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What is a Giving Game?• Giving Games let you donate real money to great charities • Sponsored by a donor who asked himself: “How can I

maximize the impact of my charitable giving?”• Pick the best charity that uses the money most effectively.• Look for ways to multiply your impact: get more people

involved• Solution: let a group of smart people decide which charity

can use the money to do the most good• Win-win: the group helps find the best charity while getting

experience with charitable giving and the considerations involved in charity selection – without having to invest their own resources

Schedule

1. Why Against Malaria Foundation and GiveDirectly?

2. Presentation: Against Malaria Foundation3. Presentation: GiveDirectly 4. Questions and Discussion5. Vote6. Announce the Winner!

Why these two charities?

•Recommended by top charity evaluator GiveWell •AMF and GiveDirectly are GiveWell’s top two recommended charities•Both organizations have received thorough scrutiny as part of GiveWell’s research process

Malaria – the humanitarian problem• Half a billion fall ill each year – over a million die

• 70% of deaths are children under 5

• Every 30 seconds, a child dies of malaria

• It is the single largest killer of pregnant women

Malaria – the development problem • 90% of malaria deaths occur in Sub-Saharan Africa

• For every $1 million spent on fighting malaria, Africa’s GDP improves by $12 million

• Malaria might be the single greatest obstacle to economic development in Sub-Saharan Africa

Malaria – a solvable problem

• It has been solved: eg. Bhutan reduced malaria rate by 98% between 1994 – 2010

• $35 billion – estimated price for a malaria-free world

• "I'd be disappointed if within 20 years we're not very close to eradicating this globally,” Bill Gates, 2011

The Against Malaria Foundation• So, we have good reason to want to protect against malaria...

• This is were The Against Malaria Foundation (AMF) comes in!

• Founded in 2004 “so people could fundraise 'against malaria' in whatever way they wished”

• Aim to protect communities against malaria

• With the guiding principles of efficiency, transparency and demonstrating impact

How does it work?1. 100% of your donation goes directly to purchasing bed-nets

2. AMF buy bed-nets at lowest price in the world

3. Partners distribute the bed-nets to communities at no cost

4. Bed-nets are over heads and beds!

5. Videos and photos follow - and you find out where your donation helped to provide protection against malaria

http://www.againstmalaria.com/downloads/AgainstMalaria_Overview_en.pdf

Why is this so great?• PreventionThere is no cure. Treatment can work if patient treated quickly.But in rural Africa...diagnosis is difficult, there’s a lack of medicine, medicine is

expensive and mosquitoes become resistant.

• NetsPeople are most commonly bitten at nightCheapEasily distributedHave positive externalities

Why is this so great?The nets...• family-sized

on average are used by 2 people

• insecticidalKills mosquitoes – so indirectly lowers risk to whole community

• Long-lastingThe insecticide last up to 5 years, the nets much longer

• The cheapest in the world, so far on average US$4.32

• Every $100 raised equals 25 nets in place and 45 to 50 people protected

• Show where all the nets go and monitor their use and impact

Cost-Effectiveness • A clear focus on a specific intervention • Reduce illness and prevent deaths• Potential impact on lives saved or improved per dollar is high

• AMF’s costs are exceptionally low • a lean organisational structure, significant leveraging of technology • pro bono partnership and distribution partner model

• Ensure the potential impact of distributing nets is realised

http://www.againstmalaria.com/CostEffectiveness.aspx

• At least a million people die from malaria each year Some put the estimates as high as 2.7 million.

• Malaria can be eradicatedMalaria can certainly be reduced to dramatically lower levels than exist today. It’ll be hard and more money is needed.

• Via The Against Malaria Foundation you help protect two people for just $4 and (excluding all other benefits) save a child’s life for ~$2000 !

• As you might have guessed... there’s room for more donations!

“AMF have significantly expanded the number of opportunities and in a good position to fund a large number of nets in early 2013” (http://www.givewell.org/international/top-charities/AMF#Costperlifesaved)

1. What does it do? How does it work?2. Why should you “give-directly”?

What does GiveDirectly do?

•GiveDirectly began in Cambridge, MA in 2008•GiveDirectly is focused exclusivelyon giving to the poorest possiblehouseholds at the lowest possiblecost.•Rarieda District in Western Kenya

How does it work?

1. You donate through their website.

2. They locate poor households in Kenya.

3. Your donation is transferred electronically to a recipient's cell phone.

4. The recipient uses the transfer to pursue his or her own goals.

Locating households1. They use census data to select regions of Kenya

with high poverty rates. 2. Villages are selected with low-quality housing and

access to a phone-based payment service. 3. The poorest households in these villages are located4. GiveDirectly record these households' phone

numbers or, for those who do not have cell phones, provide them with a SIM card to register.

5. They use a rigorous process of audits to prevent mistakes or fraud.

Selecting the poorest• Households must live in homes made out

of mud, wood, and grass.

• Highly correlated with acute poverty

• Includes households living in tents in Internally Displaced Person (IDP) camps.

• Transparent: straight-forward to explain criteria for transfers, minimizing tension in community

• Easy to verify: field teams can easily be held accountable as adhering to the eligibility conditions.

Where does the money go?

• Total of $1,000 over one to two years per recipient household, or $200 per household member for the average household.

• 732 recipient households to date

• Fair.

•Potentially transformative.

Where does the money go?

Impact• Households can use the money for whatever is most

important to them. • Follow-up interviews:• Common uses include:• installing a tin roof• buying food

• paying education and medical expenses• starting or expanding businesses (rearing

chickens, vending (clothes, shoes, vegetables, charcoal, etc.), agricultural enterprises)

Impact

Why should you “givedirectly”?

1. Proven effectiveness

2. Positive effects on the health of children

Why should you “givedirectly”?

3. Long term impact

4. The poor do not abuse cash as predicted by derogatory stereotypes

Questions and Discussion•Would you like to know more about one of the charities? Ask the presenters!

•Why do you think we should give the money to one charity rather than the other?

VOTEPlease fill out your ballot now!

Who can help you compare charities?

www.givingwhatwecan.org

www.givewell.org

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