GiveDirectly
Sign in to saveGiveDirectly is a nonprofit organization operating in low income areas that helps families living in extreme poverty by making unconditional cash transfers to them via mobile phone. GiveDirectly currently transfers funds to people in Bangladesh, DRC, Liberia, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Rwanda, Uganda and USA. In the past, it has worked in The Bahamas, Morocco, Nigeria, Turkey, Togo and Yemen.
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Vinony's link graph records 128 inbound references to GiveDirectly, and connects out to universal basic income, Democratic Republic of the Congo and The Bahamas.
Vinony files it under Charities based in New York City, Foreign charities operating in Kenya and Foreign charities operating in Uganda.
Vinony links it to 9 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- Organization.name
- GiveDirectly
- Organization.logo
- GiveDirectly logo.svg
- Organization.logo_size
- 250px
- Organization.caption
- A Kenyan recipient of a cash transfer from GiveDirectly uses a mobile money app to withdraw cash
- Organization.type
- 501(c)(3) non-profit organization
- Organization.purpose
- Alleviating extreme poverty through cash transfers
- Organization.leader_title
- President
- Organization.leader_name
- Nick Allardice
- Organization.location_city
- New York City
- Organization.area_served
- Bahamas, Bangladesh, DRC, Liberia, Kenya, Malawi, Morocco, Mozambique, Nigeria, Rwanda, Togo, Turkey, Uganda, USA, Yemen
- Organization.num_employees
- Approx 175
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Revenue
- 206811067
- Official website
- www.givedirectly.org
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- FAQ URL
- www.givedirectly.org/faq
- Commons category
- GiveDirectly
- official blog URL
- www.givedirectly.org/blog
- web feed URL
- www.givedirectly.org/feed
- social media followers
- 31251
- donations
- 201022303
- total assets
- 246022604
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Encyclopedic overview
12 sectionsContents
- History
- Operations
- COVID-19 support
- Basic income experiment
- Mission in Rwanda
- Funding
- Reception
- GiveWell reviews
- Reception by development economists
- See also
- References
- External links
GiveDirectly is a nonprofit organization operating in low income areas that helps families living in extreme poverty by making unconditional cash transfers to them via mobile phone. GiveDirectly currently transfers funds to people in Bangladesh, DRC, Liberia, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Rwanda, Uganda and USA. In the past, it has worked in The Bahamas, Morocco, Nigeria, Turkey, Togo and Yemen.
== History ==
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “GiveDirectly” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.