I used to be heavily sceptical about charitable giving. I wanted to help others, but worried that my charitable donations might be doing little more than alleviating my own guilt. After all, how could I know that my money was actually doing something? The pile of address labels, stickers, and greeting cards arriving in the mail from charities I didn’t even donate to certainly didn’t inspire confidence; why were charities spending precious funds on unsolicited address labels while simultan...| www.givingwhatwecan.org
We feel that international aid can be an extremely good option for a donor; but it also comes with serious risks that projects will accomplish no good, or will even cause harm. Below we present several broad ways in which an international aid project can fail, and some examples of when they have. Poorly executed programs Well-intended projects can fail if they're not well suited to local conditions, or are otherwise poorly carried out.| GiveWell
Some people have skills that are better suited to earning money than the other strategies. These people can take a higher earning career and donate the money to effective organisations.| 80,000 Hours