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Results: Best Charities To Donate To 2018

Published on 11/18/2018
By: Harriet56
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Living
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Giving to charity is great — not just for the recipients but for the givers, too. It can be intimidating to know how to pick the best charity, especially when there are thousands of worthy causes to choose from. And some charities spend more money on administration costs and overhead than they actually pass on, so it's best to know where your money will do the most good. GiveWell. (Charity Navigator and Guidestar can be useful resources too, but they don't try to rank charities or assess which do the most good for the lowest cost.) actually does a lot of this research for you, and every year publishes the list of the best charities to give to (this list of course, is only the top ones, and you can do your own research). GiveWell chose those nine charities in order of how much good additional donations would do, not necessarily how good the groups are overall; in other words, these are organizations that can put new funding to use, rather than sitting on it. Have you ever or will you now donate to any of these charities?
Giving to charity is great — not just for the recipients but for the givers, too. It can be intimidating to know how to pick the best charity, especially when there are thousands of worthy causes to choose from. And some charities spend more money on administration costs and overhead than they actually pass on, so it's best to know where your money will do the most good. GiveWell. (Charity Navigator and Guidestar can be useful resources too, but they don't try to rank charities or assess which do the most good for the lowest cost.) actually does a lot of this research for you, and every year publishes the list of the best charities to give to (this list of course, is only the top ones, and you can do your own research). GiveWell chose those nine charities in order of how much good additional donations would do, not necessarily how good the groups are overall; in other words, these are organizations that can put new funding to use, rather than sitting on it. Have you ever or will you now donate to any of these charities?
Against Malaria Foundation, which buys and distributes insecticidal bed nets, primarily in sub-Saharan Africa but also in Papua New Guinea.
5%
89 votes
Malaria Consortium, which helps distribute preventative antimalarial medication to children (a program known as "seasonal malaria chemoprevention").
5%
89 votes
Schistosomiasis Control Initiative (SCI), Evidence Action's Deworm the World Initiative, END Fund, and Sightsavers, which all work on deworming programs to prevent parasitic infections. (These are four separate charities)
5%
84 votes
GiveDirectly, which directly distributes donations to poor people in Kenya and Uganda, to spend as they see fit.
6%
98 votes
Helen Keller International, which provides technical assistance to, advocates for, and funds vitamin A supplementation programs in sub-Saharan Africa, which reduce child mortality.
7%
117 votes
Evidence Action's No Lean Season, which offers no-interest loans to farmers in Bangladesh during the "lean season" between planting rice and harvesting it. The loans are conditional on a family member temporarily moving to a city or other area for short-term work. That protects poor families from food insecurity and encourages economic growth by promoting migration.
6%
96 votes
None of them
81%
1379 votes
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To help you find the best charities to give to, GiveWell and other charity recommenders rely heavily on both evaluations done by charitable organizations and existing research literature on the kind of intervention the charities are trying to conduct. For example, its recommendations of SCI, Sightsavers, the END Fund, and Deworm the World are based on research suggesting that providing children with deworming treatments could improve educational, economic, and other outcomes. The impact of a single donation could affect generations to come. Do you give to charities that could improve lives and carry forward into the future?
To help you find the best charities to give to, GiveWell and other charity recommenders rely heavily on both evaluations done by charitable organizations and existing research literature on the kind of intervention the charities are trying to conduct. For example, its recommendations of SCI, Sightsavers, the END Fund, and Deworm the World are based on research suggesting that providing children with deworming treatments could improve educational, economic, and other outcomes. The impact of a single donation could affect generations to come. Do you give to charities that could improve lives and carry forward into the future?
Yes, always
19%
321 votes
Usually
35%
603 votes
No
17%
283 votes
Do not donate to charities
29%
499 votes
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It's really hard to adequately express how much richer developed nations like the US and Canada are than developing ones like Kenya, Uganda, and other countries targeted by GiveWell's most effective charities. We still have extreme poverty, in the living-on-$2-a-day sense, but it's comparatively pretty rare and hard to target effectively. The poorest Americans also have access to health care and education systems that are far superior to those of developing countries. Giving to charities domestically is admirable, of course, but if you want to get the most bang for your buck in terms of saving lives, reducing illness, or improving overall well-being, you're going to want to give abroad. Do you prefer to give to charities domestically or abroad?
It's really hard to adequately express how much richer developed nations like the US and Canada are than developing ones like Kenya, Uganda, and other countries targeted by GiveWell's most effective charities. We still have extreme poverty, in the living-on-$2-a-day sense, but it's comparatively pretty rare and hard to target effectively. The poorest Americans also have access to health care and education systems that are far superior to those of developing countries. Giving to charities domestically is admirable, of course, but if you want to get the most bang for your buck in terms of saving lives, reducing illness, or improving overall well-being, you're going to want to give abroad. Do you prefer to give to charities domestically or abroad?
Domestically
29%
500 votes
Abroad
4%
66 votes
A bit of both
19%
327 votes
Depends on the charity
21%
355 votes
Do not give to charity
27%
458 votes
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