Organizations we review often ask us: what can we do to improve our rating on your site? The most obvious answer is provide the type of evidence that the rest of our top-rated charities have to demonstrate your impact. But for many organizations, providing such evidence is not possible. Many may not have the resources…
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Month: February 2010
GiveWell’s annual self-evaluation and plan: Summary
We have been posting our annual self-evaluation and plan to the blog. Here’s a summary: Basic outline and questions we asked Self-Evaluation: GiveWell as a donor resource Self-Evaluation: GiveWell as a project Plan: top-level priorities Plan: specifics of research High-level summary in Excel format The documents we’ve referred to in the above posts are linked…
GiveWell’s plan: Specifics of research
This is the final post (of four) we’re planning to make focused on our self-evaluation and future plans. The first post is here; the second is here; and, the third is here. In a previous post, we laid out our reasons for focusing on the broad category of “research” over the next year. This includes…
GiveWell’s plan: Top-level priorities
This is the third post (of four) we’re planning to make focused on our self-evaluation and future plans. The first post is here, and the second post is here. In previous posts, we discussed the progress we’ve made, where we stand, and how we can improve in core areas. This post focuses on the latter,…
Self-evaluation: GiveWell as a project
This is the second post (of four) we’re planning to make over the next two weeks focused on our self-evaluation and future plans. The first post is here. This post answers the “additional questions for stakeholders” that we posed to ourselves in January about the state of GiveWell. For each question, we discuss Our progress…
Self-evaluation: GiveWell as a donor resource
This is the first post (of four) we’re planning to make over the next two weeks focused on our self-evaluation and future plans. This post answers the first section of questions we posed to ourselves in January about the state of GiveWell as a donor resource. For each question, we discuss Our progress over the…