2024 Charities Overview
Video overview - 2024 recommended charities
This video gives a high level overview of our 2024 recommended charities, and a walkthrough of our new groundbreaking research reports.
The charities cover these cause areas:
Nutrition – Treating acute malnutrition in children (Taimaka)
Parenting – Improving child development by enriching parenting practices (Reach Up)
Crime – Using psychotherapy and cash transfers to reduce crime in Liberia (NEPI)
Lead poisoning – Preventing lead exposure in Ghana (Pure Earth)
Psychotherapy – An updated analysis of the impact of treating depression in low income countries (StrongMinds and Friendship Bench)
Video timestamps
0:00 Introduction1:55 How do we make the biggest difference with what we have to give?2:15 The challenge – how to choose between so many things?3:48 The method – our approach to this challenge5:35 A new idea?6:47 What are we doing about this?8:55 How do we evaluate causes and charities? Our charity evaluation process10:09 What have we found? Our first evaluation – cash transfers via Give Directly12:05 Deworming charities13:17 Antimalarial bednets via Against Malaria Foundation15:01 What about treating depression? StrongMinds and Friendship Bench19:05 Our search for (even) better charities and interventions in 202420:05 Psychotherapy 2024 updates24:55 New promising charities25:15 Pure Earth – promising charity 1, working to eliminate lead poisoning30:05 Taimaka – promising charity 2, working to address child malnutrition33:51 icddr,b – promising charity 3, working to support parents with the Reach Up programme36:15 NEPI – promising charity 4, working to reduce reoffending in Liberia through CBT and cash transfers39:45 Not currently recommended charity – Fortify Health, working to combat anaemia through iron fortification in flour40:17 Recommendation overview of charities reviewed by HLI in 202441:15 What you can do
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