GiveWell and Good Ventures no longer follow the approach outlined below in 2015 to direct Good Ventures’ funding to GiveWell’s top charities. The approach changed in 2016; Good Ventures now gives to GiveWell top charities according to a budget it sets with the Open Philanthropy Project that takes into account its total giving and priorities,…
The GiveWell Blog
Month: November 2015
Our updated top charities for giving season 2015
We have refreshed our top charity rankings and recommendations. Our set of top charities and standouts is the same as last year’s, but we have introduced rankings and changed our recommended funding allocation, due to a variety of updates – particularly to our top charities’ room for more funding. In particular, we are recommending that…
Should the Open Philanthropy Project be recommending more/larger grants?
The Open Philanthropy Project has ambitions of influencing very large amounts of giving in the future (hundreds of millions of dollars a year or more). To date, we haven’t made nearly enough recommendations to reach this level of giving, and this is not ideal. In a perfect world, we’d be recommending far more giving. However,…
The lack of controversy over well-targeted aid
There are a number of high-profile public debates about the value of overseas aid (example). These debates generally have intelligent people and arguments on both sides, and they rightly give many people the sense that “Does aid work?” is a complex question with no simple answer. However, we believe these debates are sometimes misinterpreted, causing…