Celebrities Who Have Established Effective Aid Efforts, and More: Tuesday’s Roundup
By Maria Di Mento
Senior Editor
April 20, 2010 | Read Time: 1 minute
- “The celebrity aid phenomenon is not going away any time soon, so one wonders … are there any celebrities doing it better than others?” writes William Easterly, a professor of economics at New York University, on his blog Aid Watch. Mr. Easterly suggests that Shakira, the singer from Colombia, could be a good candidate.
- Holden Karnofsky, co-founder of the nonprofit-evaluation group GiveWell, compares the value of independent reviews of charities to movie reviews.
- Writing on the Huffington Post Web site, Dennis Whittle, chief executive of GlobalGiving, defends the use of mass public input and online voting to direct money to charitable projects. Mr. Whittle’s group is a partner in the Pepsi Refresh Project, the most ambitious effort by a company to use crowdsourcing to give money away.
