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LinkedIn’s Reid Hoffman Gives Kiva $1 Million To “Empower Everyone”
- nreece 15y agoWhile a new search engine or email reinvention sounds daunting but lucrative, in my opinion the most impactful "frighteningly ambitious startup ideas" are like Kiva'.
- jdietrich 15y agoMicrocredit is still an unproven intervention. It seems like an obviously good thing, but we have a paucity of evidence for its efficacy as a remedy for poverty. The best available randomised trials show indifferent results, with only marginally statistically significant benefits. http://www.cgap.org/gm/document-1.9.55766/FORUM2.pdf http://www.cgap.org/gm/document-1.9.55766/FORUM2.pdf
- kevinburke 15y agoI wish people cared more about money that was spent effectively, and less about money that was given to a charity. It's not enough to just spend money on charity, as Givewell.net notes: Conventionally, most people expect that charities are probably accomplishing good unless there's proof that money is being misappropriated. We disagree: we think that charities can easily fail to have impact, even when they're doing exactly what they say they are. They've raised questions about Kiva.org's effectiveness and screening process; see http://blog.givewell.org/category/kiva/ http://blog.givewell.org/category/kiva/ and http://www.givewell.org/giving101/Accomplishing-Nothing http://www.givewell.org/giving101/Accomplishing-Nothing.