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Thoughtful piece on the growth of cash transfers from Vox's dylan matthews 🔸

"I have always dreamt of having a permanent, spacious house – a house that will last for many years to come, even long after I am gone." Zosi, 82, spent her ~$900 transfer building a new one-room home, which she plans to leave to her caretaker nephew.

The people most in need after Hurricanes #Ian and #Fiona are the ones most vulnerable before the storms. Donate money directly to low-income survivors. GiveDirectly.org/fiona

The Yemen ceasefire has lapsed, leaving Yemenis again victims to a conflict they did not cause. Last weekend GiveDirectly.org/Yemen delivered another round of cash relief to people on poverty in Yemen. But the situation remains desperate. ⁦The Rest Is Politics⁩

Following Hurricane Fiona and Ian, GiveDirectly💸 and @GoogleOrg launched a new hurricane relief program delivering cash, no strings attached, to low-income households in the hardest hit areas in Puerto Rico and Florida. A quick thread on how this program was developed 🧵 ↓

.GiveDirectly💸 is partnering with Google to use technology to help locate residents in need of financial help following #HurricanIan. They joined @SteveBenderWx and Kiyana Lewis to talk about how this process works.

[MATCH] We’re doubling donations made today until our $150K match fund is filled. Make your #GivingTuesday gift directly to people in poverty GiveDirectly.org/giving-tuesday

Africans in diaspora are Africa’s largest financiers. Remittances from the diaspora to Africa grew from $37 billion in 2010 to $96 billion in 2021. Total Official Development Assistance to Africa in 2021 was $35 billion or 36% of remittances from diaspora. Prioritize their voice!

We launched a new tool to show you who will receive your monthly donation before giving & send updates afterwards. We’ve all seen similar pleas only to learn later that the people we donated to may have just been stock images. This is different. How? ⬇️ givedirectly.org/new-donation-t…

This time of year, love to see some peace, harmony, & direct giving 🔽

"GiveDirectly’s program is exceptionally simple & direct: it lets individuals choose what they most want" - the head of GiveWell on why he still gives directly. Though our two orgs prioritize differently, we share the same goal: do as much good as possible for people in poverty.

Seeing is believing ⬇️

Thank you to our participants at #wef23 for an inspiring conversation on how to #AccelerateImpact in the field of data for good! 👏 Michael B.G. Froman Tariq Khokhar Angela Oduor Lungati Michael Faye Stéphane Duguin Danil Mikhailov (he/him)

The most common critique of giving cash to people in poverty without conditions is a fear of dependency ("teach a man to fish..."). It's wrong. 🧵/6

4 displaced families in a camp in Aden, Yemen. 4 different needs. 4 different solutions. Only giving cash allows for this type of empowerment:

"Almost all kids from the village go to school every day of every term" - from BBC News (World) report on the GiveDirectly.org/ubi-study bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0…