We’ve received a couple of questions about an online advertising campaign for GiveDirectly that’s been running on Facebook and general banner ads. The ad inventory for the campaign was donated by a corporate partner, and so comes at zero cost to GiveDirectly aside from staff time. We are not yet sure what role advertising has […]
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Candid thoughts from staff, donors, and recipients on our work and the broader movement towards cash transfers.
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The needs of poor people – Cash in the News
With many people focused on charitable giving last Tuesday, this week saw several pieces on GiveDirectly, effective altruism, and cash transfers. Business Insider profiled GiveDirectly’s new product, GDLive, and 12 specific recipient stories. NPR Morning Edition featured GiveDirectly with an interview with our own Ian Bassin. Vox, Deadspin, The Life You Can Save, and GiveWell […]
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Charity as simple as possible – Cash in the News
With the release of GDLive and the holiday giving season approaching, several articles featured GiveDirectly this week. In the Observer, reporter Brady Dale profiled GDLive, including a specific recipient named Besides, from Uganda. On the BBC, co-founder Michael Faye joined a panel to discuss GiveDirectly’s basic income experiment, and Yahoo News profiled GiveDirectly as a […]
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On GiveWell’s recommendation
GiveWell has just recognized GiveDirectly as one of their top rated charities for the fifth year running. We’re proud to have been recognized as the “strongest” on every dimension of organizational performance, and are excited to see GiveWell adopting cash transfers as a benchmark for their evaluations. But perhaps most importantly, GiveWell has recognized our […]
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The basic question – Cash in the News
This week, the World Bank issued a feature on climate change, where they mention cash transfers as a policy that might help people recover from the shocks of climate-induced natural events, and the The New York Times mentioned cash transfers to help with labor-displacing shocks brought about by technology. In Canada, the debate over Ontario’s […]
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How participants opt in to GDLive
The idea of respect was central to how we built GDLive. For donors, respect means providing more transparency into where their dollars are actually going. Donors know that GiveDirectly is an efficient way to help the poor, but they often ask for more information about the families they are helping. With GDLive, donors can see when […]
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We’re ahead of target in sending cash
GiveDirectly staff across Kenya and Uganda are working hard to send cash transfers to thousands of families each month. Over the last several months, we are actually tracking ahead of our current enrollment budgets for our standard rolling cash transfer campaign for 2016. Right now, we are ahead of these enrollment goals by ~18%. What […]
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What to do with the money – Cash in the News
This week, The New York Times published two articles about effective altruism: one profiling Cari Tuna and Dustin Moskovitz on their donations via Good Ventures, and the other on choice in charitable giving. In an interview in The Chronicle of Philanthropy, Dean Karlan spoke highly of GiveDirectly and our rigorous scientific evaluations. And in basic […]
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GiveDirectly UK opens
We have some exciting news for GiveDirectly supporters in the UK. The recently launched GiveDirectly UK trust (UK charity #1167938) makes it easier to claim Gift Aid which boosts donations by 25p for each £1 donated. Additional rate taxpayers can also reclaim tax relief via their Self Assessment returns. All money donated via GDUK (less […]
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On enrolling over 50,000 families
GiveDirectly started in 2008 as an idea in the minds of a few graduate students and a handful of documents. Many thought the idea of giving out money unconditionally to aid the poor was doomed to fail.Recently we enrolled the 50,000th household in our history and wanted to take a moment to mark the milestone. […]
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