[Added August 27, 2014: GiveWell Labs is now known as the Open Philanthropy Project.] We previously listed our five chief criteria for 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 further discusses the third of these criteria: “accountability.”…
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Trading off upside vs. track record
[Added August 27, 2014: GiveWell Labs is now known as the Open Philanthropy Project.] We previously listed our five chief criteria for GiveWell Labs (a new arm of our research process that will be open to any giving opportunity, no matter what form and what sector). This post further discusses the first two of these…
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…