,
    Miranda

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