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How we estimate the impact of donations and the cost to offset dietary choices
FarmKind has developed two main types of estimations to help guide donation decisions: the Impact Calculator and the Offset Calculator.
When it comes to doing the right thing or helping living beings in need, many people find something uncomfortable about involving math or calculations. But we live in a world of finite resources. Whenever we decide to use resources to help in one way, we're choosing not to help in another. Taking the importance of doing the right thing seriously means attempting to quantify these trade-offs so that we can make the best decisions and help as much as possible. This blog explains how we went about doing this to create our calculators.