A few months ago, a complete stranger gave me $10k (2021)

Re:A few months ago, a complete stranger gave me $10k (2021) by whimsicalism on Wednesday September 07, 2022 @04:28PM (#32756351)

If you're saying such a large proportion of charity money goes towards graft that it is better to donate locally, I would love a source. If I donate to an organization providing malaria nets, most of that money goes to the malaria nets and some goes to funding rigorous verification that the money is going to malaria nets.

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Re:A few months ago, a complete stranger gave me $10k (2021) by citizenpaul on Thursday September 08, 2022 @03:22AM (#32762376)

Most states in the US publish stats on charities operating in their borders. My state has a yearly shame list they publish. One thing I learned from looking at it is that most charities that take in less than $1 mil a year basically are not real charities and keep 99% of the money for 'overhead'

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Re:A few months ago, a complete stranger gave me $10k (2021) by lupire on Wednesday September 07, 2022 @10:22PM (#32760306)

Yeah AMF is great. But putting all the money in the world exclusively into malaria nets* won't solve all the world's problems though.

* (where by the way they also end up poisoning fish and people when the malaria nets become fishing nets)

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Re:A few months ago, a complete stranger gave me $10k (2021) by whimsicalism on Wednesday September 07, 2022 @10:26PM (#32760336)

I am not sure when we changed goalposts from "is it a better marginal impact for your dollar" to "does it solve all the world's problems."

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