That’s what a select group of New Yorkers is receiving. GiveDirectly — a nonprofit focused on direct cash transfers to people ...

GiveDirectly got $50 gift cards out to SNAP recipients during last month’s shutdown through a new approach to cash assistance ...

In its nearly two decades of operation, GiveDirectly, the direct cash payment charity started by MIT and Harvard graduate students, has delivered more than $800 million to more than 1.6 million people ...

The starting point in assessing the people most in need of the lump sums is to target Americans who rely on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), the government’s safety net for ...

The economic effects of COVID-19 have drastically driven up the world’s extreme poverty level. The World Bank estimates that the number of people living on less than $1.90 per day will reach 150 ...

Facebook cofounder Dustin Moskovitz and his wife, Cari Tuna, are announcing Monday that their philanthropic foundation, Good Ventures, is donating $25 million to a new kind of nonprofit, GiveDirectly, ...

GiveDirectly is the current flavor of the month, and every couple of days someone asks us what we think of it. For those of you behind on your news feed, GiveDirectly does unconditional cash transfers ...

A group of economists is suggesting a radical, if obvious, way to reduce poverty in developing countries: Just give poor people money. The idea behind GiveDirectly is fairly simple: Instead of using ...

GiveDirectly recipient Rispa, in 2014. She used her cash transfers to improve her farm and add to her livestock. Courtesy of GiveDirectly Besides is a 56 year-old woman living in Uganda who has had a ...

Is giving a few quid to the homeless woman on the corner doing her a disservice? In some charitable quarters, giving money to someone who may – or may not – spend it on their choice of poison, rather ...

Here’s a radical idea: Instead of providing services or training to the world’s poorest, how about giving them cash instead? Hughes addressed the gathering, describing how he gave up on nonprofits for ...