Comments on: Our process: narrowing the field http://blog.givewell.org/2009/11/06/our-process-narrowing-the-field/ Exploring how to get real change for your dollar. Thu, 17 May 2012 07:21:48 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.7 by: Holden http://blog.givewell.org/2009/11/06/our-process-narrowing-the-field/#comment-85271 Fri, 06 Nov 2009 22:48:33 +0000 http://blog.givewell.org/2009/11/06/our-process-narrowing-the-field/#comment-85271 <strong>Not eligible for review</strong> (<a href="http://www.givewell.org/international/technical/criteria#Listofcharitiesweexcludedforalternativereasons" rel="nofollow">listed here</a>): we have looked at this charity, but their activities don't fit into the framework we used for international aid and/or we haven't looked into the issues they work on. So we choose not to issue any judgment. <strong>0 stars</strong>: we have looked at this charity and it does fit into the framework we used. Given available information, we recommend that a donor interested in this charity's kind of work give somewhere else. <strong>Not listed</strong>: we haven't looked at this charity at all, and if it works in international aid, we should. Let us know if you know of charities like this. Not eligible for review (listed here): we have looked at this charity, but their activities don’t fit into the framework we used for international aid and/or we haven’t looked into the issues they work on. So we choose not to issue any judgment.

0 stars: we have looked at this charity and it does fit into the framework we used. Given available information, we recommend that a donor interested in this charity’s kind of work give somewhere else.

Not listed: we haven’t looked at this charity at all, and if it works in international aid, we should. Let us know if you know of charities like this.

]]> by: Ian Turner http://blog.givewell.org/2009/11/06/our-process-narrowing-the-field/#comment-85217 Fri, 06 Nov 2009 14:22:37 +0000 http://blog.givewell.org/2009/11/06/our-process-narrowing-the-field/#comment-85217 Can you elaborate on the difference between "no stars" and "not eligible for review"? Perhaps it is worthwhile to draw a distinction between "not rated" and "not examined". Can you elaborate on the difference between “no stars” and “not eligible for review”? Perhaps it is worthwhile to draw a distinction between “not rated” and “not examined”.

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