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How You Should Budget For Charitable Giving Even If You Aren’t Rich
A few simple steps you can take to increase your capacity to donate — even on a tight budget.
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Effective Giving
Fundraising for an Effective Cause During an Unrelated Crisis
In our research, we asked how organizations that provide effective aid can best remain relevant in donors’ minds, amidst a crisis that has consumed the media…
Peter Singer
Are Randomized Poverty-Alleviation Experiments Ethical?
Awarding of the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences to three pioneers in using randomized controlled trials to fight poverty in developing countries revived questions about the…
Research and Evidence
Congratulations to Esther Duflo, Michael Kremer, and Abhijit Banerjee on Nobel Prize
Evidence Action congratulates Michael Kremer, Esther Duflo, and Abhijit Banerjee on their Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences. The honorees' ground-breaking research and commitment to understanding, with…
Effective Giving
High-Leverage Research Questions
This is the third in a 5-part blog series by TLYCS's COO Jon Behar laying out a framework aimed at answering the question, "What’s the best…
Effective Giving
Guiding Principles to Promote High-Value Applied Giving Research
This is the second in a 5-part blog series by TLYCS's COO Jon Behar laying out a framework aimed at answering the question, "What’s the best…
Effective Giving
A Research Framework to Improve Real-World Giving Behavior
This is the first in a 5-part blog series by TLYCS's COO Jon Behar in which he presents a research framework aimed at answering the question,…
Children
Is it time to end the population taboo?
The issue of rapid population increase has not gone away, yet it remains an unmentionable topic in international policy circles. This must change.
Agriculture and Farming
Climbing Toward Hope: How Graduation Programs Help People Rise from Extreme Poverty
Graduation programs such as those run by Village Enterprise help people lift themselves out of extreme poverty by providing a small up-front infusion of cash to…
Research and Evidence
What Does Gender Equality Have to Do with Global Poverty?
In the struggle against global poverty, is gender equality an impactful goal we should focus on and strive towards?
Effective Giving
This new tool is designed to help your philanthropic activities make the biggest difference they can
Clearerthinking.org's Leaving Your Mark on the World: The Essential Starter's Guide is a brand-new way for you to learn more about making sure your efforts really…
Economic Development
Free Money Is The Future: Confessions of a (Former) Skeptic of Basic Income
Initially skeptical of basic income, I describe in this article how the growing evidence showed me the error of my early perspective and convinced me to…