The Tax Benefits of Donating to Charity. Some of the Highest- and Lowest-Rated Charities. Heritage for the Blind Brooklyn, N.
Prevent Cancer Foundation Alexandria, Va. Committee for Missing Children Lawrenceville, Ga. Unbound Kansas City, Kan. Environment Earthworks Washington, D. Sierra Club Foundation Oakland, Calif.
World Resources Institute Washington, D. Michael J. Homes for Our Troops Taunton, Mass. Help Heal Veterans Winchester, Calif. Girls Inc. Tips for Giving. Sharing is Nice. Yes, send me a copy of this email. Oops, we messed up. You can also use the Effective Altruism Funds platform to donate directly to most of these organisations.
Instead of directly helping others with specific interventions e. This could include promoting effective giving as we do here at Giving What We Can , conducting research into charity effectiveness as GiveWell does , or conducting research into global priorities which is the specialty of the Forethought Foundation.
Meta-charities are often able to raise more money than they need for their own operations, and the surplus typically supports their recommended charities.
For example, GiveWell, whose main activity is cost-effectiveness research, tracks their "money moved. Learn more about meta-charities. The following meta-charities can be donated to using Effective Altruism Funds :. This interactive chart shows which organisations Giving What We Can members donate to by the number of members who have donated to the organisation.
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Need help? Quality of life matters, too. Parasitic infections hamper children's development and education, which can have negative consequences lasting decades. Having increased access to cash may not extend the life of a GiveDirectly recipient, but it does make life considerably more pleasant. You'll notice that all of the charities GiveWell recommends are reasonably small, and some big names are absent. That's not an accident.
In general, charity effectiveness evaluators are skeptical of large relief organizations , for a number of reasons.
Large organizations tend to be less transparent about where their money goes and also likelier to direct money to disaster relief efforts, which are usually less cost-effective, in general, than public health programs. For years, one of my primary charities was GiveDirectly, which is the only cause outside public health to get GiveWell's top rating, and, to my knowledge, the only charity devoted to unconditional cash transfers.
I gave to them partly because there's a large body of research on the benefits of cash transfers , which I find quite compelling.
I view the GiveWell option as equivalent to investing in index funds to avoid any bias as a business reporter. I've been profoundly lucky to never experience the kind of extreme poverty that billions of people worldwide have to endure.
Would I buy a bednet? Or maybe I'd buy an iron roof. Or school tuition for loved ones. Or cattle. But you know who does have a good sense of the needs of poor people in Uganda? Poor people in Uganda. They have a very good idea of what they need. Do they sometimes misjudge their spending priorities?
Certainly; so do we all. And bednets and deworming treatments appear to be underpurchased relative to the actual need for them. But generally, you should only give something other than cash if you are confident you know the recipients' needs better than they do. With the exception of bednets — which really do seem underprovided when they're just put up for sale rather than given away for free — I'm not confident of that. So I gave cash. As the World Bank's Jishnu Das once put it , "'Does giving cash work well' is a well-defined question only if you are willing to say that 'well' is something that WE, the donors, want to define for families whom we have never met and whose living circumstances we have probably never spent a day, let alone a lifetime, in.
I wrote about people who do this back in , and I know that many of the people I profiled still earn-to-give; for them, at least, this is a sustainable option. So I suggest a more moderate course. That is a totally reasonable number, comparable to alms in many religions, that requires relatively minimal sacrifice relative to what earn-to-give people do.
Perhaps the most important thing is to just get into the groove of donating, to make it a habit. Going from not giving to giving a little, regularly, is a huge positive step. Sign up for the Future Perfect newsletter. Our mission has never been more vital than it is in this moment: to empower through understanding. Financial contributions from our readers are a critical part of supporting our resource-intensive work and help us keep our journalism free for all.
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