Category: Feeds
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Building Capacity, Fostering Trust: A Look at Beyond-the-Grant Support at One FoundationEmily Radwin Manager, Assessment and Advisory Services, CEPLucy Brainard Director, Portfolio Success and Operations, Overdeck Family Foundation
Overdeck Family Foundation, a New York-based education funder, has engaged with the Center for Effective Philanthropy repeatedly over the years to seek out information and feedback to continuously enhance its […] The post Building Capacity, Fostering Trust: A Look at Beyond-the-Grant Support at One FoundationEmily Radwin Manager, Assessment and Advisory Services, CEPLucy Brainard Director, Portfolio…
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‘Collaboration and mutual care:’ How Mozambican women are building livelihoods through recycling
Maputo, Mozambique Isaura Matola (pictured above), a widow and mother of four, wakes up every day at 5 a.m., before sunrise, to begin collecting recyclable waste at the Hulene landfill on the outskirts of Maputo, Mozambique’s capital. After losing her job as a domestic worker in 2023, Matola faced unsuccessful attempts to secure other employment.…
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Podcast Episode 27: Scrutinizing One of Our Longest-Funded Programs
Vitamin A supplementation is one of the programs GiveWell has supported the longest, and we’re currently funding it in many African countries. The program has an unusually strong evidence base for reducing child mortality, with multiple randomized controlled trials. Yet, as is the case for most global health programs, the evidence for vitamin A supplementation…
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March 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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Determinants of AI Adoption in Nonprofit Organizations
Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Ahead of Print. As generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) becomes more prevalent across all types of organizations, interest in adopting artificial intelligence (AI) tools by charitable nonprofit organizations, who are given 501(c)(3) tax-exempt status by the … Goto full post >>
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Book Review: People powered radio: Fifty years of Australian community radio station 4ZZZ by Anderson, H and Community radio in South Asia: Mapping the alternative mediascape in Nepal, India, and Bangladesh by Rampersaud-Skorka, T
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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…