Why Giving is a Great Daily Habit

Pushkin. This is an iHeart Podcast. Guaranteed human. Happiness Lab listeners, welcome to an episode brought to you by the 2024 Subaru Share the Love event. And now I'm pretty excited because today is one of my favorite holidays, Giving Tuesday.

Giving Tuesday is the one day of the year that focuses on giving back. Whether that's gifting money to your favorite charity, checking in on a friend, or doing a random act of kindness for a stranger. Study after study shows that engaging in actions like these can have a big impact on our happiness. And that's the reason we tend to make a big deal out of Giving Tuesday here at the Happiness Lab. If you're a fan of the show, you'll remember that each Giving Tuesday, we offer listeners an opportunity to help folks in need.

In years past, we've partnered with groups like givingmultiplier.org, a site that allows you to donate not only to your favorite cause. but also to a set of super effective charities recommended by experts, where every one of your dollars will do the most good. Last year, we focused our efforts on just one of these super effective charities, Give Directly. Give Directly strives to end global poverty through a rather creative strategy. They find a community in need and give every single member of that community some much needed cash. No strings attached. What we do is we send about a thousand dollars to each of the households in those villages.

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