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Weiss Asset Management Foundation Awards Over $1.25 Million to Support Evidence Action’s Safe Water Pilot in India

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Monday, August 14, 2023
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Weiss Asset Management Foundation announced today that it has awarded Evidence Action a grant totaling $1.27 million to support its efforts to improve access to safe drinking water for tens of millions of people in India.

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  • Weiss Asset Management Foundation announced today that it has awarded Evidence Action a grant totaling $1.27 million to support its efforts to improve access to safe drinking water for tens of millions of people in India.
  • However, even with piped water, the significant infrastructural and technological challenge that remains is implementing a means of treatment to ensure that the water is safe to drink.
  • Evidence Action is launching a pilot program in Andhra Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, and Rajasthan, designed to determine the best way to deploy effective chlorination technologies in different water systems.
  • Note: Amrita Ahuja is a co-founder and current board member of Evidence Action and a member of Weiss Asset Management Foundation’s Allocation Committee.

Introducing Children Who Dance in the Rain: A Groundbreaking Children's Book that Champions Gratitude, Empathy, and an Understanding of Privilege

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Monday, May 15, 2023
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She's thrilled to hear of her family's upcoming trip to a magical place called India, a land she's only heard of in stories.

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  • She's thrilled to hear of her family's upcoming trip to a magical place called India, a land she's only heard of in stories.
  • Once there, she quickly realizes that the underprivileged children living in the mud colony possess a joy and contentment she can't explain.
  • Justice, a dedicated attorney and legal children's advocate who co-founded South Asians Against Childhood Abuse , releases her inaugural children's book, Children Who Dance in the Rain.
  • To set up an interview, reading, signing, or for information regarding Children Who Dance in the Rain.

World's first global Youth Interfaith Fellowship on climate change launches at Duke University Divinity School in partnership with Climate NGO - Faith For Our Planet

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Wednesday, January 18, 2023
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DURHAM, N.C. , Jan. 18, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Faith For Our Planet (FFOP), a global interfaith coalition launched the world's first ever global Youth Interfaith Program on climate change at Duke University Divinity School yesterday.

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  • DURHAM, N.C. , Jan. 18, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Faith For Our Planet (FFOP), a global interfaith coalition launched the world's first ever global Youth Interfaith Program on climate change at Duke University Divinity School yesterday.
  • The Fellowship received almost 5,000 applications and 30 youth faith leaders from twenty countries were selected.
  • Participants include elected representatives, faith leaders, eco-activists, climate entrepreneurs, sustainability experts, researchers, and policy advocates working closely with governments and civil society globally.
  • Championing youth inclusion on environmental decision making by Azmaira Alibhai, Faith & Ecosystems Coordinator for Faith for Earth (UN Environment program).

New Initiative Launches to Address Neglected Global Health Crisis of Alcohol Harms

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Tuesday, November 1, 2022
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NEW YORK, Nov. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Alcohol consumption is a top-ten driver of death, illness and injury, with wide-ranging social and economic harms. Many of the harms related to alcohol disproportionately affect young adults, and surveys from multiple countries suggest that the Covid-19 pandemic has further increased drinking. Today, Vital Strategies announced RESET Alcohol – a groundbreaking new $15 million initiative to reduce alcohol-related harms in hard-hit countries through policy change.

Key Points: 
  • Today, Vital Strategies announced RESET Alcohol a groundbreaking new $15 million initiative to reducealcohol-related harms in hard-hit countries through policy change.
  • Public health work on alcohol isvastly underfunded relative to the issue's burden, and the philanthropic award that founds RESET Alcohol roughly doubles existing global funding.
  • RESET Alcohol is a collaboration of six global organizations: Vital Strategies, which is leading the initiative; Movendi International ; the University of Illinois Chicago ; the Global Alcohol Policy Alliance (GAPA); the Non-Communicable Disease (NCD) Alliance ;and World Health Organization (WHO).
  • Learn more about RESET Alcohol here: https://www.vitalstrategies.org/programs/alcohol-policy/
    RESET Alcohol brings together national governments, civil society, and global leaders to advance policies from the World Health Organization's SAFER package for reducing the health, social and economic harms of alcohol.

New Initiative Launches to Address Neglected Global Health Crisis of Alcohol Harms

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Tuesday, November 1, 2022
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NEW YORK, Nov. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Alcohol consumption is a top-ten driver of death, illness and injury, with wide-ranging social and economic harms. Many of the harms related to alcohol disproportionately affect young adults, and surveys from multiple countries suggest that the Covid-19 pandemic has further increased drinking. Today, Vital Strategies announced RESET Alcohol – a groundbreaking new $15 million initiative to reduce alcohol-related harms in hard-hit countries through policy change.

Key Points: 
  • Today, Vital Strategies announced RESET Alcohol a groundbreaking new $15 million initiative to reducealcohol-related harms in hard-hit countries through policy change.
  • Public health work on alcohol isvastly underfunded relative to the issue's burden, and the philanthropic award that founds RESET Alcohol roughly doubles existing global funding.
  • RESET Alcohol is a collaboration of six global organizations: Vital Strategies, which is leading the initiative; Movendi International ; the University of Illinois Chicago ; the Global Alcohol Policy Alliance (GAPA); the Non-Communicable Disease (NCD) Alliance ;and World Health Organization (WHO).
  • Learn more about RESET Alcohol here: https://www.vitalstrategies.org/programs/alcohol-policy/
    RESET Alcohol brings together national governments, civil society, and global leaders to advance policies from the World Health Organization's SAFER package for reducing the health, social and economic harms of alcohol.

Humana Foundation Donates $1 Million to Support Disaster Recovery in the Wake of Hurricanes Ian and Fiona

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Saturday, October 1, 2022
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Given the widespread impact of these storms, The Humana Foundation is donating an initial $1 million to help meet immediate relief and recovery needs.

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  • Given the widespread impact of these storms, The Humana Foundation is donating an initial $1 million to help meet immediate relief and recovery needs.
  • Organizations receiving funding include Florida Disaster Fund , Community Foundation of Collier County , Collaboratory , Community Foundation of Sarasota County , GiveWell Community Foundation , and Center for Disaster Philanthropy .
  • Also, The Humana Foundation announced it will match disaster relief contributions from Humana employees up to $500 per employee.
  • The Humana Foundation will continue to monitor Hurricane Ian and evaluate additional recovery needs.

Pure Earth Receives $8 Million to Expand Work to Solve the Global Lead Poisoning Crisis

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Tuesday, October 19, 2021
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We are pleased to announce that GiveWell recommended an incubation grant of $8 million to Pure Earth to expand work on addressing lead poisoning.

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  • We are pleased to announce that GiveWell recommended an incubation grant of $8 million to Pure Earth to expand work on addressing lead poisoning.
  • The grant will also be part of the Protecting Every Childs Potential (PECP) initiative , founded in 2020 by Pure Earth, Clarios Foundation and UNICEF to prevent childrens exposure to lead.
  • The grant will expand Pure Earths work combatting lead poisoning over the next three years to:
    Identify likely sources of lead exposure in 25 low- and middle-income countries;
    Implement interventions to reduce lead exposure from key sources;
    Conduct baseline and endline analyses of blood lead levels to evaluate the effectiveness of the interventions.
  • Pure Earth has addressed toxic pollution in over 120 project locations through assessment, remediation, risk mitigation, awareness raising and more.

MUNCH Project Reaches $1 Million Milestone in Charitable Donations

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Friday, May 7, 2021
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b'LONDON, May 7, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- MUNCH is a Decentralized Finance (DeFi) project which has raised over $1 million USD, in ETH, in just 14 days since its launch.

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  • b'LONDON, May 7, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- MUNCH is a Decentralized Finance (DeFi) project which has raised over $1 million USD, in ETH, in just 14 days since its launch.
  • This represents a huge achievement from the MUNCH community and a tremendous boost to the efforts of the GiveWell team.\nThe Munch project applies a 10% transaction fee to every buy and sell made.
  • "\nThe MUNCH project will also allow the community to select the charity of their choice, which ultimately will be where the next round of donation funds will be allocated.
  • Rather than collecting donations in the native token, MUNCH routes the percentage to be donated in another, more stable token (such as ETH).

Six-Person Firm Giving $100,000 to Most Effective Charities

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Monday, December 23, 2019
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ATLANTA, Dec. 23, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- For the second year in a row, a six-person personal injury law firm based in Atlanta, Georgia, the Butler Law Firm , is giving away $100,000.

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  • ATLANTA, Dec. 23, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- For the second year in a row, a six-person personal injury law firm based in Atlanta, Georgia, the Butler Law Firm , is giving away $100,000.
  • The firm wanted to give the money where it would do the most good, so they have selected two of the top charities as ranked by GiveWell, an evidence-based charity evaluator.
  • The Butler Law Firm will give $50,000 to Evidence Action's "Deworm the World" Initiative and $50,000 to GiveDirectly.
  • Singer gave a TED Talk in 2013 describing "effective altruism," the process of maximizing the effect of charitable giving.

Six-Person Firm Giving $100,000 to Most Effective Charities

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Monday, December 3, 2018
Ethics, Altruism, Philosophy, Charity, Effective altruism, Social philosophy, Utilitarianism, GiveWell, Charity assessment, Donation, Holden Karnofsky, Good Ventures

ATLANTA, Dec. 3, 2018 /PRNewswire/ --A six-person personal injury law firm based in Atlanta, Georgia, Butler Tobin , is giving away $100,000.

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  • ATLANTA, Dec. 3, 2018 /PRNewswire/ --A six-person personal injury law firm based in Atlanta, Georgia, Butler Tobin , is giving away $100,000.
  • The firm wanted to give the money where it would do the most good, so they have selected three of the top charities as ranked by GiveWell, an evidence-based charity evaluator.
  • "Charitable giving is a wonderful Mitzvah that impacts the lives of others," said Darren Tobin, also a founding partner of the firm.
  • Singer gave a TED Talk in 2013 describing what "effective altruism," the process of donating money in a maximally effective.