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Setting and Achieving Giving Goals
Three Ways to Reach Your Giving Goals
Have you ever found it difficult to meet your giving goals? Here are three approaches you can use to help you stay on track in the…
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Setting and Achieving Giving Goals
A central tenet of effective altruism is that donating our resources to helping those who live in extreme poverty is one of the most worthwhile ways to improve both ourselves and our world. One approach to doing the most good we can do with our donation habits is “personal best,” a concept with which most athletes are familiar. With personal best, we set mindful giving goals, then work to regularly improve upon them. Take a look at these blogs to learn more about how effective giving can improve your life, and in turn, how you can improve your giving.
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This new tool is designed to help your philanthropic activities make the biggest difference they can
Clearerthinking.org's Leaving Your Mark on the World: The Essential Starter's Guide is a brand-new way for you to learn more about making sure your efforts really…
Effective Giving
5 Must-Read Books for this Fall
With the seasons changing, now is as good a time as any to curl up with a book that could impact your life—and the lives of…
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Why your inner control freak needs taming when it comes to charitable giving
Some time ago, I had a conversation with a friend about charitable giving. She said that one of the reasons she was giving locally rather than…
Effective Giving
You could be the Warren Buffett of social investing
Suppose I told you about an investment that would easily generate a 60-fold return in a few years with very little risk. And then I tell…
Finding Fulfillment from Giving
Taking Distributions When You Don’t Need the Money to Live on
A 68 year old divorced man with two grown children wants to know how he can avoid paying unnecessary taxes on required distributions from his retirement…
Finding Fulfillment from Giving
Part III: How to change your behavior and achieve your personal best
For those of us whose awareness and behavior are not so inherently or concertedly altruistic, I believe we can follow a program wherein we intentionally build…
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Part II: Understanding “normal” giving behavior
One reason for the poverty/giving disconnect is that our brains are not equipped to focus on multiple variables simultaneously, so we prioritize those needing immediate attention.…
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Part 1: Escaping Normal
There is a disconnect for many of us between the supreme moral value we place on human life and the way we are able to tune…
Effective Giving
4 Ways to Donate Better
From picking a worthy charity to making your contribution go further, there's a lot to learn about how to be the most effective altruist you can…
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I gave away $2,239.93 last year. Here’s where it went.
Since committing to effective altruism in 2013, I have given away thousands of dollars to many different charities. Looking back on 2015, how did I do?
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How to Give Like Bill Gates, Even if You Have Little to Give
By following the Gates Foundation's principle that "all lives have equal value," you can dramatically increase the impact of your giving.