On: Invisible Child: Dasani’s Homeless Life

[danielweber]

This is good advice, but there is still the question of where to donate the money. Charities don't respond to market pressure the same way a firm selling goods or services does, so lots of charities exist that do middling or even negative value for their donated dollars.

Has GiveWell done evaluations of programs to end homelessness?

[smacktoward → danielweber]

CharityNavigator (http://www.charitynavigator.org/) is a good resource for sorting out NPOs that manage their resources well from those that don't.

[danielweber → smacktoward]

That seem to look at simple metrics which we don't necessarily want charities to optimize on. They are planning to work on measuring what really matters, results: http://www.charitynavigator.org/index.cfm?bay=content.view&c...