This post is authored by GiveWell staff member Timothy Telleen-Lawton. In the past we’ve written about some of the advantages of giving early rather than saving for future gifts. This year there seem to be more people in our audience … [CLICK TO READ MORE]
Monthly Archives: December 2013
[Added August 27, 2014: GiveWell Labs is now known as the Open Philanthropy Project.] One of our priorities over the last few months has been to learn, broadly speaking, about scientific research and the role philanthropy can play in it. … [CLICK TO READ MORE]
We continue to seek operating support, and we’ve seen some confusion on the part of donors about whether we think that’s the highest-impact giving opportunity available. This post provides an update on our fundraising; it is aimed at close followers … [CLICK TO READ MORE]
For this post, GiveWell staff members wrote up the thinking behind their personal donations for the year. Holden Karnofsky There are good arguments that I shouldn’t give anything this year. I tend to think that future giving opportunities will be … [CLICK TO READ MORE]
GiveWell’s traditional work (the work behind our current top charities) and our work on GiveWell Labs reflect two very different visions of giving. The first, giving as consumption, sees giving as analogous to making a purchase. For every $X one … [CLICK TO READ MORE]
Good Ventures has announced: Grants to our top charities: $2 million to GiveDirectly, $1.5 million to Deworm the World Initiative, $750,000 to Schistosomiasis Control Initiative. A match, up to $5 million total and $100,000 per donor, on donations made to … [CLICK TO READ MORE]
