Trying to help others used to about writing checks at the end of the year, mailing them off and then hoping the money helped. Over the last 20 years, there has been a transformation, and there are now ways to use the internet to connect to those you help, plus a huge array of concrete evidence to show what organizations are effective to using your money -- and which ones aren't.
One basic rule: Spend money as intelligently as you make it. Too often, we give not to the causes that are most effective, but rather to those that are best at asking for it. So we get a phone call from some random organization we've never heard of, and the caller mentions "children with cancer" or "retired firefighters" or something else that sounds noble, and we promise a donation. We would never buy a television from some caller we know nothing about, and we shouldn't donate to organization that have great marketing but whose work we know nothing about.
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we listen to yhe people and work on it
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Trying to help others used to about writing checks at the end of the year, mailing them off and then hoping the money helped. Over the last 20 years, there has been a transformation, and there are now ways to use the internet to connect to those you help, plus a huge array of concrete evidence to show what organizations are effective to using your money -- and which ones aren't.
One basic rule: Spend money as intelligently as you make it. Too often, we give not to the causes that are most effective, but rather to those that are best at asking for it. So we get a phone call from some random organization we've never heard of, and the caller mentions "children with cancer" or "retired firefighters" or something else that sounds noble, and we promise a donation. We would never buy a television from some caller we know nothing about, and we shouldn't donate to organization that have great marketing but whose work we know nothing about.