2025 Club Charity Impact
Pittsburgh Cars ‘N’ Coffee donations to GiveWell from our contributing members continue to make a positive difference in the world. Giving to this highly effective charity means that your membership not only supports the club but is also more effective at impacting positive change than donating to the majority of US-based charities. In 2025, our donation was able to provide supplements to around 1,700 children through Helen Keller Intl’s vitamin A supplementation program. GiveWell believes this to be enough to save more than one life. Past donations from the club to GiveWell have also supported life saving efforts with charities such as the Against Malaria Foundation.
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| Helen Keller Intl: Vitamin A Supplementation Renewal |
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| How it helps: This grant[2] will reduce young children’s risk of death from common illnesses by renewing Helen Keller Intl’s vitamin A supplementation (VAS) programs nationwide in Cameroon and Niger, and in parts of Burkina Faso, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Guinea, Madagascar, Mali, and Nigeria. How it works: Helen Keller Intl’s VAS program provides financial and technical support to government-run VAS programs that deliver supplements twice per year to children between 6 and 59 months old. Vitamin A deficiency weakens children’s immune systems and increases the risk of death from illnesses like diarrhea and measles. Why this grant: This grant consolidates a patchwork of separate grants to Helen Keller Intl into a single renewal with clear country-by-country targets, timelines, and budgets. This gives us better visibility across locations and allows us to monitor progress more actively—especially as some countries have begun to change how vitamin A supplements are provided, shifting from door-to-door campaigns toward delivery through routine health visits. We estimate this grant is approximately 34x as cost-effective as our benchmark. The bottom line: Helen Keller Intl has a long track record of delivering vitamin A supplements at scale, and this grant structure allows us to build on our partnership with clear shared goals and closer collaboration across all locations. We estimate this grant will provide vitamin A to around 17 million children who would not otherwise receive it and avert approximately 15,000 deaths. |
| How We Use Donations to the Top Charities Fund We are in ongoing conversation with our Top Charities about their plans and funding needs, and we review funding opportunities on a rolling basis. We then make grants to high-priority funding opportunities, committing Top Charities Fund donations to specific Top Charities programs no more than six months after being donated. For each allocation decision, we try to maximize the cost-effectiveness of GiveWell-directed donations over time by considering funding gaps we expect to be unfilled, each organization’s plans for additional funding, and the cost-effectiveness of each funding gap. You can learn more about how the fund works—and all that your donations make possible—on our Top Charities Fund page. For more on the full scope of our grantmaking, see this blog post. |