philantropy
Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons
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Eradication of Diseases
ourworldindata.org
From 2009 to 2024, GiveWell directed more than $1.45 billion to our current Top Charities.1 We estimate that this funding will save a total of about 340,000 lives by:
Distributing 101.2 million insecticide-treated nets to households
Treating 76.1 million children with a full course of anti-malarial medicine
Providing vitamin A supplements to 142.2
In The Birth of the Pill, Jonathan Eig credits philanthropist and feminist Katharine McCormick — advised by Margaret Sanger — with being the sole funder of crucial early-stage research leading to the development of the combined oral contraceptive pill, now one of the most common and convenient birth control methods.
The Rockefeller Foundation invested in research on improving agricultural productivity in the developing world, which is now commonly believed to have been the catalyst for a “Green Revolution” that Wikipedia states is “credited with saving over a billion people from starvation.” (The Wikipedia article discusses the role of the Rockefeller