Sebastian Schwiecker

Our Giving Fund: “Fighting Poverty” supports four projects in Africa and India with a total of 5.3 million euros in donations from the second half of 2025.

Funding decisions from our Giving Fund: Mitigating Climate Change from H1/2025

Anyone who believes that climate policy can be implemented with no more than left-of-center majorities is misjudging political reality.

International development aid is currently being cut at a record pace. What is the background to this and what can you do?

This is how a lazy argument beginns. But why is it so weak? Here are five reasons.

Funding decisions from our Giving Fund: Mitigating Climate Change from H2/2024

Do you want your donation not only to be received, but to really make a difference? Then our 2024 donation recommendations are just the thing for you.

Follow these 8 donation tips and make sure that your donation not only arrives, but also makes a real difference.

Nothing, 1%, 4% or 10% of your own income or assets? As much as you would pay in church tax? What are the philosophers and religions saying and how much is the author himself donating?

There is no product comparison in which the administrative costs of the manufacturers are discussed. Why do so many people believe that this should be different for donations?

Donation labels only verify compliance with minimum standards, but say nothing about where you can make the most difference with your donation. We want to change that.

The market mechanisms of the free economy do not work in the donation market. It is therefore all the more important that aid organizations are professionally evaluated and compared with one another.

CO2- offsetting sounds good, but it is often used to finance ineffective projects. We explain how you can avoid 100 times more CO2- with every euro.

We are often asked why we do not recommend any large, well-known charities. Here we explain why.

Many charities promote child sponsorship. Is it serious or just misleading marketing? What is really behind it, and are there better ways to help?

Nothing influences donation behavior more than disasters in the media, but couldn't we help many more people if we turned our attention to disasters that are neglected by the media?

What are donation funds, how exactly do they work and why do we think they are the most effective form of donation?

2023 was our best year ever. We have never been able to collect more donations from more people for the aid organizations we recommend than in 2023.

Advanced AI poses an existential risk. What solutions are there and what can I do?

The US foundation Open Philanthropy is supporting the donation portal Effektiv Spenden with 2.18 million euros.

Inflation means that many people have to "tighten their belts". Does this mean that we should also cut back on donations?

Unfortunately, donation tips are often hard to beat in terms of banality. We show that things can be done differently and what really matters when donating.

Development aid supposedly does nothing or is even counterproductive. That is only partly true. It depends on the type of development aid.