Peter Singer

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Australian Finance Podcast · Making effective donations to charity with Peter Singer · 8 Nov 2020 podcast

Yeah, I think that's quite often the case.

Those organisations have been very popular with families for that kind of reason.

Well, it is an inefficient use of funds in the sense that they all need their separate administrative structure.

And also, it's sometimes a problem for the governments of low-income countries because they may be facing a lot of applications to do projects in those countries and they're spending time doing that.

when really a smaller number of larger projects would do just as well.

On the other hand, the fact that people can start their own organization has led, I think, to some very successful, lean and efficient organizations.

And I've already mentioned the Against Malaria Foundation, which is just one of those organizations.

It was started by somebody who saw a need for something that wasn't being done at the time elsewhere.

And

ran it out of his home office and just had a couple of other people working and then made contacts with people in the countries where malaria is prevalent and is killing people.

And so I built that up.

So, you know, somebody could have said, well, you know, why did he do that?

Oxfam was already in existence.

Why didn't he just go and work for Oxfam?

But as anybody in the business field would know, sometimes there's a need for a new startup that does something that the older firms haven't seen and they can be

faster and respond more quickly and have new ideas.

So I'm not in favor of in any way sort of forcibly restricting the entry of new organizations.

But I do wish people would really look around and make sure that they have got something special to offer in starting a new organization that isn't being done and that they can do it better than the existing organizations.

Because otherwise it does become, in a sense, a sort of a, I don't know, personal

an extension of your own ego to say, yes, I've got my own charity.

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