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GiveDirectly

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GiveDirectly is a charity that provides direct cash transfers to people living in extreme poverty in many countries, especially Kenya and Uganda.

History

GiveDirectly was founded in 2009 by Paul Niehaus, Michael Faye, Rohit Wanchoo and Jeremy Shapiro.

Evaluation

GiveDirectly’s programs have been the subject of several RCTs, and they have experimented with many ways to implement transfers, such as single lump-sum transfers, multiple transfers as “basic income”, and transfers as a form of disaster relief.

GiveDirectly was a GiveWell top-rated charity between 2012 and 2022.[1] GiveWell estimates that participants in GiveDirectly’s programs receive $83 out of every $100 donated to that organization.[2][3] GiveDirectly is also featured in The Life You Can Save’s list of “best charities”.[4]

As of July 2022, GiveDirectly has received over $58.2 million in funding from Open Philanthropy.[5]

Further reading

GiveWell (2018) GiveWell’s analysis of GiveDirectly financial summary through February 2018, GiveWell.

GiveWell (2020) GiveDirectly, GiveWell, November.

External links

GiveDirectly. Official website.

GiveDirectly. Effective Altruism Forum account.

Apply for a job.

Donate to GiveDirectly.

  1. ^

    Sánchez, Sebastián et al. (2019) Timeline of GiveDirectly, Timelines Wiki.

  2. ^

    GiveWell (2021) Our top charities, GiveWell, November.

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  4. ^

    The Life You Can Save (2021) GiveDirectly, The Life You Can Save.

  5. ^

    Open Philanthropy (2022) Grants database: GiveDirectly, Open Philanthropy.

End­ing ex­treme poverty through cash trans­fers should be a cen­tral EA cause

GiveDirectly16 Oct 2023 17:50 UTC
83 points
45 comments4 min readEA link

Donat­ing money, buy­ing hap­piness: new meta-analy­ses com­par­ing the cost-effec­tive­ness of cash trans­fers and psy­chother­apy in terms of sub­jec­tive well-being

MichaelPlant25 Oct 2021 15:38 UTC
153 points
46 comments18 min readEA link

Type Check­ing GiveWell’s GiveDirectly Cost Effec­tive Analysis

SamNolan23 Jun 2021 6:35 UTC
108 points
2 comments6 min readEA link

Our in­no­va­tions in Togo and the fu­ture of cash distribution

GiveDirectly24 Apr 2021 0:52 UTC
29 points
1 comment1 min readEA link
(www.givedirectly.org)

GiveDirectly Un­veils Challenges in Cash Trans­fer Pro­gram, Pledges Solu­tions to Sup­port Im­pov­er­ished Com­mu­ni­ties in the Demo­cratic Repub­lic of Congo: My Two Cents

Vee7 Jun 2023 22:22 UTC
2 points
8 comments4 min readEA link

Offer an op­tion to Mus­lim donors; grow effec­tive giving

GiveDirectly16 Mar 2023 7:26 UTC
265 points
34 comments4 min readEA link

Should GiveWell still recom­mend GiveDirectly?

Shakeel Hashim29 Aug 2022 6:34 UTC
106 points
10 comments2 min readEA link
(www.givedirectly.org)

The New Hu­man­i­tar­ian: ‘GiveDirectly loses $900,000 in DRC mo­bile cash fraud’

altacc21 Nov 2023 10:35 UTC
4 points
1 comment1 min readEA link
(www.thenewhumanitarian.org)

Send funds to earth­quake sur­vivors in Turkey via GiveDirectly

GiveDirectly2 Mar 2023 13:19 UTC
38 points
1 comment3 min readEA link

GiveWell’s recom­men­da­tion of GiveDirectly

William_MacAskill30 Nov 2012 5:00 UTC
2 points
0 comments5 min readEA link

The elephant in the bed­net: the im­por­tance of philos­o­phy when choos­ing be­tween ex­tend­ing and im­prov­ing lives

MichaelPlant18 Nov 2022 12:09 UTC
150 points
40 comments24 min readEA link
(www.happierlivesinstitute.org)

[Question] What is the best NGO for hunger re­lief in So­ma­lia? Ask­ing for a mil­lion­aire friend who is locked in on that spe­cific cause

ezrah19 Jun 2022 5:58 UTC
29 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

2:1 GiveDirectly Match Com­ing On De­cem­ber 27th, 2022

adam galas23 Dec 2022 7:31 UTC
4 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

A Bizarre Baraza: Why One Village Re­fused Funds — Then Changed Its Mind

GiveDirectly24 Oct 2019 7:00 UTC
24 points
0 comments6 min readEA link
(www.givedirectly.org)

Study: AI tar­get­ing helped us reach more peo­ple in poverty

GiveDirectly15 Aug 2021 18:12 UTC
12 points
1 comment2 min readEA link
(www.givedirectly.org)

I was a COVID-19 re­cip­i­ent. Now, I’m an employee

GiveDirectly25 Dec 2021 3:47 UTC
77 points
2 comments3 min readEA link
(www.givedirectly.org)

The Last Decade: 10 Things We Got Right & Wrong

GiveDirectly22 Oct 2019 1:21 UTC
65 points
0 comments5 min readEA link
(www.givedirectly.org)

Sum­mary: The Value of Giv­ing Money to Differ­ent Groups | Toby Ord

Vasco Grilo22 Apr 2022 10:33 UTC
23 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

Ian Bassin: Ba­sic in­come — the GiveDirectly experiment

EA Global5 Aug 2016 9:19 UTC
7 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.youtube.com)

$241,633 was lost to fraud this year — that’s about what we expect

GiveDirectly26 Dec 2021 6:08 UTC
62 points
1 comment5 min readEA link
(www.givedirectly.org)

Be­hind the Scenes at a GiveDirectly Call Center

GiveDirectly22 Sep 2019 20:55 UTC
9 points
3 comments6 min readEA link
(www.givedirectly.org)

Dona­tions tripled to GiveDirectly through 12/​5 (crypto gifts only)

jared_m29 Nov 2021 16:44 UTC
12 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

Carl Shul­man – What por­tion of a boost to global GDP goes to the poor?

Tessa24 Jan 2014 1:15 UTC
24 points
4 comments3 min readEA link
(reflectivedisequilibrium.blogspot.com)

Michael Faye: Global poverty III

EA Global28 Aug 2015 8:37 UTC
7 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.youtube.com)

GiveDirectly plans a cash trans­fer re­sponse to COVID-19 in US

warrenjordan19 Mar 2020 5:44 UTC
5 points
3 comments1 min readEA link
(www.givedirectly.org)

How do cash trans­fers im­pact the peo­ple who don’t re­ceive them?

GiveDirectly4 Dec 2019 12:10 UTC
14 points
2 comments2 min readEA link
(www.givedirectly.org)

Work­ing in the U.S. helped us get more money to in­ter­na­tional recipients

GiveDirectly15 Sep 2021 7:13 UTC
97 points
3 comments2 min readEA link
(www.givedirectly.org)

You Don’t Have to Call Your­self an Effec­tive Altru­ist or Frat­er­nize With Effec­tive Altru­ists or Sup­port Longter­mism, Just Please, for the Love of God, Help the Global Poor

Omnizoid16 Dec 2022 22:14 UTC
177 points
4 comments2 min readEA link

1.5X match for Cana­dian donors to GiveDirectly

Jendayi 22 Dec 2022 13:29 UTC
39 points
5 comments1 min readEA link

GiveDirectly to Ad­minister Cash Grants Pilot in Chicago

Lizka20 Jun 2022 12:46 UTC
20 points
2 comments1 min readEA link
(marginalrevolution.com)

How to Erad­i­cate Global Ex­treme Poverty [RA video with fundraiser!]

A.G.G. Liu18 Oct 2023 16:00 UTC
24 points
1 comment9 min readEA link
(youtu.be)

4 things GiveDirectly got right and wrong send­ing cash to flood survivors

GiveDirectly31 Jul 2023 14:33 UTC
103 points
7 comments5 min readEA link

[Cross­post] Effec­tive Zakat: Why di­rect cash trans­fers might be the best way to give this year

Muslim Impact Lab17 Apr 2023 20:24 UTC
36 points
3 comments2 min readEA link
(muslimimpactlab.substack.com)

The im­pact of mo­bile phones & mo­bile money for peo­ple in poverty

GiveDirectly20 Jun 2023 21:27 UTC
76 points
4 comments3 min readEA link

Early find­ings from the world’s largest UBI study

GiveDirectly6 Dec 2023 22:10 UTC
153 points
7 comments6 min readEA link

Copen­hagen Con­sen­sus Cen­ter’s best in­vest­ment pa­pers for the sus­tain­able de­vel­op­ment goals

Vasco Grilo10 Jan 2024 8:32 UTC
68 points
14 comments4 min readEA link
(copenhagenconsensus.com)

Ev­i­dence on how cash trans­fers em­power women in poverty

GiveDirectly8 Mar 2023 6:17 UTC
106 points
5 comments1 min readEA link

Rory Ste­wart dis­cusses GiveDirectly on The Rest is Politics

Simon_M7 Apr 2022 13:17 UTC
20 points
14 comments3 min readEA link

GiveWell should fund an SMC replication

Seth Ariel Green28 Oct 2022 12:31 UTC
90 points
17 comments5 min readEA link

[Question] How to se­lect un­con­di­tional cash trans­fer benefi­cia­ries to max­i­mize cost-effec­tive­ness (and what in­sti­tu­tional changes can solve re­cip­i­ents’ is­sues)?

brb2437 Jan 2022 22:52 UTC
5 points
0 comments4 min readEA link

How does a ba­sic in­come af­fect re­cip­i­ents dur­ing COVID-19?

GiveDirectly3 Sep 2020 11:01 UTC
19 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

What we’ve learned by com­par­ing cash to job training

GiveDirectly8 Sep 2020 8:37 UTC
17 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.givedirectly.org)

Quan­tify­ing Uncer­tainty in GiveWell’s GiveDirectly Cost-Effec­tive­ness Analysis

SamNolan27 May 2022 3:10 UTC
130 points
19 comments7 min readEA link

His­to­rian and best­sel­ling au­thor Rut­ger Breg­man ex­plains why he took the pledge

Keyboard_cat26 Nov 2021 20:17 UTC
55 points
3 comments7 min readEA link

The Giv­ing Store- 100% Profits to GiveDirectly

Ellie Leszczynski26 Oct 2022 12:48 UTC
40 points
6 comments3 min readEA link

GiveDirectly $1 Million Match Cam­paign

adam galas27 Dec 2022 21:29 UTC
33 points
4 comments1 min readEA link

GiveWell’s Mo­ral Weights Un­der­weight the Value of Trans­fers to the Poor

Trevor Woolley13 Dec 2022 7:23 UTC
83 points
0 comments5 min readEA link

Dona­tion Mul­ti­plier Stack­ing: Direct­ing 1.65x to 6.6x More Funds

Tyler Kolota18 May 2022 6:13 UTC
12 points
1 comment4 min readEA link

Yes, we have costs

GiveDirectly16 Jul 2020 9:50 UTC
21 points
0 comments2 min readEA link
(www.givedirectly.org)

Global In­no­va­tion Fund pro­jects its im­pact to be 3x GiveWell Top Charities

jh1 Jun 2023 13:00 UTC
70 points
12 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] La­bel­ing cash trans­fers to solve char­coal-re­lated prob­lems?

brb24311 Mar 2022 0:12 UTC
6 points
9 comments1 min readEA link

Glo, a non­profit sta­ble­coin that gen­er­ates rev­enue for GiveDirectly

Seth Ariel Green19 Jul 2022 18:32 UTC
27 points
42 comments3 min readEA link

Ap­ply to run a 2022-23 char­ity election

greg.gianopoulos1 Aug 2022 12:31 UTC
15 points
1 comment2 min readEA link

Hap­piness for the whole house­hold: ac­count­ing for house­hold spillovers when com­par­ing the cost-effec­tive­ness of psy­chother­apy to cash trans­fers

JoelMcGuire14 Apr 2022 20:05 UTC
51 points
1 comment3 min readEA link
(www.happierlivesinstitute.org)

Dan Brown: Un­der­stand­ing the gaps be­tween academia and policymaking

EA Global25 Jun 2020 8:48 UTC
14 points
0 comments18 min readEA link
(www.youtube.com)

Rachel Wad­dell: GiveDirectly’s emer­gency cash re­sponse to COVID-19

EA Global7 Sep 2020 16:28 UTC
4 points
0 comments16 min readEA link
(www.youtube.com)

New GiveDirectly 1:1 Match Campaign

adam galas30 Dec 2022 11:12 UTC
−3 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

Help GiveDirectly beat “teach a man to fish”

GiveDirectly27 Feb 2023 8:55 UTC
120 points
78 comments1 min readEA link

GiveDirectly: New Zealand dona­tion match

Jendayi 1 Mar 2023 14:42 UTC
3 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

The story of a re­fugee GiveDirectly field officer

GiveDirectly8 Nov 2019 8:00 UTC
9 points
1 comment6 min readEA link
(www.givedirectly.org)

GiveDirectly’s cost-effec­tive­ness could be 6.7x higher

Carolina Toth3 Nov 2022 4:39 UTC
21 points
3 comments2 min readEA link
(docs.google.com)

Mitch Riley: A/​B test­ing for­eign aid

EA Global26 Oct 2018 8:35 UTC
9 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.youtube.com)

Value of In­fo­ma­tion, an ex­am­ple with GiveDirectly

SamNolan30 Aug 2022 20:37 UTC
12 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

Glo Dol­lar, an eth­i­cal sta­ble­coin: model, po­ten­tial im­pact, and roadmap

Jasper Driessens15 Sep 2022 14:20 UTC
21 points
17 comments4 min readEA link
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