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Topic archive: Donation effectiveness
What’s the best way to spend $20,000 to help the common good?
Blog post by Benjamin Todd · Published
Donating to Giving What We Can is higher impact than donating to GiveWell recommended charities.
Blog post by Benjamin Todd · Published
Is there such thing as a ‘bad’ charity?
Blog post by Sebastian Farquhar · Published
The wider consequences of giving away money
Blog post by Ben Gilbert · Published
It is Effectiveness, not Overhead that Matters
Blog post by Boris Yakubchik · Published