Re:Too Much Dark Money in Almonds
by ip26 on Friday September 20, 2019 @11:04PM
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Of course not, but the reason we look at these metrics in the first place is because we can't usually say with certainty that Charity A is head-and-shoulders the best charity for saving children from malaria. We're trying to sift through the pile to find the charity that will do the most with our dollar.
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Re:Too Much Dark Money in Almonds
by laughinghan on Friday September 20, 2019 @11:15PM
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Sure, but I'm saying something more specific than just "head-and-shoulders the best". I'm saying we should entirely ignore overhead and in fact pretty much ignore what the charity itself does at all (how much of your donation goes to fundraising? How much goes to lavish hotels?), and just look at the actual malaria rate in the children they treat.
I highly recommend reading the New Republic article I linked to, it talks about all this in a lot more detail.