This blog is hosting the Giving Carnival this week. The Giving Carnival is a horrible name for the following: the host chooses a topic, anyone who wants to writes/submits a post on that topic, and the host posts links to the ones he wants to (in a space this small, generally everyone) with commentary. It’s…
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I believe that the children are our future
Here’s what I’ve learned in two days of reading up on early child care (Cause 3). This is as rough as a draft gets, but I’m still going to provide references, a summary, and a roadmap, because those things are all so useful. In a nutshell: it’s at least possible to make an amazingly big…
Escaping the bubble
This blog has become part of a blogging “community.” We read each other, we refer to each other, we comment on each others’ posts, and we probably think of each other as the “other charity bloggers.” I’m talking mostly about: Tactical Philanthropy Philanthropy 2173 White Courtesy Telephone GiftHub (and its weird sister, Wealth Bondage) The…
The triage approach
One of the things we need to do, as a transparent grantmaker, is to take the intuitions and biases that make us prefer one charity over another and make them explicit, so that everyone is aware (as much as possible) of the principles that drive us. I’m going to be doing this “out loud” on…
Google.org, can you hear me?
Please don’t tell me you’re going to run one of these “three posts on the first day, then total flaking out” blogs.
Philanthropy strikes back
If you’re here to read the latest update on the GiveWell project, see this post. There are a lot of possible objections to my last post; to voice them, I’m bringing back our old friend, the Straw Man, for an exclusive interview. Straw Man: When you say you prefer charity (helping individuals) to philanthropy (addressing…