Charitable giving at young age

CountingDown
Mon, 24 Apr 2017 16:34:45 +0000

My older S does a lot of charitable giving and he likes this approach: http://www.givewell.org/effective-altruism
He is focused on charities that get the biggest bang for the buck in terms of lives saved, and GiveWell does a lot of the research to provide that info. He donates to other political and social causes as well, but the bulk of his charitable giving goes to GiveWell.

I also worry that he should be stockpiling for his own life, but he has been doing that as well. I’m pleasantly surprised at his seriousness about charitable giving; he lives simply, but I didn’t expect him to be as outwardly focused at this stage of his life. There seems to be a cultural awareness of privilege in his corner of the universe, and I’m glad that message has stuck.

S2 does charitable donations as well, also appropriate to income, but he has a much smaller paycheck. He does more volunteer service, which has always been one of his things.