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
For further information about the fund and partnership, see our FAQs below.
Fund Recipients
Supporting the distribution of antiretroviral drugs to treat HIV in Zambia.
Grant expected impact: This grant is expected to save approximately 450 years of healthy life for HIV patients. Amount: $300,000
Supporting critical malaria prevention and treatment interventions in Angola.
Grant expected impact: Enable 240 community health workers to serve 96,000 people at risk of malaria.
Supporting the distribution of insecticide-treated nets in Guinea.
Grant expected impact: Expected to save 100 lives by averting cases of malaria.
Rapid Response Fund in the Media
- Alliance Press: Philanthropists urged to ‘step up’ as emergency funds launch to plug USAID freeze
- Devex: Rapid response funds for organizations affected by the US aid freeze
- Associated Press: Emergency fundraisers offer a lifeline to groups who’ve lost foreign aid
- Vox: 3 ways you can help the people hurt by Trump’s foreign aid cuts
- Voice of Islam: Radio Interview with Matt Hurst-Smith, CXO of Founders Pledge
