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The Tim Ferriss Show
Tim Ferriss: Bestselling Author, Human Guinea Pig
4.6 • 17.4K Ratings
🗓️ 23 December 2022
⏱️ 184 minutes
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Brought to you by GiveWell.org charity research and effective giving, Athletic Greens all-in-one supplement, and Allform premium, modular furniture.
Technologist, serial entrepreneur, world-class investor, self-experimenter, and all-around wild and crazy guy Kevin Rose (@KevinRose) rejoins me for another episode of The Random Show.
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| 0:00.0 | This episode is brought to you by Give Well. Donating money to help other people is a wonderful act. |
| 0:05.7 | But how can you be confident? How can you know that your donations are actually improving or saving lives effectively? |
| 0:12.4 | It's hard to do. You could do weeks of research to find the charities that are out there, |
| 0:16.4 | what programs they run, what their administrative overhead is, |
| 0:20.0 | how effective those programs are, and on, and on. It would be a full-time job. It could take forever. |
| 0:25.1 | I know this from experience because I tried to do it that way. Manually, it is a ton of work. |
| 0:30.2 | Give Well spends more than 30,000 hours each year researching charitable organizations. |
| 0:36.2 | Then, they direct funding to a few of the highest impact evidence-backed opportunities they've found. |
| 0:43.0 | They do the work for you. More than 100,000 donors have used Give Well to donate more than |
| 0:48.4 | $1 billion, which includes $678,000 donated by you, my dear listeners. So it makes a difference. |
| 0:56.6 | Regress evidence indicates that these donations will save more than 150,000 lives and improve |
| 1:02.8 | the lives of millions more. That's why Give Well does what they do. And using Give Well's research |
| 1:09.1 | is free. Give Well wants as many donors as possible to make informed decisions about high-impact giving. |
| 1:15.9 | So they publish all of the research and recommendations on their site for free, no sign-up required. |
| 1:22.0 | They allocate your tax-deductible donation to the charity or fund you choose without taking a cut. |
| 1:28.4 | If you've ever donated to Give Well's recommended charities before, you can have your donation |
| 1:32.8 | matched up to $100 before the end of the year. That's 2022. So one more time. If you've never donated |
| 1:39.9 | to Give Well's recommended charities before, you can have your donation matched up to $100 |
| 1:44.9 | before the end of the year or as long as matching funds last. To claim your match, go to givewell.org. |
| 1:52.0 | Give giv.giv.wll.org and when you get to check out, pick podcast and enter Tim Ferris Show. |
| 2:00.3 | It's that simple. Make sure they know that you heard about Give Well on the Tim Ferris Show |
| 2:04.5 | to get your donation matched. One more time that's givewell.org and when you get to check out, |
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