GiveDirectly’s co-founders Michael Faye and Paul Niehaus, along with our senior partnerships manager Joanna Macrae, defended cash transfers this week in Newsweek. They argued why cash transfers provide excellent value-for-money for taxpayers. GIVEDIRECTLY IN THE NEWS AND BLOGS1. Data-driven charityJohn D. Cook blog, Paul Niehaus, February 5, 2017PN: GiveDirectly is the first nonprofit that lets individual […]
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Why We Invested: GiveDirectly’s Basic Income Experiment
Omidyar Network’s Tracy Williams and Mike Kubzansky describe why Omidyar is investing in GiveDirectly’s basic income experiment. Omidyar Network’s foundational belief that empowering people frees them to better themselves, their families, and their communities has great evidence in the growing literature around the benefits of cash transfers. In these programs, low income individuals who receive […]
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Known for its cash programs – Cash in the News
This week saw basic income come up in the news in a variety of forms: Devex reported on basic income as a possible “new safety net” and basic income debates moved forward in Scotland, San Francisco, and Canada. GIVEDIRECTLY IN THE NEWS AND BLOGS 1. No time like the present to tackle the future of work […]
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Buzziest ideas in economics – Cash in the News
Across the world, from a meeting of world leaders in Switzerland to a San Antonio newspaper to the podiums of the French presidential race, basic income continued to be in the news. Policy-makers, economists, and columnists all talked about whether this unique type of cash transfer could be a way to reform social safety nets […]
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Research Director Field Studies – Day 3: Cash transfer experts
In the final part of this three-part series, GiveDirectly’s Research Director Michael Cooke discusses key takeaways from his trip to visit field teams and recipients in Kenya.At GiveDirectly we talk a lot about the poor being the true poverty experts. Today I had the great privilege of being able to ask questions of poverty experts […]
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Research Director Field Studies – Day 2: Gimoro amora
In the second part of this three-part series, GiveDirectly’s Research Director Michael Cooke discusses key takeaways from his trip to visit field teams and recipients in Kenya. Today I went out with GiveDirectly field staff to shadow the process of enrolling new program recipients. Luo was the primary spoken language of the recipients in the […]
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Research Director Field Studies – Day 1: In the details
In the first part of this three-part series, GiveDirectly’s Research Director Michael Cooke discusses key takeaways from his trip to visit field teams and recipients in Kenya. Truth and customer service: two of many things that have been said to be in the details. What I saw today was GiveDirectly’s call center team in Kisumu, […]
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Contrary to our most cherished charitable instincts – Cash in the News
This week, FastCoExist talked to GiveDirectly’s own Matt Johnson and profiled our new product, GDLive. In the piece, Ben Schiller dug into both the specifics of GDLive, such as its new search feature, as well as its big-picture goal, to give donors information about “who exactly is being helped.” Elsewhere, in the Houston Chronicle, Michael […]
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Some basic (income) questions, answered
“Cash transfers… universal basic income, what’s the difference?” That’s the question a lot of people have been asking us recently. The short answer: a universal basic income (UBI) is a type of cash transfer. As the name suggests, there are three discrete conditions that need to be met to consider a cash transfer a UBI: […]
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What would you do with an extra $1,000?
Mika Marcondes de Freitas explains what biking across Europe has to do with GiveDirectly, and why he’s committed to donating 10% of his earnings directly to extremely poor families.What would you do with an extra $1,000? I would personally take a couple of months off and ride my bicycle solo from Copenhagen to Istanbul. […]
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