Joe – GiveDirectly https://www.givedirectly.org Send money directly to people in need. Mon, 28 Oct 2019 22:15:41 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 https://www.givedirectly.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/cropped-GiveDirectly-Square-Logo-Green-Black-32x32.png Joe – GiveDirectly https://www.givedirectly.org 32 32 There’s no charity for power saws https://www.givedirectly.org/theres-no-charity-for-power-saws/ Thu, 19 Jun 2014 20:07:00 +0000 https://www.givedirectly.org/blog_post.php?id=5453927471971916970 One of the main benefits of giving cash is that people can use the cash to buy whatever they want or need. When people first hear about cash transfers, this freedom is sometimes one of the things they worry about – “and… they can just spend it on anything?” But it turns out that, on average, people don’t use cash transfers to increase consumption on things like alcohol or tobacco. Instead…

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