Uncategorized – GiveDirectly

Event: what if conservation started with trust?

Isabelle Pelly — Fri, 27 Jun 2025 21:13:55 +0000

Conservation finance is failing and local communities are still shut out On June 11, more than 50 practitioners gathered in Nairobi to explore a bold question: What if we tackled conservation not by restricting communities but by trusting them? Co-hosted by Equal Right, GiveDirectly, and the Global Resilience Partnership, the “Cash for Conservation” workshop brought […]

Additional resources for U.S. families impacted by COVID-19

GiveDirectly — Thu, 30 Jul 2020 21:32:49 +0000

Providers (formerly Fresh EBT) – our operational partner for the U.S. COVID-19 program – compiled a non-exhaustive list of resources for people across the United States who are looking for support during this time, from food assistance to educational materials for children. We wish we could provide cash to everyone across the globe who needs it right now, but the difficult reality is that the…

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Four questions to ask before you give

GiveDirectly — Wed, 22 Nov 2017 00:00:00 +0000

Giving effectively means asking tough questions. (We know; you all have been great about asking us some tough ones over the years.) With the holiday giving season coming up, here are the top four questions we ask before giving. Share this post and get some conversations going…

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Let them decide – Cash in the News

GiveDirectly — Fri, 18 Aug 2017 03:14:00 +0000

A story about GiveDirectly’s universal basic income initiative came out last week, airing multiple times on All Things Considered with a feature on the front page of NPR’s homepage. The piece was the first in a series about unconditional cash transfers and their potential to end extreme poverty. Elsewhere, a new tech founder joined the list of basic income supporters…

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Our main goal is to learn – Cash in the News

GiveDirectly — Tue, 01 Aug 2017 01:38:00 +0000

Basic income featured prominently in the news this week with an op-ed on the shortcomings of the Finnish study in The New York Times, coverage from Vox dispelling common critiques of basic income, and a handful of articles about Silicon Valley’s rising interest in basic income. GiveDirectly’s CFO Joe Huston also spoke with Brazilian magazine Época Negócios about our UBI study in Kenya. Elsewhere…

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A world where 8 men own as much wealth as 3.6 billion people – Cash in the News

GiveDirectly — Fri, 21 Jul 2017 03:27:00 +0000

Comic Relief, a large British charity, announced their support of GiveDirectly and cash transfers this week in a blog post on the topic. Additionally, our co-founder Paul Niehaus was featured in news pieces on KPBS-San Diego and in a survey of basic income studies in Scientific American. Prof. Tavneet Suri, one of the principal investigators in our basic income experiment…

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Not everybody wants a goat – Cash in the News

GiveDirectly — Thu, 13 Jul 2017 20:39:00 +0000

In a 30-minute documentary, ABC Australia profiled GiveDirectly’s work in Kenya. They spoke at length with both Caroline Teti, our External Relations Director in Kenya, and Mitch Riley, our Regional Director. They also featured a range of GiveDirectly recipients, from one who used his transfer to start a band, to another who is growing hundreds of eucalyptus trees. 1.

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Allocating the capital – Cash in the News

GiveDirectly — Wed, 05 Jul 2017 20:41:00 +0000

In an interview with Hamilton Nolan, GiveDirectly’s co-founder discusses the current state of the debate around basic income and the details of our experiment. Elsewhere, GiveDirectly’s basic income experiment was referenced in Fortune, Business Insider, and IndiaSpend, and GiveDirectly was mentioned in The Washington Post as part of a broader shift toward cash transfers in the aid sector.

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A broad swath of society – Cash in the News

GiveDirectly — Wed, 21 Jun 2017 22:59:00 +0000

In the last week, Hawaii’s lawmakers started discussing basic income and The Economist published a piece on Finland’s basic income experiment. GiveDirectly’s CFO, Joe Huston, spoke at the North American Basic Income Guarantee conference in New York, where he described in detail our own experiment, as well as some of the early qualitative results we’ve gathered from our pilot village.

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Cost-effectiveness landscape – Cash in the News

GiveDirectly — Wed, 14 Jun 2017 23:33:00 +0000

At Oxford, co-founder Paul Niehaus talked with Stanford Professor Jim Ferguson about the future of cash transfers in a conversation that ranged from ethnography to economics. Sorosh Tavokoli, one of GiveDirectly’s donors, wrote a thoughtful piece on Medium on why, after five months of research, he decided that giving cash directly was one of the most cost-effective ways to help people in need.

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