There is one other Unconditional Cash Transfer organization I’m aware of in the EA world, although it’s early-stage. It’s called The Logical Foundation , and I started it over the past few years.
Sorry I didn’t see this post earlier.
We have a very different focus and emphasis compared to GiveDirectly, so we don’t compete with them for funding. GiveDirectly delivers aid to the poorest people in the world. Our goal is to help Unconditional Cash Transfers take market share from (and ultimately disrupt) conventional anti-poverty programs in the developed world.
Money does go much further in poor countries, so we work with GiveDirectly to get them funding that they can access. However, the vast majority of anti-poverty funding is restricted by the funding source to their local geography. We enable these funders to diversify into UCT’s.
The thing about developed countries like the US or UK, is they don’t have the same kind of opportunities for niche medical interventions that can outperform UCT cash benchmarks. But cash outperforms every conventional anti-poverty program, so we see an opportunity to massively raise the profile of UCTs and increase public exposure to Universal Basic Income.
Over time, we intend to make unconditional cash transfers and Universal Basic Income the default for philanthropy and government safety-net programs.
Also our goal isn’t just poverty alleviation, we are very concerned about global job disruptions due to AI and Robots—and we think UBI would dramatically mitigate the chaos that will happen as exponentially more people lose their jobs, possibly preventing total social collapse.
(that’s in an optimistic ‘AI doesn’t just kill everybody’ future)
I’m happy to answer any questions, and I posted a longer (outdated now) case for our work on this forum a while ago.
There is one other Unconditional Cash Transfer organization I’m aware of in the EA world, although it’s early-stage. It’s called The Logical Foundation , and I started it over the past few years.
Sorry I didn’t see this post earlier.
We have a very different focus and emphasis compared to GiveDirectly, so we don’t compete with them for funding. GiveDirectly delivers aid to the poorest people in the world. Our goal is to help Unconditional Cash Transfers take market share from (and ultimately disrupt) conventional anti-poverty programs in the developed world.
Money does go much further in poor countries, so we work with GiveDirectly to get them funding that they can access. However, the vast majority of anti-poverty funding is restricted by the funding source to their local geography. We enable these funders to diversify into UCT’s.
The thing about developed countries like the US or UK, is they don’t have the same kind of opportunities for niche medical interventions that can outperform UCT cash benchmarks. But cash outperforms every conventional anti-poverty program, so we see an opportunity to massively raise the profile of UCTs and increase public exposure to Universal Basic Income.
Over time, we intend to make unconditional cash transfers and Universal Basic Income the default for philanthropy and government safety-net programs.
Also our goal isn’t just poverty alleviation, we are very concerned about global job disruptions due to AI and Robots—and we think UBI would dramatically mitigate the chaos that will happen as exponentially more people lose their jobs, possibly preventing total social collapse.
(that’s in an optimistic ‘AI doesn’t just kill everybody’ future)
I’m happy to answer any questions, and I posted a longer (outdated now) case for our work on this forum a while ago.