We published a new page on our July 2022 grant recommendation of $1.4 million to the Regents of to support a seven- to eight-year follow-up on an RCT of 's cash transfer program in Kenya. Learn more here:
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We are recommending a $10.4 million grant to the Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI) to support a new CHAI Incubator that aims to scope and scale cost-effective interventions. Learn more on our new grant page:
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In December 2021, GiveWell recommended a grant of $15 million to RESET Alcohol Initiative to work on reducing harms from excessive alcohol consumption in low- and middle-income countries. Learn more on our new grant page:
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Last day to submit an entry! Share your critiques of our cost-effectiveness analyses by 11:59 PM Pacific time tonight! bit.ly/3D62Iy6
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And we’re still hiring Senior Researchers! We’ll keep this up until you apply:
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We're hiring a Research Analyst to help our Core Interventions Team decide how to spend hundreds of millions of dollars, with the goal of saving and improving the lives of people living in the lowest-income communities in the world. Apply here:
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Only three days left to submit your critique of our cost-effectiveness analyses! Entries are due by October 31!
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We published an intervention report that reviews the evidence on the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of malaria vaccines, focusing on the RTS,S/AS01 vaccine. Learn more here:
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Congratulations to the influential thinkers named to Vox's Future Perfect 50!
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Welcome to Vox’s inaugural #FuturePerfect50 list.
The people we’ve highlighted embody the question Future Perfect asks every day: How do we make the future a better place for everyone? vox.com/future-perfect
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In January 2022, we recommended a grant of up to $64.7 million to Evidence Action's Dispensers for Safe Water program, which installs, maintains, and promotes the use of chlorine dispensers in rural Kenya, Malawi, and Uganda. See our new grant page here:
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Senior Researcher positions are still open! Think you or someone you know can help our team find the most cost-effective funding opportunities? What are you waiting for?
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Thank you to those who attended our virtual event on water quality programs in June and reached out with thoughtful questions! We answer a selection of them in a new blog post: bit.ly/3Tt6Ehn
If you missed it, check out the event recording here:
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Two weeks left to enter our Change Our Mind Contest! Submit a critique of our existing cost-effectiveness analyses by October 31—grand prize is $20,000. Find the details here:
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GiveWell still needs Senior Researchers! Our research efforts are expanding quickly and we’re seeking excellent senior staff to guide our exploration of high-impact giving opportunities. Applications are accepted on a rolling basis—more details here:
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We're always hiring these days: openphilanthropy.org/careers/
(Fill out the general app if you're interested and none of the open roles look perfect!)
So is : givewell.org/about/jobs/sen
& all of these JDs list compensation
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We have a pair of great IRL social impact speaker events coming up at SPC-SF! First is Holden Karnofsky, Co-founder of & , on Tue. 10/11, for a conversation on longtermism, philanthropic innovation, & more.
To join, sign up here: airtable.com/shrBXptJFFw8zr
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Want an insight into 's thinking on topics like: policy and advocacy initiatives, economic approaches to poverty alleviation, and how they take into account the needs and preferences of the communities they aim to serve?
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Excited to see seeking collaborators for a critique of how we handle uncertainty!
Think you have a critique of our cost-effectiveness analysis that will Change Our Mind? Enter here before 10/31: givewell.org/research/chang
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The way uncertainty (isn't) deal with in their models.
I want your help.
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Multiple cool jobs at open at :
openphilanthropy.org/careers/
And is still hiring senior researchers!
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We published a page on our July and August 2022 grant recommendations to Malaria Consortium () totaling $13.5 million, which we expect to maintain support of SMC programs in Burkina Faso, Chad, Nigeria, and Togo. More details here:
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We published a page on GiveWell's May 2022 grant recommendation of $3.4 million to Bridges to Prosperity () to fund trailbridge building as part of an ongoing randomized controlled trial in Rwanda. More details here:
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The quarterly open thread is live on our blog! We encourage you to use this space to raise questions or comments about GiveWell and our research:
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Announcing the Top Charities Fund, a new name for the Maximum Impact Fund. We renamed the fund to be clearer about which grants it may support: the most cost-effective opportunities among our top charities. Read our blog post on the change here:
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We’re excited to announce the Change Our Mind Contest for critiques of our cost-effectiveness analyses—we hope you’ll consider participating! See these pages for full details:
bit.ly/3D62Iy6
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We made a grant of $71,000 to for research on approaches to assessing the number of target beneficiaries of some of our top charities. More details here:
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Announcing the official launch of GiveWell UK! Our UK supporters can now make tax-deductible and Gift Aid-eligible donations to GiveWell through our official UK partner. More details here:
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Thanks to Zoom employees and Cares for their support of GiveWell's Maximum Impact Fund!
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We’ve just published a blog post announcing an update to our top charity criteria; we explain why we’re making this update, how our criteria and top charities list are changing, and how this impacts GiveWell's recommendations.
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We published a page about our November 2021 grant to the to evaluate a mobile conditional cash transfer program run by . The study may improve our funding decisions and identify ways to improve the program.
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We published a page about our October 2021 grant to for its electronic immunization registry in Pakistan and cash incentives for immunization program, which we think is about 8 times as cost-effective as unconditional cash transfers.
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We published a page about our May 2022 grant to New Incentives to expand cash transfers for routine immunization in northern Nigeria. We think the grant will help the program scale quickly and may lead us to update our CEA.
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We published a page about our May 2022 grant to the Against Malaria Foundation—likely to support a 2023 bed net distribution campaign in South Sudan that may be 10.2 times as cost-effective as cash transfers.
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We just published our 2021 Metrics Report: last year, GiveWell directed over $500 million—the largest amount in our history—to highly cost-effective life-saving and -improving programs. Read the full blog post here:
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We’ve posted an update on our 2022 funding projections: we don’t expect to have enough funding to support all the cost-effective opportunities we find.
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Content Editors: support our rapidly expanding research efforts by ensuring the quality and transparency of our work.
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Philanthropy Advisors and Philanthropy Associates: apply by July 5 to help us fund highly cost-effective global health programs and help donors maximize their impact.
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We’re still hiring for several positions in addition to the newly posted Grants Coordinator opening! Consider applying for these open roles:
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New position open: Grants Coordinator. Apply by: 7/17. The #, size, and complexity of our grants are all increasing as we grow. Help us establish a best in class grantmaking procedure that enables us to continue to do the most good we can. More info here:
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Thank you to all who attended our recent donor briefing on water quality interventions with Michael Kremer from Development Innovation Lab and from ! The recording is now posted on our website:
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