Donations tripled to GiveDirectly through 12/5 (crypto gifts only)

jared_m

Donations tripled to GiveDirectly through 12/5 (crypto gifts only)

jared_m

1 min readNov 29, 2021

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Neel Nanda

Haseeb Qureshi and FTX are both EA aligned donors. I'm fairly skeptical that this is a counterfactual donation match.

jared_m

Anecdotally, the match did lead a non-EA friend of mine to make a BTC gift she otherwise wouldn't have. So it could still lead to more 2021 giving to GD overall.

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