KeMeK Philanthropy

KeMeK Philanthropy

Tag: Donations

  • The hardest part about fundraising for GiveWell

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    May marked my three-year anniversary as a Philanthropy Advisor at GiveWell. It’s a job I adore (as I’ve written about here and here), and I’ve recently been tasked with the exciting process of interviewing candidates for our growing team. One of the best questions I’ve been asked in this process is: What’s the hardest part…

  • Open Philanthropy’s 2023-2025 funding of $300 million total for GiveWell’s recommendations

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    This year, Open Philanthropy plans to give $300 million for GiveWell to spend over the next three years. We’re grateful for what this support will enable us to do. Annualized, this is similar to what Open Philanthropy gave in 2020 and roughly in line with what we projected earlier this year. It’s less than Open…

  • How much funding does GiveWell expect to raise through 2025?

    How much funding does GiveWell expect to raise through 2025?

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    Summary We’re optimistic that GiveWell’s funds raised will continue to increase in the long run. Over the next few years, we believe our annual funds raised are more likely to stay relatively constant, due to a decrease in expected funding from our largest donor, Open Philanthropy, offset by an expected increase in funding from our…

  • The Maximum Impact Fund is now the Top Charities Fund

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    We’ve decided to rename the Maximum Impact Fund to better describe what opportunities this fund supports. The Maximum Impact Fund will now be called the Top Charities Fund. We recently announced changes to our top charity criteria that include a new requirement for our top charities: that we have a high degree of confidence in…

  • An update on GiveWell’s funding projections

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    As little as six months ago, we were in the position of having more funding available than we could spend on opportunities that met our very high cost-effectiveness bar. Today, the opposite is true—we don’t expect to have enough funding to support all the cost-effective opportunities we find. In this post we will: provide an…

  • Why you’ll see more matching campaigns at GiveWell

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    Lots of charities run matching campaigns with claims like “Give today and double your impact!” We’re generally skeptical of these claims, which are true only if the matching donor would not have otherwise given to the charity. We guess that many donors who are motivated to make a large gift to charity (as donors who…