Today I was talking with some undergraduates, and the topic of how to manage donations while in school came up. When you're taking on s...

Recently I was at a talk given by Rachel Glennerster of the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab  (JPAL).  In speaking about cost-effect...

Years ago, I got in the habit of making financial decisions by thinking of someone I thought of as the Other Woman. Not a romantic rival, j...

I'm always interested to see what people criticize about the effective altruism movement. One critique I noticed lately is that we'...

I kept delaying writing this post because I'm not entirely sure where I'm donating over the coming year. I tend to spread donations ...

In 1938, a British stockbroker named Nicholas Winton was about to go on skiing vacation in Switzerland when a friend asked him to come to P...

This week I talked to some students about what life is like for my husband and me as people who give away a lot of our income.  Some of them...