Tyler Hall – GiveDirectly

MrBeast gives $200,000 directly to people in poverty

Tyler Hall — Sun, 16 Jun 2024 12:13:45 +0000

Beast Philanthropy is a nonprofit YouTube channel that funds and films charitable acts, putting the ad revenue from their popular videos towards their next projects. They feature MrBeast aka Jimmy Donaldson, the most watched person on Earth with over 600 million followers across his social media platforms. In April, GiveDirectly’s Uganda team hosted Beast Philanthropy to document our direct…

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Survey: fewer people support direct cash transfers than you may think

Tyler Hall — Tue, 11 Jun 2024 19:38:29 +0000

In May, GiveDirectly ran a panel survey of 750 Americans who fit our common donor profile to better understand their familiarity and sentiments around direct cash. Below, we outline the most relevant findings and how they’ll inform our communications and marketing strategy. Note: we’ll continue to update this blog as we further analyze the survey results GiveDirectly began building…

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John Cena warns us against giving cash with conditions

Tyler Hall — Fri, 29 Mar 2024 10:27:23 +0000

A recent Amazon movie includes a scene about cash transfers, which tells an important truth about conditioning cash. John Cena’s character is right that “existing empirical evidence comparing the impact of conditional to unconditional cash transfers shows that these added costs simply do not produce commensurate benefits.” GiveDirectly exclusively delivers your donations…

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We gave single-use cameras to 4 villages — see what they captured

Tyler Hall — Thu, 23 Dec 2021 22:41:11 +0000

Last month, we distributed Fujifilm QuickSnaps to select recipients in Kenya, Rwanda, and Liberia and asked them to document their village as they received cash transfers. Over the course of November, these photographers captured their neighbors’ stories and projects. Our team returned at the end of the month to collect the cameras, the details, and consent forms from the subjects.

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The story of Eunice and 144 more in the Kibera program

Tyler Hall — Thu, 23 Sep 2021 14:38:14 +0000

Eunice lives in the Kibera slums of Nairobi, Kenya and was one of 494 people who received ~$1,125 between November 2020 and June 2021 as part of a GiveDirectly COVID-19 relief program focused on entrepreneurs. This program, funded by Google.org, provided women with cash transfers plus elective budgeting and entrepreneurial training from SHOFCO, a local NGO. This “cash plus” design aimed to…

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