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Long reads on the small acts and big levers that actually move the needle. Filed by pillar so you can read by what you care about.
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The neglected tropical diseases
1.7 billion people are affected by neglected tropical diseases. Treatment costs as little as $0.50 per person per year. The funding gap is a scandal hiding in plain sight.
1 May 2026 · 7 min read
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The animal welfare gap
Animal welfare receives roughly 3% of charitable giving despite affecting orders of magnitude more sentient beings than any other cause area. The funding gap is staggering.
27 April 2026 · 7 min read
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The funding gap
Some problems attract far more money than their scale warrants. Others are chronically underfunded. The gap between funding and need is the most important map in giving.
25 April 2026 · 7 min read
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The aid architecture
Global aid spending is roughly $220 billion a year. Most people have no idea who pays, who receives, or why the system is shaped the way it is. Here's the map.
23 April 2026 · 7 min read
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The great decoupling
Dozens of rich countries now grow GDP while emissions fall. That's the good news. Here's why the decoupling is more fragile than the charts suggest, and what it takes for it to hold.
20 April 2026 · 6 min read
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The map, on one page
If you had one A4 sheet to answer 'where should my effort actually go,' this would be on it. A working map of where impact lives in 2026.
18 April 2026 · 5 min read
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Where the money actually goes
Americans gave half a trillion dollars to charity last year. Most of it didn't touch the most cost-effective work by a factor of a thousand.
17 April 2026 · 7 min read
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The Climate Adaptation Gap
We spend billions on cutting emissions in rich countries. The places already being hit spend almost nothing on adapting. The map of need and the map of money look nothing alike.
2 May 2025 · 7 min read