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| Nov 4, 2026 | GiveDirectly Sent Cash to Venezuela Earthquake Survivors Using USDC Stablecoins | Photo of a phone scanning an enrollment QR code
In La Guaira, 3,765 people got $340 each via Pago Móvil, starting 21 days after the June 24 quakes. Of each donated dollar, 86 cents reached them as cash.
My experience was amazing — it fell f... |
| Nov 4, 2026 | GiveDirectly Tests Whether Cash Transfers Can Drive Economic Growth in Malawi | Clare in Rwanda
In its largest program yet, GiveDirectly will enroll about 120,000 rural Malawi households by the end of 2026 for one-time cash worth about 85% of local GDP.
Working on GiveDirectly's learning agenda has convinced me th... |
| Nov 4, 2026 | GiveDirectly and Coinbase Paid 160 Young New Yorkers $12,000 Each in USDC | A still from the GiveDirectly and Coinbase video
In the six-month South Bronx and Harlem pilot, average savings rose from $320 to $1,488, but fewer recipients felt in control of their life decisions.
I wasn't into crypto before being s... |
| Oct 26, 2026 | GiveDirectly’s 'You Will Die' Halloween Campaign Pushes Tech Longevity Crowd to Create Wills | NEW YORK, NY, UNITED STATES, October 26, 2026 /EINPresswire.com/ -- Global cash transfer charity GiveDirectly pokes fun at Silicon Valley biohackers and the AI industry in a new campaign encouraging young tech and business execs to create w... |
| Oct 21, 2026 | Propel Is Sending $1 Million To SNAP Families Missing Benefits This Thanksgiving | Through the Thanksgiving SNAP Bridge Fund, Propel and GiveDirectly will distribute $100 to eligible users who missed their October deposit
Our goal is simple: to help every eligible family who wants SNAP to get and keep their benefits”
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| Jul 27, 2026 | Why Canva's billionaire founders are giving away $550 cash payment to every adult in Malawi | What happens when you hand a poor adult $550 and simply let them decide what to do with it? In Malawi, the answer has been surprising enough to convince two Australian billionaires to keep scaling the experiment.
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| Jul 1, 2026 | The AI utopia South Africa can’t afford | Ask the people building AI where it all leads and the answer is paradise. Sam Altman, OpenAI’s CEO, argues in his essay, Moore’s Law for Everything, that AI will drive the cost of goods and services towards zero, because labour is the large... |
| Jun 28, 2026 | GiveDirectly Mobilizes Emergency Cash Relief for Venezuela Earthquake Survivors | GiveDirectly raised $100,000 in 24 hours and is deploying a team to send cash directly to families hit hardest by Venezuela's June 24 earthquakes. NEW YORK CITY, NY, UNITED STATES, June 28, 2026 /EINPresswire.com/ -- GiveDirectly, one ... |
| Mar 6, 2026 | GiveDirectly Prepares Emergency Cash Relief for Families Affected by Middle East Conflict | Leading Direct Cash Nonprofit Is Currently Monitoring Three Regions for Rapid Cash Deployment as US-Israeli Strikes on Iran Displace Over 100,000 People NEW YORK, NY, UNITED STATES, March 6, 2026 /EINPresswire.com/ -- GiveDirectly, one of t... |
| Dec 24, 2025 | How a fast-moving $50 cash relief program buoyed needy families when SNAP payments were paused | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
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Finances already looked tight for Jade Grant and her three children as she entered the year’s final months.
“Everyone’s birthday is back-to-back,” the 32-year-old certified nursing... |
| Oct 31, 2025 | How hunger relief groups say you can help feed your neighbors if the shutdown pauses food aid | By JAMES POLLARD, Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP) — Your neighbors might soon need extra assistance putting food on the table.
That’s because on Nov. 1 the U.S. Department of Agriculture will begin freezing food aid payments used by about 1 ... |
| Oct 29, 2025 | Propel Commits $1 Million to Launch Emergency Fund to Support SNAP Households Impacted by Shutdown | In partnership with GiveDirectly, Propel will deliver emergency relief and calls on others to join the effort BROOKLYN, NY, UNITED STATES, October 29, 2025 /EINPresswire.com/ -- As millions of families face delays to November SNAP benefits ... |
| Oct 29, 2025 | How to help those impacted by Hurricane Melissa | By GABRIELA AOUN ANGUEIRA
Hurricane Melissa made landfall in Jamaica on Tuesday as a devastating Category 5 storm, tied for the strongest landfalling Atlantic hurricane in history. The deadly storm has also caused devastation in Cuba, Haiti... |
| Apr 8, 2025 | As a future of US foreign aid cuts comes into focus, so do efforts to respond | Meissner along with a small group of organizers eventually set up The Solidarity Fund with the Greater Washington Community Foundation, which will actually make grants directly to former workers. The grants will start at $650 and increase d... |
| Jan 24, 2025 | История о том, как мы разработали благотворительный web3 сервис для крупнейшей DeFi платформы Lido | Всем привет! Меня зовут Саша Аксёнов, я CEO питерской студии разработки Unistory. Мы разрабатываем SaaS решения с интеграциями web3 & AI технологий.
Сегодня я расскажу вам о нашем новом web3 проекте, который позволяет зарабатывать на бл... |
| Jan 16, 2025 | The Future of Crypto Wallets and Philanthropy: Innovations in Telegram and Ethereum Staking | In the ever-evolving landscape of cryptocurrency, two recent innovations stand out: the TMA Wallet for Telegram mini-apps and Lido Impact Staking (LIS). Both projects aim to enhance user experience and redefine traditional paradigms in thei... |
| Jan 15, 2025 | Ethereum Staking Meets Social Impact: Lido Impact Staking Officially Launches | London, United Kingdom, January 15th, 2025, Chainwire
Lido Impact Staking (LIS) officially launches on the 15th of January 2025, and introduces a new approach to sustainable funding for social impact, leveraging Ethereum staking rewards and... |
| Oct 28, 2024 | The Income To Support All Foundation Reaches $1.5 Million Fundraising Goal, Fully Funding Two Groundbreaking UBI Projects | The Income To Support All Foundation has surpassed its $1.5 million fundraising goal for 2024, securing the launch of two trailblazing Universal Basic Income projects in 2025: a docuseries titled Bootstraps and a community-driven basic inco... |
| Apr 9, 2024 | Here's where funding comes from for guaranteed basic-income programs giving money with no strings attached to low-income Americans | Economy Here's where funding comes from for guaranteed basic-income programs giving money with no strings attached to low-income Americans
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| Apr 4, 2024 | A new Houston-area basic income program sending out $500 a month to residents with no strings attached had an acceptance rate lower than Harvard or Yale | Economy A new Houston-area basic income program sending out $500 a month to residents with no strings attached had an acceptance rate lower than Harvard or Yale
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2024-04-04T13:29:32Z
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| Mar 16, 2023 | Women’s History Month - Trailblazing Women Who Are Disrupting Industries & Advocating For Change | Women Leaders Women History Month - Women Paving the Way |
| Aug 30, 2022 | US-based immigrant-focused fintech startup Taptap Send expands to Bangladesh, hiring activities show | Taptap Send, a US-based immigrant-focused fintech company that provides a no-fee international money transfer service for immigrants, has apparently been working to expand its services in Bangladesh. Online hiring activities of the company ... |
| Apr 14, 2022 | Owner of ‘Jack Dorsey’s first tweet’ NFT is struggling to sell it | The businessman who bought an NFT of Twitter founder Jack Dorsey’s first ever tweet says he doesn’t want to part with the digital asset, despite listing it for sale last week. |
| Mar 18, 2022 | Austin-based Strap Technologies Wins Best in Show at SXSW Innovation Awards | Austin-based Strap Technologies won Best in Show at the 2022 SXSW Innovation Awards. |
| Mar 16, 2022 | Togo: How AI Helped Deliver Cash Aid to Many of the Poorest People in Togo | The Research Brief is a short take about interesting academic work.
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| Mar 14, 2022 | Is booking Airbnbs really the best way to help Ukrainians? | Booking an Airbnb in the middle of a war zone is not the average person’s idea of a good vacation plan. But as the Russian war on Ukraine enters its third week, with more than 2 million Ukrainians having fled the country and nearly that man... |
| Jan 7, 2022 | Weekly links January 7: doing metaketas, Kenyan mobile loans, advice on applying for funding, continuous DiD, and more… | Email
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| Dec 20, 2021 | Taptap Send raises $65M to build cross-border remittances focused on the most underserved markets | Cross-border remittances — when people living and working abroad send money back home to friends and family — continues to be a huge part of how those living in developing countries, off the global financial grid, can be helped. The World B... |
| Nov 28, 2021 | The benefits of giving cash directly on Giving Tuesday | Sign up for our daily briefingMake your busy days simpler with Axios AM/PM. Catch up on what's new and why it matters in just 5 minutes.
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| Sep 16, 2021 | Canva billionaire Mel Perkins explains why the brand plans to make good on its promise to give its fortune away | Canva’s billionaire co-founders Melanie Perkins and Cliff Obrecht have acted on their oft-stated goal to give their fortune away after the privately-owned design startup’s valuation nearly trebled to $55 billion today..
The duo, who married... |
| Sep 8, 2021 | Loot Parody Projects Raise $1M for Charity | As the text-based non-fungible token (NFT) fad continues to attract trade volume that’s equally eye-popping and puzzling, a pair of NFT developers have taken aim at the trend with parody collections that have raised over $1,000,000 for char... |
| Jul 11, 2021 | Longmont Community Foundation works with HOPE to provide direct funding assistance in new program | With great power, comes great responsibility — a shared sentiment Longmont Community Foundation and its partner Homeless Outreach Providing Encouragement, or HOPE, are testing with a new direct funding assistance program the nonprofit group... |
| Jun 24, 2021 | Taptap Send gets $13.4M for a no-fee money transfer service aimed at price-conscious emerging market users | Remittances — specifically when people in developed countries send money to family or friends in emerging markets — continue to be a huge lever to help those in more challenging economies survive and improve their lot. Today, a startup that... |
| May 14, 2021 | Crypto-Philanthropy Is Here. What Will It Do? | New ways of making money have often generated new approaches to giving it away. With cryptocurrencies now worth more than all the U.S. dollars in circulation, holders face a crucial question: what kind of donors do they want to be?
The rise... |
| Mar 22, 2021 | Jack Dorsey's First Tweet Sells for $2.9M | Bidding has closed on the auction for the first tweet ever sent by CEO Jack Dorsey, with a winning bid of over $2.9 million.
The auction for the so-called genesis tweet by the Twitter co-founder in March 2006 closed Monday.
The winning bidd... |
| Mar 19, 2021 | Cash payments aren't always the best way to help those in poverty — an economics professor explains why | Cash is a popular solution, but it doesn't necessarily improve the wellbeing of those in poverty. Angela Weiss/AFP via Getty Images
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| Mar 10, 2021 | Twitter CEO says he'll convert what he earns from auctioning off the first-ever tweet into bitcoin and donate the proceeds to charity | Twitter's first-ever Tweet is up for auction by the platform's CEO Jack Dorsey.
Dorsey will donate the proceeds for the NFT to the charity Giving Directly.
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| Mar 9, 2021 | Twitter CEO Will Donate Proceeds From the Genesis Tweet to GiveDirectly | Jack Dorsey, CEO and co-founder of Twitter, announced Tuesday that bidding on the first tweet ever sent will end on March 21, and that he will accept the winning bid, donating the proceeds to charity.
On Friday night, Dorsey flagged the lis... |
| Mar 9, 2021 | Twitter CEO says he’ll convert what he earns from auctioning off the first-ever tweet into bitcoin and donate the proceeds to charity | Twitter’s first-ever Tweet is up for auction by the platform’s CEO Jack Dorsey.
Dorsey will donate the proceeds for the NFT to the charity Giving Directly.
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| Dec 30, 2020 | 6 Trends In Social Enterprise And Impact Investing In 2020 | Barry Givens of Cox Enterprises Social Impact Accelerator powered by TechstarsCox Enterprises |
| Dec 30, 2020 | If You Have One Hour To Spend On Finances Before 2020 Ends, Tackle One Of These Quick Projects | getty |
| Oct 24, 2020 | How Propel And Vote.org Helped Register 60,000 SNAP Beneficiaries To Vote | Low-income people turn out to vote at a rate about 20 percentage points less than higher-income voters, according to a report from the Poor People’s Campaign. That’s for a variety of reasons, from lack of the requisite IDs to transportation... |
| May 6, 2020 | Enough with aid agencies. Let’s give people cash. | This is the web version of The Ledger, Fortune’s weekly newsletter covering financial technology and cryptocurrency. Sign up here to get it free in your inbox.
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| Apr 18, 2020 | Why This Global Crisis Is a Defining Moment for Stablecoins | Marek Olszewski is cofounder of cLabs, working on Celo, a mobile-first permissionless platform that makes financial tools accessible to anyone with a mobile phone.
Stablecoins emerged in 2018 with exciting promises of being used across the ... |
| Apr 17, 2020 | Funding Friday: NYC Covid Fund | We continue to be concerned about the most vulnerable among us and that is where we want to focus our giving right now.
To that end, Give Directly has a NYC Covid Fund that will give funds directly to people. Specifically:
GiveDirectly is d... |
| Mar 21, 2020 | Helping Out During The Coronavirus Crisis: Where, What & How To Donate | Getty |
| Dec 24, 2019 | A Tech Christmas Carol: The End of It | Our future as a species will be determined by five transformative forcesGraphic by Des Cesarini |
| Mar 31, 2018 | Top Bitcoin, Blockchain, And Cryptocurrency News Of March 2018 | PARIS, FRANCE - FEBRUARY 16: In this photo illustration, a visual representation of digital... [+] cryptocurrencies, Bitcoin, Ripple, Ethernum, Dash, Monero and Litecoin is displayed on February 16, 2018 in Paris, France. Digital cryptocurr... |
| Mar 27, 2018 | Refugee charity turns to crypto with $1M donation from Ethereum’s founder and OmiseGo | The crypto industry is often criticized from the outline for creating wealth that exists only in digital form, is unstable and driven by greed. That’s why a new charity initiative from top figures inside the Ethereum community might make a ... |
| Jan 15, 2018 | Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has left VC firm Fenbushi Capital | Vitalik Buterin, the high-profile co-founder of Ethereum, has quietly left China-based investment firm Fenbushi Capital, TechCrunch understands.
Fenbushi was founded in 2015 and its $50 million fund was one of the first to actively put capi... |
| Dec 28, 2017 | The world's largest basic income experiment just received a $5 million donation in bitcoin | Chris Weller/Business Insider
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The Pineapple Fund, a bitcoin charity project, has announced a $5 million donation in bitcoin to GiveDirectly.
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| Nov 14, 2017 | The largest basic income experiment in history just launched in Kenya | Frontierofficial/Flickr
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GiveDirectly, a charity focused on direct cash transfers, has launched its 12-year experiment on basic income.
The charity will test whether giving people money, no strings attached, will help people an... |
| Apr 30, 2017 | Reasons to be cheerful | I know, I know, it’s been a rough year. Fury, discord, and hatred seem to be on the rise. The super-elite keep getting richer, while young workers keep getting poorer, and economic mobility has plummeted. “The best lack all conviction, whil... |
| Dec 28, 2016 | Why a ‘no fear’ approach to AI works best | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
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| Nov 15, 2016 | Mike Davis Founder of Purposeful | Website LinkedIn Facebook Twitter Instagram
Mike is the Founding Director of Purposeful, a social impact advisory that empowers businesses to form stronger community connections and embark on social impact programs, strategies and initiativ... |
| Dec 9, 2015 | Стартапы в Африке — специфика рынка, проблемы и потребности пользователей | Роман Чигирев, PR-менеджер компании-разработчика «Студия Михаила Кечинова», написал для vc.ru обзор особенностей «черного континента», которые нужно знать, прежде чем создавать технологический стартап для африканских стран.
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| Oct 1, 2015 | With Reid Hoffman’s Backing, Development Economists Build Segovia, A Startup That Tackles Poverty | Six years ago, Paul Niehaus and Michael Faye were two Harvard-trained development economists who began a small, private experiment in East Africa.
Instead of donating food, bedding or medical care or offering high-interest micro-finance loa... |
| Dec 5, 2012 | Startup News: SoundCloud Goes Social and HowAboutWe Tries to Get Your Mom Laid | Soundcloud CEO Mr. Ljung (Photo: Twitter.com)
SoundCloud Busts Out Of Beta At this point, SoundCloud is basically the audio version of YouTube. A private-beta version of the site launched earlier this year called Next and the newest version... |
| Dec 4, 2012 | Google gives $23M to seven nonprofit innovators with ‘Global Impact Awards’ | Google is no stranger to giving through its philanthropic arm Google.org — but that’s not stopping the company from doing more.
Google today announced the “Global Impact Awards” to provide funding to nonprofits who are using technology and ... |
| Dec 4, 2012 | Google gives $23M to seven nonprofit innovators with ‘Global Impact Awards’ | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
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| 2013 TEC Fellows: Then and Now | While it’s always exciting when True Entrepreneur Corps alumni/ae find jobs here in the Bay Area, it’s equally as exciting when we see them flourishing at companies abroad or in cities with emerging tech scenes. Here, we check in with the T... |
| Основатель eBay вложил около $500 тысяч в крупнейший эксперимент по внедрению базового дохода | Безусловный базовый доход – это метод борьбы с бедностью и технологической безработицей, при котором люди регулярно получают фиксированные суммы денег «просто так», чтобы компенсировать основные расходы вроде аренды жилья, покупок еды и оде... |
