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Yes. We chose the charities in the list based on the top five biggest charity categories: Children, Health, Animals, Environment and Poverty. We also tried to c

by ksajadi 14y ago

Yes. We chose the charities in the list based on the top five biggest charity categories: Children, Health, Animals, Environment and Poverty. We also tried to choose international charities that people know and trust. If you have any suggestions about the charities please leave a comment here. We can't change the list of charities at this point as our survey provider would break the results already gathered. But we will figure out a way to cater for everyone's charity recommendations.

buro9 14y ago
I always favour Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders) whenever given the chance. Bit late for me though... I already filled the survey in.
marquis 14y ago
I'm not sure how to direct you to another source of charities but my personal experience with Oxfam: I donated $25 a couple of years back online, and every 3 months on the dot they physically post me, by international mail no less, a glossy, stuffed envelope of 'updates' with information that, after the advertising for themselves, would fit in a tweet.
jimrandomh 14y ago
Unfortunately, being one of the biggest charities means it's already well-funded, so additional donations won't do much good. It's not really about catering to peoples' recommendations; if someone wants to give to the Expensive Treatments for Rare Diseases in Cute Puppies Fund, then fuck that. It's about achieving the most good. It turns out that the amount of good that different charities do, per dollar, varies by orders of magnitude; and figuring out which charities are the best ones is a hard problem. Neither you, nor I, nor your visitors should be in the business of judging charities; that's better left to groups that do that research full-time, such as GiveWell.
- peeters 14y ago
  > Unfortunately, being one of the biggest charities means it's already well-funded, so additional donations won't do much good. Why do you say that? There are plenty of charities whose impact scales linearly donations. Just because some charity might be getting a billion dollars a year to feed children in Africa, doesn't mean that an extra 100 dollars won't feed MORE kids in Africa. The difference is that that charity has proven its method and probably has all of the infrastructure in place already. So it's often a safer bet that your money will be doing good. Also, he didn't actually say they choose the biggest charities, he said they selected from each of the biggest charity categories.

by ksajadi 14y ago

buro9 14y ago

I always favour Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders) whenever given the chance. Bit late for me though... I already filled the survey in.

marquis 14y ago

I'm not sure how to direct you to another source of charities but my personal experience with Oxfam: I donated $25 a couple of years back online, and every 3 months on the dot they physically post me, by international mail no less, a glossy, stuffed envelope of 'updates' with information that, after the advertising for themselves, would fit in a tweet.

jimrandomh 14y ago

Unfortunately, being one of the biggest charities means it's already well-funded, so additional donations won't do much good. It's not really about catering to peoples' recommendations; if someone wants to give to the Expensive Treatments for Rare Diseases in Cute Puppies Fund, then fuck that. It's about achieving the most good. It turns out that the amount of good that different charities do, per dollar, varies by orders of magnitude; and figuring out which charities are the best ones is a hard problem. Neither you, nor I, nor your visitors should be in the business of judging charities; that's better left to groups that do that research full-time, such as GiveWell.

peeters 14y ago
> Unfortunately, being one of the biggest charities means it's already well-funded, so additional donations won't do much good. Why do you say that? There are plenty of charities whose impact scales linearly donations. Just because some charity might be getting a billion dollars a year to feed children in Africa, doesn't mean that an extra 100 dollars won't feed MORE kids in Africa. The difference is that that charity has proven its method and probably has all of the infrastructure in place already. So it's often a safer bet that your money will be doing good. Also, he didn't actually say they choose the biggest charities, he said they selected from each of the biggest charity categories.