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I feel like real effective altruism is achieved by sites like charity navigator, which give you a sense of how well your donations to a given cause are spent by
by googlryas 4y ago
I feel like real effective altruism is achieved by sites like charity navigator, which give you a sense of how well your donations to a given cause are spent by the organization.
- joindpp 4y agoThis is not really true. Charity Navigator incentivize that charities operate on a shoestring which is not very effective: https://www.ted.com/talks/dan_pallotta_the_way_we_think_about_charity_is_dead_wrong?language=en https://www.ted.com/talks/dan_pallotta_the_way_we_think_abou...
- googlryas 4y agoI haven't watched the video (yet), but for example wikipedia has a stellar near-perfect rating, but still devote 15%/$12M of their budget to salaries which surely could be cut drastically if they wanted to really be on a shoestring.