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| Staff members’ personal donations for giving season 2019 | 2019-12-10 | Catherine Hollander | GiveWell | Elie Hassenfeld Natalie Crispin Josh Rosenberg Catherine Hollander Andrew Martin Isabel Arjmand Nicole Zok Dan Brown Olivia Larsen Steph Stojanovic James Snowden Michael Eddy Kimberly Huynh Teryn Mattox Jim Bobowski | GiveWell top charities Malaria Consortium GiveDirectly StrongMinds Cool Earth Clean Air Task Force ProPublica Sogorea Te Land Trust Stonewall (UK) Afrinspire Against Malaria Foundation One for the World Centre for Pesticide Suicide Prevention Young1ove Namati Astraea Foundation UHAI-EASHRI The Other Foundation Colombia Diversa The Trevor Project Médecins Sans Frontières Effective Altruism Funds: Animal Welfare Fund | Periodic donation list documentation | Continuing an annual tradition started in 2013, GiveWell staff members describe where they are donating. Some of the main themes: staff members deciding whether to donate directly to specific GiveWell top charities or donate to GiveWell for regranting to top charities. While most people choose the latter, a few choose the former for reasons including tax advantages, opinion of other family members, and slightly different moral weights than those used by GiveWell. Donors also talk about setting aside small portions of their giving for other kinds of causes, including animal welfare, AI safety, climate change, mental health, social justice, and local philanthropy. Amounts donated are not included, per a decision by GiveWell | ||
| Announcing our 2019 top charities | 2019-11-26 | Catherine Hollander | GiveWell | GiveWell Maximum Impact Fund | Malaria Consortium Against Malaria Foundation Helen Keller International Deworm the World Initiative Sightsavers The END Fund GiveDirectly Schistosomiasis Control Initiative | GiveWell | Evaluator consolidated recommendation list | Global health and development | GiveWell annual top charrities list. As in previous years, GiveWell recomemnds that donors donate to GiveWell to regrant to top charities at its discretion, but also provides its current ranked list of top charities to help donors make an informed decision. Its ranked list (from best to worst) is: Malaria Consortium (seasonal malaria chemoprevention (SMC) program), Against Malaria Foundation, Helen Keller International (vitamin A suppplementation), charities that treat parasitic worm infections (Evidence Action's Deworm the World Initiative, Sightsavers, The END Fund), and GiveDirectly. From the perspective of cause areas, the rank is: malaria > vitamin A supplementation > deworming > cash transfers. This is consistent with, and highly influenced by, the cost-effectiveness estimates that GiveWell uses. The post highlights Malaria Consortium as the charity to select for donors who want to give directly to a charity. The post links to a number of more in-depth write-ups explaining the charity ranking, as well as to https://www.givewell.org/charities/top-charities/2019/open-philanthropy-recommendation which describes the recommendation to Open Philanthropy Project (and indirectly, to Good Ventures) on how to allocate funding to the top charities in 2019 |
| Recommendation to Open Philanthropy for Grants to Top Charities | 2019-11-26 | GiveWell | Open Philanthropy | Malaria Consortium Helen Keller International Sightsavers Against Malaria Foundation The END Fund GiveDirectly Development Media International Dispenses for Safe Water Food Fortification Initiative Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition Georgetown University Initiative on Innovation, Development, and Evaluation Iodine Global Network Living Goods Project Healthy Children | GiveWell | Periodic donation list documentation | Global health and development | The document details GiveWell's recommendation in 2019 for grants by Good Ventures (via the Open Philanthropy Project) to GiveWell top and standout charities. The overall amount of money recommended for allocation is $54.6 million, and the document explains that Open Phil's calculation that it may make sense to spend down more slowly was the reason for reducing the allocation from last year. It discusses the principles used for allocation: (1) Put significant weight on cost-effectiveness estimates, (2) Consider additional information not explicitly modeled about the organization, (3) Consider additional information not explicitly modeled about the funding gap, (4) Assess funding gaps at the margin, (5) Default to not imposing restrictions on charity spending, (6) Default to funding on a 3-year horizon, and (7) Ensure charities are incentivized to engage with the process. The three charities that get significant grants are Malaria Consortium for its SMC program ($33.9 million), Helen Keller International ($9.7 million), and Sightsavers ($2.7 million). Against Malaria Foundation, The END Fund, and GiveDirectly receive the minimum "incentive grant" amount of $2.5 million that all top charities should receive. The top charity Deworm the World Initiative is not given an incentive grant because it received a previous grant through GiveWell discretionary grant that more than covers the incentive grant amount. 8 standout charities get $100,000 each | |
| Evidence Action is shutting down No Lean Season | 2019-06-06 | Catherine Hollander | GiveWell | No Lean Season | GiveWell | Evaluator update on donee | Seasonal intracountry migration | GiveWell blogs about Evidence Action's announcement that it is shutting down No Lean Season: https://www.evidenceaction.org/blog-full/why-we-are-shutting-down-no-lean-season Like the original Evidence Action blog post, GiveWell cites two main reasons for closing the program: Investigation into allegations against Evidence Action’s implementing partner, and mixed evidence of impact for the program. GiveWell explains why it still has a high opinion of Evidence Action, but notes three questions derived from these developments: (a) selection of implementing partners, (b) process for hiring and evaluating staff, and (c) financial oversight. GiveWell expects to ask Evidence Action to redirect to Deworm the World Initiative the unused funds donated via GiveWell for No Lean Season. Donors who have a different preference for their donated money are asked to contact donations@givewell.org by July 31 | |
| Staff members’ personal donations for giving season 2018 | 2018-12-10 | Catherine Hollander | GiveWell | Elie Hassenfeld Natalie Crispin Josh Rosenberg Devin Jacob Catherine Hollander Andrew Martin Christian Smith Isabel Arjmand James Snowden Dan Brown Olivia Larsen Amar Radia | GiveWell top charities Donor lottery GiveDirectly International Refugee Assistance Project RAICES National Immigration Law Center CALmatters Center for Investigative Reporting ProPublica Malaria Consortium Against Malaria Foundation StrongMinds Planned Parenthood Action Fund Cool Earth Causa Justa::Just Cause Initiate Justice Sorea Te Land Trust No Means No Worldwide Stonewall (UK) Afrinspire Effective Altruism Funds | Periodic donation list documentation | GiveWell staff members describe where they are donating in 2018. The majority are donating most of their money to GiveWell top charities (i.e., to GiveWell for discretionary regranting). A few explicitly donate to Malaria Consortium, Against Malaria Foundation, and GiveDirectly. Many staff members announce intent to donate a small fraction of their donation budget for animal welfare charities, but explicit names of animal welfare charities are not included. A number of donors mention donating small amounts to charities focused on justice-related themes and local causes. Not all employees are present in the document (participation is optional). Amounts donated are not included, per a decision by GiveWell | ||
| Response to concerns about GiveWell’s spillovers analysis | 2018-12-06 | Josh Rosenberg | GiveWell | GiveWell Maximum Impact Fund Open Philanthropy | GiveDirectly | GiveWell | Reasoning supplement | Cash transfers | The blog post explains in more detail how GiveWell came to its conclusions in its recent analysis of spillover effects from GiveDirectly's cash transfer program. In particular, it responds to a series of tweets from economist Berk Özler expressing concern over GiveWell for (1) using an unpublished paper as a key study, (2) placing little weight on some papers in its analysis of spillover effects, (3) focusing solely on consumption. While replying to the concerns, the GiveWell blog post also explains some of the broader principles used by GiveWell to determine when to use private information, and what evidence to review and what outcomes to consider |
| Our updated top charities for giving season 2018 | 2018-11-26 | Catherine Hollander | GiveWell | GiveWell Maximum Impact Fund Open Philanthropy | GiveWell top charities Malaria Consortium Helen Keller International Against Malaria Foundation Deworm the World Initiative Schistosomiasis Control Initiative Sightsavers The END Fund GiveDirectly | GiveWell | Evaluator consolidated recommendation list | Global health and development | GiveWell annual top charities list. GiveWell recommends that donors donate to GiveWell to regrant to top charities at its discretion, but also provides details on the individual top charities so that people can make an informed decision. In addition, the amounts determined for GiveWell Maximum Impact Fund and for donation by Good Ventures are also included, though details of the amount recommended to Good Ventures are in a separate blog post https://blog.givewell.org/2018/11/26/our-recommendation-to-good-ventures/ |
| Our recommendation to Good Ventures | 2018-11-26 | Andrew Martin Catherine Hollander Elie Hassenfeld James Snowden Josh Rosenberg | GiveWell | Good Ventures/GiveWell top and standout charities | Malaria Consortium Helen Keller International Against Malaria Foundation Deworm the World Initiative Schistosomiasis Control Initiative Sightsavers The END Fund GiveDirectly | GiveWell | Periodic donation list documentation | Global health and development | The document explains, along with a detailed rationale, the amounts that GiveWell is recommending to Good Ventures to grant to each of its top charities for the 2018 end-of-year giving season. The corresponding acknowledgement post from the Open Philanthropy Project was published on 2018-12-12 at https://www.openphilanthropy.org/blog/2018-allocation-givewell-top-charities |
| Update on No Lean Season’s top charity status | 2018-11-19 | Catherine Hollander | GiveWell | Good Ventures/GiveWell top and standout charities | No Lean Season | GiveWell | Evaluator update on donee | Seasonal intracountry migration | GiveWell announces the removal of No Lean Season from its list of top charities, in advance of the annual top charity list refresh. The primary reason is that the results of the 2017 RCT suggest that the program did not successfully induce migration. No Lean Season has over two years of funding remaining, which would allow them to use the information to tweak the program further, allowing for re-evaluation by GiveWell in 2019. Evidence Action has a related blog post at https://www.evidenceaction.org/blog-full/why-test-at-scale-no-lean-season |
| Publishing more frequent updates to our cost-effectiveness model | 2018-10-02 | Catherine Hollander | GiveWell | GiveWell | Evaluator quantification approach | The document describes changes GiveWell has made to allow for more frequent updates to its cost-effectiveness model. It describes how, starting May 2017, GiveWell started with versioned releases of its cost-effectiveness models, publishing five versions in 2017. In 2017, each release was accompanied by PDF release notes. Starting 2018, GiveWell shifted to having a changelog, available at https://www.givewell.org/how-we-work/our-criteria/cost-effectiveness/cost-effectiveness-models/changelog In addition, by having a dedicated staff member (Christian Smith) to manage cost-effectiveness models, GiveWell could manage much more frequent updates to the model | |||
| Staff members’ personal donations for giving season 2017 | 2017-12-11 | Josh Rosenberg | GiveWell | Elie Hassenfeld Natalie Crispin Josh Rosenberg Sophie Monahan Catherine Hollander Andrew Martin Chelsea Tabart Christian Smith Isabel Arjmand James Snowden | GiveWell top charities Effective Altruism Funds No Lean Season Against Malaria Foundation GiveDirectly Causa Justa::Just Cause Planned Parenthood ProPublica Earthjustice | Periodic donation list documentation | GiveWell staff describe where they are donating in 2017. Not all employees are present in the document (participation is optional). Amounts donated are not included, per a decision by GiveWell | ||
| 2017 Cost-effectiveness analysis — Version 5 | 2017-11-27 | GiveWell | GiveWell | Evaluator quantification approach | Version 5 of cost-effectiveness analysis (CEA) spreadsheet that underlies top charity recmomendations. This version is published at the same time as the 2017 top charity recommendations https://blog.givewell.org/2017/11/27/our-top-charities-for-giving-season-2017/ and is the model used to inform those recommendations. The PDF of release notes is https://www.givewell.org/files/DWDA%202009/Interventions/CEA_release_notes_2017_V5.pdf See https://www.givewell.org/how-we-work/our-criteria/cost-effectiveness/cost-effectiveness-models for the full list of cost-effectiveness models | ||||
| Our top charities for giving season 2017 | 2017-11-27 | Natalie Crispin | GiveWell | GiveWell Maximum Impact Fund Good Ventures/GiveWell top and standout charities | GiveWell top charities Against Malaria Foundation Schistosomiasis Control Initiative Malaria Consortium Deworm the World Initiative Helen Keller International Sightsavers The END Fund No Lean Season GiveDirectly Development Media International Dispensers for Safe Water Food Fortification Initiative Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition Iodine Global Network Living Goods Project Healthy Children | GiveWell | Evaluator consolidated recommendation list | Global health and development | GiveWell annual top charity refresh, also announced amounts recommended for Good Ventures to donate to top charities. Added two new top charities |
| 2017 Cost-effectiveness analysis — Version 4 | 2017-11-08 | GiveWell | GiveWell | Evaluator quantification approach | Version 4 of cost-effectiveness analysis (CEA) spreadsheet that underlies top charity recommendations. Announced on mailing list at https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/newly-published-givewell-materials/9e-6UgIc2wA and PDF of release notes is at http://files.givewell.org/files/DWDA%202009/Interventions/2017_GiveWell_cost-effectiveness_analysis_Version_4_Release_notes.pdf See https://www.givewell.org/how-we-work/our-criteria/cost-effectiveness/cost-effectiveness-models for the full list of cost-effectiveness models | ||||
| Approaches to Moral Weights: How GiveWell Compares to Other Actors | 2017-11-07 | GiveWell | GiveWell Maximum Impact Fund Open Philanthropy | GiveWell top charities Deworm the World Initiative Schistosomiasis Control Initiative Against Malaria Foundation Malaria Consortium GiveDirectly | GiveWell | Evaluator quantification approach | In-depth look at how the way GiveWell uses moral weights in cost-effectiveness analyses (such as the value of saving lives) compares with the way governments and others in public policy use it. One difference is that the target population GiveWell deals with is often in low and middle income countries (LMIC) for which estimates of the value of a life saved are more murky. The document also talks of the different moral weights associated with saving people at different ages. See https://blog.givewell.org/2017/11/07/how-givewell-and-mainstream-policymakers-compare-the-good-achieved-by-different-programs/ for a blog post by Josh Rosenberg announcing and summarizing the report. The earlier blog post https://blog.givewell.org/2017/06/01/how-givewell-uses-cost-effectiveness-analyses/ is also referenced. Also see https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/newly-published-givewell-materials/xeSpZ512VFw (2017-11-07) for the mailing list announcement | ||
| 2017 Cost-effectiveness analysis - Version 3 | 2017-10-27 | GiveWell | GiveWell | Evaluator quantification approach | Version 3 of cost-effectiveness analysis (CEA) spreadsheet that underlies top charity recommendations. Announced on mailing list at https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/newly-published-givewell-materials/PwjTUQHFT-A (2017-10-27) and with release notes http://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Ffiles.givewell.org%2Ffiles%2FDWDA%25202009%2FInterventions%2F2017_GiveWell_cost-effectiveness_analysis_Version_3_Release_notes.pdf&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNGPmpBl6YHDdmGCVFh8G_58-VXqhA and PDF of release notes is at http://files.givewell.org/files/DWDA%202009/Interventions/2017_GiveWell_cost-effectiveness_analysis_Version_3_Release_notes.pdf&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNGPmpBl6YHDdmGCVFh8G_58-VXqhA See https://www.givewell.org/how-we-work/our-criteria/cost-effectiveness/cost-effectiveness-models for the full list of cost-effectiveness models | ||||
| 2017 Cost-effectiveness analysis - Version 2 | 2017-08-16 | GiveWell | GiveWell | Evaluator quantification approach | Version 2 of cost-effectiveness analysis (CEA) spreadshett for 2017. See http://givewell.org/files/DWDA%202009/Interventions/2017_GiveWell_cost-effectiveness_analysis_Version_2_Release_notes.pdf for the release notes. See https://www.givewell.org/how-we-work/our-criteria/cost-effectiveness/cost-effectiveness-models for the full list of cost-effectiveness models | ||||
| How GiveWell uses cost-effectiveness analyses | 2017-06-01 | Catherine Hollander | GiveWell | GiveWell Maximum Impact Fund Open Philanthropy | Against Malaria Foundation GiveDirectly GiveWell top charities | GiveWell | Evaluator quantification approach | Provides an in-depth lok at how GiveWell does cost-effectiveness analyses, including a list of the kinds of subjective inputs that go into the modeling. The later blog post https://blog.givewell.org/2017/11/07/how-givewell-and-mainstream-policymakers-compare-the-good-achieved-by-different-programs/ summarizing the report https://www.givewell.org/how-we-work/our-criteria/cost-effectiveness/comparing-moral-weights references this | |
| 2017 Cost-effectiveness analysis - Version 1 | 2017-05-20 | GiveWell | GiveWell | Evaluator quantification approach | Version 1 of cost-effectiveness analysis (CEA) spreadsheet for 2017. This is the first CEA to be explicitly given a named version as well as release notes. See http://files.givewell.org/files/DWDA%202009/Interventions/2017_GiveWell_cost-effectiveness_analysis_Version_1_Release_notes.pdf for the release notes. See https://www.givewell.org/how-we-work/our-criteria/cost-effectiveness/cost-effectiveness-models for the full list of cost-effectiveness models | ||||
| Update on our views on cataract surgery | 2017-05-11 | Catherine Hollander | GiveWell | GiveWell | Review of current state of cause area | Global health/cataract surgery | The document discusses uncertainty around funding cataract surgery, specifically around whether it is talent-constrained or funding-constrained, and other questions around marginal impact and quantification | ||
| Allocation of discretionary funds and new recommendation for donors | 2017-04-03 | Natalie Crispin | GiveWell | GiveWell Maximum Impact Fund | GiveWell top charities Against Malaria Foundation Schistosomiasis Control Initiative Deworm the World Initiative | GiveWell | Periodic donation list documentation | Global health | GiveWell announces that it will allocate $4.9 million dollars of discretionary funds as follows: $4.4 million to the Against Malaria Foundation, and $0.5 million to the Deworm the World Initiative. Further, it updates its recommendation to donors, saying they should give all money at the margin to the Against Malaria Foundation. This updates the November 2016 recommendation to give to AMF and the Schistosomiasis Control Initiative in a 3:1 ratio |
| Discretionary grant making and implications for donor agency | 2016-12-19 | Andrew Martin | GiveWell | GiveWell Maximum Impact Fund | Against Malaria Foundation Schistosomiasis Control Initiative | GiveWell | Broad donor strategy | Explains the difference between giving GiveWell money to grant at its own discretion and donating to current GiveWell top and standout charities | |
| AMF and Population Ethics | 2016-12-12 | Ajeya Cotra | GiveWell | Against Malaria Foundation | GiveWell | Reasoning supplement | Global health/malaria | Ajeya Cotra of GiveWell responds to a blog post https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/4WWXNKWHXQNFk3afc/are-you-sure-you-want-to-donate-to-the-against-malaria (GW, IR) by Michael Plant arguing that, under various possible population ethics stances, the Against Malaria Foundation is not the best use of donations. Cotra's post first summarizes Plant's argument, then explains why in GiveWell's views, its recommendation of AMF is compatible with most population ethics stances | |
| Staff members’ personal donations for giving season 2016 | 2016-12-09 | Natalie Crispin | GiveWell | Elie Hassenfeld Holden Karnofsky Natalie Crispin Alexander Berger Timothy Telleen-Lawton Josh Rosenberg Rebecca Raible Helen Toner Sophie Monahan Laura Muñoz Catherine Hollander Andrew Martin Lewis Bollard Chelsea Tabart Sarah Ward Chris Somerville Ajeya Cotra Chris Smith Isabel Arjmand | A political campaign GiveWell top charities International Genetically Engineered Machine Foundation UPMC Center for Health Security Donor lottery EA Giving Group GiveDirectly Center for Applied Rationality Malaria Consortium Animal Charity Evaluators Northwest Health Law Advocates StrongMinds Against Malaria Foundation Schistosomiasis Control Initiative The Humane Society of the United States The Humane League Mercy For Animals Humane Society International Compassion in World Farming USA The Good Food Institute Citizens for Farm Animal Protection The END Fund Causa Justa Planned Parenthood International Refugee Assistance Project | Periodic donation list documentation | GiveWell and Open Philanthropy Project staff describe their annual donation plans for 2016. Some of these are tentative and get superseded by further events. Also, not all employees are present in the document (participation is optional). Amounts donated are not included, per a decision by GiveWell | ||
| Our updated top charities for giving season 2016 | 2016-11-28 | Natalie Crispin | GiveWell | Good Ventures/GiveWell top and standout charities | GiveWell top charities Against Malaria Foundation Schistosomiasis Control Initiative Deworm the World Initiative GiveDirectly Malaria Consortium Sightsavers The END Fund Development Media International Food Fortification Initiative Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition Iodine Global Network Living Goods Project Healthy Children | GiveWell | Evaluator consolidated recommendation list | Global health and development | GiveWell annual top charity refresh, also announced amounts recommended for Good Ventures to donate to top charities. Added three new top charities |
| Mid-year update to top charity recommendations | 2016-06-23 | Natalie Crispin | GiveWell | GiveWell top charities Against Malaria Foundation Schistosomiasis Control Initiative Deworm the World Initiative GiveDirectly | GiveWell | Evaluator consolidated recommendation list | Global health and development | First mid-year refresh of top charities from GiveWell. No change to charity list, and no donation recommended for Good Ventures | |
| What we’ve learned about SCI this year | 2016-06-20 | Andrew Martin | GiveWell | Schistosomiasis Control Initiative | GiveWell | Evaluator update on donee | Global health/deworming | Discovery of some financial errors, but affirmed continued top charity status for now | |
| Staff members’ personal donations for giving season 2015 | 2015-12-09 | Elie Hassenfeld | GiveWell | Elie Hassenfeld Holden Karnofsky Natalie Crispin Alexander Berger Timothy Telleen-Lawton Sean Conley Josh Rosenberg Jake Marcus Rebecca Raible Milan Griffes Helen Toner Sophie Monahan Laura Muñoz Catherine Hollander Andrew Martin Claire Zabel Nicole Ross Lewis Bollard | GiveWell top charities Against Malaria Foundation GiveWell GiveDirectly Wikimedia Foundation Center for Global Development Martha’s Table Country Dance and Song Society Northwest Health Law Advocates Mercy For Animals The Humane League Animal Charity Evaluators Raising for Effective Giving Humane Society of te United States | Periodic donation list documentation | GiveWell and Open Philanthropy Project staff describe their annual donation plans for 2015. Some of these are tentative and get superseded by further events. Also, not all employees are present in the document (participation is optional). Amounts donated are not included, per a decision by GiveWell | ||
| Our updated top charities for giving season 2015 | 2015-11-20 | Elie Hassenfeld Josh Rosenberg | GiveWell | Good Ventures/GiveWell top and standout charities | GiveWell top charities Against Malaria Foundation Schistosomiasis Control Initiative Deworm the World Initiative GiveDirectly Development Media International Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition Iodine Global Network Living Goods | GiveWell | Evaluator consolidated recommendation list | GLobal health and global poverty | No change to charity list; significant funding recommended from Good Ventures. This would be later classified as Open Philanthropy Project spending |
| Staff members’ personal donations – giving season 2014 | 2014-12-17 | Holden Karnofsky | GiveWell | Elie Hassenfeld Holden Karnofsky Natalie Crispin Alexander Berger Eliza Scheffler Timothy Telleen-Lawton Josh Rosenberg Ben Rachbach Jake Marcus Rebecca Raible Milan Griffes Tyler Heishman | GiveWell top charities Against Malaria Foundation Schistosomiasis Control Initiative Deworm the World Initiative GiveWell standout charities | Periodic donation list documentation | GiveWell staff describe their annual donation plans for 2014. Some of these are tentative and get superseded by further events. Also, not all employees are present in the document (participation is optional). Amounts donated are not included, per a decision by GiveWell | ||
| Our updated top charities | 2014-12-01 | Elie Hassenfeld | GiveWell | Good Ventures/GiveWell top and standout charities | GiveWell top charities Against Malaria Foundation Schistosomiasis Control Initiative Deworm the World Initiative GiveDirectly Development Media International Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition Iodine Global Network Living Goods | GiveWell | Evaluator consolidated recommendation list | Global health and development | Against Malaria Foundation returned to top charities list. Amounts donated by Good Ventures would later be classified as Open Philanthropy Project spending |
| Staff members’ personal donations | 2013-12-12 | Holden Karnofsky | GiveWell | Holden Karnofsky Elie Hassenfeld Alexander Berger Natalie Crispin Eliza Scheffler Timothy Telleen-Lawton Sean Conley Josh Rosenberg Ben Rachbach Howie Lempel Jake Marcus | GiveDirectly Mercy For Animals Schistosomiasis Control Initiative Against Malaria Foundation Deworm the World Initiative The Humane Society of the United States | Periodic donation list documentation | GiveWell staff describe their annual donation plans for 2013. Some of these are tentative and get superseded by further events. Also, not all employees are present in the document (participation is optional). Amounts donated are not included, per a decision by GiveWell | ||
| GiveWell’s top charities for giving season 2013 | 2013-12-01 | Holden Karnofsky | GiveWell | Good Ventures/GiveWell top and standout charities | Against Malaria Foundation GiveDirectly Schistosomiasis Control Initiative Deworm the World Initiative | GiveWell | Evaluator consolidated recommendation list | Global health and development | Against Malaria Foundation not in top charities list (it was in 2013) due to room for more funding issues. Good Ventures allocations not included in this post |
| Our take on “earning to give” | 2013-06-26 | Holden Karnofsky | GiveWell | Miscellaneous commentary | Global health | Holden Karnofsky writes about GiveWell's broad take on earning to give: as a broadening of the set of options available in order to do the most good, and a way to challenge the narrative that working at a nonprofit is the best way to have an impact. Karnofsky also points out that donation isn't the only way somebody at a for-profit job contributes to the world; their work could also have positive flow-through effects. Overall, Karnofsky advocates for "systematicity" in exploring various options and excitement about doing the most good possible. | |||
| Our top charities for the 2012 giving season | 2012-11-26 | Holden Karnofsky | GiveWell | Against Malaria Foundation GiveDirectly Schistosomiasis Control Initiative | GiveWell | Evaluator consolidated recommendation list | Global health and development | GiveDirectly promoted from standout to top charity, other two charities same as for 2011 | |
| Deciding between two outstanding charities | 2011-12-08 | Holden Karnofsky | GiveWell | Against Malaria Foundation Schistosomiasis Control Initiative | GiveWell | Reasoning supplement | Global health/malaria and deworming | Provided more in-depth coverage of tradeoffs between the two top charities, supplementing the announcement post at https://blog.givewell.org/2011/11/29/top-charities-for-holiday-season-2011-against-malaria-foundation-and-schistosomiasis-control-initiative/ | |
| Top charities for holiday season 2011: Against Malaria Foundation and Schistosomiasis Control Initiative | 2011-11-29 | Holden Karnofsky | GiveWell | Against Malaria Foundation Schistosomiasis Control Initiative GiveDirectly Innovations for Poverty Action Nyaya Health Pratham Small Enterprise Foundation | GiveWell | Evaluator consolidated recommendation list | Global health and development | Against Malaria Foundation and Schistosomiasis Control Initiative were the top charities; the others were standouts | |
| Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence | 2011-04-30 | Holden Karnofsky | GiveWell | Open Philanthropy | Machine Intelligence Research Institute | Evaluator review of donee | AI safety | In this email thread on the GiveWell mailing list, Holden Karnofsky gives his views on the Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence (SIAI), the former name for the Machine Intelligence Research Institute (MIRI). The reply emails include a discussion of how much weight to give to, and what to learn from, the support for MIRI by Peter Thiel, a wealthy early MIRI backer. In the final email in the thread, Holden Karnofsky includes an audio recording with Jaan Tallinn, another wealthy early MIRI backer. This analysis likely influences the review https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/6SGqkCgHuNr7d4yJm/thoughts-on-the-singularity-institute-si (GW, IR) published by Karnofsky next year, as well as the initial position of the Open Philanthropy Project (a GveWell spin-off grantmaker) toward MIRI. |
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