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 ...
That’s what a select group of New Yorkers is receiving. GiveDirectly — a nonprofit focused on direct cash transfers to people ...
Since launching in 2008, GiveDirectly has used cell phones to enable cash transfers straight to extremely poor families in the developing world. Recipients receive $1,000 through a series of mobile ...
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 ...
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 ...