{"id":14278,"date":"2016-07-03T09:00:59","date_gmt":"2016-07-03T13:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=14278"},"modified":"2016-07-03T03:07:38","modified_gmt":"2016-07-03T07:07:38","slug":"uk-skydivers-cost-the-government-13-for-every-1-they-raise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2016\/uk-skydivers-cost-the-government-13-for-every-1-they-raise\/","title":{"rendered":"UK Skydivers Cost The Government \u00a313 For Every \u00a31 They Raised For Charity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/070316_0701_UKSkydivers1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"642\" height=\"401\" \/><\/p>\n<p>William MacAskill had a fascinating article about unintended consequences:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Sponsoring first-time skydivers is a popular way to raise funds for charity. One study of 1,500 such events over a five-year period found that all in all they raised \u00a3120,000.<\/li>\n<li>However, since some of the funds are used to pay for the event ultimately only \u00a345,000 was sent directly to charities.<\/li>\n<li>And since these were first-time skydivers with limited training there were 103 injuries which, on average, required nine days of hospitalization.<\/li>\n<li>This cost a total of \u00a3610,000 in medical expenses \u2013 which was paid for by the government through its funding of the NHS.<\/li>\n<li>All in all, for every \u00a31 raised, the government had to kick in \u00a313 to deal with the fallout from the charity effort.<\/li>\n<li>Bringing the story full circle: often times the sky-diving events aimed to raise money for health-related charities.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The full article has more information about the the study and contains a wider analysis of our blind-spots when supporting charities. Find it <a href=\"http:\/\/time.com\/3967567\/skydiving-for-charity\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/time.com\/3967567\/skydiving-for-charity\/\">Time<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Via: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/todayilearned\/comments\/4q8qho\/til_for_every_1_that_british_skydivers_raise_for\/\">Reddit<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>William MacAskill had a fascinating article about unintended consequences: Sponsoring first-time skydivers is a popular way to raise funds for charity. One study of 1,500 such events over a five-year period found that all in all they raised \u00a3120,000. However, since some of the funds are used to pay for the event ultimately only \u00a345,000 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14277,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/070316_0701_UKSkydivers1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14278"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14283,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14278\/revisions\/14283"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}