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  GiveWell reviews a select number of organizations for our top charity recommendation each year. This page provides information about our process for organizations that apply for a recommendation without receiving an invitation from GiveWell. A note about our constraints. While we appreciate all interest in our work, we only have capacity to conduct full, intensive reviews of organizations whose applications indicate they may achieve our top rating. Nine of the 1,000+ organizations we’ve considered currently hold our highest rating. We plan to review and respond to all applications.

 Published: February 2018 (October 2017 version)

  Table of Contents   Steps to apply for consideration More information on the application process  Minimum criteria How to support your application Next steps after applying      Steps to apply for consideration Check your eligibility. We only review applications for our top charity designation that meet our minimum criteria for consideration. Before deciding to apply, we encourage you to closely review the characteristics of top charities to gauge your fit for GiveWell's recommendation. Prepare your documents. Gather all required documents, any contextual information you can easily share, and an index listing the documents in your application. Don't worry about oversharing; we prefer more detail to less. But please don't create reports specifically for us. We'd rather you ask whether they're needed. Share your work. Submit your application by sharing it in a DropBox folder with applications@givewell.org and indicating which documents we have permission to publish on our website. We appreciate your submission and will reach out with next steps within 6 weeks. More information on the application process Minimum criteria Program area. Applicant organizations must work on one of GiveWell's priority programs. If your organization runs a cost-effective, evidence-backed program that serves the global poor that is not listed as one of our priority programs, please email info@givewell.org with the independent randomized controlled trial(s) or the peer-reviewed meta-analysis evidence that supports your program's impact and ask whether you should apply. Scale. Due to the amount of funding charities typically receive as a result of GiveWell's recommendation, we prefer applications from programs with annual spending that is, and is expected to remain, at or above $1 million. Willingness to share information. GiveWell is dedicated to publishing the full details of our analysis to help donors decide where to give. Becoming a top charity means providing detailed information to GiveWell about your programs and being open to having most or all of the information published on our website to share with potential donors. We only publish materials with explicit permission. How to support your application Required documents Category Description Description of projects implemented Describe the projects you have implemented over the past 3 years or since your organization was founded (if less than 3 years ago).  Specify the total implementation outputs (e.g., bednets distributed, surgeries completed) for each location you’ve worked in to help us understand your impact.

 Monitoring and evaluation of past activities Submit any technical evaluations of past projects and any raw data your organization collects to monitor implementation of your program. If you are submitting: Survey data: Describe the methods for selecting participants to survey, who collected the data, who analyzed the data, and any audit checks performed. Please also include an example of the survey instruments. Technical evaluations: State the complete methodology for data collection and analysis for each evaluation if it is not otherwise specified. Please also specify the proportion of your organization’s past projects that the submitted evaluations cover.Examples of monitoring we find compelling: 1, 2.

 Past spending Submit a breakdown of your spending for the past 3 years or since your organization was founded (if less than 3 years ago). This information should enable us to understand how your organization has spent funding in total and how it has spent funding within the program for which you're seeking a GiveWell top-charity recommendation.  We prefer spending reports that present how and where funds were spent to implement your program to accounting reports. 

 Narrative of plans for utilizing additional funding Describe as specifically as possible how you would utilize additional funding. A helpful way to set out this information is to present scenario analyses for different levels of funds—how would you utilize an additional $500,000, $1 million, $5 million, etc.  Also describe your efforts to raise additional funds. 

 Examples of charity funding information we find compelling: 1, 2. 

 Other documents you may wish to include but which are not required Category Description Where you work A narrative describing your usual process for selecting locations to work and how you applied this process in at least one location. Approach A narrative describing your organization's unique value added and whether/how it is different from other organizations working in the same space. Organizational history A narrative describing how your organization was founded and reached its current stage. Staff Organizational chart and a list of key program staff, their role supporting the program, and their qualifications. Next steps after applying Timeline for our review. For applicants under serious consideration as potential top charities, we estimate 6-8 months of engagement before our review is complete. A review that reaches the final stages will include: Sharing documents with GiveWell, most of which are likely to already exist in some form. Email correspondence with GiveWell. 8-12 two-hour phone conversations with GiveWell. Your review and edits of summary notes from the above phone conversations for publication on our website. In most cases, a multi-day site visit with GiveWell staff.Ongoing engagement. Top charities should expect to: Review and comment on our review of their work before publication. Participate in ongoing updates (2-4 times per year) that each include sharing updated documents, joining a phone call that normally lasts 1-2 hours, and, likely once per year, reviewing and commenting on our written update before publication.                         Contact Stay updated FAQ For Charities Site map Privacy Policy Jobs       Follow Us: Facebook Twitter RSS   Subscribe to email updates:  GiveWell, aka The Clear Fund (a tax-exempt 501(c)(3) public charity), was founded in 2007. We serve donors across the globe; GiveWell's donors are based primarily in the United States, United Kingdom, Australia, Germany, and Canada. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share alike 3.0 United States License               (function($) { $(document).ready(function() { // const tippy = require('tippy.js').default; tippy('.tippy', { content: '[data-tippy-content]', followCursor: "true", placement: "bottom", }); }); window.addEventListener('scroll', () => { tippy.hideAll() }) })(jQuery);