Rapid Response Fund
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The Rapid Response Fund will fill critical time-sensitive funding gaps created by the suspension of US foreign aid. It will ensure that high-impact organizations continue to deliver lifesaving interventions in global health, extreme poverty, and humanitarian aid.
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The recent cuts to the US government’s foreign aid program have left a devastating gap in global health, extreme poverty, and humanitarian programs, putting millions at risk. Many of the world’s most effective nonprofits–already operating on tight budgets– are now facing existential shortfalls that will stop lifesaving interventions.
That’s why Founders Pledge and The Life You Can Save have joined forces to launch the Rapid Response Fund—a fast, high-impact way to keep critical programs running and ensure that every dollar goes where it’s needed most. We’ve already done the rigorous vetting to identify the most cost-effective organizations delivering real results. As our top-rated partners face financial peril, this Fund will provide immediate bridge support, sustain essential programs, and seize high-impact giving opportunities in a rapidly changing landscape.
This is a pivotal moment—your donation today can help prevent a catastrophic loss of progress in global health, extreme poverty, and humanitarian aid.
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Supporting high-impact grantees across a range of cause areas
The Rapid Response Fund will support grantees that represent a powerful mix of initiatives tackling some of the world’s most pressing challenges, including:
- Improving acute global health issues through malaria prevention, deworming programmes and iodine supplementation ensuring people have the resources to thrive
- Direct cash transfers to provide economic empowerment and lift communities out of extreme poverty
- Strengthening education systems to break cycles of poverty and build resilience for the future
- Investigative journalism, gender-based violence prevention, and agricultural transformation to drive systemic change and accountability
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Fund Recipients
Supporting their Community Management of Acute Malnutrition (CMAM) program to combat global childhood malnutrition.
Grant expected impact: providing 24/7 medical support, funding at least 4 malnutrition stabilization centers for a month, saving almost 90 lives by IRC's estimates.
Supporting the prevention of serious physical and mental development problems in children caused by iodine deficiency, their most urgent need in Madagascar.
Grant expected impact: funding lab costs for monitoring iodine levels in several countries; funding analysis of survey results in Mongolia; cover the needs of the suspended UNICEF program in Madagascar.
Supporting vital signs monitoring devices for neonatal and pediatric wards in low-resource settings, specifically in Malawi following USAID funding gap.
Grant expected impact: Implement 150 IMPALA monitors; fund first-year subscription costs for monitors; ~450-750 lives saved by GOAL 3'S estimates.
