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• Please let us know if you’ve donated based on our research. We track our impact on donations. If you’ve given directly to one of our top charities (i.e., via their website or via a check sent directly to them) as a result of our recommendation, please let us know so we can include you in our figures.
• We post summaries from conversations we have as part of our research. Conversations with subject matter experts, staff at potential top charities, and funders are a major part of what we do. We have a process for publishing summaries of all conversations we have (when we have permission to do so). All of our past conversations are on our conversations page. We post each new conversation to our newly published materials list, which you can follow via email, RSS, or online. Examples of recent conversations include speaking with Paul Niehaus, Director at GiveDirectly on challenges GiveDirectly may face as it scales up; the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation’s malaria team on their strategy and timeline for malaria eradication; and Mike Konczal of the Roosevelt Institute on philanthropic opportunities in macroeconomic policy.
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