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Henry Howard gave 50% of his income to charity in 2021
What if you: Gave 5x what you are comfortable with to someone? Abandoned the idea of an inheritance or lower your goal of retirement savings by 10% and instead invest that money in people, causes, and learning in ways that might lead to interesting results? Help pay a bill in someone’s life that might be having a hard time? Give money directly to
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Evidence-based philanthropy, GiveWell’s data-driven approach, and public health research underpinning high-impact global charity decisions.
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And now I want the argument that I'd like to bring forward is that charitable giving is one more way that each of us can take action and make the world better.
And when you see it from that perspective, it's critical to think about the effects that the programs have, where you can get as much impact as possible, and also how to avoid
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Origins of GiveWell, shifting charity’s focus from donor virtue to impact, and Jewish ideas of anonymous giving.
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What I remember is it was at a time when, you know, you would go to CNET on the internet for ratings of printers, if you wanted to know which printer to buy. And it almost seemed intuitive that you should be able to get the same kind of information about any way that you would spend money, including about charitable organizations. And in many ways,
... See moreAn individual can save (way) more than one life by directing some amount of money to the most effective charities and NGOs (which can be 100s and even 1000s times more effective in having a positive impact than the median charity). There are also other avenues for having such a high impact, such as directing your career to tackle the world's... See more