RC Forward is a donation platform offering Canadians a better way to support high-impact charities around the world. Run by the team at Rethink Charity, RC Forward has empowered people across Canada to tax-efficiently donate over $10 million dollars to effective charities so far!
We would love to help you achieve your effective giving goals! Check out our five high-impact funds below, or keep scrolling to discover our featured charities, based on recommendations from charity evaluators including GiveWell and Animal Charity Evaluators.
Donate through RC Forward Funds
Advised by experts, our funds are great if you care about a cause but aren’t sure which charity to support. Your donation will go to where its positive impact is expected to be the greatest, based on the expert advice of the charity evaluators or advisors guiding the fund’s allocations each quarter.
RC Forward Animal Welfare Fund
Donate to charities recommended by Animal Charity Evaluators for fighting factory farming.
RC Forward Climate Change Fund
Support highly impactful, evidence-based solutions to the triple challenge of climate change, air pollution, and energy poverty.
RC Forward Global Health Fund
Donate to charities recommended by GiveWell for effectively battling disease in low-income countries.
RC Forward Human Empowerment Fund
Donate to charities recommended by GiveWell for educating and empowering people experiencing extreme poverty.
RC Forward Long-Term Future Fund
Donate to this fund to support organizations working to protect the long-term future.
Choose a high-impact charity to support
We partner with high-impact charities working across a wide range of cause areas, so that you can give effectively to the causes you care about. Select a cause area to view all partner charities working on this cause.
Animal Welfare
Albert Schweitzer Foundation
The Albert Schweitzer Foundation advocates for farmed animals and promotes a vegan lifestyle.
Anima International
Anima International works to reduce the suffering of animals to the greatest extent and in the most effective way possible.
Animal Charity Evaluators (ACE) – Programs
ACE uses evidence-based research to help donors, volunteers, and advocates make informed decisions on how to help as many animals as possible.
Animal Equality International (AEI)
Animal Equality works with societies, governments, and companies to end cruelty to farmed animals.
Faunalytics
Faunalytics’ mission is to empower animal advocates with access to research, analysis, strategies, and messages that maximize their effectiveness to reduce animal suffering. The range
Mercy For Animals
Mercy For Animals is a global non-profit that exists to end one of the greatest causes of suffering on the planet: the exploitation of animals for food.
Sociedade Vegetariana Brasileira (SVB)
SVB promotes plant-based eating by organizing events and working with industry, restaurants, governments, and health professionals.
The Good Food Institute (GFI)
By working with scientists, entrepreneurs, and investors, GFI helps create a healthy, humane, and sustainable food supply.
The Humane League
The Humane League works to reduce animal suffering through hard-hitting corporate campaigns and education programs for consumers.
Wild Animal Initiative
Wild Animal Initiative strives to understand and improve the lives of wild animals. Because that will only be possible through sound science, it supports pioneering research into responsible ways to reduce animal suffering in the wild.
Cause Research
Animal Charity Evaluators (ACE) – Programs
ACE uses evidence-based research to help donors, volunteers, and advocates make informed decisions on how to help as many animals as possible.
GiveWell – Operations
GiveWell tries to identify outstanding giving opportunities and publishes the full details of its analysis.
Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA)
IPA discovers and promotes effective solutions to global poverty problems.
Rethink Priorities
Rethink Priorities does foundational research on neglected causes in a highly empirical and transparent manner.
Education and Outreach
Center for Applied Rationality (CFAR)
CFAR runs workshops for adults to train effectiveness, discernment, and debiased thinking, and nudges them towards humanity’s most important problems.
Centre for Effective Altruism (CEA)
CEA’s mission is to build a community of people acting on the principles of effective altruism.
The Life You Can Save (TLYCS)
TLYCS aims to change the culture of giving in affluent countries such that more donations are allocated to highly impactful non-profit organizations.
Climate Change
Carbon180
Carbon180 is a US-based environmental NGO that champions carbon removal solutions — a critical but largely neglected piece of the climate puzzle — through policy advocacy, business engagement, and innovation support.
Clean Air Task Force (CATF)
CATF is dedicated to reducing atmospheric pollution through research, advocacy, and private-sector collaboration.
Coalition for Rainforest Nations (CfRN)
CfRN assists governments and communities in tropical nations to conserve their rainforests, thereby mitigating climate change and preserving biodiversity.
Cool Earth
Cool Earth helps prevent deforestation by partnering with Indigenous villages to build sustainable livelihoods.
TerraPraxis
TerraPraxis designs and implements strategies that leverage science, technology and energy innovation for a prosperous planet
Human Empowerment
Development Media International (DMI)
DMI runs television, radio, and mobile campaigns in developing countries to change health-related behaviours and save lives.
GiveDirectly
GiveDirectly allows donors to give money directly to extremely poor households with no strings attached.
New Incentives
New Incentives provides cash transfers to low-income households in Nigeria to increase childhood immunization rates.
Population Services International (PSI)
Population Services International (PSI) is a global health organization that makes it easier for all people to lead healthier lives and plan the families they desire by delivering quality health products and services like contraception.
StrongMinds
StrongMinds provides mental health care to Africa’s poorest women suffering from depression.
Village Enterprise
Village Enterprise equips and empowers first-time entrepreneurs in Africa with the resources and skills to start sustainable businesses and savings groups.
Long-Term Future
Center for Applied Rationality (CFAR)
CFAR runs workshops for adults to train effectiveness, discernment, and debiased thinking, and nudges them towards humanity’s most important problems.
Machine Intelligence Research Institute (MIRI)
MIRI does research into aligning superhuman artificial intelligence with human values.
The Alliance to Feed the Earth in Disasters (ALLFED)
ALLFED works to make sure everyone can be fed in global scale disasters.
World Health
Against Malaria Foundation (AMF)
AMF provides funding for long-lasting insecticidal net (LLIN) distributions, to protect people from malaria in developing countries.
Evidence Action
Evidence Action scales evidence-based and cost-effective programs to reduce the burden of poverty.
Fistula Foundation
Fistula Foundation treats women suffering with obstetric fistula, a devastating childbirth injury that destroys a woman’s life.
Helen Keller International’s VAS Program
Helen Keller International saves and improves lives by combating the causes and consequences of blindness, poor health, and malnutrition.
Iodine Global Network (IGN)
IGN aims to reduce iodine deficiency globally by advocating for national salt iodization programs, tracking progress on iodization, and providing global and country-specific guidance on related issues.
Living Goods
Living Goods supports local community health workers in developing countries to go door-to-door to sell affordable health and household goods and to provide basic health counselling to families in need.
Malaria Consortium
Malaria Consortium specializes in the prevention, control, and treatment of malaria and other communicable diseases among vulnerable populations.
Project Healthy Children (PHC)
PHC supports governments to ensure the successful delivery of food fortification programs to tens of millions of people.
SCI Foundation
SCI Foundation supports governments in sub-Saharan African countries to develop sustainable programs against parasitic worm infections such as schistosomiasis and soil-transmitted helminthiasis (STH).
Sightsavers – Deworming Program
Sightsavers works in Africa and Asia to control and eliminate neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) such as schistosomiasis and intestinal worms.
The END Fund – Deworming Program
The END Fund is the only private philanthropic initiative solely dedicated to ending the most common neglected tropical diseases (NTDs).
