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We’ve been accused many times (including here and here) of trying to take the emotion out of charity. That doesn’t make any sense to me – I can’t think of any reason to do charity other than emotion (call me … [CLICK TO READ MORE]
We’ve written a heck of a lot about what “measurements” should and shouldn’t be applied to charitable work – that’s what we spend a lot of our time thinking about, seeing as how we’re trying to figure out where to … [CLICK TO READ MORE]
I’ve done an arguably excessive amount of ranting on what I’ve dubbed the “Straw Ratio”: the idea that we can find the best charities by seeing what percentage of their total expenses goes to program expenses, or, in Straw Man … [CLICK TO READ MORE]
If my extended, multi-post rant on the Straw Ratio has been at all convincing to you, you should be concerned about what the Internet thinks “charity evaluation” means. I’m not just talking about the top result, but about the whole … [CLICK TO READ MORE]
Measuring success at helping people is hard; it has inherent limits; it’s time-consuming; and it’s expensive. But it has to be done. The first reason is that no matter how much sense an idea makes in your head, translating it … [CLICK TO READ MORE]
It’s very unlikely – maybe impossible – that the Straw Ratio bothers you as much as it bothers me. So I’m going to try to spill out all the ranting I have left on this topic over the next few … [CLICK TO READ MORE]
