If You're Curious About These Questions...
You should listen to this audiobook
- What if you could save more lives by working in a high-paying corporate job than by volunteering directly for a charity?
- Did you know that some charities are hundreds of times more effective than others, even when they’re tackling the exact same problem?
- Have you ever wondered why common metrics like 'low overhead costs' are actually a poor way to measure how much good a charity is doing?
Listen to Doing Good Better — Free Audiobook
Loading player...
Key Takeaways from Doing Good Better
- Discover how to maximize your charitable impact by calculating the expected value of your donation, ensuring your resources help the greatest number of people.
- Understand the law of diminishing returns to see why donating to neglected, underfunded causes like extreme poverty goes much further than giving to highly publicized disaster relief.
- Learn the scientific practice of assessing the counterfactual to evaluate what would have happened without your intervention, helping you avoid unintentionally doing more harm than good.
- Find out why unskilled volunteering in developing countries is often ineffective compared to empowering the local economy through targeted monetary donations.
- Explore the 'earning to give' principle, which reveals why pursuing a high-paying career to fund effective charities often makes a bigger difference than working directly for an NGO.
Doing Good Better — Full Chapter Overview
Chapter 1: Recommendation
Chapter 2: When donating to charity, give where you expect your overall impact to be truly greatest.
Chapter 3: Given the law of diminishing returns, avoid donating to causes already receiving plenty of funds.
Chapter 4: Making maximal impact means finding where you can make the greatest possible difference personally.
Chapter 5: Working for an NGO or “following your passion” might not be the best career choices.
Chapter 6: What a charity truly achieves matters far more than how much it spends on admin costs overall and salaries.
Chapter 7: Often, well-intended acts of charity can produce the opposite effect.
Doing Good Better Summary & Overview
Doing Good Better (2015) is a guide to making the largest positive impact possible through charitable donations. In examining many of the popular misconceptions about effective giving, this book gives you all the tools you need to truly make a difference.
Who Should Listen to Doing Good Better?
- Charity donors who would like to know how to give more effectively
- Potential donors confused about where to begin
- Anyone trying to figure out the career path that will make the biggest difference
Books Similar to Doing Good Better
Readers who enjoyed this also liked these titles.
Good Works!
★ 4.2 / 5 • 13 ratingsMarketing and Corporate Initiatives that Build a Better World...and the Bottom Line
Good Money Revolution
★ 4.4 / 5 • 332 ratingsHow to Make More Money to Do More Good
Give and Take
★ 4.4 / 5 • 399 ratingsA Revolutionary Approach to Success
Infectious Generosity
★ 4.0 / 5 • 26 ratingsThe Ultimate Idea Worth Spreading