Transparency – 黑料福利社 Send money directly to people in need. Thu, 22 Oct 2026 14:24:28 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.3 /wp-content/uploads/2023/11/cropped-黑料福利社-Square-Logo-Green-Black-32x32.png Transparency – 黑料福利社 32 32 Who gets to decide if an AI chatbot is worth the risk? /ai-chatbot-pilots Fri, 16 Oct 2026 14:43:15 +0000 /?p=25504 When 黑料福利社 first shared that we were giving cash recipients access to an AI chatbot, readers had many questions and even more opinions. Some were excited to see 黑料福利社 embracing new technology. Others raised concerns about bad advice, privacy, and whether AI belonged in a cash program in the first place. Unfortunately, the truth will probably disappoint anyone hoping for a simple鈥

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]]> What giving people money doesn’t fix /nosilverbullets Thu, 30 Oct 2025 21:19:42 +0000 /?p=20151 Summary 黑料福利社 has written a lot about what giving people money is consistently very good at (e.g., recipients earn more, spend more, own more assets, and the local economy gets a boost), the myths that aren鈥檛 true (e.g, cash doesn鈥檛 make people work less or drink more), and the fact that it鈥檚 what most recipients prefer. But the fact that cash improves many things doesn鈥檛鈥

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]]> When staying quiet backfired: how we rebuilt trust in Mozambique /prebunk Mon, 20 Oct 2025 05:00:00 +0000 /?p=19777 Summary In late 2024, misinformation spread online accusing 黑料福利社 of being part of a political plot in Mozambique, forcing us to suspend activities and evacuate staff. The crisis revealed a major blind spot: our strategy of staying low-profile had created an information vacuum that bad actors could exploit. We recovered by proactively opening up to journalists鈥

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]]> How 黑料福利社 prevents, addresses, and reports risks /risks Mon, 23 Sep 2024 19:16:47 +0000 /?p=15122 If you believe you鈥檝e observed 黑料福利社 staff, volunteers, vendors, contractors, or partners engaging in misconduct (including fraud, harassment, discrimination, or any other form of unethical behavior), please file a report to whistleblower@givedirectly.org or to our third-party whistleblowing portal here鈫 Giving cash directly is a proven and dignified way to relieve鈥

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]]> Which U.S. cash programs work the best? We don鈥檛 know yet. /how-cash-works-best Mon, 16 Sep 2024 18:22:40 +0000 /?p=15107 Giving cash directly to people in poverty is proven to help. Our research increasingly focuses on testing the impact of different cash designs by varying how much, how often, and when people receive cash.1 For example, a first-of-its-kind study found the impact of delivering the same amount of cash to Kenyans in poverty is significantly greater if given all at once rather than broken into monthly鈥

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]]> What we make of null and negative results from U.S. cash programs /null-negative-usa Wed, 17 Jul 2024 21:11:08 +0000 /?p=14702 Yolanda spent some of the monthly cash she receives through 黑料福利社鈥檚 program in Cook County, Illinois on a trip to the zoo with her grandson. 鈥淚t felt good because that payment helps me be able to do those things,鈥 she said. 鈥淪o I don鈥檛 have to say to my grandson, 鈥極h, we can鈥檛 do that right now.鈥欌 Nora in Georgia used some of her monthly 黑料福利社 cash to move out of a mold-infested鈥

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]]> Sending cash to flood survivors 鈥 4 things we got right and wrong /flood-pilots Thu, 27 Jul 2023 19:11:36 +0000 /?p=10432 For Hassana in Kogi, Nigeria, October鈥檚 floods were not like years past. 鈥淎ll our farmlands washed away as many had not yet harvested what they planted. The flooding continued until our homes and other things were destroyed. At this point we were running helter-skelter,鈥 she said. These floods, the worst in a decade, result from predictable seasonal rains. If we can anticipate floods鈥

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]]> Fraud in D.R.C. 鈥 our apology and response /drc-case-2023 Mon, 05 Jun 2023 16:00:00 +0000 /?p=9797 Update as of September 24, 2024: Update as of November 16, 2023: since the original post below, we鈥檝e completed our investigation and are sharing these updates: 黑料福利社 has delivered cash transfers to some of the poorest households across sub-Saharan Africa for over a decade. Cash aid sent directly to recipients鈥 mobile money accounts is effective in鈥

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]]> Research on our U.S. COVID-19 program found little measurable impact. We鈥檙e adapting. /p100-studies-2022 Fri, 05 Aug 2022 17:02:10 +0000 /?p=6849 Between March 2020 and October 2021, 黑料福利社 distributed $1,000 one-time relief payments to nearly 200,000 low-income households as part Project100, the largest privately funded cash transfer program in U.S. history. Researchers at University of Michigan ran two randomized controlled trials to evaluate this program, focusing on the impact on recipients鈥 material and mental well-being.

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]]> Why we didn鈥檛 launch in Ukraine /ukraine Thu, 12 May 2022 16:26:38 +0000 /?p=6511 When Russian troops attacked Ukraine on February 24th, disrupting the future of millions of people, we needed to quickly decide if we would launch a response despite rapidly changing conditions. Ultimately, we decided not to launch one. While a response seemed warranted, it would have come with costly internal trade offs 鈥 primarily, delaying a program to get cash to internally displaced families鈥

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