Category: Feeds
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Casting a Wider Net for Cost-Effective Programs
GiveWell tends to be known for its work in areas like malaria prevention, water treatment, and nutrition. But as our research team has grown, so has our ability to search for cost-effective programs across a much wider range of issues. Serious health problems, such as lack of medical oxygen and stockouts of essential medicines at…
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Dimensions of Religiosity, Religious Residue, and the Philanthropy of the Formerly Religious
Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Ahead of Print. This article develops a framework to better understand philanthropic donations and volunteering among those who have left religion by testing interactions among four dimensions of religiosity (i.e., beliefs, values/morals, spiritual practices/rituals, and … Goto full post >>
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Variety Over Frequency: How Cross-Genre Attendance Relates to Donor Progression in Arts Festivals
Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Ahead of Print. Arts organizations face intense competition for private support, making effective donor segmentation essential. While attendance frequency is a well-known correlate of giving, little research has quantified the role of event variety—the breadth of … Goto full post >>
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The Heart Versus the Head: How Nonprofit Use of Emotion and Cognition Attracts Donors and Volunteers
Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Ahead of Print. How do nonprofits use language to attract donors and volunteers? We investigate how nonprofits attract these resources by framing emotion and cognition in descriptions of their activities to make them optimally distinctive compared to their peers. We … Goto full post >>
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The Ethics of Islamic Philanthropy
Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Ahead of Print. This article reconstructs the ethical architecture of Islamic philanthropy through qualitative thematic content analysis of Qur’anic and Prophetic sources. While existing scholarship documents important elements of Islamic giving, the ethical foundations … Goto full post >>
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June 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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Looking Back to Give Better: A Webinar Recap
GiveWell’s latest webinar took a close look at a critical step in our research process: how we’re working to evaluate past grants to understand what happened, why, and how we can use what we learn to improve our grantmaking over time. Our research spans the full lifecycle of grants. Before we approve funding for a…
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Basic Psychological Needs and Beneficence in the Volunteer Experience: Exploring Satisfaction, Frustration, and Their Links to Well-Being and Ill-Being
Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Ahead of Print. This study examined how the satisfaction and frustration of autonomy, competence, relatedness, and beneficence (the sense of prosocial impact) relate to volunteer well-being (meaningfulness of volunteer work, volunteer satisfaction, and general well-being)… Goto full post >>
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Directing Audience Responses: How Nonprofit Donation Appeals Shape User Comments on Social Media
Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Ahead of Print. While a growing body of research has examined the features of nonprofit donation appeals on social media and online user comments, little is known about how specific message constructs shape the content of user responses. Drawing on a large-scale dataset … Goto full post >>
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Corrigendum to “Determinants of AI Adoption in Nonprofit Organizations”
Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Ahead of Print. Goto full post >>
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Parents as Donors: Results From a National Survey on Giving to K–12 Education in the United States
Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Ahead of Print. In the United States, a substantial share of philanthropic giving supports educational causes, yet comparatively little is known about donations made by parents and families to K–12 education. Drawing on a nationally representative survey of 2,474 parents … Goto full post >>

