The Happiness Lab 2024 charity fundraiser
Choose your personal favorite charity (any US-registered nonprofit), split your donation with GiveDirectly, and earn bonus matching funds on top — it's that easy!
Why GiveDirectly?
GiveDirectly lets you send cash directly to some of the world’s poorest people — no strings attached. Your donation delivers life-changing funds to families, empowering them to meet their needs and shape their futures.
Why Cash?
Your donations will help reach people like Twiringiyimana, a farmer in Southern Rwanda. He struggled to support his family on the $1 a day he earned working on others’ farms. His family had no other source of income, and often ate one meal per day.
"With the first part of the cash transfer, we bought essential household items we lacked and clothes for the whole family. With the second, we bought a piece of land for $500. On this land, we plan to start a tree tomato farm, which will help us generate income and save for the future.”
Last year, Happiness Lab listeners helped donate cash to all 193 families in Kibobo village. Here’s how they spent your donations:
500+ rigorous academic studies show just how effective cash can be across diverse outcomes like:
- 📈 Boosting local economies by 2.5X for every cash transfer
- 👶 Reducing mortality rates for mothers and babies by 46-70%
- 🍛 Improving families’ food security and nutrition (even more than a nutrition program)
- ⏰ Creating lasting financial gains, even 12 years later
Watch how families can use cash to improve their health:
The Happiness Lab
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We've added an additional $50,610.49 in matching funds.
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How it works
Search and select your favorite charity
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Divide your donation between the two
We'll add 9% to 90% in prepaid matching funds
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GiveDirectly lets you send money directly to the world's poorest, no strings attached. Hundreds of academic studies show cash transfers can boost income, health, education, and more. Since 2009, GiveDirectly has delivered over $1 billion to over 2 million people in poverty via mobile money. A ~$1,000 cash transfer doubles the annual income of a family in extreme poverty so they can invest in what they need most.