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Ten companies doing the most social good this year.
#autism #PTSD #dementia #suicideprevention #bookshop #GiveDirectly #food #nutrition #homeless #socks #DEI #recyclepaper #foodsecurity #soap

https://time.com/article/2026/04/29/time100-companies-social-good/

Ten companies doing the most social good this year.
#autism #PTSD #dementia #suicideprevention #bookshop #GiveDirectly #food #nutrition #homeless #socks #DEI #recyclepaper #foodsecurity #soap

https://time.com/article/2026/04/29/time100-companies-social-good/

Great read. Direct cash transfers make SUCH a positive difference. I’ve been donating to GiveDirectly who offers the same thing for impoverished areas abroad and the tangible improvements to peoples’ lives are incredible. Please consider donating to GiveDirectly or similar if you have the means.

https://www.oregonlive.com/politics/2026/01/oregon-tried-giving-homeless-youth-1000-a-month-with-no-strings-attached-heres-what-happened.html

#givedirectly #homelessness #oregon #cashtransfers #empathy #incomeinequality #unitedstates

Join me and help families who will lose SNAP benefits this week due to the government shutdown:

https://givedirectly.org/snapgap

GiveDirectly gives unconditional cash transfers to people in need. This campaign will focus on families receiving the maximum SNAP benefit, a strong indicator of extreme financial hardship.

#shutdown #GiveDirectly #charity

‘Just money, with no strings attached’: how direct cash transfers are giving women in rural Kenya a new life
Financial support given directly to the women in Kilifi county has cut both infant mortality and deaths

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/oct/09/money-direct-cash-transfers-women-rural-kenya-a-new-life

#142holdheap #GiveDirectly #Poverty #Aid #Health #Development

hab grad Die Gute Anstalt geguckt. Im Stream! 😎

#givedirectly
#dieanstalt

https://www.zdf.de/play/shows/die-anstalt-104/die-anstalt-vom-15-juli-2025-100

Hat mal jemandn Bild vom Scharping? 🙃 :oldmanyellsatcloud:

In case you wanted to look at the results of the #GiveDirectly #UniversalBasicIncome from 2023 study yourself:

"Early findings from the world’s largest #UBI study"

"Both a large lump sum and a long-term UBI proved highly effective. The lump sum enabled big investments and the guarantee of 12 years of UBI encouraged savings and risk-taking."

https://www.givedirectly.org/2023-ubi-results/

#UBI4ME #UniversalBasicInvestment #TaxTheRich #TaxWealth #DignityForAll #CostOfLiving #poverty #politics #NewWorld

🥳 Great data: UBI works 🥳

"A monthly UBI made people in poverty more productive, not less"

You can read more on GiveDirectly who summarised a great research project on UBI done over 12 years.

https://www.givedirectly.org/2023-ubi-results/

#UBI #UBI4ME #UniversalBasicIncome #GuaranteedIncome #givedirectly

Live stateside and need help?
You CAN’T apply to Give Directly itself.

https://www.givedirectly.org/united-states
But you can FIND A LIST of programs that Give Directly does fund.

Then you can find one near you!

If you’re really desperate,

1. https://www.ecosia.org/search?method=index&q=money+help search for e.g. “money help” then add your city and state,

2 Use the mutual aid tags on here — they’re at the bottom. Check the weird text. Click the “…and 22 more” text to unhide / show all the hashtags. —

And / or

3. Ask me (a stranger online whomst’ve could steal your info and give it to that person you hate so they can sign you up for yoga classes and MLM schemes).
I’ll do a quick search for you.

Mastodon DMs are NOT secure. https://signal.org is better.

Do NOT give me or other randomers your postal address or current residence.

Biggest city near you is fine for finding local help and avoid doxxing yourself — as much. But if you are doxxed: https://www.sproutdistro.com/catalog/zines/security/doxcare/

Anyway, this isn’t a lecture on OpSec.

#MutualAidMonday #MutualAidSavesLives #GiveDirectly #info #InfoTech #InfoSec #PayPoorPeople #RedistributeWealth #Spread #Money #MutualAid #fediGive #fediHelp #Cash #currency #financial #financialAid #FinancialLiteracy #disabilityMutualAid #IndigenousMutualAid #BlackMutualAid #TransMutualAid #QueerMutualAid #LatineMutualAid #MutualAidRequest

Live stateside and need help?
You CAN’T apply to Give Directly itself.

https://www.givedirectly.org/united-states
But you can FIND A LIST of programs that Give Directly does fund.

Then you can find one near you!

If you’re really desperate,

1. https://www.ecosia.org/search?method=index&q=money+help search for e.g. “money help” then add your city and state,

2 Use the mutual aid tags on here — they’re at the bottom. Check the weird text. Click the “…and 22 more” text to unhide / show all the hashtags. —

And / or

3. Ask me (a stranger online whomst’ve could steal your info and give it to that person you hate so they can sign you up for yoga classes and MLM schemes).
I’ll do a quick search for you.

Mastodon DMs are NOT secure. https://signal.org is better.

Do NOT give me or other randomers your postal address or current residence.

Biggest city near you is fine for finding local help and avoid doxxing yourself — as much. But if you are doxxed: https://www.sproutdistro.com/catalog/zines/security/doxcare/

Anyway, this isn’t a lecture on OpSec.

#MutualAidMonday #MutualAidSavesLives #GiveDirectly #info #InfoTech #InfoSec #PayPoorPeople #RedistributeWealth #Spread #Money #MutualAid #fediGive #fediHelp #Cash #currency #financial #financialAid #FinancialLiteracy #disabilityMutualAid #IndigenousMutualAid #BlackMutualAid #TransMutualAid #QueerMutualAid #LatineMutualAid #MutualAidRequest

Live stateside and need help?
You CAN’T apply to Give Directly itself.

https://www.givedirectly.org/united-states
But you can FIND A LIST of programs that Give Directly does fund.

Then you can find one near you!

If you’re really desperate,

1. https://www.ecosia.org/search?method=index&q=money+help search for e.g. “money help” then add your city and state,

2 Use the mutual aid tags on here — they’re at the bottom. Check the weird text. Click the “…and 22 more” text to unhide / show all the hashtags. —

And / or

3. Ask me (a stranger online whomst’ve could steal your info and give it to that person you hate so they can sign you up for yoga classes and MLM schemes).
I’ll do a quick search for you.

Mastodon DMs are NOT secure. https://signal.org is better.

Do NOT give me or other randomers your postal address or current residence.

Biggest city near you is fine for finding local help and avoid doxxing yourself — as much. But if you are doxxed: https://www.sproutdistro.com/catalog/zines/security/doxcare/

Anyway, this isn’t a lecture on OpSec.

#MutualAidMonday #MutualAidSavesLives #GiveDirectly #info #InfoTech #InfoSec #PayPoorPeople #RedistributeWealth #Spread #Money #MutualAid #fediGive #fediHelp #Cash #currency #financial #financialAid #FinancialLiteracy #disabilityMutualAid #IndigenousMutualAid #BlackMutualAid #TransMutualAid #QueerMutualAid #LatineMutualAid #MutualAidRequest

Live stateside and need help?
You CAN’T apply to Give Directly itself.

https://www.givedirectly.org/united-states
But you can FIND A LIST of programs that Give Directly does fund.

Then you can find one near you!

If you’re really desperate,

1. https://www.ecosia.org/search?method=index&q=money+help search for e.g. “money help” then add your city and state,

2 Use the mutual aid tags on here — they’re at the bottom. Check the weird text. Click the “…and 22 more” text to unhide / show all the hashtags. —

And / or

3. Ask me (a stranger online whomst’ve could steal your info and give it to that person you hate so they can sign you up for yoga classes and MLM schemes).
I’ll do a quick search for you.

Mastodon DMs are NOT secure. https://signal.org is better.

Do NOT give me or other randomers your postal address or current residence.

Biggest city near you is fine for finding local help and avoid doxxing yourself — as much. But if you are doxxed: https://www.sproutdistro.com/catalog/zines/security/doxcare/

Anyway, this isn’t a lecture on OpSec.

#MutualAidMonday #MutualAidSavesLives #GiveDirectly #info #InfoTech #InfoSec #PayPoorPeople #RedistributeWealth #Spread #Money #MutualAid #fediGive #fediHelp #Cash #currency #financial #financialAid #FinancialLiteracy #disabilityMutualAid #IndigenousMutualAid #BlackMutualAid #TransMutualAid #QueerMutualAid #LatineMutualAid #MutualAidRequest

Live stateside and need help?
You CAN’T apply to Give Directly itself.

https://www.givedirectly.org/united-states/
But you can FIND A LIST of programs that Give Directly does fund.

Then you can find one near you!

If you’re really desperate,

1. https://ecosia.org search for e.g. “money help” then your city and state,

2 Use the mutual aid tags on here,
Or

3. Ask me (a stranger online whomst’ve could steal your info and give it to that person you hate so they can sign you up for yoga classes and MLM schemes) and I’ll do a quick search for you.

Mastodon DMs are NOT secure. Signal is better.

Do NOT give me or other randomers your postal address or current residence.

Biggest city near you is fine for finding local help without doxxing yourself — as much.

Anyway, this isn’t a lecture on OpSec.

#MutualAidMonday #MutualAidSavesLives #GiveDirectly #info #InfoTech #InfoSec #PayPoorPeople #RedistributeWealth #Spread #Money

https://nebula.tv/videos/signifiedbsides-this-is-not-how-we-fix-our-problems/

I think
https://www.givedirectly.org/signifier
Is it, but as always, don’t trust strangers on the internet!
Even the very strange.

#MutualAidRequest #MutualAid #GiveDirectly #Charity #EffectiveCommunication #noBS

#GiveDirectly is once again pushing the envelope in unconditional basic income (#UBI) research: despite the dozens of pilot projects now in place in the U.S., they are too similar to each other to obtain data on which program design is more effective (regarding project duration, payment frequency, payment amount, etc.). GD's research (https://www.givedirectly.org/how-cash-works-best/) could determine implementation designs that would allow these programs to become even more impactful!

And yes, of course it's even better to help people out of poverty to just give them money that they don't have to pay back with interest! But I also give to charity, including to #GiveDirectly that does just this, including as emergency relief, to refugees, and as a part of a UBI experiment. https://www.givedirectly.org

Charity is amazing! But I also need some savings, so lending trough Kiva is my way of just taking a bit more risk with some of my savings to do good with it also

#finance #kiva

It's one of the biggest #experiments in fighting #global #poverty. Now the #results are in

Since 2017 the U.S.-based #charity #GiveDirectly has been providing thousands of #villagers in #Kenya what's called a "#universalbasicincome" – a #cash #grant of about $50, delivered every month, with the commitment to keep the #payments coming for 12 years.

#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Africa #Kenya #UBI

https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2023/12/07/1217478771/its-one-of-the-biggest-experiments-in-fighting-global-poverty-now-the-results-ar

The first results from the world’s biggest basic income experiment
https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2023/12/1/23981194/givedirectly-basic-income-experiment-abhijit-banerjee-tavneet-suri

tl;dr: money always helps, but for the very poor, one lump sum can last a long time.

The latest research on the GiveDirectly pilot, done by MIT economists Tavneet Suri and Nobel Prize winner Abhijit Banerjee, compares three groups: short-term basic income recipients (who got the $20 payments for two years), long-term basic income recipients (who get the money for the full 12 years), and lump sum recipients, who got $500 all at once, or roughly the same amount as the short-term basic income group.

#UBI #UniversalBasicIncome #GiveDirectly

It always struck me that Rory Stewart was a great loss to UK politics.

https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2022/8/31/23329242/givedirectly-cash-transfers-rory-stewart

#GiveDirectly #FightingPoverty

Yes to more of this. “#UniversalBasicIncome (UBI) schemes have been adopted by dozens of #localgovernments across America in the past couple of years. They are paid for by the flood of money made available by the federal government for #reliefschemes during the worst of the #pandemic.” https://www.economist.com/united-states/2023/01/19/what-the-spread-of-universal-basic-income-schemes-says-about-americas-safety-net #cookcounty #GiveDirectly

Interesting article on direct cash transfers by the #EffectiveAltruism organization #GiveDirectly on their basic income experiment in #Kenya:

https://www.vox.com/platform/amp/future-perfect/2019/11/25/20973151/givedirectly-basic-income-kenya-study-stimulus.