We aim to build support in Georgia's legal community for maximizing the positive human impact of every donated dollar. We hope to help lawyers and law firms thoughtfully direct their donations to charities that will accomplish the most with the money.
That's important because some charities hundreds of times more effective than others.
To use an example from Peter Singer's famous 2013 TED Talk on effective altruism, it costs about $40,000 to acquire a seeing-eye dog, train the dog, match the dog with a blind person in the United States, and train the person to work with the dog. Of course providing people with seeing-eye dogs is a good thing. But how else could $40,000 be donated? In many developing countries people are blinded by river blindness, a disease transmitted by blackflies. River blindness can be cured for a surprisingly low cost – about $50.
So do the math. With $40,000, you can either provide one blind person with a seeing-eye dog, or cure about eight hundred people of blindness.
Fortunately, choosing a good charity is not very hard.
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