GiveDirectly, Inc

GiveDirectly’s aims to reshape the social sector by establishing cash as a benchmark with the ultimate aim of ending poverty.

Our strategy to end poverty is to deliver as much money as possible into the hands of the world’s neediest. We locate extremely poor villages using poverty data from national surveys, enroll recipients, and send transfers using electronic payments services. Through randomized control trials, we are able to research the effect of cash transfers on the lives of people who are extremely poor, thereby driving awareness of the efficiency of cash to influence sector change.

GiveDirectly is the first non-profit organization in the world devoted entirely to delivering cash transfers to help eradicate global poverty. GiveDirectly has consistently been recognised as a high-performing organisation, receiving a top recommendation from nonprofit evaluator GiveWell for six years running, as well as the inaugural Google Global Impact Award. We have an extensive network of partners, including bilateral donors (DFID and USAID), multilateral agencies (UNHCR and WFP) and major private philanthropic investors (Google, Omidyar, Good Ventures, IKEA Foundation, Conrad Hilton).

Over the past seven years, GiveDirectly has delivered more than $150 million in unconditional cash transfers to approximately 120,000 households living in extreme poverty in rural Africa. Each year, we aim to give more money directly to people living in extreme poverty and drive awareness in the sector as to the efficiency of cash transfers as a form of giving.