[Added August 27, 2014: GiveWell Labs is now known as the Open Philanthropy Project.] As noted previously, I’ve been working on improving our broad understanding of the role that philanthropy can play in influencing and informing policy. One of the … [CLICK TO READ MORE]
Monthly Archives: October 2013
[Added August 27, 2014: GiveWell Labs is now known as the Open Philanthropy Project.] Over the last few months, I’ve been working on improving our broad understanding of the role that philanthropy can play in influencing and informing public policy. … [CLICK TO READ MORE]
[Added August 27, 2014: GiveWell Labs is now known as the Open Philanthropy Project.] We’ve completed a medium-depth writeup on geoengineering research – large-scale interventions in the climate to attempt to reduce climate change or its impacts – focusing on … [CLICK TO READ MORE]
There are times when the views expressed on our website can become out of sync with the internal views of staff. Because of the way we run our process, this effect is most pronounced in October and November, just before … [CLICK TO READ MORE]
[Added August 27, 2014: GiveWell Labs is now known as the Open Philanthropy Project.] As discussed previously, GiveWell and Good Ventures have identified several philanthropic causes that seem like promising candidates for “deep dives” – investigations deep enough to be … [CLICK TO READ MORE]
Building GiveWell’s staff has long been one of our top priorities, and one of our most difficult challenges. In 2013, we’ve seen progress on this front like never before. Our staff currently stands at 10 full-time (not “trial”) employees, compared … [CLICK TO READ MORE]