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Last updated: October 31, 2023

How we work, #1: Cost-effectiveness is generally the most important factor in our recommendations (10/27/23)
October 2023 updates (10/20/23)
Open Philanthropy’s 2023-2025 funding of $300 million total for GiveWell’s recommendations (10/6/23)
September 2023 updates (9/26/23)
September 2023 open thread (9/6/2023)
Why we’re funding clubfoot treatment through MiracleFeet (7/7/23)
June 2023 open thread (6/13/23)
Why GiveWell funded the rollout of the malaria vaccine (5/12/23)
How much funding does GiveWell expect to raise through 2025? (4/10/23)
March 2023 open thread (3/10/23)
Staff members’ personal donations for giving season 2022 (12/19/22)
The winners of the Change Our Mind Contest—and some reflections (12/15/22)
December 2022 open thread (12/12/22)
Our recommendations for giving in 2022 (11/23/22)
Answering some questions about water quality programs (10/14/22)
September 2022 open thread (9/12/22)
The Maximum Impact Fund is now the Top Charities Fund (9/8/22)
Announcing the Change Our Mind Contest for critiques of our cost-effectiveness analyses (9/6/22)
Our UK supporters can now make tax-deductible donations through GiveWell UK (8/24/22)
Changes to our top charity criteria, and a new giving option (8/17/22)
GiveWell’s 2021 metrics report (8/5/22)
An update on GiveWell’s funding projections (7/5/22)
June 2022 open thread (6/10/2022)
Neil Buddy Shah has been appointed CEO of the Clinton Health Access Initiative (4/14/2022)
A major update in our assessment of water quality interventions (4/6/2022)
March 2022 open thread (3/10/2022)
IPTi for malaria: a promising intervention with likely room to scale (1/31/2022)
December 2021 open thread (12/13/21)
Staff members’ personal donations for giving season 2021 (12/10/21)
Our recommendations for giving in 2021 (11/22/21)
We aim to cost-effectively direct around $1 billion annually by 2025 (11/22/21)
Why malnutrition treatment is one of our top research priorities (11/19/2021)
GiveWell’s money moved in 2020 (11/12/2021)
Initial thoughts on malaria vaccine approval (10/8/2021)
We’re discontinuing the standout charity designation (10/5/2021)
September 2021 open thread (9/14/2021)
June 2021 open thread (6/14/2021)
Early signs show that you gave more in 2020 than 2019—thank you! (5/11/2021)
Update on Board meeting transparency (4/15/2021)
March 2021 open thread (3/24/2021)
Donors in the Netherlands can now make tax-deductible gifts through GiveWell (1/20/2021)
Do you have questions about giving in 2020? (12/21/2020)
December 2020 open thread (12/15/2020)
Staff members’ personal donations for giving season 2020 (12/10/2020)
GiveWell’s money moved in 2019 (12/9/2020)
Our recommendations for giving in 2020 (11/19/2020)
Maximum Impact Fund update: Q1 and Q2 2020 (10/13/2020)
September 2020 open thread (9/11/2020)
Why we’re excited to fund charities’ work a few years in the future (8/25/2020)
A brief look at how some groups we’ve supported are responding to COVID-19 (7/16/2020)
Why you’ll see more matching campaigns at GiveWell (6/25/2020)
June 2020 open thread (6/10/2020)
GiveWell’s plans for 2020 (5/28/2020)
Reflecting on our progress in 2019 (5/20/2020)
Why ongoing assessment of top charities leads to more impact: HKI’s vitamin A supplementation program (4/29/2020)
GiveWell donors supported more than direct delivery: AMF and new net research (4/23/2020)
Three grants in response to the COVID-19 pandemic (4/21/2020)
The impact of COVID-19 on GiveWell’s plans (3/26/2020)
Allocation of discretionary funds from Q4 2019 (3/17/2020)
March 2020 open thread (3/10/2020)
How did we do in 2019? A preliminary look at our growth. (2/20/2020)
Introducing our new Managing Director: Dr. Neil Buddy Shah (2/6/2020)
Why it’s important to think through all of the factors that influence a charity’s impact (1/13/2020)
Update on our work on Fistula Foundation (1/2/2020)
Allocation of discretionary funds from Q3 2019 (12/19/2019)
We’re glad to answer your questions (12/17/2019)
December 2019 open thread (12/13/2019)
Staff members’ personal donations for giving season 2019 (12/10/2019)
Ask us your questions about giving on our year-end conference call (12/3/2019)
New research on moral weights (12/2/2019)
Announcing our 2019 top charities (11/26/2019)
We’re offering matching funds to new donors via podcasts. Here’s why. (11/14/2019)
Why you might get a letter from us this giving season (11/11/2019)
What are standout charities? (11/4/2019)
How this year’s winners of the Nobel Prize in Economics influenced GiveWell’s work (10/18/2019)
Our recent visit to Burkina Faso (9/18/2019)
September 2019 open thread (9/12/2019)
GiveWell’s money moved and web traffic in 2018 (9/9/2019)
Allocation of discretionary funds from Q2 2019 (8/21/2019)
Experiments in GiveWell communication (7/23/2019)
June 2019 open thread (6/17/2019)
Allocation of discretionary funds from Q1 2019 (6/12/2019)
Evidence Action is shutting down No Lean Season (6/6/2019)
GiveWell’s plans for 2019 (5/16/2019)
Review of GiveWell’s work in 2018 (5/15/2019)
Allocation of discretionary funds from Q4 2018 (3/29/2019)
March 2019 open thread (3/11/2019)
What is it like to work at GiveWell? (3/7/2019)
Announcing a call for grant applicants in Southeast Asia and Bangladesh (2/13/2019)
How GiveWell’s research is evolving (2/7/2019)
Schedule a quick call to make giving easier (12/20/2018)
December 2018 open thread (12/12/2018)
Staff members’ personal donations for giving season 2018 (12/10/2018)
We’ve added more options for cryptocurrency donors (12/7/2018)
Response to concerns about GiveWell’s spillovers analysis (12/6/2018)
Our updated top charities for giving season 2018 (11/26/2018)
Our recommendation to Good Ventures (11/26/2018)
Update on No Lean Season’s top charity status (11/19/2018)
A grant to Evidence Action Beta to prototype, test, and scale promising programs (10/9/2018)
Publishing more frequent updates to our cost-effectiveness model (10/2/2018)
September 2018 open thread (9/10/2018)
Allocation of discretionary funds from Q2 2018 (8/28/2018)
Why we don’t use subnational malaria mortality estimates in our cost-effectiveness models (8/22/2018)
GiveWell’s money moved and web traffic in 2017 (6/29/2018)
Announcing Zusha! as a standout charity (6/21/2018)
June 2018 open thread (6/13/2018)
Allocation of discretionary funds from Q1 2018 (6/4/2018)
New research on cash transfers (5/4/2018)
GiveWell’s outreach and operations: 2017 review and 2018 plans (4/20/2018)
Our 2018 plans for research (4/19/2018)
Review of our research in 2017 (4/18/2018)
Allocation of discretionary funds from Q4 2017 (4/6/2018)
GiveWell’s money moved and web traffic in 2016 (3/30/2018)
Considering policy advocacy organizations: Why GiveWell made a grant to the Centre for Pesticide Suicide Prevention (3/22/2018)
March 2018 open thread (3/13/2018)
Revisiting leverage (2/13/2018)
GiveWell is hiring! (1/25/2018)
Revisiting the evidence on malaria eradication in the Americas (12/29/2017)
Key questions about Helen Keller International’s vitamin A supplementation program (12/28/2017)
How uncertain is our cost-effectiveness analysis? (12/22/2017)
Update on our work on outreach (12/19/2017)
Maximizing the impact of your donation: saving on fees means more money for great charities (12/15/2017)
December 2017 open thread (12/15/2017)
Give efficiently and reduce the work for charities (12/13/2017)
Staff members’ personal donations for giving season 2017 (12/11/2017)
Questioning the evidence on hookworm eradication in the American South (12/7/2017)
Want to talk to someone at GiveWell about your giving decision? (12/5/2017)
Our top charities for giving season 2017 (11/27/2017)
How GiveWell and mainstream policymakers compare the “good” achieved by different programs (11/7/2017)
Interim update on GiveWell’s money moved and web traffic in 2016 (9/29/2017)
September 2017 open thread (9/12/2017)
Why we’re allocating discretionary funds to the Deworm the World Initiative (8/30/2017)
From the archive: 6 tips on disaster relief giving (8/28/2017)
Update on GiveWell’s intervention research in 2017 (8/24/2017)
Our approach to processing undesignated donations (8/3/2017)
Mid-year update on GiveWell’s progress (7/12/2017)
Deciding whether to recommend fistula management charities (7/6/2017)
Are GiveWell’s top charities the best option for every donor? (6/21/2017)
June 2017 open thread (6/15/2017)
Separating GiveWell and the Open Philanthropy Project (6/12/2017)
How GiveWell uses cost-effectiveness analyses (6/1/2017)
Update on our views on cataract surgery (5/11/2017)
Why GiveWell is partnering with IDinsight (5/4/2017)
Allocation of discretionary funds and new recommendation for donors (4/3/2017)
GiveWell as an organization: progress in 2016 and plans for 2017 (3/30/2017)
GiveWell’s research plans for 2017 (3/29/2017)
GiveWell’s progress on research in 2016 (3/27/2017)
March 2017 open thread (3/21/2017)
Why we’re considering Zusha! as a potential 2017 top charity (2/28/2017)
What does it mean when a charity declines to participate in GiveWell’s review process? (2/21/2017)
Why more charities should consider applying for a GiveWell recommendation (2/14/2017)
Open Philanthropy Project post on giving suggestions pertaining to recent executive actions (2/9/2017)
Why we’re considering No Lean Season as a potential 2017 top charity (2/7/2017)
GiveWell Incubation Grants (1/19/2017)
How thin the reed? Generalizing from “Worms at Work” (1/4/2017)
Just a few days left in 2016… (12/22/2016)
Front-loading my personal giving this year (12/22/2016)
GiveWell’s operations team is hiring (12/21/2016)
We’d be glad to chat with you! (12/20/2016)
Discretionary grant making and implications for donor agency (12/19/2016)
December 2016 open thread (12/14/2016)
AMF and Population Ethics (12/12/2016)
Staff members’ personal donations for giving season 2016 (12/09/2016)
Why I mostly believe in Worms (12/06/2016)
Our updated top charities for giving season 2016 (11/28/2016)
New Incentives update (10/06/2016)
Updates on AMF’s transparency and monitoring (09/21/2016)
September 2016 open thread (09/20/2016)
Would other organizations have funded AMF’s bednet distributions if AMF hadn’t? (08/30/2016)
Deworming might have huge impact, but might have close to zero impact (07/26/2016)
Update on GiveWell’s web traffic / money moved: Q1 2016 (07/19/2016)
Weighing organizational strength vs. estimated cost-effectiveness (07/14/2016)
Challenges in finding a great Vitamin A charity (06/28/2016)
Mid-year update to top charity recommendations (06/23/2016)
What we’ve learned about SCI this year (06/20/2016)
June 2016 open thread (06/15/2016)
We’re hiring a Director of Operations (05/24/2016)
Trying out a new format: GiveWell podcast (05/23/2016)
GiveWell’s money moved and web traffic in 2015 (05/13/2016)
Reservations about water quality interventions (05/03/2016)
GiveWell research plans for 2016 (04/06/2016)
GiveWell’s progress in 2015 (04/05/2016)
New posts on the Open Philanthropy Blog: Our early farm animal welfare grants, philosophy of hits-based giving (04/04/2016)
Seeking feedback on alternative, more persuasion-oriented potential format for evidence reviews (04/01/2016)
March 2016 open thread (03/10/2016)
Why we do donor calls (03/08/2016)
New posts on the Open Philanthropy Blog: Our approach to grantmaking so far, and the launch of the Alliance for Safety and Justice (02/10/2016)
New post on the Open Philanthropy Blog: David Roodman on whether there’s been a notable recent crime wave (02/02/2016)
The importance of “gold standard” studies for consumers of research (01/19/2016)
Update on GiveWell’s web traffic / money moved (01/08/2016)
December 2015 update on GiveWell’s funding needs (12/25/2015)
Suggestions for individual donors from Open Philanthropy Project staff (12/23/2015)
We’re happy to talk to you! (12/18/2015)
December 2015 open thread (12/10/2015)
Encouraging friends and family to give to AMF for the holidays (12/10/2015)
Staff members’ personal donations for giving season 2015 (12/09/2015)
Good Ventures and giving now vs. later (11/25/2015)
Our updated top charities for giving season 2015 (11/18/2015)
Should the Open Philanthropy Project be recommending more/larger grants? (11/17/2015)
The lack of controversy over well-targeted aid (11/06/2015)
Why a new study of the Mariel boatlift has not changed our views on the benefits of immigration (10/21/2015)
Charities we’d like to see (10/15/2015)
GiveWell is hiring Summer Research Analysts for summer 2016 (10/02/2015)
Differential technological development: Some early thinking (09/30/2015)
Open Philanthropy Project update (09/17/2015)
Donating to help with the Syrian refugee crisis (09/17/2015)
Journalists report on deworming program supported by Deworm the World Initiative in Kenya (09/14/2015)
Incoming Program Officer: Lewis Bollard (09/11/2015)
September 2015 open thread (09/10/2015)
Update on GiveWell’s web traffic / money moved: Q2 2015 (09/09/2015)
A tax-deductible top charity for Australians (09/08/2015)
The process of hiring our first cause-specific Program Officer (09/03/2015)
History of philanthropy case study: The impact of philanthropy on the passage of the Affordable Care Act (09/02/2015)
Coming down to earth: What if a big geomagnetic storm does hit? (08/21/2015)
Change in our fundraising policy for the Open Philanthropy Project (08/17/2015)
The long-term significance of reducing global catastrophic risks (08/13/2015)
Good Ventures’ $25 million grant to GiveDirectly (08/03/2015)
Could raising alcohol taxes save lives? (07/30/2015)
New deworming reanalyses and Cochrane review (07/24/2015)
Key questions about philanthropy, part 3: Making and evaluating grants (07/22/2015)
Change of leadership at Evidence Action (07/17/2015)
Geomagnetic storms: Using extreme value theory to gauge the risk (07/13/2015)
Key questions about philanthropy, part 2: Choosing focus areas and hiring program staff (07/09/2015)
Has violence declined, when large-scale atrocities are systematically included? (07/08/2015)
Geomagnetic storms: History’s surprising, if tentative, reassurance (07/02/2015)
Geomagnetic storms: An introduction to the risk (06/29/2015)
Fundamental, under-discussed questions about philanthropy, part 1: the role of the funder (06/23/2015)
Incoming Program Officer for criminal justice reform: Chloe Cockburn (06/16/2015)
Corrections in our review of Development Media International (06/11/2015)
Update on GiveWell’s web traffic / money moved: Q1 2015 (05/27/2015)
GiveWell summer fellowship (05/26/2015)
History of philanthropy case study: Pew and drug safety legislation (05/15/2015)
Funder-initiated startups (05/14/2015)
Our updated agenda for science philanthropy (05/06/2015)
Giving to support the relief effort for the Nepal earthquake (04/27/2015)
Co-funding partnership with Kaitlyn Trigger and Mike Krieger (04/23/2015)
Statement from Kaitlyn Trigger & Mike Krieger: Why we’re partnering with the Open Philanthropy Project (04/23/2015)
Science policy and infrastructure (04/21/2015)
April 2015 open thread (04/16/2015)
Breakthrough fundamental science (04/14/2015)
GiveWell’s money moved and web traffic in 2014 (04/13/2015)
Translational science and the “valley of death” (04/09/2015)
The Most Good You Can Do (04/06/2015)
Top charities’ room for more funding (04/03/2015)
Investigating neglected goals in scientific research (03/26/2015)
General progress and plans for GiveWell as an organization in 2015 (03/17/2015)
Open Philanthropy Project: Progress in 2014 and plans for 2015 (03/12/2015)
Open Philanthropy Project update: Global catastrophic risks (03/11/2015)
Open Philanthropy Project update: U.S. policy (03/10/2015)
2015 plan for GiveWell’s traditional (“top charities”) work (03/05/2015)
2014 progress on GiveWell’s traditional (“top charities”) work (03/04/2015)
GiveWell’s progress in 2014 and plans for 2015: Summary (03/03/2015)
The path to biomedical progress (02/27/2015)
Thoughts on the Sandler Foundation (02/24/2015)
Notes from November convening on our policy priorities (02/19/2015)
GiveWell is hiring (02/05/2015)
Organizations promoting generous, effective giving (01/08/2015)
Update on GiveWell’s web traffic / money moved: Q3 2014 (01/01/2015)
December 2014 update on GiveWell’s funding needs (12/29/2014)
Request for input (12/29/2014)
Update on the Ebola outbreak (12/23/2014)
Should we expect an ongoing study to meet its “goal?” (12/22/2014)
We’re happy to talk to you! (12/19/2014)
Donor coordination and the “giver’s dilemma” – part II (12/19/2014)
Staff members’ personal donations – giving season 2014 (12/17/2014)
Donor coordination and the “giver’s dilemma” (12/02/2014)
Our updated top charities (12/01/2014)
Deworm the World Initiative (led by Evidence Action) update (11/21/2014)
Inaugural open thread (11/14/2014)
Quick update on Ebola (full update to come later) (11/13/2014)
Our ongoing review of GAIN (11/10/2014)
Update on Open Philanthropy Project (10/30/2014)
Update on SCI’s evidence of impact (10/26/2014)
Reminder: Annual rankings refresh (10/25/2014)
Investigating the Ebola response (10/23/2014)
Our ongoing review of Living Goods (10/22/2014)
Expert philanthropy vs. broad philanthropy (10/16/2014)
Our ongoing review of Development Media International (10/09/2014)
A promising study on the long-term effects of deworming (10/03/2014)
Guest post from Tom Rutledge (10/01/2014)
Challenges of transparency (09/11/2014)
David Roodman’s draft writeup on immigration and current residents’ wages (09/03/2014)
Open Philanthropy Project (formerly GiveWell Labs) (08/20/2014)
Update on GiveWell’s web traffic / money moved: Q2 2014 (08/12/2014)
Thoughts on the end of Hewlett’s Nonprofit Marketplace Initiative (08/05/2014)
Our ongoing review of ICCIDD (07/30/2014)
Partnership with The Pew Charitable Trusts (07/24/2014)
The moral value of the far future (07/03/2014)
Potential global catastrophic risk focus areas (06/26/2014)
Update on GiveDirectly (06/20/2014)
Sequence thinking vs. cluster thinking (06/10/2014)
Reflections on a site visit in Myanmar (Burma) (06/02/2014)
Potential U.S. policy focus areas (05/29/2014)
A journalist visits GiveDirectly villages in Kenya (05/28/2014)
Narrowing down U.S. policy areas (05/22/2014)
Nothing But Nets (05/21/2014)
Update on GiveWell’s web traffic / money moved: Q1 2014 (05/15/2014)
The importance of committing to causes (05/14/2014)
Our writeup on criminal justice reform (05/06/2014)
A promising study re: Development Media International (05/02/2014)
Finding giving opportunities in malaria control/elimination (04/30/2014)
Meta-Research Innovation Center at Stanford (METRICS) (04/23/2014)
David Roodman’s draft writeup on the mortality-fertility connection (04/17/2014)
Our work on outreach (04/02/2014)
Against Malaria Foundation finalizes distribution agreement for ~676,000 nets (03/26/2014)
The first case study from our history of philanthropy project (03/25/2014)
GiveWell annual review for 2013: details on GiveWell’s money moved and web traffic (03/19/2014)
GiveWell is hiring (03/12/2014)
Assorted reminders (03/12/2014)
General plans for GiveWell as an organization in 2014 (03/11/2014)
GiveWell Labs – progress in 2013 and plans for 2014 (03/05/2014)
2014 plan for GiveWell’s traditional (“top charities”) work (02/26/2014)
2013 progress on GiveWell’s traditional (“top charities”) work (02/17/2014)
GiveWell’s progress in 2013 (02/14/2014)
Returns to life sciences funding (01/15/2014)
Exploring life sciences funding (01/07/2014)
Some considerations against saving for next year (12/31/2013)
Scientific research funding (12/26/2013)
Update on GiveWell’s funding needs (12/20/2013)
Staff members’ personal donations (12/12/2013)
Obstacles to “giving as consumption” (12/10/2013)
Good Ventures matching gift to GiveDirectly and grants to top charities (12/03/2013)
Rigorous study of GiveDirectly’s cash transfers (12/02/2013)
GiveWell’s top charities for giving season 2013 (12/01/2013)
Rethinking SCI’s evidence of impact (11/29/2013)
Change in Against Malaria Foundation recommendation status (room-for-more-funding-related) (11/26/2013)
How to approach policy-oriented philanthropy (11/21/2013)
6 tips on disaster relief giving (11/12/2013)
The track record of policy-oriented philanthropy (11/06/2013)
Update on GiveWell’s web traffic / money moved: Q3 2013 (11/04/2013)
The role of philanthropic funding in politics (10/30/2013)
Exploring policy-oriented philanthropy (10/24/2013)
Geoengineering research (10/16/2013)
Discrepancies between our views and our website (10/15/2013)
Deep investigations of new causes (10/10/2013)
GiveWell’s funding needs (10/02/2013)
Book about giving by GiveWell supporter Eric Friedman (10/02/2013)
GiveWell Labs update (09/26/2013)
Balancing support from Good Ventures vs. individuals (09/17/2013)
Principles and practices of capacity building (09/13/2013)
Reminder: Annual rankings refresh (09/09/2013)
Debating philanthropy (09/05/2013)
We can’t (simply) buy capacity (08/29/2013)
Excited altruism (08/20/2013)
Effective altruism (08/13/2013)
Passive vs. rational vs. quantified (08/08/2013)
Update on GiveWell’s web traffic / money moved: Q2 2013 (08/07/2013)
Responses to objections on cash transfers (07/31/2013)
Empowerment and catastrophic risk (07/18/2013)
Our landscape of the open science community (07/11/2013)
Grant to Center for Global Development (CGD) (07/03/2013)
Our take on “earning to give” (06/26/2013)
Near-term grantmaking (06/20/2013)
The moral case for giving doesn’t rely on questionable quantitative estimates (06/11/2013)
How to help GiveWell (06/07/2013)
Meta-research update (06/06/2013)
Refining the goals of GiveWell labs (05/30/2013)
Possible global catastrophic risks (05/23/2013)
Flow-through effects (05/15/2013)
Update on GiveWell’s web traffic / money moved: Q1 2013 (05/08/2013)
Unorthodox Prize (05/06/2013)
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 to 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 Yankees 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 wrong ... (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)

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