I love this response. I would add the amount of money that GiveWell at least is looking to give out is unfortunately often more than local NGOs can absorb efficiently anyway.
I don’t quite understand what you mean by GiveWell supporting “small international NGOs”. They generally support at least medium size ones with budgets usually in the millions per year.
“small” is relative. AMF manages significantly more donations compared with most local NGOs, but it does one thing and has <20 staff. That’s very different from Save the Children or the Red Cross or indeed the Global Fund type organizations I was comparing it with, that have more campaigns and programmes to address local needs but also more difficulty in evaluating how effective they are overall. I understand that below the big headline “recommended” charities Give well does actually make smaller grants to some smaller NGOs too, but these will still be difficult to access for many
I love this response. I would add the amount of money that GiveWell at least is looking to give out is unfortunately often more than local NGOs can absorb efficiently anyway.
I don’t quite understand what you mean by GiveWell supporting “small international NGOs”. They generally support at least medium size ones with budgets usually in the millions per year.
“small” is relative. AMF manages significantly more donations compared with most local NGOs, but it does one thing and has <20 staff. That’s very different from Save the Children or the Red Cross or indeed the Global Fund type organizations I was comparing it with, that have more campaigns and programmes to address local needs but also more difficulty in evaluating how effective they are overall. I understand that below the big headline “recommended” charities Give well does actually make smaller grants to some smaller NGOs too, but these will still be difficult to access for many
Yep 100% agree with all of that. And I absolutely love organisations that do only one thing, especially AMF obviously!