We complete two types of evaluation:
GiveWell’s mission is to find outstanding giving opportunities and publish the full details of our analysis to help donors decide where to give. The ultimate goal is to have significant impact on the flow of donations, moving toward a world in which donors reward effectiveness in improving lives.
Each year we complete an internal review of our progress over the previous year and publish a plan of our goals for the coming year.
We began the process of soliciting external reviews in July 2010. As of this writing (August 2013), we are no longer actively soliciting external reviews. More on this decision in this blog post.
We created five separate external vetting assignments, each evaluating a separate piece of our process:
Assignment | Person | Review topic | Completed assignment |
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Issue overview | Matthew Bonds1 | HIV/AIDS | Summary | Full assessment (DOC) |
Issue overview | Matthew Collin2 | Developing-world education | Summary | Full assessment (DOC) |
Issue overview | Andy Beckingham3 | Maternal mortality | Summary | Full assessment (DOC) |
Issue overview | Pierre Thompson4 | Combination deworming | Summary | Full assessment (DOC) |
Criteria and heuristics | Laura Freschi5 | Our criteria and heuristics | Summary | Full assessment (DOC) |
Criteria and heuristics | David Jinkins6 | Our criteria and heuristics | Summary | Full assessment (DOC) |
Narrowing the field | Jonah Sinick7 | Our process for narrowing the field | Summary | Full assessment (DOC) |
Narrowing the field | Ju Min Kim8 | Our process for narrowing the field | Summary | Full assessment (PDF) |
Charity review | Robert Mundy9 | VillageReach (July 2010 review) | Summary | Full assessment (DOC) |
Charity review | Robert Mundy10 | Against Malaria Foundation | Summary | Full assessment (DOC) |
Charity review | Robert Mundy11 | Small Enterprise Foundation | Summary | Full assessment (DOC) |
Charity review | Jonah Sinick12 | Stop TB Partnership | Summary | Full assessment (DOC) |
Charity review | Wendy Knight13 | Nurse-Family Partnership | Summary | Full assessment (DOC) |
Charity review | Joshua Rosenberg14 | Village Enterprise Fund | Summary | Full assessment (DOC) |
Charity review | Kate Lang15 | Schistosomiasis Control Initiative | Summary | Full assessment (DOC) |
Charity review | Ju Min Kim16 | Chamroeun | Summary | Full assessment (PDF) |
Charity review | Rachel Gross17 | KIPP | Summary | Full assessment (DOC) |
Charity review | Lim Kwangjin18 | Stop TB Partnership | Summary | Full assessment (DOC) |
Charity review | Rachel Gross19 | Invest in Kids | Summary | Full assessment (DOC) |
Charity review | Ju Min Kim20 | VillageReach | Summary | Full assessment (PDF) |
Finding the Best Charity | Stephanie Wykstra21 | Deciding where to give | Summary | Full assessment (ZIP) |
Finding the Best Charity | Robert Mundy22 | Deciding where to give | Summary | Full assessment (DOC) |
Finding the Best Charity | Timothy Moreland23 | Deciding where to give | Summary | Full assessment (DOC) |
Finding the Best Charity | Tobias Pfutze24 | Deciding where to give | Summary | Full assessment (DOC) | Follow up conversation |
Finding the Best Charity | Rachael Stephens25 | Deciding where to give | Summary | Full assessment (DOC) |