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2026 39

  1. October 2026 Updates
  2. Further Scaling Our Malaria Grantmaking
  3. Behind the Research: How Our Team Tackles Hard Questions
  4. September 2026 Updates
  5. Pressure-Testing Our Research as GiveWell Grows
  6. GiveWell’s 2025 Metrics and Impact
  7. August 2026 Updates
  8. The Research behind Our $276 Million Grant for Malaria Nets in DRC
  9. Announcing Our Largest Grant to Date
  10. Finding the Bottlenecks in Family Planning Access
  11. July 2026 Updates
  12. Tackling Diarrheal Disease in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and South Sudan
  13. Scaling Our Impact, with Support from a $1 Billion Commitment
  14. Casting a Wider Net for Cost-Effective Programs
  15. June 2026 Updates
  16. Looking Back to Give Better: A Webinar Recap
  17. Expanding Our Search for Cost-Effective Ways to Reduce Poverty
  18. Growing GiveWell’s Largest Research Area: Malaria
  19. Building our Safe Water Grantmaking: Apply to the DIV Fund’s RFP
  20. May 2026 Updates
  21. Podcast Episode 30: What a Decade of Iron Funding Has Taught Us
  22. How We’re Searching for the Best Ways to Help in 2026
  23. Podcast Episode 29: Behind the Analysis — Assessing Past Malaria Nets Grants
  24. GiveWell Opens RFI for Malaria Pilots and Research
  25. April 2026 Update
  26. Podcast Episode 28: Evaluating and Funding a New Kind of Grant (Clubfoot Treatment)
  27. Podcast Episode 27: Scrutinizing One of Our Longest-Funded Programs
  28. March 2026 Updates
  29. Podcast Episode 26: Investing in Information for Greater Future Impact
  30. GiveWell’s 2025 Grant Investigation Survey Results
  31. Podcast Episode 25: Following the Data on Dispensers for Safe Water
  32. February 2026 Updates
  33. GiveWell Launches RFIs for Targeted Vaccination Outreach in Three Countries and Anemia Control Programs in Africa
  34. GiveWell’s 2025 Grantmaking: Record Grants, Expanded Reach, Crisis Response
  35. Podcast Episode 24: Testing New Strategies to Increase Vaccination Coverage
  36. Podcast Episode 23: Generating Evidence for the Future of Malaria Prevention
  37. January 2026 Updates
  38. Podcast Episode 22: Evolving Our Research Approach for Greater Impact
  39. Podcast Episode 21: Testing Our Assumptions through Local Insights

2025 38

  1. Podcast Episode 20: Taking Lessons from a Year of Aid Cuts into 2026
  2. December 2025 Updates
  3. Coefficient Giving Commits $175 Million to GiveWell Opportunities
  4. Staff Members’ Personal Donations for Giving Season 2025
  5. Growing Needs, Shrinking Aid: Answering More of Your Questions
  6. Podcast Episode 18: Behind the Planet Money ALIMA Grant Story
  7. November 2025 Updates
  8. Help Us Respond to an Uncertain Future for Global Health
  9. Podcast Episode 17: Bridging an Uncertain Time for a Lifesaving Program
  10. October 2025 Updates
  11. Beyond the Spreadsheets: Malawi Site Visit Podcast Series
  12. Safe Water Projects: Saving Lives and Improving Our Grantmaking
  13. September 2025 Updates
  14. GiveWell Expands Work on Livelihoods Programs
  15. Podcast Episode 11: A Frontline View of Foreign Aid Cuts with CHAI’s CEO
  16. August 2025 Updates
  17. Podcast Episode 10: The Fragile Foundations of Global Health Data
  18. GiveWell’s 2024 Metrics and Impact
  19. Podcast Episode 9: Advancing GiveWell’s Work on Family Planning
  20. July 2025 Updates
  21. Podcast Episode 8: Malaria Funding at a Crossroads
  22. Apples, Oranges, and Outcomes
  23. Podcast Episode 7: Deepening GiveWell’s Focus on Livelihoods Programs
  24. What We’ve Learned from Our First Lookbacks
  25. June 2025 Updates
  26. Podcast Episode 6: Forecasting the Future of Global Health Funding
  27. June 2025 Open Thread
  28. Podcast Episode 5: Exploring HIV/AIDS Funding Cuts and Emerging Needs
  29. May 2025 Updates
  30. Podcast Episode 4: Supporting Governments Navigating US Funding Cuts
  31. Podcast Episode 3: Making Cost-Effective Grants Amid Uncertainty
  32. Podcast Episode 2: Addressing Urgent Needs in Seasonal Malaria Chemoprevention
  33. March 2025 Open Thread
  34. First Podcast Episode: GiveWell’s Response to USAID Funding Cuts
  35. February 2025 Updates
  36. Results from GiveWell’s First Grantee Survey
  37. January 2025 Updates
  38. GiveWell Is Looking to Fund Pilots of Water Chlorination Programs

2024 43

  1. Research Strategy: Cross-Cutting
  2. GiveWell’s Fundraising and Grantmaking in 2023
  3. Staff Members’ Personal Donations for Giving Season 2024
  4. November 2024 Updates
  5. December 2024 Open Thread
  6. GiveWell’s 2024 Giving Recommendations
  7. An Update to GiveWell’s Grant Deployment Timelines
  8. Re-evaluating the Impact of Unconditional Cash Transfers
  9. Making Predictions about Our Grants
  10. How Do You Value Information?
  11. Research Strategy: Nutrition
  12. Finding and Vaccinating More Children
  13. Including GiveWell on Your Wedding Registry
  14. September 2024 Updates
  15. GiveWell as Moneyball
  16. Research Strategy: Vaccines
  17. September 2024 Open Thread
  18. August 2024 Updates
  19. Raffles, Deworming, and Statistics
  20. Bringing the Economic Benefits of Reading Glasses into Focus
  21. What If We Have Extra?
  22. More than a Spoonful of Medicine
  23. Some Things We’re Reading
  24. 100 Miles of Monitoring
  25. Research Strategy: Water
  26. The fungibility question: How does GiveWell’s funding affect other funders?
  27. Increasing impact by combining programs
  28. Researcher Spotlight: Erin Crossett, GiveWell Program Officer
  29. The hardest part about fundraising for GiveWell
  30. June 2024 open thread
  31. May 2024 updates
  32. Mobile vaccination with New Incentives
  33. GiveWell’s Research Council
  34. Making our work more readable
  35. Consider the eggplant
  36. A major initiative to scale up water chlorination in India
  37. April 2024 updates
  38. Malengo: Supporting students to pursue education internationally
  39. March 2024 open thread
  40. March 2024 updates
  41. What we fund, #1: We fund many opportunities outside our top charities
  42. February 2024 updates
  43. January 2024 updates

2023 19

  1. December 2023 updates
  2. GiveWell from A to Z
  3. GiveWell’s 2022 metrics report
  4. Staff members’ personal donations for giving season 2023
  5. December 2023 open thread
  6. How we work, #3: Our analyses involve judgment calls
  7. GiveWell’s 2023 recommendations to donors
  8. November 2023 updates
  9. How we work, #2: We look at specific opportunities, not just general interventions
  10. How we work, #1: Cost-effectiveness is generally the most important factor in our recommendations
  11. October 2023 updates
  12. Open Philanthropy’s 2023-2025 funding of $300 million total for GiveWell’s recommendations
  13. September 2023 updates
  14. September 2023 open thread
  15. Why we’re funding clubfoot treatment through MiracleFeet
  16. June 2023 open thread
  17. Why GiveWell funded the rollout of the malaria vaccine
  18. How much funding does GiveWell expect to raise through 2025?
  19. March 2023 open thread

2022 17

  1. Staff members’ personal donations for giving season 2022
  2. The winners of the Change Our Mind Contest—and some reflections
  3. December 2022 open thread
  4. Our recommendations for giving in 2022
  5. Answering some questions about water quality programs
  6. September 2022 open thread
  7. The Maximum Impact Fund is now the Top Charities Fund
  8. Announcing the Change Our Mind Contest for critiques of our cost-effectiveness analyses
  9. Our UK supporters can now make tax-deductible donations through GiveWell UK
  10. Changes to our top charity criteria, and a new giving option
  11. GiveWell’s 2021 metrics report
  12. An update on GiveWell’s funding projections
  13. June 2022 open thread
  14. Neil Buddy Shah has been appointed CEO of the Clinton Health Access Initiative
  15. A major update in our assessment of water quality interventions
  16. March 2022 open thread
  17. IPTi for malaria: a promising intervention with likely room to scale

2021 14

  1. December 2021 open thread
  2. Staff members’ personal donations for giving season 2021
  3. Our recommendations for giving in 2021
  4. We aim to cost-effectively direct around $1 billion annually by 2025
  5. Why malnutrition treatment is one of our top research priorities
  6. GiveWell’s money moved in 2020
  7. Initial thoughts on malaria vaccine approval
  8. We’re discontinuing the standout charity designation
  9. September 2021 open thread
  10. June 2021 open thread
  11. Early signs show that you gave more in 2020 than 2019—thank you!
  12. Update on Board meeting transparency
  13. March 2021 open thread
  14. Donors in the Netherlands can now make tax-deductible gifts through GiveWell

2020 23

  1. Do you have questions about giving in 2020?
  2. December 2020 open thread
  3. Staff members’ personal donations for giving season 2020
  4. GiveWell’s money moved in 2019
  5. Our recommendations for giving in 2020
  6. Maximum Impact Fund update: Q1 and Q2 2020
  7. September 2020 open thread
  8. Why we’re excited to fund charities’ work a few years in the future
  9. A brief look at how some groups we’ve supported are responding to COVID-19
  10. Why you’ll see more matching campaigns at GiveWell
  11. June 2020 open thread
  12. GiveWell’s plans for 2020
  13. Reflecting on our progress in 2019
  14. Why ongoing assessment of top charities leads to more impact: HKI’s vitamin A supplementation program
  15. GiveWell donors supported more than direct delivery: AMF and new net research
  16. Three grants in response to the COVID-19 pandemic
  17. The impact of COVID-19 on GiveWell’s plans
  18. Allocation of discretionary funds from Q4 2019
  19. March 2020 open thread
  20. How did we do in 2019? A preliminary look at our growth.
  21. Introducing our new Managing Director: Dr. Neil Buddy Shah
  22. Why it’s important to think through all of the factors that influence a charity’s impact
  23. Update on our work on Fistula Foundation

2019 26

  1. Allocation of discretionary funds from Q3 2019
  2. We’re glad to answer your questions
  3. December 2019 open thread
  4. Staff members’ personal donations for giving season 2019
  5. Ask us your questions about giving on our year-end conference call
  6. New research on moral weights
  7. Announcing our 2019 top charities
  8. We’re offering matching funds to new donors via podcasts. Here’s why.
  9. Why you might get a letter from us this giving season
  10. What are standout charities?
  11. How this year’s winners of the Nobel Prize in Economics influenced GiveWell’s work
  12. Our recent visit to Burkina Faso
  13. September 2019 open thread
  14. GiveWell’s money moved and web traffic in 2018
  15. Allocation of discretionary funds from Q2 2019
  16. Experiments in GiveWell communication
  17. June 2019 open thread
  18. Allocation of discretionary funds from Q1 2019
  19. Evidence Action is shutting down No Lean Season
  20. GiveWell’s plans for 2019
  21. Review of GiveWell’s work in 2018
  22. Allocation of discretionary funds from Q4 2018
  23. March 2019 open thread
  24. What is it like to work at GiveWell?
  25. Announcing a call for grant applicants in Southeast Asia and Bangladesh
  26. How GiveWell’s research is evolving

2018 27

  1. Schedule a quick call to make giving easier
  2. December 2018 open thread
  3. Staff members’ personal donations for giving season 2018
  4. We’ve added more options for cryptocurrency donors
  5. Response to concerns about GiveWell’s spillovers analysis
  6. Our updated top charities for giving season 2018
  7. Our recommendation to Good Ventures
  8. Update on No Lean Season’s top charity status
  9. A grant to Evidence Action Beta to prototype, test, and scale promising programs
  10. Publishing more frequent updates to our cost-effectiveness model
  11. September 2018 open thread
  12. Allocation of discretionary funds from Q2 2018
  13. Why we don’t use subnational malaria mortality estimates in our cost-effectiveness models
  14. GiveWell’s money moved and web traffic in 2017
  15. Announcing Zusha! as a standout charity
  16. June 2018 open thread
  17. Allocation of discretionary funds from Q1 2018
  18. New research on cash transfers
  19. GiveWell’s outreach and operations: 2017 review and 2018 plans
  20. Our 2018 plans for research
  21. Review of our research in 2017
  22. Allocation of discretionary funds from Q4 2017
  23. GiveWell’s money moved and web traffic in 2016
  24. Considering policy advocacy organizations: Why GiveWell made a grant to the Centre for Pesticide Suicide Prevention
  25. March 2018 open thread
  26. Revisiting leverage
  27. GiveWell is hiring!

2017 38

  1. Revisiting the evidence on malaria eradication in the Americas
  2. Key questions about Helen Keller International’s vitamin A supplementation program
  3. How uncertain is our cost-effectiveness analysis?
  4. Update on our work on outreach
  5. Maximizing the impact of your donation: saving on fees means more money for great charities
  6. December 2017 open thread
  7. Give efficiently and reduce the work for charities
  8. Staff members’ personal donations for giving season 2017
  9. Questioning the evidence on hookworm eradication in the American South
  10. Want to talk to someone at GiveWell about your giving decision?
  11. Our top charities for giving season 2017
  12. How GiveWell and mainstream policymakers compare the “good” achieved by different programs
  13. Interim update on GiveWell’s money moved and web traffic in 2016
  14. September 2017 open thread
  15. Why we’re allocating discretionary funds to the Deworm the World Initiative
  16. From the archive: 6 tips on disaster relief giving
  17. Update on GiveWell’s intervention research in 2017
  18. Our approach to processing undesignated donations
  19. Mid-year update on GiveWell’s progress
  20. Deciding whether to recommend fistula management charities
  21. Are GiveWell’s top charities the best option for every donor?
  22. June 2017 open thread
  23. Separating GiveWell and the Open Philanthropy Project
  24. How GiveWell uses cost-effectiveness analyses
  25. Update on our views on cataract surgery
  26. Why GiveWell is partnering with IDinsight
  27. Allocation of discretionary funds and new recommendation for donors
  28. GiveWell as an organization: progress in 2016 and plans for 2017
  29. GiveWell’s research plans for 2017
  30. GiveWell’s progress on research in 2016
  31. March 2017 open thread
  32. Why we’re considering Zusha! as a potential 2017 top charity
  33. What does it mean when a charity declines to participate in GiveWell’s review process?
  34. Why more charities should consider applying for a GiveWell recommendation
  35. Open Philanthropy Project post on giving suggestions pertaining to recent executive actions
  36. Why we’re considering No Lean Season as a potential 2017 top charity
  37. GiveWell Incubation Grants
  38. How thin the reed? Generalizing from “Worms at Work”

2016 35

  1. Just a few days left in 2016…
  2. Front-loading my personal giving this year
  3. GiveWell’s operations team is hiring!
  4. We’d be glad to chat with you!
  5. Discretionary grant making and implications for donor agency
  6. December 2016 open thread
  7. AMF and Population Ethics
  8. Staff members’ personal donations for giving season 2016
  9. Why I mostly believe in Worms
  10. Our updated top charities for giving season 2016
  11. New Incentives update
  12. Updates on AMF’s transparency and monitoring
  13. September 2016 open thread
  14. Would other organizations have funded AMF’s bednet distributions if AMF hadn’t?
  15. Deworming might have huge impact, but might have close to zero impact
  16. Update on GiveWell’s web traffic / money moved: Q1 2016
  17. Weighing organizational strength vs. estimated cost-effectiveness
  18. Why we don’t currently recommend charities focused on vaccine distribution
  19. Challenges in finding a great Vitamin A charity
  20. Mid-year update to top charity recommendations
  21. What we’ve learned about SCI this year
  22. June 2016 open thread
  23. We’re hiring a Director of Operations
  24. Trying out a new format: GiveWell podcast
  25. GiveWell’s money moved and web traffic in 2015
  26. Reservations about water quality interventions
  27. GiveWell research plans for 2016
  28. GiveWell’s progress in 2015
  29. New posts on the Open Philanthropy Blog: Our early farm animal welfare grants, philosophy of hits-based giving
  30. March 2016 open thread
  31. Why we do donor calls
  32. New posts on the Open Philanthropy Blog: Our approach to grantmaking so far, and the launch of the Alliance for Safety and Justice
  33. New post on the Open Philanthropy Blog: David Roodman on whether there’s been a notable recent crime wave
  34. The importance of “gold standard” studies for consumers of research
  35. Update on GiveWell’s web traffic / money moved

2015 69

  1. December 2015 update on GiveWell’s funding needs
  2. Suggestions for individual donors from Open Philanthropy Project staff
  3. We’re happy to talk to you!
  4. December 2015 open thread
  5. Encouraging friends and family to give to AMF for the holidays
  6. Staff members’ personal donations for giving season 2015
  7. Good Ventures and giving now vs. later
  8. Our updated top charities for giving season 2015
  9. Should the Open Philanthropy Project be recommending more/larger grants?
  10. The lack of controversy over well-targeted aid
  11. Why a new study of the Mariel boatlift has not changed our views on the benefits of immigration
  12. Charities we’d like to see
  13. GiveWell is hiring Summer Research Analysts for summer 2016
  14. Differential technological development: Some early thinking
  15. Open Philanthropy Project update
  16. Donating to help with the Syrian refugee crisis
  17. Journalists report on deworming program supported by Deworm the World Initiative in Kenya
  18. Incoming Program Officer: Lewis Bollard
  19. September 2015 open thread
  20. Update on GiveWell’s web traffic / money moved: Q2 2015
  21. A tax-deductible top charity for Australians
  22. The process of hiring our first cause-specific Program Officer
  23. History of philanthropy case study: The impact of philanthropy on the passage of the Affordable Care Act
  24. Coming down to earth: What if a big geomagnetic storm does hit?
  25. Change in our fundraising policy for the Open Philanthropy Project
  26. The long-term significance of reducing global catastrophic risks
  27. Good Ventures’ $25 million grant to GiveDirectly
  28. Could raising alcohol taxes save lives?
  29. New deworming reanalyses and Cochrane review
  30. Key questions about philanthropy, part 3: Making and evaluating grants
  31. Change of leadership at Evidence Action
  32. Geomagnetic storms: Using extreme value theory to gauge the risk
  33. Key questions about philanthropy, part 2: Choosing focus areas and hiring program staff
  34. Has violence declined, when large-scale atrocities are systematically included?
  35. Geomagnetic storms: History’s surprising, if tentative, reassurance
  36. Geomagnetic storms: An introduction to the risk
  37. Key questions about philanthropy, part 1: What is the role of a funder?
  38. Incoming Program Officer for criminal justice reform: Chloe Cockburn
  39. Corrections in our review of Development Media International
  40. Update on GiveWell’s web traffic / money moved: Q1 2015
  41. GiveWell summer fellowship
  42. History of philanthropy case study: Pew and drug safety legislation
  43. Funder-initiated startups
  44. Our updated agenda for science philanthropy
  45. Giving to support the relief effort for the Nepal earthquake
  46. Co-funding partnership with Kaitlyn Trigger and Mike Krieger
  47. Statement from Kaitlyn Trigger & Mike Krieger: Why we’re partnering with the Open Philanthropy Project
  48. Science policy and infrastructure
  49. April 2015 open thread
  50. Breakthrough fundamental science
  51. GiveWell’s money moved and web traffic in 2014
  52. Translational science and the “valley of death”
  53. The Most Good You Can Do
  54. Top charities’ room for more funding
  55. Investigating neglected goals in scientific research
  56. General progress and plans for GiveWell as an organization in 2015
  57. Open Philanthropy Project: Progress in 2014 and plans for 2015
  58. Open Philanthropy Project update: Global catastrophic risks
  59. Open Philanthropy Project update: U.S. policy
  60. 2015 plan for GiveWell’s traditional (“top charities”) work
  61. 2014 progress on GiveWell’s traditional (“top charities”) work
  62. GiveWell’s progress in 2014 and plans for 2015: Summary
  63. The path to biomedical progress
  64. Thoughts on the Sandler Foundation
  65. Notes from November convening on our policy priorities
  66. GiveWell is hiring
  67. Putting the problem of bed nets used for fishing in perspective
  68. Organizations promoting generous, effective giving
  69. Update on GiveWell’s web traffic / money moved: Q3 2014

2014 58

  1. December 2014 update on GiveWell’s funding needs
  2. Request for input
  3. Update on the Ebola outbreak
  4. Should we expect an ongoing study to meet its “goal?”
  5. We’re happy to talk to you!
  6. Donor coordination and the “giver’s dilemma” – part II
  7. Staff members’ personal donations – giving season 2014
  8. Donor coordination and the “giver’s dilemma”
  9. Our updated top charities
  10. Deworm the World Initiative (led by Evidence Action) update
  11. Inaugural open thread
  12. Quick update on Ebola (full update to come later)
  13. Our ongoing review of GAIN
  14. Update on Open Philanthropy Project
  15. Update on SCI’s evidence of impact
  16. Reminder: Annual rankings refresh
  17. Investigating the Ebola response
  18. Our ongoing review of Living Goods
  19. Expert philanthropy vs. broad philanthropy
  20. Our ongoing review of Development Media International
  21. A promising study on the long-term effects of deworming
  22. Guest post from Tom Rutledge
  23. Challenges of transparency
  24. David Roodman’s draft writeup on immigration and current residents’ wages
  25. Open Philanthropy Project (formerly GiveWell Labs)
  26. Update on GiveWell’s web traffic / money moved: Q2 2014
  27. Thoughts on the end of Hewlett’s Nonprofit Marketplace Initiative
  28. Our ongoing review of ICCIDD
  29. Partnership with The Pew Charitable Trusts
  30. The moral value of the far future
  31. Potential global catastrophic risk focus areas
  32. Update on GiveDirectly
  33. Sequence thinking vs. cluster thinking
  34. Reflections on a site visit in Myanmar (Burma)
  35. Potential U.S. policy focus areas
  36. A journalist visits GiveDirectly villages in Kenya
  37. Narrowing down U.S. policy areas
  38. Nothing But Nets
  39. Update on GiveWell’s web traffic / money moved: Q1 2014
  40. The importance of committing to causes
  41. Our writeup on criminal justice reform
  42. A promising study re: Development Media International
  43. Finding giving opportunities in malaria control/elimination
  44. Meta-Research Innovation Center at Stanford (METRICS)
  45. David Roodman’s draft writeup on the mortality-fertility connection
  46. Our work on outreach
  47. Against Malaria Foundation finalizes distribution agreement for ~676,000 nets
  48. The first case study from our history of philanthropy project
  49. GiveWell annual review for 2013: Details on GiveWell’s money moved and web traffic
  50. GiveWell is hiring
  51. Assorted reminders
  52. General plans for GiveWell as an organization in 2014
  53. GiveWell Labs – progress in 2013 and plans for 2014
  54. 2014 plan for GiveWell’s traditional (“top charities”) work
  55. 2013 progress on GiveWell’s traditional (“top charities”) work
  56. GiveWell’s progress in 2013
  57. Returns to life sciences funding
  58. Exploring life sciences funding

2013 66

  1. Some considerations against saving for next year
  2. Scientific research funding
  3. Update on GiveWell’s funding needs
  4. Staff members’ personal donations
  5. Obstacles to “giving as consumption”
  6. Good Ventures matching gift to GiveDirectly and grants to top charities
  7. Rigorous study of GiveDirectly’s cash transfers
  8. GiveWell’s top charities for giving season 2013
  9. Rethinking SCI’s evidence of impact
  10. Change in Against Malaria Foundation recommendation status (room-for-more-funding-related)
  11. How to approach policy-oriented philanthropy
  12. 6 tips on disaster relief giving
  13. The track record of policy-oriented philanthropy
  14. Update on GiveWell’s web traffic / money moved: Q3 2013
  15. The role of philanthropic funding in politics
  16. Exploring policy-oriented philanthropy
  17. Geoengineering research
  18. Discrepancies between our views and our website
  19. Deep investigations of new causes
  20. GiveWell’s funding needs
  21. Book about giving by GiveWell supporter Eric Friedman
  22. GiveWell Labs update
  23. Balancing support from Good Ventures vs. individuals
  24. Principles and practices of capacity building
  25. Reminder: Annual rankings refresh
  26. Debating philanthropy
  27. We can’t (simply) buy capacity
  28. Excited altruism
  29. Effective altruism
  30. Passive vs. rational vs. quantified
  31. Update on GiveWell’s web traffic / money moved: Q2 2013
  32. Responses to objections on cash transfers
  33. Empowerment and catastrophic risk
  34. Our landscape of the open science community
  35. Grant to Center for Global Development (CGD)
  36. Our take on “earning to give”
  37. Near-term grantmaking
  38. The moral case for giving doesn’t rely on questionable quantitative estimates
  39. How to help GiveWell
  40. Meta-research update
  41. Refining the goals of GiveWell Labs
  42. Possible global catastrophic risks
  43. Flow-through effects
  44. Update on GiveWell’s web traffic / money moved: Q1 2013
  45. Unorthodox Prize
  46. Broad market efficiency
  47. Ways to follow GiveWell
  48. GiveWell Labs update
  49. Challenges of passive funding
  50. Is the world getting better?
  51. GiveWell’s history of philanthropy/philanthropy journalism project
  52. Deep value judgments and worldview characteristics
  53. Why we recommend so few charities
  54. Trying (and failing) to find more funding gaps for delivering proven cost-effective interventions
  55. Update on GiveWell’s plans for 2013
  56. GiveWell annual review for 2012: Details on GiveWell’s money moved and web traffic
  57. Why I didn’t give to the Schistosomiasis Control Initiative last year
  58. External evaluation of our research
  59. GiveWell’s plan for 2013: A top-level decision
  60. GiveWell is hiring
  61. Self-evaluation: GiveWell as a project
  62. Self-evaluation: GiveWell as a donor resource
  63. GiveWell’s progress in 2012
  64. Guest post from David Barry about deworming cost-effectiveness
  65. In memory of Aaron Swartz
  66. Cash transfers vs. microloans

2012 64

  1. The case for cash
  2. More on the ranking of our top charities
  3. Cost-effectiveness of nets vs. deworming vs. cash transfers
  4. Evidence of impact for long-term benefits
  5. Revisiting the case for developmental effects of deworming
  6. Conference call discussing our top charities, Thu. Dec 6th, 7pm Eastern
  7. Our top charities for the 2012 giving season
  8. 7 tips for giving efficiently
  9. GiveWell’s annual charity recommendations refresh
  10. Insecticide resistance and malaria control
  11. Giving to GiveWell’s recommended charities helps GiveWell
  12. Evaluating people
  13. Revisiting the case for insecticide-treated nets (ITNs)
  14. Sharing notes from conversations: Case study in pursuing transparency in philanthropy
  15. Update on GiveWell’s web traffic / money moved: Q3 2012
  16. US Cochrane Center (USCC) gets our first “quick grant” recommendation
  17. Recent board meeting on GiveWell’s evolution
  18. Updated thoughts on our key criteria
  19. Surveying the research on a topic
  20. How we evaluate a study
  21. Our principles for assessing evidence
  22. Quick update: New way to follow GiveWell’s research progress
  23. Revisiting the 2011 Japan disaster relief effort
  24. Recent conversation with Bill Easterly
  25. GiveWell’s issues log: VillageReach analysis
  26. Rethinking VillageReach’s pilot project
  27. Some history behind our shifting approach to research
  28. New Cochrane review of the effectiveness of deworming
  29. Update on GiveWell’s web traffic / money moved: Q2 2012
  30. GiveWell and Good Ventures
  31. Objections and concerns about our new direction
  32. Meta-research
  33. Giving cash versus giving bednets
  34. Update on Against Malaria Foundation’s costs
  35. Millennium Villages Project
  36. GiveWell Labs update and priority causes
  37. What large-scale philanthropy focuses on today
  38. Strategic cause selection
  39. Microfinance and cookstoves
  40. Update on the Schistosomiasis Control Initiative: Our current #2-ranked charity
  41. How not to be a “white in shining armor”
  42. Update on GiveWell’s web traffic / money moved: Q1 2012
  43. VillageReach update
  44. Guest post from John Beale at VillageReach
  45. Update on the Against Malaria Foundation: Our current #1-ranked charity
  46. KIPP Houston update
  47. The worst killer of invisible children is not Joseph Kony
  48. More errors in widely-cited figures: The case of mothers2mothers
  49. Philanthropy’s success stories
  50. Update: Against Malaria Foundation’s costs
  51. GiveWell’s plan for 2012: Specifics of research
  52. GiveWell’s plan for 2012: Top-level priorities
  53. Conference call to discuss GiveWell’s annual review and plan
  54. Self-evaluation: GiveWell as a project
  55. Review of Due Diligence, by David Roodman
  56. Self-evaluation: GiveWell as a donor resource
  57. GiveWell annual review: Details on GiveWell’s money moved and web traffic
  58. GiveWell’s progress in 2011
  59. Accountability in philanthropy
  60. What I learned in my first 6 months at GiveWell
  61. Evaluation of American Red Cross Haiti response
  62. Trading off upside vs. track record
  63. How tax deductions and processing fees make it harder to give well
  64. Update on GiveWell’s money moved and web traffic in 2011

2011 73

  1. Last-minute donations
  2. Mega-charities
  3. The risks of giving
  4. Guest post from Cari Tuna
  5. Please don’t give me a goat for the holidays
  6. My favorite cause for individual donors: Global health and nutrition
  7. Dissenting opinions on our top charities
  8. Give now or give later?
  9. 6 tips for giving like a pro
  10. Leverage in charity
  11. Why you shouldn’t let “donation matching” affect your giving
  12. Deciding between two outstanding charities
  13. Conference call discussing our top charities, Dec. 8, 7p Eastern
  14. Top charities for holiday season 2011: Against Malaria Foundation and Schistosomiasis Control Initiative
  15. New charity recommendations forthcoming by December 1; blog posts on hold until then
  16. Maximizing cost-effectiveness via critical inquiry
  17. Some considerations against more investment in cost-effectiveness estimates
  18. GiveWell is aiming to have a new #1 charity by December
  19. What it takes to evaluate impact
  20. GiveWell Labs: Our criteria for giving opportunities
  21. Update on GiveWell’s web traffic / money moved: Q3 2011
  22. Errors in DCP2 cost-effectiveness estimate for deworming
  23. GiveWell Labs: Plans for our process and transparency
  24. Why GiveWell Labs?
  25. Announcing GiveWell Labs
  26. Somalia famine: Update
  27. Working for GiveWell
  28. Why we can’t take expected value estimates literally (even when they’re unbiased)
  29. Donating to the Somalia famine: A brief update
  30. Guest post from Vipul Naik
  31. Somalia / East Africa famine relief donations
  32. A charity to watch: GiveDirectly
  33. A good volunteer is hard to find
  34. KIPP Houston has a 1.4 million dollar shortfall. How did this happen?
  35. Update on GiveWell’s web traffic / money moved: Q2 2011
  36. How much time do charities spend participating in GiveWell’s process?
  37. Guest post from Eric Friedman
  38. GAVI appears to be out of room for more funding (good news)
  39. Why we should expect good giving to be hard
  40. Profile of a GiveWell customer
  41. In defense of the streetlight effect
  42. Suggestions for the social sciences
  43. Microlending debate: An example of why academic research should be used with caution
  44. Evaluating local charities in India
  45. Natalie’s general notes from living in India
  46. Elie’s general notes from living in India
  47. Holden’s general notes from living in India
  48. Internal debate on the goals of giving to charity
  49. More Than Good Intentions by Dean Karlan and Jacob Appel: Our review
  50. Three Cups of Tea scandal: Why we had the right bottom line on the Central Asia Institute
  51. PSI rating change
  52. Japan update 4/13/11
  53. The Gates Foundation’s grant for Japan relief: Our questions and its response
  54. Assorted links 4/5/11
  55. Will the rebuilding effort in Japan be about the survivors or about the nonprofits?
  56. Update on GiveWell’s web traffic / money moved: Q1 2011
  57. Update on how to help Japan: March 24
  58. Update on how to help Japan: No room for more funding. We recommend giving to Doctors Without Borders to promote better disaster relief in general
  59. Japan earthquake/tsunami relief donations
  60. Your dollars at work: Update on top-rated charity VillageReach
  61. Evaluating GiveWell by finding the best charity
  62. GiveWell’s plan for 2011: Specifics of research
  63. GiveWell’s plan for 2011: Top-level priorities
  64. Self-evaluation: GiveWell as a project
  65. Self-evaluation: GiveWell as a donor resource
  66. Stats on GiveWell’s money moved and web traffic
  67. GiveWell’s annual self-evaluation and plan: A big picture change in priorities
  68. Global Fund: Best failure disclosure we’ve seen yet?
  69. Free legal services – helpful or harmful?
  70. Disaster relief report published; Doctors Without Borders, Partners In Health, and Direct Relief International stand out
  71. What is the situation in Haiti a year after the earthquake? What have and haven’t charities accomplished so far?
  72. How much money has been given and spent for Haiti earthquake relief? Putting the numbers in perspective
  73. Assessing disaster relief organizations

2010 81

  1. Animal welfare charities
  2. Guest post from Jason Fehr
  3. The best charity that no one has heard of: Response roundup
  4. Giving season update
  5. The best charity that no one has heard of: How would you tell its story?
  6. Joint release on finding the best charities, not just avoiding the worst
  7. New content: New research report, new ratings system, DIY Guide, and self-evaluation
  8. After “extraordinary and unorthodox” comes the valley of death
  9. Health system strengthening + sustainability + accountability
  10. Microfinance: The multi-billion-dollar aid sector that we’re just starting to learn about
  11. The process of giving: A personal story (guest post from Ian Turner)
  12. Engineers Without Borders earns “Notable” distinction
  13. LAPO: Case study on due diligence by microfinance funders
  14. More on charity ratings and GiveWell’s mission
  15. Why charity ratings don’t work (as of now)
  16. Thoughts from Dharavi tour
  17. Nurse-Family Partnership and room for more funding
  18. Should I give out cash in Mumbai?
  19. New research and recommendations for microfinance
  20. Responses to blog comments
  21. Our advice re: donations for Pakistan flood
  22. High-quality study of Head Start early childhood care program
  23. Needed from major funders: More great organizations
  24. Philanthropy vouchers
  25. Invest in Kids
  26. The Money for Good study
  27. Slow spending
  28. Alliance for Effective Social Investing survey
  29. Unitus and room for more funding
  30. Against Promise Neighborhoods
  31. Unitus
  32. Aid is not the only thing that reduces poverty
  33. Singularity Summit
  34. GiveWell will be moving to Mumbai (India) for 3 months
  35. Microfinance’s “failure” to reach the poorest
  36. New evidence that cleaner water -> less diarrhea
  37. Neglected tropical disease charities: Schistosomiasis Control Initiative, Deworm The World
  38. My donation for 2009 (guest post from Dario Amodei)
  39. Are great charities made or born?
  40. Thoughts on “Moonshine or the kids?”
  41. Please take 3 minutes to help us set priorities
  42. How the American Cancer Society and Susan G. Komen for the Cure spend their money
  43. Futility of standardized metrics: An example
  44. Kiva suspends partnership with large, criticized partner LAPO
  45. Economic empowerment grant: Mistakes, lessons learned, and steps taken
  46. Who needs in-kind donations more: The recipients or the givers?
  47. If you’re worried about high interest rates, you should be worried about any microfinance institution
  48. Room for more funding and fungibility: From the horse’s mouth
  49. Charity reviews vs. movie reviews
  50. No interest rate is too high
  51. Should charity evaluation be “fair”?
  52. Microfinance interest rates
  53. Think Before You Give: A new podcast with Elie Hassenfeld and Saundra Schimmelpfennig
  54. TakeAction @ GuideStar
  55. A good response re: diversion of skilled labor
  56. A proposal for donors interested in causes/charities we haven’t covered
  57. Cost-effectiveness estimates: Inside the sausage factory
  58. Thoughts from my visits to Small Enterprise Foundation (South Africa) and VillageReach (Mozambique), part III
  59. Thoughts from my visits to Small Enterprise Foundation (South Africa) and VillageReach (Mozambique), part II
  60. Thoughts from my visits to Small Enterprise Foundation (South Africa) and VillageReach (Mozambique), part I
  61. Nothing wrong with selfish giving – just don’t call it philanthropy
  62. Pictures/audio/notes from my visits to Small Enterprise Foundation (South Africa) and VillageReach (Mozambique)
  63. Blog design
  64. The simplest way to improve your GiveWell rating: Disclose a failure
  65. GiveWell’s annual self-evaluation and plan: Summary
  66. GiveWell’s plan: Specifics of research
  67. GiveWell’s plan: Top-level priorities
  68. Self-evaluation: GiveWell as a project
  69. Self-evaluation: GiveWell as a donor resource
  70. Economic empowerment grants awarded
  71. Haiti “room for more funding” at the organization level: Not enough information
  72. Does Haiti earthquake relief have room for more funding?
  73. Haiti earthquake relief seems less cost-effective than everyday international aid
  74. Can choosing the right charity double your impact?
  75. More on the microfinance “repayment rate”
  76. Haiti earthquake donations
  77. Some stats on GiveWell’s web traffic and influence on donations
  78. GiveWell’s self-evaluation and plan
  79. Follow up re: Philanthropedia
  80. Roundup of recent blogging
  81. Philanthropedia’s report on microfinance

2009 143

  1. You can save a life
  2. VillageReach
  3. Stop Tuberculosis Partnership
  4. UPenn Center for High-Impact Philanthropy
  5. Celebrated charities that we don’t recommend
  6. Gifts of livestock (e.g., Heifer International)
  7. Where we stand on microfinance charity
  8. VillageReach’s answer to the “room for more funding” question: Scenario analysis
  9. Incentives for microfinance charities
  10. You can’t take the “repayment rate” at face value
  11. Is borrowing good for the borrowers?
  12. Orphanages
  13. Smile Train in its own words
  14. Going deeper on “room for more funding”: Underfunded grant proposals
  15. Some simple ways to check “room for more funding”
  16. “Room for more funding” continued: Why donation restricting isn’t the easy answer
  17. An essential question that no one is asking charities
  18. Charity isn’t about helping?
  19. Comment on Barron’s “25 Best Givers” list
  20. Estimating the cost-effectiveness of microfinance charity
  21. Global Giving’s spot check and why it should worry you
  22. LAPO (Kiva partner) and financial vs. social success
  23. What we know about Robin Hood (almost nothing)
  24. Robin Hood, Smile Train and the “0% overhead” donor illusion
  25. Comments on this blog
  26. A conflict of Bayesian priors?
  27. When is a charity’s logo a donor illusion?
  28. By default, assume aid projects aren’t reaching the poorest
  29. Why are we always criticizing charities?
  30. Smile Train removes charts from website; still claims $250 per surgery
  31. Kudos to Ken Berger
  32. The worst way to pick a charity
  33. When donations and profits meet, beware
  34. Smile Train
  35. Poor in the U.S. = rich
  36. Hunger here vs. hunger there
  37. Acumen Fund and social enterprise investment
  38. The Global Fund and transparency
  39. Two charities, one microfinance institution
  40. Denying the choice
  41. UNICEF Inspired Gifts: Revolution or donor illusion?
  42. Quality of life in the developing world
  43. Not our last word on the Kiva controversy
  44. Whiplash
  45. Chess in the Schools
  46. Perspectives on donor irrationality
  47. My greatest fear about microfinance
  48. The Carter Center
  49. Medicine and philanthropy
  50. Evaluating microsavings
  51. If microsavings is more needed, why does microcredit get more attention?
  52. Too much attention on the giver’s experience; not enough on the recipient’s
  53. Our process: Narrowing the field
  54. Donor illusions
  55. Evaluating microfinance charities
  56. How would a malaria vaccine affect charity?
  57. Microfinance where access already exists
  58. Can a donor give “new life for the pariahs” through the World Fistula Fund?
  59. Pneumonia Day is another General Health Day
  60. Why can’t you make the sale?
  61. The Gates Foundation’s agriculture program: Experimenting or floundering?
  62. Gates Foundation on agriculture funding: Where are the facts?
  63. Village Phone: Another great story under the microscope
  64. Helping farmers is harder than you’ve heard
  65. 6 myths about microfinance charity that donors can do without
  66. Good news can create new challenges for donors
  67. Agriculture charity evaluation: Incomes boosted are not the same as lives changed
  68. Are charities helping? We don’t know
  69. Is fundraising stuck in the world of Mad Men?
  70. What’s different about Kiva
  71. DonorsChoose vs. Kiva
  72. Kiva repayment data
  73. Maternal mortality: “Important” yes, “just needs funding” no
  74. Two pictures of Kiva.org
  75. Kiva and fungibility
  76. Cash as a benchmark?
  77. Conversation with David Roodman about microfinance
  78. Developing-world scholarships and school-building
  79. What does the repayment rate really tell you about the impact of microfinance?
  80. Microfinance evidence of impact
  81. GiveWell grants awarded
  82. Tactical Philanthropy Advisors
  83. Cleft lip/palate charities: What does one surgery really accomplish?
  84. “A” for effort?
  85. CARE evaluations
  86. GiveWell grant: Open application
  87. High-impact nonprofits are rare, but worth funding
  88. A small charity that meets our criteria
  89. Development experiments (randomized controlled trials) as a counterpoint to marketing materials
  90. Can donors fund “sustainable” projects?
  91. 2008-2009 international aid recommendations
  92. A conversation with a donor interested in obstetric fistula
  93. Donating to Gates – against its will
  94. The challenge of local ownership
  95. November conference sponsored by Social Solutions
  96. First randomized controlled trial of microfinance project
  97. Embedded philanthropy
  98. Some thoughts on the yellow fever vaccine
  99. What can the developed world teach the developing world?
  100. Pitfalls of the overhead ratio?
  101. Why not just give out cash?
  102. Followup on Fryer/Dobbie study of “Harlem miracle”
  103. “Did it happen?” and “did it work?”
  104. Funding research
  105. Two worlds
  106. Where I stand on education, my former favorite cause
  107. Fryer and Dobbie on the Harlem Children’s Zone: Significance
  108. Fryer and Dobbie on Harlem Children’s Zone: What they found
  109. Harlem Children’s Zone closes achievement gap?
  110. Small, unproven charities
  111. Road safety
  112. Qualitative evidence vs. stories
  113. Philanthropy Action points to more evidence on education interventions
  114. Alliance for Social Investing
  115. The most important problem may not be the best charitable cause
  116. Volunteer tutoring program
  117. Positive but underwhelming voucher study
  118. Clarifying the role of different partners
  119. New, promising charity: The Stop TB Partnership
  120. KIPP and self-selection
  121. Mistargeted microfinance?
  122. PRI and Bloggingheads
  123. Can the Green Revolution be repeated in Africa?
  124. Measurement is not as common as it should be. Why?
  125. Review of The Life You Can Save, by Peter Singer
  126. The Center for High Impact Philanthropy
  127. Preview report
  128. Learning from a small failure
  129. The root causes of poverty
  130. Aid’s track record
  131. The Carter Center – part II
  132. Malaria “success story” questioned
  133. Trachoma: An example of the need for long-term monitoring
  134. The Carter Center
  135. Financial Times on microfinance (and the need for better info about it)
  136. Microfinance/education program didn’t work as expected
  137. Antiretroviral treatment (ART): Things to look out for
  138. Malaria treatment
  139. Surgeries performed vs. cases of blindness prevented
  140. Publication bias: Over-reporting good news
  141. BBB standards: Accountability or technicalities?
  142. Quick notes on our progress
  143. Beware just-published studies

2008 95

  1. Why we prefer the carrot to the stick
  2. Uncharitable
  3. A proposal to reward failure
  4. Guest post: Proven programs are the exception, not the rule
  5. Before you donate
  6. Strong results for malaria vaccine
  7. Marketplace today
  8. The first question: What do you do?
  9. More on iodine
  10. Thanks 2
  11. We’re hiring
  12. Banerjee/Duflo interview
  13. Finally, a competitor!
  14. Is volunteering just a show?
  15. General questions about international aid
  16. Discouraging evidence on preschool?
  17. Malaria and lymphatic filariasis
  18. Philanthropy Action’s coverage of microfinance conference
  19. Clarification on previous post
  20. No on Prop 8: High-ROI donation opportunity?
  21. Research mailing list
  22. More counterintuitiveness in health education
  23. Should small donors focus on small organizations?
  24. A bit more detail on individual giving
  25. Check your “smart philanthropy” hat at the door?
  26. Thoughts on “Money Well Spent”
  27. What does $1000 do?
  28. Donor impact vs. donor attribution (or, does your $120 really buy a sheep?)
  29. Eat your salt
  30. Transparency done right
  31. Our Google talk
  32. Back Monday
  33. Priority region 1 – finalists
  34. Research agenda
  35. Cost-effective and straightforward
  36. “Straightforward” interventions
  37. Bednet use
  38. List of interventions
  39. Malaria: Whom it affects and how
  40. Mortality burdens by age group
  41. The case against disaster relief
  42. Cost-effectiveness is in the eye of the beholder
  43. Donated technological equipment
  44. Selecting program-based health interventions
  45. Region-based vs. program-based approaches to developing-world health
  46. DALYs and disagreement
  47. Donors don’t have to pay for their own philanthropic advice
  48. Fistula
  49. Health education is tricky
  50. Direct food aid?
  51. Vaccinations
  52. Where does a donor fit in?
  53. Disability-Adjusted Life Years II: Variations
  54. I like it. How do I fund it?
  55. Disability-Adjusted Life Years: Introduction
  56. Infant mortality and overpopulation
  57. A few thoughts on water
  58. Significant life change
  59. Malnutrition and income
  60. Research plan: A fresh start
  61. The GiveWell Pledge
  62. New material
  63. Preventing blindness
  64. Career Academies: An unconventional approach to education
  65. Where to focus?
  66. Some qualitative information on microfinance
  67. A unique giving opportunity?
  68. The biggest giver: Individuals
  69. Busting charities vs. donating
  70. Understanding the achievement gap
  71. Foundations and individuals
  72. Worth watching
  73. Good vs. better
  74. Emergency assistance for donors
  75. Cyclone relief: Recommendation and questions
  76. Why scholarships disappoint?
  77. Why nitpick?
  78. Esperanca’s response
  79. Where can you donate to fight malnutrition? (part II)
  80. Where can you donate to fight malnutrition? (part I)
  81. Evaluating organizations vs. practices
  82. Delegation
  83. The metrics debate
  84. Politics vs. philanthropy in education research
  85. Reinventing the wheel
  86. Microloans vs. payday loans
  87. Quick update
  88. Flip-flopping
  89. Don’t take our breadth away
  90. Rethinking bednets
  91. Rigorous research on aid
  92. Evaluating charter schools, continued
  93. Evaluating charter schools
  94. Updated: Statement from the GiveWell Board of Directors
  95. Statement from the GiveWell Board of Directors

2007 153

  1. I had a lapse in judgment, did a horrible thing, and I apologize
  2. Transparency, measurement, humility
  3. Tough calls
  4. Bear with us
  5. When apples are better than oranges
  6. True Experts? Or old boys’ club?
  7. The 2007 Holden Award for Excellence in Imperfection
  8. Getting the word out
  9. 2 things WAY more exciting than a blog post
  10. What a “life saved” means
  11. Welcome to your virtual site visit
  12. Cheap ways to save lives
  13. Thanks
  14. Must-read if you’re interested in NYC education
  15. Here’s to fear of failure
  16. Our harshest critic so far: Uncle Bob
  17. Why are you reading this?
  18. Where should you give?
  19. How to get your values violated
  20. 3 . . . 2 . . . 1 . . .
  21. “Dollars per life changed” metric: What is it good for?
  22. Another frustrating article about fixing education
  23. What I wrote in the Gates Foundation survey
  24. Eat a peanut, save a child!!
  25. What’s so hard about rigorous self-evaluation?
  26. Blog post coming
  27. Read these in order
  28. Cause 1: Where we stand
  29. Preview: Cause 5
  30. Just say something, anything
  31. Everything a body needs
  32. Welcome to the Donors’ Liberation Blog
  33. Big government vs. the private sector
  34. Truth please
  35. Job training: Which would you grant?
  36. Giving: Like heroin, but more expensive
  37. My personal experience with diarrhea
  38. Politics
  39. What’s more important?
  40. Mark Cuban
  41. Matrix reloaded
  42. Arrrrrrrrrr!
  43. Great people
  44. No more Saturdays for me
  45. Not everyone under-evaluates …
  46. Literature reviews
  47. Microlending: The mystery deepens
  48. Averages
  49. Experience vs. data, or, why I just muted the Yankees game
  50. Want to see what we mean by “bias?”
  51. Final finalists finalized
  52. Two futures
  53. Finals
  54. Helping people: Easy or hard?
  55. Why we wish charities ran LESS like businesses
  56. Driving without a dashboard?
  57. Won’t the real microlending please stand up?
  58. We’d like your thoughts
  59. Face/Off! Evaluating a mammoth – Elie’s response
  60. Face/Off! Evaluating a mammoth – Holden’s take
  61. Face/Off! Evaluating a mammoth – introduction
  62. Helping adults become self-supporting
  63. Carnival roundup
  64. Afraid of the light?
  65. Rolling
  66. Why I’m here
  67. Two questions about education
  68. Anonymity rocks
  69. My favorite cause
  70. Giving Carnival 8/07: Bare your soul
  71. Wanna get pumped about GiveWell?
  72. Hangover
  73. I believe that the children are our future
  74. Our business is your business
  75. Diving in
  76. Escaping the bubble
  77. The triage approach
  78. Google.org, can you hear me?
  79. Philanthropy strikes back
  80. Charity vs. philanthropy
  81. Go time
  82. Hang in there
  83. Competition is important
  84. More or less pie?
  85. Why don’t people give more?
  86. Cooperation “versus” conflict
  87. Alternative visions
  88. We will be the most criticized grantmaker of all time
  89. My vision
  90. Where should we donate?
  91. Nonprofits and for-profits: Similar or different? Part MCLXXVII
  92. An open letter to crybabies
  93. What corporate social responsibility means to me
  94. It’s for charity – but is it for a good cause?
  95. How personal should your giving be?
  96. Did you know that this qualifies as a charity?
  97. Don’t talk to me about the Form 990
  98. I just bought a printer
  99. Healing the world: What’s the rush?
  100. Brb
  101. Can charity be cool?
  102. Post delayed
  103. What’s in it for me
  104. The veil of secrecy is lifted. Ladies, the race is on
  105. Do any charities know what they’re doing?
  106. What is success?
  107. Spending the better half
  108. Nice guys finish last
  109. A quick, free way to support GiveWell
  110. Announcing the Clear Fund
  111. Every analogy has its limits …
  112. Charity: The video game that’s real
  113. Selflessness in action
  114. Reason “versus” emotion
  115. Metrics: Between losing your humanity and throwing up your hands
  116. The Straw Ratio: Closing thoughts (for now)
  117. Even Google has been suckered
  118. Test my wings? That would mean less time for flying!
  119. Tears of straw
  120. Low pay driving out the best?? How did this happen?!?!
  121. Dear Executive Director, please fire your staff
  122. FAQ: What qualifies us to issue evaluations?
  123. FAQ: What are our criteria?
  124. FAQ: How are we choosing which nonprofits to review?
  125. Introducing FAQs, blog style
  126. I am not a flake
  127. The Holden Foundation: Serving obnoxious bloggers
  128. The customer is on your side
  129. Every time I tried to tell you, the words just came out wrong …
  130. Wait till next year
  131. Hello, world
  132. Where I’m coming from
  133. Quick update
  134. Enough about lives – how many dollars can we save?
  135. Network for what now?
  136. NYC update: People still have problems
  137. The big question: Is our project 1.0 or 2.0?
  138. Straw man? Or 75% of the population?
  139. Food, friendz, and figuring out how to improve the world
  140. Our first content-less meta-post!
  141. One more thing
  142. More thoughts on “responsible investing”
  143. I’m basically fine with investing in evil
  144. Which of these boasts is not like the others?
  145. OK, Straw Man, the gloves are off
  146. Who should I help: My friend or my pet?
  147. Before I tear the Straw Man apart …
  148. I found a number that tells you everything you need to know
  149. Recommending Population Services International
  150. Limits of generosity
  151. Chocolate-covered broccoli
  152. The 2006 Holden Awards
  153. Thinking in numbers

2006 4

  1. Don’t let Elie rip you off!
  2. What’s a life worth?
  3. Thank God I don’t have HDTV
  4. Nice to meet you