That research and circumspection is only valuable, he says, if it leads to action. He suggests researching multiple charities in the same field online, looking at annual reports, and calling charities for more information. How that charity measures their effectiveness is key.
Running an effective organisation takes resources, she says, and spending on administration in charities is as necessary as it is in any other operation. In Australia recently, the amount of money being donated to charity has risen, but the number of people donating has declined.
Peter Singer: I want to shame charities into proving the worth of their spending. Read more. Why are we so uncharitable to those doing good deeds? Information about our financials can be found in our Annual Reports as well as on Guidestar. Leading philanthropists and thinkers have endorsed The Life You Can Save as a valuable resource for donors and our work has been recognized in numerous news stories.
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Most charities probably have some positive impact, but the amount of good they achieve varies widely. By ensuring that you give to effective charities, you can be confident that your donations will make a significant difference. In addition to these questions, we consider a range of other indicators of effectiveness. You can read our more at What Makes a Charity Effective. In his TedTalk , activist and fundraiser Dan Pallotta argues that equating frugality with morality is a limiting way of measuring nonprofit effectiveness.
We encourage donors to think about the cost-effectiveness of their gifts: how many people can be helped and how much those lives will be improved from a donation of a particular size. Many of our recommended charities deliver interventions that avert fatalities that would otherwise likely occur. For instance, numerous studies show that malaria interventions, such as those run by Against Malaria Foundation and Malaria Consortium dramatically reduce child mortality.
Just as significantly, the work of all of our recommended charities improves lives in a range of ways that provide people a better chance to stay healthy, attend school, work productively, plan families and escape the downward spiral of poverty. Our charities provide a range of interventions across a broad range of causes, improving and saving lives in different ways. Our Impact Calculator helps you see the impact your donation can have with each of our recommended organizations.
The work of our recommended charities spans a range of cause areas. Our goal is to provide a wide range of donors with effective giving options. The cause areas can be roughly broken down into:. Our charities fight the devastating effects of extreme poverty in over 90 countries worldwide. Our interactive map depicts charity operations by country. We know that many people in the U. Our aim is to point out that we have a greater capacity to help those living in degrees of poverty in the developed world.
We recognize that there are multiple issues which demand attention and that most of them are intertwined. Our recommendations are based on rigorous assessments by charity evaluators such as GiveWell and Impact Matters. Charities are recommended based on factors such as proven impact, cost-effectiveness, transparency, sustainability, and room for funding. To learn more about how we select our charities, click here or see below.
Our charity selection process rests on two pillars. The first is a Panel of Experts comprised of value-aligned experts who offer a range of informed perspectives. The second is the excellent charity evaluation work performed by organizations such as GiveWell and ImpactMatters on which we draw. By aggregating recommendations from multiple evaluators and having our Panel provide an extra layer of scrutiny, we intend to offer donors outstanding opportunities across a variety of causes.
You can learn more about our charity selection methodology here. Not necessarily. We only recommend organizations for which there is considerable evidence of effectiveness and impact. Generally our recommendations come from rigorous charity evaluators such as GiveWell and ImpactMatters and they are also approved by our Panel of Experts. In other cases I rely on reports by those I trust — Fistula Foundation is an example here. The fact that an organization is not listed may just mean that the charity evaluators with whom we partner have not yet been able to assess it.
Of course, it might also mean that it has been evaluated, and no one was able to conclude that it was doing an effective job. So if you are giving to an organization that is on the list of recommended charities, you can have more confidence that your donation is doing what you want it to do. The Life You Can Save does not perform charity assessments.
Rather, we aggregate recommendations from rigorous charity evaluators such as GiveWell and ImpactMatters. To learn more about how we select our charities, click here or see above. Please contact GiveWell or Impact Matters if your organization would like to explore being evaluated. Extreme poverty means not having enough income to meet the most basic human needs for adequate food, water, shelter, clothing, sanitation, health care, and education.
Its manifestations include hunger and malnutrition, limited access to education and other basic services, social discrimination and exclusion, as well as the lack of participation in decision-making. According to the most recently available data, million people live in this income bracket. In Scandinavia, the official poverty lines are 20 times higher than the poverty lines in the poorest countries, like Malawi, even after adjusting for the large differences in purchasing power.
This means that the international poverty line is helpful in comparing poverty levels between countries. Page options Print this page. Is this too demanding? Singer's argument is clear, and when you consider the drowning child example, pretty seductive. It limits our freedom to act Singer demands that we must always make the morally best choice, nothing less will do. This vastly reduces our freedom to make our own life choices as self-governing moral beings It may require us to act against our best interests It fails to recognise our own intrinsic moral value as persons But perhaps we could impose limits to this - accepting that our own moral value means we should not sacrifice the interests of ourselves or those closest to us in order to aid others so long, of course, as we do not behave selfishly It requires us not to favour those closest to us It requires us not to favour other moral concerns we may have i.
No: It makes no moral difference whether the person I can help is a neighbour's child ten yards from me or a Bengali whose name I shall never know, ten thousand miles away. The fact that a person is physically near to us, so that we have personal contact with him, may make it more likely that we shall assist him, but this does not show that we ought to help him rather than another who happens to be further away.
But there are millions of other people who could help - so why should I? One may feel less guilty about doing nothing if one can point to others, similarly placed, who have also done nothing. Yet this can make no real difference to our moral obligations. For example: Am I am less obliged to pull the drowning child out of the pond if on looking around I see other people, no further away than I am, who have also noticed the child but are doing nothing?
Do people in rich nations have a duty to give to the poor?
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