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I'm still waiting for hard evidence that average charity spending has significant net positive impact.
Claims like "$1 saves 1 life in Mozambique" or so don't work at all, for if very cheap way of doing so actually existed, and there were no charities, people of Mozambique would spend such $1 on saving such 1 life. Now that charities pay for it, they spend it on booze instead - and this booze minus administrative costs is the net effect.
Be that as it may, there exist above-average charities which have a net positive impact. If we select among those charities (or choose a grantmaker likely to select above-average charities), ,we can have a net positive impact.