Charity Effectiveness

"This is why I don't donate to charities."If that worry you so much, there are more direct and accountable charities available. I would recommend Watsi(1)(1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watsi (I'm not affiliate with them except as a donor.)

Not sure who downvoted you instead of explaining this:There are plenty of popular "knee-jerk" charities like the Red Cross that squander their donations. However there are also plenty of smaller, more focused charities that give a huge percentage of their donations directly to their causes and are extremely efficient. The catch is you have to research a charity before donating and most people cannot be bothered.These days with the internet, there is no excuse for not researching:<a href

Hello, yes of course you're always do better by donating to Charities/NGOs directly. The whole intention is to use this tool just as an additional way to help.

Use some comparison service to get some insight into how the money is distributed and pick one with the most impact:https://www.charitynavigator.org/https://www.givewell.org/https://www.charitywatch.org/

> I never give to charity because it always seems so abstract, or there might be better ways to solve the problemIt can be difficult to know whether or not you are making an impact with a donation. Fortunately there are sites like Charity Navigator [0] that audit aggregate and audit charities to make things easier. Some sites (like Giving What We Can [1] and GiveWell [2]) make it even simpler by suggesting a few charities that they deem most effective.For example, one of these top cha

Please read up on this particular charity. Because of the way they target the aid, they seem to be largely free of the ill effects you imagine.

That's why you should donate to low-overhead charities like GiveDirectly.

For most of those charity orgs, you're being more generous to the middle men than to those in need

If you find that distressing, consider donating to https://givedirectly.org/ instead. They keep their admin costs very low, they're remarkably transparent, and all they do is hand your money over to the extremely poor - a tactic with a growing amount of empirical evidence supporting its efficacy.

I bet you would be more effective donating directly to a worthwhile recipent than running through layers of adminstrative overhead.