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Announcing Our Largest Grant to Date
GiveWell recently made our largest grant to date: $276 million to the Against Malaria Foundation (AMF) for insecticide-treated net campaigns in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). It will support the purchase and distribution of around 92 million nets for campaigns across all 26 provinces from 2027 through 2029, 46 million of which we think would not have been distributed otherwise. We estimate the grant will avert approximately 67,000 deaths.
A grant of this size called for research we couldn’t have taken on a few years ago. Our new blog post with interactive data visualizations walks through some of that research and allows you to explore our analysis. We’ve spent years building a team that can do this kind of work, and it’s showing up in how much funding we can move—we anticipate our grantmaking will approach or potentially exceed $1 billion this year.
In this grant investigation, our increased capacity enabled our research team to dig deeper than we’ve been able to in the past and build the confidence needed to make this grant. In the blog, you can read about how they tested whether past campaigns we funded had actually reduced child deaths, drew on several sources of data to sharpen our estimate of DRC’s malaria burden, and examined how quickly nets wear out there.
In our latest podcast episode, GiveWell co-founder and CEO Elie Hassenfeld speaks with Senior Program Officer Alex Bowles, who led the investigation. They discuss the questions the team set out to answer during the grant investigation, and what changes when GiveWell funds a program at this scale.
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Finding the Bottlenecks in Family Planning Access
In our recent podcast episode, GiveWell co-founder and CEO Elie Hassenfeld speaks with