Category: Feeds
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EPIP LA | 2026 Mentorship Program – Applications open now!
Calling all potential mentees! EPIP Los Angeles is making it easier for you to enhance your professional development under the guidance of skilled mentors from the philanthropic field. Now in its thirteenth year, EPIP LA’s Mentorship Program has helped 100+ early to mid-career EPIP members find great mentors, and you could be next!The EPIP LA…
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Experience and Interest in Volunteering: A Survey of Belizean Older Adults
Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Ahead of Print. When older adults volunteer, they benefit not only the community but also themselves. However, little is known about volunteering behaviors outside upper-income countries. This study collected data from a national sample of Belizean adults aged 60 to 74. … Goto full post >>
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Asymmetric Influence of Moral Actions on Prosocial Behavior: The Role of Moral Balance in Charitable Donations
Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Ahead of Print. Convincing individuals to donate is a challenge for nonprofit organizations. This research builds on the concept ofmoral balanceto examine the asymmetric effects of prior moral actions on individuals’ likelihood of donating. Through five experiments, we … Goto full post >>
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Growing GiveWell’s Largest Research Area: Malaria
Despite significant progress fighting malaria over the past few decades, the disease still kills around 600,000 people annually. Malaria is a leading cause of death globally, especially for young children in Africa, who make up around 70% of all malaria deaths worldwide.1See the WHO fact sheet on malaria, which states “Globally in 2024, there were…
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The Cost of Living
Content Warning: details of gendered violence and femicide The murders of Black women, girls and femmes like Tatyana Aliyah Brooks, Khadijah Muhammad, and so many others whose names never reached headlines are not isolated incidents. They are part of a sustained crisis of anti-Black gendered violence that this country continues to normalize through silence, neglect, and abandonment. Black women, girls and femmes are being killed…
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Building our Safe Water Grantmaking: Apply to the DIV Fund’s RFP
GiveWell has granted $5 million to the DIV Fund to identify and support promising water quality and access innovations. Our grant aims to build a pipeline of high-potential, cost-effective opportunities that GiveWell could consider for future funding. If you’re working on piloting or testing an early-stage water intervention, or know someone who is, please apply…
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May 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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Six Questions About ‘State of Nonprofits 2026’CEP Staff
When we presented CEP’s new report, “State of Nonprofits 2026: What Funders Need to Know” in a webinar last week, our attendees came prepared: We brought the data and you […] The post Six Questions About ‘State of Nonprofits 2026’CEP Staff appeared first on The Center for Effective Philanthropy. Goto full post >>
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How We’re Searching for the Best Ways to Help in 2026
This year, our research team is focused on two primary goals. The first is to rapidly scale our capabilities so we’re able to move much more donor funding to highly cost-effective programs in the near future. The second is to grant at least $500 million to the best opportunities we can find this year to…
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Volunteer Value Creation and Distribution: A Systematic Literature Review
Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Ahead of Print. Volunteers play a central role in contemporary society, yet the value created through their contributions remains fragmented across academic literatures. Drawing on a systematic literature review of 146 academic articles, this study provides a … Goto full post >>
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Podcast Episode 29: Behind the Analysis — Assessing Past Malaria Nets Grants
GiveWell’s research doesn’t end once we’ve made a grant. We evaluate a subset of completed grants, comparing what we thought would happen to what actually took place, then try to use what we learn to improve our future funding decisions. Over the past year, we’ve formalized and expanded this work, publishing comprehensive “lookbacks” for select…
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The Vital Role of Youth Organizations in Shaping Youth Participation in Nine European Countries
Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Ahead of Print. This article examines factors that influence the action repertoires of youth organizations (YOs) across nine European countries and their roles within the nonprofit and voluntary sector. We insist on the connectedness of various forms of engagement, … Goto full post >>
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GiveWell Opens RFI for Malaria Pilots and Research
GiveWell is launching a new request for information (RFI) to expand and strengthen our malaria grantmaking in Africa and help our donors make a greater impact. Expressions of interest can be submitted through one of two tracks, the first for malaria chemoprevention and vector control pilot programs and the second for research and evaluation. Submissions…
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Book Review: Crowded out: The competitive landscape of contemporary international NGOs by Bush, S. S., & Hadden, J
Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Ahead of Print. Goto full post >>