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So You Aren't Financially Destroyed By Coronavirus And You Need To Figure Out How To Use That Stimulus Payment To Help People Who Are: A Thread
all these charities have high CharityNavigator financial effectiveness and transparency scores (except NDLON, which CN hasn't rated yet, but I wanted to include direct relief for immigrant workers). I leaned toward orgs with wide reach, targeting relief where they're most needed
keep in mind that spreading your money across many separate donations increases the percentage that goes to processing/admin fees. pick one or two and maximize your impact!
GiveDirectly gets cash straight to people in need, simply and effectively (100% in every category on CharityNavigator!): https://www.givedirectly.org/covid-19/
Direct Relief is a US and global org focusing their COVID efforts on delivering medical supplies, planning for increased ICU medication demand, and developing spread tracking tools: https://www.directrelief.org/emergency/coronavirus-outbreak/
The Immigrant Worker Safety Net Fund (run by the National Day Laborer Organizing Network) provides direct payments to immigrant workers who are in the most immediate need and are most excluded from government relief programs: https://ndlon.org/immigrant-worker-safety-net-fund/
Partners in Health is focused on testing, tracing, treatment, and supporting local public health response in the Navajo Nation and a variety of countries with weak health care systems: https://www.pih.org/article/pihs-emergency-coronavirus-response
The International Rescue Committee is using their existing refugee support network for global containment efforts including hand hygiene, community education, and medical supply distribution: https://www.rescue.org/topic/coronavirus-response
Feeding America has a coronavirus response fund to help food banks, school lunch programs, and other food assistance programs. (it's also great to donate to your local food bank, which the site has a tool to find, but donate money not food items!) https://www.feedingamerica.org/take-action/coronavirus
I can't find a national program directing homelessness relief as needed, probably bc it's needed everywhere, so donate locally or to the hardest-hit areas. you can filter by state and check effectiveness info in Charity Navigator's homelessness section: https://www.charitynavigator.org/index.cfm?bay=search.results&cgid=6&cuid=28&overallrtg=4
aiight I'm gonna go drop that $1200 and maybe some extra to ease my guilt about being mostly financially okay right now. keep an eye out for pre-checked "add me to your mailing list!" buttons, they're sneaky bastards
update: GiveDirectly (the first charity I recommended in this thread) is getting a big expansion connected to a whole bunch of celebrity names! their PR is billing it as a shiny new thing but it's being implemented through an established system that works https://twitter.com/DJJudd/status/1252625000911253508
