As I stated before, an effective charity is a charity that uses all or a large sum of what they get donated in order to benefit those they are serving versus other expenses like salaries, etc. How do we know which charities are effective and which are not? Singer discusses a few organizations that aid in helping us find organizations that will benefit the most in his book The Life You Can Save. These are the charities that when we give to them, we see the impact we have made. Another great thing about these organizations that help us distinguish which charities are effective is that some of them even tell us exactly what our impact is. One organization Singer discusses is the website Charity Navigator. This website has a list of the ten charities that have the highest ratio of administrative expenses to income (82). Another organization Singer discusses in The Life You Can Save, is GiveWell. This organization is dedicated to improving the transparency and effectiveness of charities (84). Both of these organizations are great tools for those interested in giving to charities because they will maximize their possible
As I stated before, an effective charity is a charity that uses all or a large sum of what they get donated in order to benefit those they are serving versus other expenses like salaries, etc. How do we know which charities are effective and which are not? Singer discusses a few organizations that aid in helping us find organizations that will benefit the most in his book The Life You Can Save. These are the charities that when we give to them, we see the impact we have made. Another great thing about these organizations that help us distinguish which charities are effective is that some of them even tell us exactly what our impact is. One organization Singer discusses is the website Charity Navigator. This website has a list of the ten charities that have the highest ratio of administrative expenses to income (82). Another organization Singer discusses in The Life You Can Save, is GiveWell. This organization is dedicated to improving the transparency and effectiveness of charities (84). Both of these organizations are great tools for those interested in giving to charities because they will maximize their possible