Climate loss & damage as direct cash transfers: evidence from Malawi

Summary: This year, GiveDirectly and the Scottish Government Climate Justice Fund sent $750 no strings attached to over 2,600 families in Malawi’s Nsanje District displaced by 2023’s Cyclone Freddy, helping them rebuild their lives and demonstrating how direct cash can address climate loss & damage globally. Developing countries suffer $400 billion a year in climate […]

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MrBeast gives $200,000 directly to people in poverty

Summary: Beast Philanthropy donated $200,000 to Ugandans living in extreme poverty through GiveDirectly Beast Philanthropy is a nonprofit YouTube channel that funds and films charitable acts, putting the ad revenue from their popular videos towards their next projects. They feature MrBeast aka Jimmy Donaldson, the most watched person on Earth with over 600 million followers […]

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John Cena warns us against giving cash with conditions

A recent Amazon movie includes a scene about cash transfers, which tells an important truth about conditioning cash. “GiveGreen chooses to offer unconditional cash transfers for two reasons. First, empowering poor people to make their own choices – that advances their core value of respect. Second, imposing conditions requires expensive monitoring & enforcement structures that […]

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