User:Vipul/GiveDirectly
GiveDirectly is a non-profit organization currently operating in Kenya that aims to help people living in extreme poverty by making unconditional cash transfers to them on a periodic basis. They claim that 90% of donor funds are utilized in the form of the actual cash transfers, with the remaining 10% being split between fees for money transfers and recipient identification costs.[1]
GiveDirectly is partnering with Innovations for Poverty Action in a project funded by the National Institutes of Health in the United States to collect evidence on their operations that can be used to judge their effectiveness. They have pre-registered the study, identified what variables need to be measured, and also specified their predictions which can then be tested against the evidence collected.[2][3]
External reviews and media mentions[edit]
Charity evaluator GiveWell has not yet published an official review of GiveDirectly, but they called GiveDirectly a "charity to watch" and called GiveDirectly's approach "one of the most intuitive ways of helping" in a blog post in July 2011.[4]
GiveDirectly also received a positive mention on the Marginal Revolution economics blog.[5]
GiveDirectly was featured in a story on National Public Radio.[6] It also received mentions on the blog of the Center for Global Development[7] and Time Magazine.[8]
References[edit]
- ^ GiveDirectly Financials
- ^ Evidence page on GiveDirectly
- ^ Innovations for Poverty Action page on the project with GiveDirectly
- ^ GiveWell blog post on GiveDirectly
- ^ Marginal Revolution blog post on GiveDirectly
- ^ NPR piece on GiveDirectly
- ^ blog post by Michael Clemens on GiveDirectly on CGDev blog
- ^ Time Magazine on GiveDirectly
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