If you’re seeking to choose a charity to support, would you rather choose from among thousands of charities, or a mere half-dozen? My gut instinct is to go with the many-options path. I’d feel that there would be something inherently better about a nonprofit if I’ve picked it out of 5,500 rather than from a [...]
After I made the gifts from the 40 days, I dutifully wrote to each charity something like this: Hello, I just made a gift to You, Important Charity and would like to request that any further communications from you come over email rather than through snail mail or phone. I respond best to emails, and [...]
Tags:Heifer International·Nurse Family Partnership·Philanthropedia·Seriously the CEO wrote me about my $10 donation and I nearly fell out of my chair·The chair should maybe have some sort of guards on the sides
So far, I have shirked the question of Where to Give, instead mainly following the advice of the professionals at GiveWell or Philanthropedia. I have a really good reason for refusing to choose on my own Where to Give and it is primarily this: It is Really. Really. Hard. Say I’m at the grocery store. [...]
Tags:GiveWell·International Rett Syndrome Foundation·Philanthropedia·Where to Give
As a counterpoint to Ted Turner, here is Austrian Karl Rabeder, a millionaire who is giving away his entire fortune to a charity he set up to provide microloans in Latin America. Again, just: wow.
Tags:Karl Rabeder·microfinance·Microfinance Expert Mutual Fund·Philanthropedia·Ted Turner
