Author: McKenzie McNamaraUniversity of Texas at Dallas, USA
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Book Review: How consultants shape nonprofits: Shared values, unintended consequences by Reisman, L. M. G
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Book Review: The Philippines Road Home: Developing a Communicative Approach to Participation in Housing by Koschmann, M.
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Podcast Episode 26: Investing in Information for Greater Future Impact
GiveWell’s primary focus has always been researching, identifying, and directing donations to programs we believe will do the most good. When GiveWell first started, we approached this by looking for organizations that were already delivering highly cost-effective, evidence-backed programs and directing funding to those programs. Over time, we were able to focus further upstream by…
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Professional Data Use Among Nonprofits and Public Organizations in Collaborative Networks: The Influence of Partners, Coalitions, and Technical Assistance Organizations
Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Ahead of Print. Nonprofits and public organizations may benefit from using evaluation data to improve programs and managerial decisions. Guided by organizational learning and institutional theory, this study investigates how partners, coalitions, and technical assistance … Goto full post >>
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Nonprofit Policies in an Anti-DEI Legislative Environment
Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Ahead of Print. Despite the importance of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) practices and policies, some public service organizations do not have them. Discourse surrounding DEI has pressured many organizations to remove DEI policies given their resource dependence … Goto full post >>
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GiveWell’s 2025 Grant Investigation Survey Results
Over the past several years, GiveWell has been focused on growing, deepening, and improving our research team’s work in line with our core values of truth-seeking and transparency. As part of that effort, we’ve invited anonymous assessment of our grantmaking process in order to learn and improve. In July 2024, we sent out our first…
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From Threat to Volunteering: Psychological Distress as a Mediating Mechanism During the Iron Swords War
Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Ahead of Print. The Iron Swords War induced severe psychological distress in the Israeli population. This study examined the relationship between perceived threat, psychological distress, and the volunteering behavior of Israeli citizens at the start of the war. We … Goto full post >>
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Inclusive Leadership, Elusive Support? Examining the Impact of Nonprofit Representative and Diverse Leadership on Community Support
Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Ahead of Print. This study examines how leadership diversity and representation within nonprofit organizations influence community support. Drawing on a national survey of 1,036 nonprofits in the United States, we tested a structural equation modeling linking board … Goto full post >>
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Podcast Episode 25: Following the Data on Dispensers for Safe Water
GiveWell aims to find and fund programs that will do the most good per dollar. To do this, we carefully evaluate potential grants before making them—assessing academic evidence, building cost-effectiveness models, and talking to people in the sector who know the program well. But our work doesn’t stop there. When a program we’ve supported nears…
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February 2026 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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GiveWell Launches RFIs for Targeted Vaccination Outreach in Three Countries and Anemia Control Programs in Africa
GiveWell is launching two new requests for information (RFI) to expand GiveWell’s funding for vaccination outreach and anemia control programs. We’re excited to replicate the success of last year’s water chlorination RFI and explore how to reach even more people in low- and middle-income countries with programs to save and improve lives. The first RFI…
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GiveWell’s 2025 Grantmaking: Record Grants, Expanded Reach, Crisis Response
In our 2025 grantmaking year, GiveWell approved $418 million in grants to highly cost-effective programs in order to save and improve lives as much as we can. Through years of deliberate groundwork, we’ve been growing our research capacity and scope in order to direct substantially more funding to the most impactful opportunities we can find.…