When someone asks me what makes GiveWell different from other third-party charity evaluators, I often answer by listing all the things we’ve done in order to investigate our current top-rated charity, VillageReach. We’ve done extensive background research on international aid and argued for key takeaways such as the overall promise of international aid for donors,…
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GiveWell Labs: Our criteria for giving opportunities
[Added August 27, 2014: GiveWell Labs is now known as the Open Philanthropy Project.] We’re starting a new initiative, GiveWell Labs, an arm of our research process that will be open to any giving opportunity, no matter what form and what sector. This post lays out, very broadly, what qualities we are looking for in…
GiveWell Labs: Plans for our process and transparency
[Added August 27, 2014: GiveWell Labs is now known as the Open Philanthropy Project.] We’re starting a new initiative, GiveWell Labs, an arm of our research process that will be open to any giving opportunity, no matter what form and what sector. One of the major challenges of this initiative (as mentioned in the previous…
Why GiveWell Labs?
[Added August 27, 2014: GiveWell Labs is now known as the Open Philanthropy Project.] We previously announced GiveWell Labs, a new arm of our research process that will be open to any giving opportunity, no matter what form and what sector. Here I share a bit more of the thinking behind why we’re doing this….
Announcing GiveWell Labs
[Added August 27, 2014: GiveWell Labs is now known as the Open Philanthropy Project.] The research we’ve been doing for the last couple of years has been constrained in a couple of key ways: We’ve pre-declared areas of focus (based on our guesses as to where the most promising charities would be found), and disqualified…
Working for GiveWell
If you’re interested in working or volunteering for GiveWell, now would be a good time to let us know. We’ve been a 7-person team for the last couple of months, but since two of the hires were temporary, we’re soon going to be back down to 5. We were happy with our productivity when we…