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Doing Good Better - Will MacAskill

The Joe Walker Podcast

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The Importance of Overheads in Charity

The EA movement is the notion that overheads or admin costs are not the best metrics by which to measure the effectiveness of a given charity. It's just not that relevant how much a charity spends on its play down versus overheads compared to what tries to program the charities implementing, he says. He advises individual donors to defer to experts on this topic where that might be GiveWell.

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