As we look to simplify our donation options and optimize for effectiveness, GiveDirectly will no longer be accepting donations for basic income and refugee programs through our website, and will be shifting active donations to fund our general Africa poverty relief programs. We’re focused on scaling our large, one-time cash transfer work in Africa, and […]
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Candid thoughts from staff, donors, and recipients on our work and the broader movement towards cash transfers.
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Charitable Donation Deadlines for 2024
If you’re planning to make a donation around the holidays, we’ve pulled together details below on United States tax deadlines.
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Where does the money go when you click “donate”?
GiveDirectly’s cash transfer programming is quite a bit more diverse today than it was when we first started accepting donations, way back in 2011. In those days, we had a single program design: deliver $1,000 to households in rural Kenya living in poverty. Today we have programs that look similar to that, but we also […]