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Wise Giving Wednesday: Giving for Hurricane Matthew Relief

Hurricane Matthew was rated a Category 4 (which is defined as having winds from 133 to 155 miles per hour) as it struck Haiti and now moves on to other islands in the Caribbean and then threatens the Ea
Oct 05, 2016
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BBB Wise Giving Alliance Building Trust Video Series. Art Taylor interviews Lindsay Groff of the Barth Syndrome Foundation. Read our full report on the Barth Syndrome Foundation here, https://bit.ly/2I6zCTG. For information on the most trustworthy charities, go to https://give.org/.
Oct 03, 2016
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Wise Giving Wednesday: Philanthropic Risk and Trust

Would you parachute out of an airplane to raise money for charity? My guess is most of us would not. While the proposed action exceeds our risk comfort level, the question does get your attention becaus
Sep 28, 2016
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BBB Wise Giving Alliance Building Trust Video Series. Art Taylor Skypes with Ruth Hoffman of the American Childhood Cancer Organization. Read our full report on the American Childhood Cancer Organization here, https://bit.ly/2IqlZ17. For information on the most trustworthy charities, go to...
Sep 28, 2016
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Wise Giving Wednesday: The Librarian’s $4 Million Bequest

Last week, an article on InsideHigherEd.com got my attention. It told the tale of a frugal staff member at the University of New Hampshire library who passed away in 2015 and left a sizable bequest wort
Sep 22, 2016
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BBB Wise Giving Alliance Building Trust Series. Art Taylor Skypes with John Walter of the Alliance for Cancer Gene Therapy. Read our full report on the Alliance for Cancer Gene Therapy here, https://bit.ly/2U7D4Pi. For information on the most trustworthy charities, go to https://give.org/.
Sep 20, 2016

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AskGive.org is an interactive digital window into the research and thinking of Give.org.

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AskGive.org is designed to answer questions about philanthropy and charitable giving, especially when and how to trust charities when giving. It contains information from across Give.org, including podcasts, videos, blogs, and reports.

Try asking questions like these:
"How can I avoid getting defrauded with my donation?"
"How can I safely donate my car?"

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The chatbot is a project of Give.org, also known as the BBB Wise Giving Alliance, which is a standards-based charity evaluator that verifies the trustworthiness of publicly soliciting charities by completing rigorous evaluations based on BBB standards for charity accountability. The chatbot was also made in partnership with Handshake, a generative AI consultancy.

The purpose of the chatbot is to help you easily access and interact with the many reports, podcasts, blogs, videos, and other content created and hosted by Give.org about how to trust charities, and general advice on giving and philanthropy.

Users should understand that this is an early stage technology and there are going to be mistakes. We ask for your collaboration in helping us improve the chatbot by sharing your experience in the feedback slot.

Yes, Give.org stores all data from this chatbot permanently to understand how people are using this new technology, and how to improve the service.

No, the chatbot is not intended to make any direct suggestions about what charity to donate to. It's only meant to Give general information about charities, philanthropy, or giving based on the information that Give.org already publicly offers on its website.

No, the bot cannot answer questions quantitatively. For example, if you ask it something like, "How many charities in the Give.org database are there that have to do with animal rights?" it won't be able to answer this.

As the chatbot uses generative AI, it is possible for it to generate information on its own by accident. If you suspect that something is inaccurate or malformed, please use the "Report" feature on the chatbot and provide details on the issue. you should take a screenshot and report it to Jeremy at handshake.fyi.

No, the Give.org bot does not contain all of the information that can be found in the charity reports on Give.org. People are encouraged to also check out the Give.org charity reports directly after using the bot.

The Give.org chatbot is built on top of Anthropic's Claude 3 Sonnet model, along with custom tooling built by Handshake for Give.org.

No, Anthropic does not store any data permanently. They keep the data put into the bot for 28 days for debugging purposes and then delete it. It is never used to train any AI models.

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