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We find outstanding charities and publish the full details of our analysis to help donors decide where to give.

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  1. Oct 8

    We're actively looking into whether there are promising funding opportunities in this space. Stay tuned!

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  2. Oct 8

    Simple comparisons suggest SMC could be 1.5 to 2 times more cost-effective than RTS,S. Caveat: there are LOTS of unknowns about RTS,S that could change this. Over 4 years: * SMC: ~$28; avert 53% of malaria cases * RTS,S: ~$30-40; avert 36% of malaria cases

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  3. Oct 8

    This vaccine is a promising addition to the set of tools available to fight malaria, but not a panacea. We expect malaria nets and seasonal malaria chemoprevention (SMC) to continue to be important in the fight against malaria in the near term.

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  4. Oct 8

    We're excited to see this week's news about the WHO approving the RTS,S malaria vaccine! We've been following these developments for a while, and so we wrote up some initial thoughts: .

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  5. Oct 5

    We're discontinuing our standout charity designation. Our latest blog post explains why.

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    Oct 5

    “It becomes this very exciting way to spend your money,” Holden Karnofsky, the co-founder of GiveWell, says about donating to charities that have the biggest impact per dollar spent.

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  7. Sep 14

    Add your questions for GiveWell to our September 2021 open thread:

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  8. Sep 1

    As part of our COVID-19 grantmaking, we recommended funding for a very large cluster-randomized controlled trial on masks (600 villages, 342,126 adults). The working paper is now public here:

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  9. Aug 25

    We recently received ~51 ETH (sold for over $150,000 USD) in donations toward our Maximum Impact Fund from . Many thanks to the team and community for their support!

    We also wanted to let you know that we have already set aside 76ETH for charitable donations. Again more detail in discord, but ~2/3 (~51ETH) of this is going to and their maximum impact fund and the rest will go to NYC-based non-profits in the coming weeks!
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  10. Jun 30

    We are excited to see two Sri Lankan policies that contributed to our decision to recommend grant funding to the Centre for Pesticide Suicide Prevention were awarded a Future Policy Award 2021! Read more about the award here: .

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  11. Jun 14

    Add your questions for GiveWell to our June 2021 open thread: .

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  12. May 21

    We’ve passed $2.2M USD in donations from the community , totaling over 725 ETH! Many thanks to all involved with for your continued enthusiasm and support of our recommended charities!

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  13. May 14

    GiveWell staff enjoyed hearing from today about his recent donation and his thoughts on effective giving in the crypto community. Thank you so much, Vitalik!

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  14. May 11

    Early signs show that our donor community gave more in 2020 than in 2019 - thank you so much for your generous support! Details: . This doesn't include all donations due to our research in 2020. Check out the link for more info about what's included.

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  15. May 6

    We just passed $1M USD in donations from the community ! In total we’ve seen over 414 ETH (sold for just over $1M USD). Thanks again to the community and team for their enthusiasm and support!

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    Apr 30

    2020 was a *huge* growth year for . Thank you to all the donors out there!

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  17. Apr 23

    The 80,000 Hours Podcast recently released a set of episodes introducing the concepts of effective altruism, including an episode featuring GiveWell co-founder Holden Karnofsky: .

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  18. Apr 20

    Thanks to the community at for voting as their cause of the month. We’ve already seen over 204.9 ETH (sold for just over $440k in USD) in donations from since April 15!

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  19. Apr 16

    We published a searchable database of our notes from research conversations:

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  20. Apr 15

    Update on Board meeting transparency: 

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