Author: Chloe Heskett
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100 miles of monitoring
We’re crossposting a blog post by New Incentives, one of our grantee organizations and Top Charities. New Incentives promotes vaccination in Northern Nigeria by providing cash incentives to parents and caregivers. Recently, one of New Incentives’ field officers wrote about his experience collecting program data. GiveWell asks all of our Top Charities to share detailed…
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A Pride Month Call to Action: Highlighting the Less Positive Experiences of LGBTQ+ Grantees
Part protest, part commemoration, and part celebration, Pride Month joyfully invites us all to see the rich and diverse lives of queer folks — and to recognize that as far […] The post A Pride Month Call to Action: Highlighting the Less Positive Experiences of LGBTQ+ Grantees appeared first on The Center for Effective Philanthropy.…
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Research strategy: Water
Written by Erin Crossett and Keir Bradwell Water is a relatively new area of grantmaking for GiveWell, but we’re excited about its potential. Two billion people around the world lack access to clean drinking water, and unclean water is a major cause of illness and death, primarily through waterborne diseases such as diarrhea and cholera.…
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The fungibility question: How does GiveWell’s funding affect other funders?
How do GiveWell’s funding decisions influence the actions of governments, funders, and other organizations? Answering this question is an important part of figuring out which global health programs are most cost-effective and thus which we should support. We’ve already written about two key factors in our cost-effectiveness estimates: the cost per person reached and the…
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Promoting Charitable Donations and Volunteering Through Nudge Tools From the Perspective of Behavioral Economics: A Systematic Review
Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Ahead of Print. Few research has attempted to synthesize the effects of nudge tools in promoting prosocial behaviors through the lens of behavioral economics. This systematic review synthesizes empirical evidence of various types of nudges and their effectiveness in promoting charitable donations and volunteering. We identified 67 eligible studies with…
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Increasing impact by combining programs
The idea has obvious intuitive appeal: If you’re already sending community healthcare workers door-to-door in (say) remote parts of Sierra Leone to deliver routine childhood vaccines, why not have those healthcare workers deliver chlorine for disinfecting drinking water, or oral rehydration solution for treating dehydration from diarrhea? After all, if you’re already spending money on…
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Here We Go Again (and Again and Again): Let’s Stop Looking for the One ‘New Approach’ to Philanthropy
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Researcher spotlight: Erin Crossett, GiveWell Program Officer
Our research team spends over 50,000 hours a year looking for cost-effective organizations and interventions to save and improve lives, with the goal of producing the world’s top research on where to give. This interview with Program Officer Erin Crossett provides a glimpse into the world of GiveWell research. Q: What made you interested in…
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Uncovering Local Knowledge in Grassroots Associations: An Illustration of the Critical Reflexive Approach
Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Ahead of Print. Grassroots associations (GAs) are the “keepers” of collective local knowledge yet uncovering that local knowledge remains challenging for nonprofit researchers. In this study, we propose the utility of reflexivity for nonprofit scholars conducting research aimed at accessing local knowledge within GAs and illustrate its use in practice…
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The hardest part about fundraising for GiveWell
May marked my three-year anniversary as a Philanthropy Advisor at GiveWell. It’s a job I adore (as I’ve written about here and here), and I’ve recently been tasked with the exciting process of interviewing candidates for our growing team. One of the best questions I’ve been asked in this process is: What’s the hardest part…
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Book Review: Madam C. J. Walker’s Gospel of Giving: Black women’s philanthropy during Jim Crow
Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Ahead of Print. Goto full post >>
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June 2024 open thread
Our goal with hosting quarterly open threads is to give blog readers an opportunity to publicly raise comments or questions about GiveWell or related topics (in the comments section below). As always, you’re also welcome to email us at info@givewell.org or to request a call with GiveWell staff if you have feedback or questions you’d…
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May 2024 updates
Every month we send an email newsletter to our supporters sharing recent updates from our work. We publish selected portions of the newsletter on our blog to make this news more accessible to people who visit our website. For key updates from the latest installment, please see below! If you’d like to receive the complete…
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Foundations Are Concerned About Nonprofit Staff Burnout, Too
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