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Last updated: May 6, 2013

• Broad Market Efficiency (05/02/2013)
• Ways to follow GiveWell (05/01/2013)
• GiveWell Labs update (04/24/2013)
• Challenges of Passive Funding (04/18/2013)
• Is the world getting better? (04/16/2013)
• GiveWell’s history of philanthropy/philanthropy journalism project (04/09/2013)
• Deep value judgments and worldview characteristics (04/04/2012)
• Why We Recommend So Few Charities (03/29/2013)
• Trying (and failing) to find more funding gaps for delivering proven cost-effective interventions (03/21/2013)
• Update on GiveWell’s Plans for 2013 (03/14/2013)
• GiveWell annual review for 2012: details on GiveWell’s money moved and web traffic (03/12/2013)
• Why I didn’t give to the Schistosomiasis Control Initiative last year (03/07/2013)
• External evaluation of our research (03/01/2013)
• GiveWell’s plan for 2013: a top-level decision (02/21/2013)
• GiveWell is hiring (02/20/2013)
• Self-evaluation: GiveWell as a project (02/15/2013)
• Self-evaluation: GiveWell as a donor resource (02/12/2013)
• GiveWell’s progress in 2012 (02/08/2013)
• Guest post from David Barry about deworming cost-effectiveness (01/23/2013)
• In memory of Aaron Swartz (01/16/2013)
• Cash transfers vs. microloans (01/04/2013)
• The Case for Cash (12/26/2012)
• More on the ranking of our top charities (12/20/2012)
• Cost-effectiveness of nets vs. deworming vs. cash transfers (12/19/2012)
• Evidence of Impact for Long-Term Benefits (12/14/2012)
• Revisiting the case for developmental effects of deworming (12/05/2012)
• Conference call discussing our top charities, Thu. Dec 6th, 7pm Eastern (12/04/2012)
• Our Top Charities for the 2012 Giving Season (11/26/2012)
• 7 Tips for Giving Efficiently (11/23/2012)
• GiveWell’s annual charity recommendations refresh (11/15/2012)
• Insecticide Resistance and Malaria Control (11/09/2012)
• Giving to GiveWell’s Recommended Charities Helps GiveWell (11/03/2012)
• Evaluating people (10/25/2012)
• Revisiting the case for insecticide-treated nets (ITNs) (10/18/2012)
• Sharing notes from conversations: case study in pursuing transparency in philanthropy (10/11/2012)
• Update on GiveWell’s web traffic / money moved: Q3 2012 (10/04/2012)
• US Cochrane Center (USCC) gets our first “quick grant” recommendation (09/27/2012)
• Recent Board Meeting on GiveWell’s Evolution (09/21/2012)
• Updated Thoughts on Our Key Criteria (09/13/2012)
• Surveying the Research on a Topic (09/06/2012)
• How We Evaluate A Study (08/23/2012)
• Our Principles for Assessing Evidence (08/17/2012)
• Quick update: new way to follow GiveWell’s research progress (08/16/2012)
• Revisiting the 2011 Japan disaster relief effort (08/10/2012)
• Recent Conversation with Bill Easterly (08/02/2012)
• GiveWell’s issues log: VillageReach analysis (08/01/2012)
• Rethinking VillageReach’s pilot project (07/26/2012)
• Some History Behind Our Shifting Approach to Research (07/20/2012)
• New Cochrane Review of the Effectiveness of Deworming (07/13/2012)
• Update on GiveWell’s web traffic / money moved: Q2 2012 (07/05/2012)
• GiveWell and Good Ventures (06/28/2012)
• Objections and concerns about our new direction (06/22/2012)
• Meta-research (06/11/2012)
• Giving cash versus giving bednets (05/30/2012)
• Update on Against Malaria Foundation’s costs (05/23/2012)
• Millennium Villages Project (05/08/2012)
• GiveWell Labs Update and Priority Causes (05/09/2012)
• What Large-Scale Philanthropy Focuses On Today (05/08/2012)
• Strategic Cause Selection (05/02/2012)
• Microfinance and cookstoves (04/26/2012)
• Update on the Schistosomiasis Control Initiative: our current #2-ranked charity (04/19/2012)
• How Not To Be a “White in Shining Armor” (04/12/2012)
• Update on GiveWell’s web traffic / money moved: Q1 2012 (04/03/2012)
• VillageReach update (03/26/2012)
• Guest post from John Beale at VillageReach (03/26/2012)
• Update on the Against Malaria Foundation: our current #1-ranked charity (03/23/2012)
• KIPP Houston update (03/14/2012)
• The Worst Killer of Invisible Children is Not Joseph Kony (03/08/2012)
• More errors in widely-cited figures: the case of mothers2mothers (03/07/2012)
• Philanthropy’s success stories (03/01/2012)
• Update: Against Malaria Foundation’s costs (02/22/2012)
• GiveWell’s plan for 2012: specifics of research (02/22/2012)
• GiveWell’s plan for 2012: top-level priorities (02/21/2012)
• Conference call to discuss GiveWell’s annual review and plan (02/17/2012)
• Self-evaluation: GiveWell as a project (02/16/2012)
• Review of Due Diligence, by David Roodman (02/15/2012)
• Self-evaluation: GiveWell as a donor resource (02/14/2012)
• GiveWell annual review: details on GiveWell’s money moved and web traffic (02/09/2012)
• GiveWell’s progress in 2011 (02/07/2012)
• Accountability in philanthropy (02/03/2012)
• What I learned in my first 6 months at GiveWell (01/27/2012)
• Evaluation of American Red Cross Haiti response (01/27/2012)
• Trading off upside vs. track record (01/19/2012)
• How Tax Deductions and Processing Fees Make it Harder to Give Well (01/13/2012)
• Update on GiveWell’s money moved and web traffic in 2011 (01/05/2012)
• Last-minute donations (12/30/2011)
• Mega-charities (12/28/2011)
• The Risks of Giving (12/26/2011)
• Guest post from Cari Tuna (12/23/2011)
• Please Don’t Give Me a Goat for the Holidays (12/23/2011)
• My Favorite Cause for Individual Donors: Global Health and Nutrition (12/22/2011)
• Dissenting opinions on our top charities (12/21/2011)
• Give Now or Give Later? (12/20/2011)
• 6 tips for giving like a pro (12/19/2011)
• Leverage in charity (12/15/2011)
• Why You Shouldn’t Let “Donation Matching” Affect Your Giving (12/15/2011)
• Deciding between two outstanding charities (12/08/2011)
• Conference call discussing our top charities, Dec. 8, 7p Eastern (12/02/2011)
• Top charities for holiday season 2011: Against Malaria Foundation and Schistosomiasis Control Initiative (11/29/2011)
• New charity recommendations forthcoming by December 1; blog posts on hold until then (11/18/2011)
• Maximizing Cost-effectiveness via Critical Inquiry (11/10/2011)
• Some Considerations Against More Investment in Cost-Effectiveness Estimates (11/04/2011)
• GiveWell is aiming to have a new #1 charity by December (10/26/2011)
• What it takes o evaluate impact (10/18/2011)
• GiveWell Labs: Our Criteria for Giving Opportunities (10/11/2011)
• Update on GiveWell’s web traffic / money moved: Q3 2011 (10/05/2011)
• Errors in DCP2 cost-effectiveness estimate for deworming (09/29/2011)
• GiveWell Labs: Plans for Our Process and Transparency (09/20/2011)
• Why GiveWell Labs? (09/12/2011)
• Announcing GiveWell Labs (09/08/2011)
• Somalia famine: update (08/30/2011)
• Working for GiveWell (08/25/2011)
• Why We Can’t Take Expected Value Estimates Literally (Even When They’re Unbiased) (08/18/2011)
• Donating to the Somalia famine: a brief update (08/12/2011)
• Guest post from Vipul Naik (08/05/2011)
• Somalia / East Africa famine relief donations (07/25/2011)
• A charity to watch: GiveDirectly (07/21/2011)
• A good volunteer is hard to find (07/13/2011)
• KIPP Houston has a 1.4 million dollar shortfall. How did this happen? (07/07/2011)
• Update on GiveWell’s web traffic / money moved: Q2 2011 (07/01/2011)
• How much time do charities spend participating in GiveWell’s process? (07/01/2011)
• Guest Post from Eric Friedman (06/21/2011)
• GAVI appears to be out of room for more funding (good news) (06/14/2011)
• Why we should expect good giving to be hard (06/11/2011)
• Profile of a GiveWell Customer (06/02/2011)
• In Defense of the Streetlight Effect (05/27/2011)
• Suggestions for the Social Sciences (05/19/2011)
• Microlending debate: an example of why academic research should be used with caution (05/13/2011)
• Evaluating local charities in India (05/04/2011)
• Elie's general notes from living in India (05/02/2011)
• Natalie's general notes from living in India (05/02/2011)
• Internal debate on the goals of giving to charity (04/29/2011)
• Holden's General Notes From Living In India (04/29/2011)
• More Than Good Intentions by Dean Karlan and Jacob Appel: Our Review (04/28/2011)
• Three Cups of Tea scandal: why we had the right bottom line on the Central Asia Institute (04/25/2011)
• PSI rating change (04/22/2011)
• Japan update 4/13/11 (04/13/2011)
• The Gates Foundation's grant for Japan relief: our questions and its response (04/06/2011)
• Assorted links 4/5/11 (04/05/2011)
• Will the rebuilding effort in Japan be about the survivors or about the nonprofits? (04/04/2011)
• Update on GiveWell's web traffic / money moved: Q1 2011 (04/01/2011)
• Update on how to help Japan: March 24 (03/25/2011)
• Update on how to help Japan: no room for more funding. We recommend giving to Doctors Without Borders to promote better disaster relief in general. (03/15/2011)
• Japan earthquake/tsunami relief donations (03/11/2011)
• Your Dollars at Work: Update on Top-Rated Charity VillageReach (03/10/2011)
• Evaluating GiveWell by finding the best charity (03/04/2011)
• GiveWell's plan for 2011: specifics of research (02/21/2011)
• GiveWell's plan for 2011: top-level priorities (02/14/2011)
• Self-evaluation: GiveWell as a donor resource (02/09/2011)
• Self-evaluation: GiveWell as a project (02/09/2011)
• Stats on GiveWell's money moved and web traffic (02/08/2011)
• GiveWell's annual self-evaluation and plan: a big picture change in priorities (02/04/2011)
• Global Fund: Best failure disclosure we've seen yet? (01/27/2011)
• Free legal services - helpful or harmful? (01/20/2011)
• Disaster relief report published; Doctors Without Borders, Partners In Health, and Direct Relief International stand out (01/12/2011)
• What is the situation in Haiti a year after the earthquake? What have and haven't charities accomplished so far? (01/11/2011)
• How much money has been given and spent for Haiti earthquake relief? Putting the numbers in perspective (01/10/2011)
• Assessing disaster relief organizations (01/07/2011)
• Animal welfare charities (12/27/2010)
• Guest post from Jason Fehr (12/23/2010)
• The Best Charity That No One Has Heard Of: Response Roundup (12/20/2010)
• Giving season update (12/16/2010)
• The Best Charity that No One Has Heard Of: How Would You Tell Its Story? (12/06/2010)
• Joint release on finding the best charities, not just avoiding the worst (12/01/2010)
• New content: new research report, new ratings system, DIY Guide, and self-evaluation (11/24/2010)
• After "Extraordinary and Unorthodox" comes the Valley of Death (11/17/2010)
• Health system strengthening + sustainability + accountability (11/10/2010)
• Microfinance: the multi-billion-dollar aid sector that we're just starting to learn about (11/05/2010)
• The process of giving: A personal story (guest post from Ian Turner) (10/28/2010)
• Engineers Without Borders earns "Notable" distinction (10/21/2010)
• LAPO: case study on due diligence by microfinance funders (10/13/2010)
• More on charity ratings and GiveWell's mission (10/06/2010)
• Why Charity Ratings Don't Work (as of now) (09/28/2010)
• Thoughts from Dharavi tour (09/21/2010)
• Nurse-Family Partnership and room for more funding (09/14/2010)
• Should I give out cash in Mumbai? (09/08/2010)
• New research and recommendations for microfinance (09/03/2010)
• Responses to blog comments (08/27/2010)
• Our advice re: donations for Pakistan flood (08/25/2010)
• High-quality study of Head Start early childhood care program (08/21/2010)
• Needed from major funders: more great organizations (08/13/2010)
• Philanthropy vouchers (08/05/2010)
• Invest in Kids (07/29/2010)
• The Money for Good study (07/20/2010)
• Alliance for Effective Social Investing survey (07/14/2010)
• Slow spending (07/14/2010)
• Unitus and room for more funding (07/12/2010)
• Against Promise Neighborhoods (07/07/2010)
• Unitus (07/02/2010)
• Aid is not the only thing that reduces poverty (06/30/2010)
• GiveWell will be moving to Mumbai (India) for 3 months (06/29/2010)
• Singularity Summit (06/29/2010)
• Microfinance's "failure" to reach the poorest (06/24/2010)
• New evidence that cleaner water -> less diarrhea (06/15/2010)
• Neglected Tropical Disease charities: Schistosomiasis Control Initiative, Deworm The World (06/09/2010)
• My Donation for 2009 (guest post from Dario Amodei) (06/03/2010)
• Are great charities made or born? (06/02/2010)
• Thoughts on "Moonshine or the kids?" (05/26/2010)
• Please take 3 minutes to help us set priorities (05/25/2010)
• How the American Cancer Society and Susan G. Komen for the Cure spend their money (05/18/2010)
• Futility of standardized metrics: an example (05/12/2010)
• Kiva suspends partnership with large, criticized partner LAPO (05/06/2010)
• Economic empowerment grant: mistakes, lessons learned, and steps taken (05/05/2010)
• Who needs in-kind donations more: the recipients or the givers? (04/30/2010)
• If you're worried about high interest rates, you should be worried about any microfinance institution (04/22/2010)
• Charity reviews vs. movie reviews (04/20/2010)
• Room for more funding and fungibility: from the horse's mouth (04/20/2010)
• No interest rate is too high (04/16/2010)
• http://www.givewell.org/about/shortcomings#Mistakes (04/14/2010)
• Should charity evaluation be "fair"? (04/09/2010)
• Microfinance interest rates (04/02/2010)
• TakeAction @ GuideStar (03/29/2010)
• Think Before You Give: a new podcast with Elie Hassenfeld and Saundra Schimmelpfennig (03/29/2010)
• A good response re: diversion of skilled labor (03/27/2010)
• A proposal for donors interested in causes/charities we haven't covered (03/23/2010)
• Cost-effectiveness estimates: inside the sausage factory (03/19/2010)
• Thoughts from my visits to Small Enterprise Foundation (South Africa) and VillageReach (Mozambique), Part III (03/12/2010)
• Thoughts from my visits to Small Enterprise Foundation (South Africa) and VillageReach (Mozambique), Part II (03/10/2010)
• Thoughts from my visits to Small Enterprise Foundation (South Africa) and VillageReach (Mozambique), Part I (03/09/2010)
• Nothing wrong with selfish giving - just don't call it philanthropy (03/08/2010)
• Pictures/audio/notes from my visits to Small Enterprise Foundation (South Africa) and VillageReach (Mozambique) (03/05/2010)
• Blog design (03/04/2010)
• The simplest way to improve your GiveWell rating: disclose a failure (02/26/2010)
• GiveWell's annual self-evaluation and plan: summary (02/19/2010)
• GiveWell's plan: specifics of research (02/18/2010)
• GiveWell's plan: top-level priorities (02/16/2010)
• Self-evaluation: GiveWell as a project (02/11/2010)
• Self-evaluation: GiveWell as a donor resource (02/09/2010)
• Haiti "room for more funding" at the organization level: not enough information (02/05/2010)
• Economic empowerment grants awarded (02/05/2010)
• Website traffic: GiveWell, Charity Navigator, GuideStar (02/03/2010)
• Does Haiti earthquake relief have room for more funding? (02/01/2010)
• Haiti earthquake relief seems less cost-effective than everyday international aid (01/29/2010)
• Can choosing the right charity double your impact? (01/28/2010)
• More on the microfinance "repayment rate" (01/22/2010)
• Haiti earthquake donations (01/13/2010)
• GiveWell's self-evaluation and plan (01/07/2010)
• Some stats on GiveWell's web traffic and influence on donations (01/07/2010)
• Follow up re: Philanthropedia (01/06/2010)
• Roundup of recent blogging (01/04/2010)
• Philanthropedia's report on microfinance (01/01/2010)
• You Can Save A Life (12/31/2009)
• VillageReach (12/30/2009)
• UPenn Center for High-Impact Philanthropy (12/29/2009)
• Stop Tuberculosis Partnership (12/29/2009)
• Celebrated charities that we don't recommend (12/28/2009)
• Gifts of livestock (e.g., Heifer International) (12/27/2009)
• Where we stand on microfinance charity (12/25/2009)
• VillageReach's answer to the "room for more funding" question: scenario analysis (12/24/2009)
• You can't take the "repayment rate" at face value (12/23/2009)
• Incentives for microfinance charities (12/23/2009)
• Smile Train in its own words (12/22/2009)
• Orphanages (12/22/2009)
• Is borrowing good for the borrowers? (12/22/2009)
• Some simple ways to check "room for more funding" (12/18/2009)
• Going deeper on "room for more funding": underfunded grant proposals (12/18/2009)
• "Room for more funding" continued: why donation restricting isn't the easy answer (12/17/2009)
• An essential question that no one is asking charities (12/16/2009)
• Comment on Barron's "25 Best Givers" list (12/14/2009)
• Charity isn't about helping? (12/14/2009)
• Estimating the cost-effectiveness of microfinance charity (12/11/2009)
• Global Giving's spot check and why it should worry you (12/10/2009)
• LAPO (Kiva partner) and financial vs. social success (12/09/2009)
• What we know about Robin Hood (almost nothing) (12/08/2009)
• Robin Hood, Smile Train and the "0% overhead" donor illusion (12/07/2009)
• Comments on this blog (12/06/2009)
• A conflict of Bayesian priors? (12/05/2009)
• When is a charity's logo a donor illusion? (12/04/2009)
• Why are we always criticizing charities? (12/03/2009)
• By default, assume aid projects aren't reaching the poorest (12/03/2009)
• Kudos to Ken Berger (12/02/2009)
• Smile Train removes charts from website; still claims $250 per surgery (12/02/2009)
• When donations and profits meet, beware (12/01/2009)
• The worst way to pick a charity (12/01/2009)
• Smile Train (11/30/2009)
• Hunger here vs. hunger there (11/27/2009)
• Poor in the U.S. = rich (11/27/2009)
• Acumen Fund and social enterprise investment (11/26/2009)
• The Global Fund and transparency (11/24/2009)
• Denying the choice (11/20/2009)
• Two charities, one microfinance institution (11/20/2009)
• UNICEF Inspired Gifts: Revolution or Donor Illusion? (11/18/2009)
• Whiplash (11/17/2009)
• Not our last word on the Kiva controversy (11/17/2009)
• Quality of life in the developing world (11/17/2009)
• My greatest fear about microfinance (11/13/2009)
• Perspectives on donor irrationality (11/13/2009)
• Chess in the Schools (11/13/2009)
• The Carter Center (11/11/2009)
• Evaluating microsavings (11/10/2009)
• Medicine and philanthropy (11/10/2009)
• If microsavings is more needed, why does microcredit get more attention? (11/09/2009)
• Our process: narrowing the field (11/06/2009)
• Too much attention on the giver's experience; not enough on the recipient's (11/06/2009)
• Donor illusions (11/05/2009)
• How would a malaria vaccine affect charity? (11/04/2009)
• Evaluating microfinance charities (11/04/2009)
• Microfinance where access already exists (11/03/2009)
• Pneumonia Day is another General Health Day (11/02/2009)
• Can a donor give "new life for the pariahs" through the World Fistula Fund? (11/02/2009)
• Why can't you make the sale? (10/30/2009)
• Gates Foundation on agriculture funding: where are the facts? (10/29/2009)
• The Gates Foundation's agriculture program: experimenting or floundering? (10/29/2009)
• Village Phone: another great story under the microscope (10/28/2009)
• Helping farmers is harder than you've heard (10/27/2009)
• 6 myths about microfinance charity that donors can do without (10/23/2009)
• Agriculture charity evaluation: incomes boosted are not the same as lives changed (10/21/2009)
• Good news can create new challenges for donors (10/21/2009)
• Are charities helping? We don't know (10/20/2009)
• Is fundraising stuck in the world of Mad Men? (10/16/2009)
• What's different about Kiva (10/15/2009)
• Maternal mortality: "important" yes, "just needs funding" no (10/14/2009)
• Kiva repayment data (10/14/2009)
• DonorsChoose vs. Kiva (10/14/2009)
• Two pictures of Kiva.org (10/13/2009)
• Kiva and fungibility (10/07/2009)
• Cash as a benchmark? (10/03/2009)
• Conversation with David Roodman about microfinance (10/02/2009)
• Developing-world scholarships and school-building (09/28/2009)
• What does the repayment rate really tell you about the impact of microfinance? (09/18/2009)
• Microfinance evidence of impact (09/08/2009)
• Tactical Philanthropy Advisors (09/02/2009)
• GiveWell Grants Awarded (09/02/2009)
• Cleft lip/palate charities: what does one surgery really accomplish? (08/27/2009)
• "A" for effort? (08/20/2009)
• CARE Evaluations (08/10/2009)
• GiveWell Grant: Open Application (08/04/2009)
• High-impact nonprofits are rare, but worth funding (08/01/2009)
• A small charity that meets our criteria (07/28/2009)
• Development experiments (randomized controlled trials) as a counterpoint to marketing materials (07/21/2009)
• Can donors fund "sustainable" projects? (07/13/2009)
• 2008-2009 international aid recommendations (07/01/2009)
• A conversation with a donor interested in obstetric fistula (06/17/2009)
• Donating to Gates - against its will (06/09/2009)
• November conference sponsored by Social Solutions (06/04/2009)
• The challenge of local ownership (06/04/2009)
• First randomized controlled trial of microfinance project (05/31/2009)
• Embedded philanthropy (05/27/2009)
• Some thoughts on the Yellow Fever vaccine (05/26/2009)
• What can the developed world teach the developing world? (05/22/2009)
• Pitfalls of the overhead ratio? (05/21/2009)
• Why not just give out cash? (05/20/2009)
• Followup on Fryer/Dobbie study of "Harlem miracle" (05/19/2009)
• "Did it happen?" and "Did it work?" (05/15/2009)
• Funding research (05/14/2009)
• Two worlds (05/11/2009)
• Harlem Children's Zone closes achievement gap? (05/08/2009)
• Fryer and Dobbie on Harlem Children's Zone: what they found (05/08/2009)
• Fryer and Dobbie on the Harlem Children's Zone: significance (05/08/2009)
• Where I stand on education, my former favorite cause (05/08/2009)
• Small, unproven charities (05/07/2009)
• Road safety (04/28/2009)
• Qualitative evidence vs. stories (04/24/2009)
• Alliance for Social Investing (04/23/2009)
• Philanthropy Action points to more evidence on education interventions (04/23/2009)
• Volunteer tutoring program (04/20/2009)
• The most important problem may not be the best charitable cause (04/20/2009)
• Positive but underwhelming voucher study (04/12/2009)
• Clarifying the role of different partners (04/09/2009)
• New, promising charity: The Stop TB Partnership (04/03/2009)
• KIPP and self-selection (03/27/2009)
• Mistargeted microfinance? (03/26/2009)
• PRI and Bloggingheads (03/25/2009)
• Can the Green Revolution be repeated in Africa? (03/16/2009)
• Measurement is not as common as it should be. Why? (03/12/2009)
• Review of The Life You Can Save, by Peter Singer (03/06/2009)
• The Center for High Impact Philanthropy (03/05/2009)
• Preview report (03/03/2009)
• Learning from a small failure (02/24/2009)
• The root causes of poverty (02/21/2009)
• Aid's track record (02/18/2009)
• The Carter Center - Part II (02/13/2009)
• Malaria "success story" questioned (02/12/2009)
• Trachoma: an example of the need for long-term monitoring (02/11/2009)
• The Carter Center (02/10/2009)
• Financial Times on microfinance (and the need for better info about it) (02/06/2009)
• Microfinance/education program didn't work as expected (02/05/2009)
• Antiretroviral treatment (ART): things to look out for (02/03/2009)
• Malaria treatment (02/02/2009)
• Surgeries performed vs cases of blindness prevented (01/30/2009)
• Publication bias: over-reporting good news (01/26/2009)
• Quick notes on our progress (01/15/2009)
• BBB Standards: Accountability or Technicalities? (01/15/2009)
• Beware just-published studies (01/07/2009)
• Uncharitable (12/31/2008)
• Why we prefer the carrot to the stick (12/31/2008)
• A proposal to reward failure (12/26/2008)
• Guest Post: Proven Programs are the Exception, not the Rule (12/18/2008)
• Before you donate (12/12/2008)
• Marketplace today (12/10/2008)
• Strong results for malaria vaccine (12/10/2008)
• The first question: What do you do? (12/08/2008)
• More on iodine (12/05/2008)
• Thanks (11/27/2008)
• We're hiring (11/22/2008)
• Banerjee/Duflo interview (11/18/2008)
• Is volunteering just a show? (11/13/2008)
• Finally, a competitor! (11/13/2008)
• General questions about international aid (11/08/2008)
• Malaria and lymphatic filariasis (11/04/2008)
• Discouraging evidence on preschool? (11/04/2008)
• Clarification on previous post (10/31/2008)
• Philanthropy Action's coverage of microfinance conference (10/31/2008)
• No on Prop 8: high-ROI donation opportunity? (10/23/2008)
• Should small donors focus on small organizations? (10/21/2008)
• More counterintuitiveness in health education (10/21/2008)
• Research mailing list (10/21/2008)
• A bit more detail on individual giving (10/15/2008)
• Check your "smart philanthropy" hat at the door? (10/12/2008)
• Thoughts on "Money Well Spent" (10/10/2008)
• What does $1000 do? (10/06/2008)
• Donor impact vs. donor attribution (or, does your $120 really buy a sheep?) (10/03/2008)
• Transparency done right (09/26/2008)
• Eat your salt (09/26/2008)
• Our Google talk (09/22/2008)
• Back Monday (09/18/2008)
• "Straightforward" interventions (09/12/2008)
• Cost-effective and straightforward (09/12/2008)
• Research agenda (09/12/2008)
• Priority region 1 - finalists (09/12/2008)
• Bednet use (09/11/2008)
• List of interventions (09/06/2008)
• Malaria: whom it affects and how (09/04/2008)
• Mortality burdens by age group (09/03/2008)
• The case against disaster relief (08/29/2008)
• Donated technological equipment (08/28/2008)
• Cost-effectiveness is in the eye of the beholder (08/28/2008)
• Selecting program-based health interventions (08/27/2008)
• Region-based vs. program-based approaches to developing-world health (08/26/2008)
• DALYs and disagreement (08/22/2008)
• Donors don't have to pay for their own philanthropic advice (08/21/2008)
• Fistula (08/20/2008)
• Health education is tricky (08/19/2008)
• Vaccinations (08/18/2008)
• Direct food aid? (08/18/2008)
• Where does a donor fit in? (08/17/2008)
• Disability-Adjusted Life Years II: Variations (08/12/2008)
• I like it. How do I fund it? (08/09/2008)
• Disability-Adjusted Life Years: Introduction (08/07/2008)
• Infant mortality and overpopulation (08/04/2008)
• A few thoughts on water (07/30/2008)
• Significant life change (07/29/2008)
• Research plan: a fresh start (07/25/2008)
• Malnutrition and income (07/25/2008)
• New material (07/23/2008)
• The GiveWell Pledge (07/23/2008)
• Preventing blindness (07/22/2008)
• Career Academies: an unconventional approach to education (07/17/2008)
• Where to focus? (07/11/2008)
• Some qualitative information on microfinance (07/05/2008)
• A unique giving opportunity? (07/02/2008)
• The biggest giver: individuals (06/27/2008)
• Busting charities vs. donating (06/20/2008)
• Understanding the achievement gap (06/13/2008)
• Foundations and individuals (06/09/2008)
• Worth watching (05/30/2008)
• Good vs. Better (05/22/2008)
• Emergency assistance for donors (05/13/2008)
• Cyclone relief: recommendation and questions (05/07/2008)
• Why scholarships disappoint? (05/01/2008)
• Why nitpick? (04/30/2008)
• Esperanca's response (04/25/2008)
• Where can you donate to fight malnutrition? (Part II) (04/16/2008)
• Where can you donate to fight malnutrition? (Part I) (04/11/2008)
• Evaluating organizations vs. practices (04/10/2008)
• Delegation (04/03/2008)
• The Metrics Debate (03/26/2008)
• Politics vs. philanthropy in education research (03/20/2008)
• Reinventing the wheel (03/14/2008)
• Microloans vs. payday loans (03/11/2008)
• Quick update (03/07/2008)
• Flip-flopping (02/27/2008)
• Don't take our breadth away (02/20/2008)
• Rethinking bednets (02/14/2008)
• Rigorous research on aid (02/05/2008)
• Evaluating charter schools, continued (01/23/2008)
• Evaluating charter schools (01/15/2008)
• Updated: Statement from the GiveWell Board of Directors (01/12/2008)
• Statement from the GiveWell Board of Directors (01/07/2008)
• I had a lapse in judgment, did a horrible thing, and I apologize. (12/31/2007)
• Transparency, measurement, humility (12/27/2007)
• Tough calls (12/25/2007)
• Bear with us (12/21/2007)
• When apples are better than oranges (12/19/2007)
• True Experts? Or old boys' club? (12/13/2007)
• The 2007 Holden Award for Excellence in Imperfection (12/12/2007)
• Getting the word out (12/11/2007)
• 2 things WAY more exciting than a blog post (12/06/2007)
• What a "life saved" means (12/05/2007)
• Welcome to your virtual site visit (11/30/2007)
• Cheap ways to save lives (11/28/2007)
• Thanks (11/23/2007)
• Must-read if you're interested in NYC education (11/21/2007)
• Here's to fear of failure (11/20/2007)
• Our harshest critic so far: Uncle Bob (11/16/2007)
• Why are you reading this? (11/13/2007)
• Where should you give? (11/11/2007)
• How to get your values violated (11/08/2007)
• "Dollars per life changed" metric: what is it good for? (11/07/2007)
• 3 . . . 2 . . . 1 . . . (11/07/2007)
• Another frustrating article about fixing education (11/02/2007)
• Eat a peanut, save a child!! (10/31/2007)
• What I wrote in the Gates Foundation survey (10/31/2007)
• What's so hard about rigorous self-evaluation? (10/27/2007)
• Blog post coming (10/25/2007)
• Cause 1: Where we stand (10/24/2007)
• Read these in order (10/24/2007)
• Preview: Cause 5 (10/19/2007)
• Just Say Something, Anything (10/17/2007)
• Everything a body needs (10/12/2007)
• Welcome to the Donors' Liberation Blog (10/09/2007)
• Big government vs. the private sector (10/04/2007)
• Truth Please (10/02/2007)
• Job training: which would you grant? (09/30/2007)
• My personal experience with diarrhea (09/27/2007)
• Giving: like heroin, but more expensive (09/27/2007)
• What's more important? (09/25/2007)
• Politics (09/25/2007)
• Matrix Reloaded (09/21/2007)
• Mark Cuban (09/21/2007)
• Arrrrrrrrrr! (09/20/2007)
• Great people (09/19/2007)
• Literature reviews (09/18/2007)
• Not everyone under-evaluates ... (09/18/2007)
• No more Saturdays for me (09/18/2007)
• Microlending: the mystery deepens (09/15/2007)
• Averages (09/14/2007)
• Experience vs. data, or, why I just muted the Yankee game (09/12/2007)
• Final finalists finalized (09/08/2007)
• Want to see what we mean by "bias?" (09/08/2007)
• Two futures (09/04/2007)
• Finals (09/01/2007)
• Helping people: easy or hard? (08/29/2007)
• Why we wish charities ran LESS like businesses (08/25/2007)
• Driving without a dashboard? (08/22/2007)
• Won't the real microlending please stand up? (08/18/2007)
• Face/Off! Evaluating a mammoth - Introduction (08/15/2007)
• Face/Off! Evaluating a mammoth - Holden's take (08/15/2007)
• Face/Off! Evaluating a mammoth - Elie's response (08/15/2007)
• We'd like your thoughts (08/15/2007)
• Helping adults become self-supporting (08/12/2007)
• Afraid of the light? (08/07/2007)
• Carnival roundup (08/07/2007)
• Rolling (08/04/2007)
• Two questions about education (08/03/2007)
• Why I'm here (08/03/2007)
• Anonymity rocks (07/31/2007)
• My favorite cause (07/30/2007)
• Giving Carnival 8/07: Bare your soul (07/28/2007)
• Wanna get pumped about GiveWell? (07/27/2007)
• Hangover (07/26/2007)
• I believe that the children are our future (07/25/2007)
• Our business is your business (07/22/2007)
• Diving in (07/19/2007)
• Escaping the bubble (07/18/2007)
• The triage approach (07/15/2007)
• Google.org, can you hear me? (07/13/2007)
• Philanthropy strikes back (07/11/2007)
• Charity vs. philanthropy (07/08/2007)
• Go time (07/05/2007)
• Hang in there (07/04/2007)
• Competition is important (06/30/2007)
• More or less pie? (06/27/2007)
• Why don't people give more? (06/24/2007)
• Cooperation "versus" conflict (06/20/2007)
• Alternative visions (06/16/2007)
• We will be the most criticized grantmaker of all time (06/14/2007)
• My vision (06/13/2007)
• Nonprofits and for-profits: similar or different? Part MCLXXVII (06/10/2007)
• Where should we donate? (06/10/2007)
• An open letter to crybabies (06/05/2007)
• What corporate social responsibility means to me (06/02/2007)
• It's for charity - but is it for a good cause? (05/30/2007)
• How personal should your giving be? (05/27/2007)
• Don't talk to me about the Form 990 (05/24/2007)
• Did you know that this qualifies as a charity? (05/24/2007)
• I just bought a printer (05/23/2007)
• Healing the world: what's the rush? (05/20/2007)
• BRB (05/05/2007)
• Can charity be cool? (05/03/2007)
• Post delayed (05/01/2007)
• The veil of secrecy is lifted. Ladies, the race is on. (04/28/2007)
• What's in it for me (04/28/2007)
• Do any charities know what they're doing? (04/24/2007)
• What is success? (04/21/2007)
• Spending the better half (04/18/2007)
• Nice guys finish last (04/15/2007)
• A quick, free way to support GiveWell (04/10/2007)
• Announcing the Clear Fund (04/07/2007)
• Every analogy has its limits ... (04/06/2007)
• Charity: the video game that's real (04/03/2007)
• Selflessness in action (04/02/2007)
• Reason "versus" emotion (03/31/2007)
• Metrics: between losing your humanity and throwing up your hands (03/28/2007)
• The Straw Ratio: Closing thoughts (for now) (03/25/2007)
• Even Google has been suckered (03/24/2007)
• Tears of Straw (03/21/2007)
• Test my wings? That would mean less time for flying! (03/21/2007)
• Low pay driving out the best?? How did this happen?!?! (03/17/2007)
• Dear Executive Director, Please Fire Your Staff (03/14/2007)
• FAQ: What qualifies us to issue evaluations? (03/10/2007)
• I am not a flake (03/07/2007)
• Introducing FAQs, blog style (03/07/2007)
• FAQ: How are we choosing which nonprofits to review? (03/07/2007)
• FAQ: What are our criteria? (03/07/2007)
• The Holden Foundation: Serving Obnoxious Bloggers (03/03/2007)
• Every time I tried to tell you, the words just came out wrog ... (02/28/2007)
• The customer is on your side (02/28/2007)
• Wait till next year (02/26/2007)
• Hello, world (02/24/2007)
• Where I'm coming from (02/21/2007)
• Quick update (02/17/2007)
• Enough about lives - how many dollars can we save? (02/14/2007)
• Network for what now? (02/11/2007)
• NYC update: people still have problems (02/07/2007)
• The big question: is our project 1.0 or 2.0? (02/03/2007)
• Straw man? Or 75% of the population? (01/31/2007)
• Food, Friendz, and Figuring out how to improve the world (01/27/2007)
• More thoughts on "responsible investing" (01/23/2007)
• One more thing (01/23/2007)
• Our first content-less meta-post! (01/23/2007)
• I'm basically fine with investing in evil (01/20/2007)
• Which of these boasts is not like the others? (01/17/2007)
• OK, Straw Man, the gloves are off (01/13/2007)
• Who should I help: My friend or my pet? (01/12/2007)
• I found a number that tells you everything you need to know (01/10/2007)
• Before I tear the Straw Man apart ... (01/10/2007)
• Recommending Population Services International (01/08/2007)
• Limits of generosity (01/06/2007)
• Chocolate-covered broccoli (01/04/2007)
• Thinking in numbers (01/03/2007)
• The 2006 Holden Awards (01/03/2007)
• What's a life worth? (12/29/2006)
• Don't let Elie rip you off! (12/29/2006)
• Thank God I don't have HDTV (12/26/2006)
• Nice to meet you (12/24/2006)