Our Partners
The Rare Impact Fund provides financial resources to non-profit organizations providing mental health resources to young people in three priority areas: school-based solutions, networks of support, and suicide prevention and crisis support.
We proudly support a cohort of global partners reaching millions of young people around the world.
                                How We Do It
The Rare Impact Fund has 3 strategic funding priority areas:
                                            School Based Solutions                                        
                                        Young people spend most of their time in educational settings. School is a place to learn, play, socialize, and for many, eat essential meals. Because educational settings play a prominent role in a child's life, educators are in a unique position to identify student mental health challenges early, intervene, and prevent further stigmatization.
                                            Networks of Support                                        
                                        
                                    
                                            Suicide Prevention and Crisis Support                                        
                                        
                                    Our Non-Profit Partners
All
North America
United Kingdom
Europe
Brazil
India
Australia
                                           
                                           
                                                    Didi Hirsch
                                                    
                                                        Transforming lives through mental health care                                                    
                                                    
                                                        Our contribution goes toward implementing comprehensive Youth Suicide Awareness and Prevention Training in high schools.                                                    
            
                                                                                                        
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                                                    The Trevor Project
                                                    
                                                        The world’s largest suicide prevention and crisis intervention organization for LGBTQ young people                                                    
                                                    
                                                        Our investment helped revamp counselor training tools, enabling thousands of additional volunteers to provide life-saving support to over 200,000 young people who reached out to their crisis services (a 34% year-over-year increase).                                                    
            
                                                                                                        
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                                                    Peer Health Exchange
                                                    
                                                        Building healthier communities with young people                                                    
                                                    
                                                        Our investment helps create educational opportunities for underserved teens, empowering them to make healthy decisions.                                                    
            
                                                                                                        
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                                                    McLean
                                                    
                                                        Putting people first in mental health                                                    
                                                    
                                                        Our investment helps develop an accessible webinar series for young people in the U.S. and beyond on mental health and wellness.                                                     
            
                                                                                                        
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                                                    JED
                                                    
                                                        Protecting the emotional health of teens & young adults                                                    
                                                    
                                                        Our investment will help JED Campus scale their on-campus community programs that work to prevent suicide across colleges and universities.                                                    
            
                                                                                                        
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                                                    Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence
                                                    
                                                        Using the power of emotions for a more effective & compassionate society                                                    
                                                    
                                                        Our investment helps improve the tools and strategies employed in YCEI’s school-based RULER approach to social and emotional learning while subsidizing support for under-resourced schools.                                                    
            
                                                                                                        
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                                                    F.O.C.U.S.
                                                    
                                                        Community Engagement and Youth Resilience Support                                                    
                                                    
                                                        Our investment helps Families Overcoming Under Stress implement a school-based resilience skills program to support wellbeing through training and digital tools.                                                    
            
                                                                                                        
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                                                    Transformative Educational Leadership
                                                    
                                                        Integrating mind & spirit with service & action.                                                    
                                                    
                                                        Our investment supports the systemic transformation of educational leaders based on a deep foundation of inner development.                                                    
            
                                                                                                        
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                                                    Konscious Youth 
Development & Service
                                                    Development & Service
                                                        Teaching mindfulness and self-care to students, teachers, and their families in New Jersey                                                    
                                                    
                                                        Our support will empower Konscious Youth to work in 100 schools with 15,000 students and teachers.                                                     
            
                                                                                                        
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                                                    Black Teacher Project
                                                    
                                                        Using affinity spaces and a cohort model to support black teachers                                                    
                                                    
                                                        Our contribution will provide Black Teacher Project the support needed for programming dedicated to Black teachers and specifically addressing their isolation and burnout while providing community.                                                     
            
                                                                                                        
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                                                    Mindful Life Project
                                                    
                                                        Transforming schools from the inside out with innovative and comprehensive mindfulness based social-emotional learning programming.                                                    
                                                    
                                                        Our support will help host mindfulness sessions for students, teachers, and their families in schools in the Bay Area through direct service.                                                    
            
                                                                                                        
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                                                    UCLA Friends of 
Semel Institute
                                                    Semel Institute
                                                        Improving the lives of people with mental illness by supporting research to advance innovative treatment and erasing stigma                                                    
                                                    
                                                        Our contribution will support funding fellows and run a mentorship program between young students and academics dedicated to mental health and education.                                                    
            
                                                                                                        
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                                                    Trans Lifeline
                                                    
                                                        Connecting trans people to the community, support, and resources they need to survive and thrive                                                    
                                                    
                                                        Our support will help Trans Lifeline operate English and Spanish peer-support hotlines for trans people and their friends and family.                                                    
            
                                                                                                        
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                                                    LiberatED
                                                    
                                                        Centering healing, justice, and radical love in social and emotional learning (SEL) so that all children can live, learn and thrive in the comfort of their own skin                                                     
                                                    
                                                        Our contribution offers a year-long LiberatED fellowship experience that centers SEL and racial justice and creates the space for full-time educators to engage in reflective, transformative, and practical classroom-based work in a healing-centered community of practice.  	                                                     
            
                                                                                                        
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                                                    La Familia
                                                    
                                                        Offering free multi-cultural resources to at-risk youth and families                                                     
                                                    
                                                        La Familia Counseling Center provides multicultural counseling, outreach and support services to low income, at-risk youth and families. All of their services are free, and they use bilingual staff members to fully meet community needs.                                                     
            
                                                                                                        
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                                                    Mindfulness First
                                                    
                                                        Teaching children and adults the practical skills and knowledge needed for lifelong mental health and wellbeing.                                                     
                                                    
                                                        We are supporting Mindfulness First’s 16-week Social Emotional Learning curriculum to better serve a more diverse cross-section of the population, with a special subfocus on individuals in the deaf, hearing impaired (HI), blind, visually impaired (VI) and Deafblind community.                                                      
            
                                                                                                        
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                                                    Jack.org
                                                    
                                                        Canada’s only charity training young leaders to revolutionize mental health                                                    
                                                    
                                                        Our investment ramped up the training of young mental health advocates, helping them, in turn, reach over 26,000 youth—almost triple their annual goal.                                                    
            
                                                                                                        
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                                                    Batyr
                                                    
                                                        Providing preventative resources and support to reduce mental ill-health before it develops through peer-to-peer education                                                     
                                                    
                                                        Our support will help the growth of batyr’s preventative educations programs within schools, universities and communities across Australia that focus on mental health stigma reduction and connection.                                                     
            
                                                                                                        
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                                                    Black Minds Matter UK
                                                    
                                                        Raising awareness of youth mental health, bridging the gap of the current resources available, and amplifying the importance of early intervention specifically for 18–24-year old’s living in the UK.                                                    
                                                    
                                           
                                           
                                                    Place2Be
                                                    
                                                        Providing vital mental health support and counseling to vulnerable children and young people between the ages of 3 and 18 across three UK schools.                                                    
                                                    
                                           
                                           
                                                    Mental Health Europe
                                                    
                                                        Promoting positive mental health, preventing mental distress and improving care, advocacy, and rights for people who use mental health services.                                                    
                                                    
                                           
                                           
                                                    Cactus Instituto
                                                    
                                                        Broadening the debate and care for the prevention of illnesses and to promote mental health in Brazil while supporting projects and initiatives, promoting dialogues, and strengthening the ecosystem to reflect the importance of mental health in Brazil.                                                     
                                                    
                                           
                                           
                                                    Movimento de Mulheres de São Gonçalo
                                                    
                                                        Working in defense of the rights of children, adolescents, and young people who suffer or present psychological symptoms because of severe trauma. Through BrazilFoundation, we are proud to support its project, Movimento Mulheres de São Gonçalo.                                                    
                                                    
                                           
                                           
                                                    Labhya
                                                    
                                                        Enabling children from vulnerable backgrounds with the necessary skills to cope with poverty and become effective learners through social-emotional learning (SEL)                                                     
                                                    
                                                        Our support will enable Labhya’s partnership with 3 state governments of India and enable key Social Emotional Learning skills for 2.4 million children currently enrolled in over 22,000 public schools of our partner states.                                                       
            
                                                                                                        
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                                                    Kolkata Sanved
                                                    
                                                        Using dance movement therapy (DMT) as an alternative approach to counseling, phycological rehabilitation, self-expression, and empowerment                                                     
                                                    
                                                        Our support will provide Psycho-Social wellbeing focusing on social-emotional learning and leadership to vulnerable children and youth through Dance Movement Therapy (DMT) and other creative arts therapies.                                                     
            
                                                                                                        
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                                                    The Ever Forward Club
                                                    
                                                        Youth peer mentoring & social emotional learning                                                    
                                                    
                                                        Our investment helps grow their youth development program that aims to address the underlying causes of dropouts, violence, and the achievement gap of inner-city youth.                                                    
            
                                                                                                        
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                                                    Child Mind Institute
                                                    
                                                        Transforming the lives of children and families struggling with mental health and learning disorders by giving them the help they need.                                                     
                                                    
                                           
                                           
                                                    The Steve Fund
                                                    
                                                        Focused on supporting the mental health and emotional well-being of young people of color.                                                    
                                                    
                                           
                                           
                                                    Ecolhuma
                                                    
                                                        Supports teachers and school heads, to facilitate the success of the 12 million students in France through various support systems, online or face-to-face.                                                    
                                                    
                                           
                                           
                                                    I'RAISE
                                                    
                                                        Champions equity in mental healthcare through culturally responsive programs that foster resilience, well-being, and empowerment for youth.