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Reach ~150 villages, impacting over 60,000 people
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Help reach 5x more people in extreme poverty by 2035
To date, donors have helped deliver over $900M to more than 1.7M people living in extreme poverty. Join our ambitious goal to send $5B directly to those in need within the next 10 years. Your bold, catalytic giving can help make it happen!
Global need is growing
Major aid cuts have put millions of lives at risk, threatening to reverse decades of progress against extreme poverty.
We know cash works
Cash transfers are among the most studied and proven anti-poverty tools, showing positive impacts across a range of outcomes.
Now is the time to scale
With infrastructure and processes already in place, GiveDirectly is ready to reach millions more — at scale and with speed.
$900M+
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people reached globally
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What your major gift could achieve
Josiane with her new water tank in Rwanda 🇷🇼
Cash at national scale
Send life-changing cash to every family living in extreme poverty across an entire country.
Damaged home after Hurricane Helene in the U.S. 🇺🇸
Rapid Response
Transform global crisis response by delivering cash within days to survivors anywhere, anytime.
Monica with her newborn baby in Malawi 🇲🇼
Mom's & Babies
Test and scale the delivery of cash to expectant mothers across our Africa programs.
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