I’ve respected cash transfers as an anti-poverty intervention since I read about 10+ years ago, and was really excited to find an NGO using them that I could donate to. I was further impressed by GiveDirectly’s almost annoying insistence on using representative data instead of cherry-picking, even for website blurbs.
That history of transparency makes this post extra disappointing to me. This reads like every other charity asking for money and attention. I understand GD is trying to engage with a mainstream audience, but if you’re going to publish on the EAForum I think you owe readers a less slippery post.
I’ve respected cash transfers as an anti-poverty intervention since I read about 10+ years ago, and was really excited to find an NGO using them that I could donate to. I was further impressed by GiveDirectly’s almost annoying insistence on using representative data instead of cherry-picking, even for website blurbs.
That history of transparency makes this post extra disappointing to me. This reads like every other charity asking for money and attention. I understand GD is trying to engage with a mainstream audience, but if you’re going to publish on the EAForum I think you owe readers a less slippery post.