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Note: This page compares the impact of New Incentives' grants against our initial expectations. This page reflects our analysis and understanding as of December 2024. New Incentives staff reviewed this page prior to publication.| GiveWell
In a nutshell Vitamin A supplementation (VAS) is the mass distribution of vitamin A capsules to preschool-age children to reduce child mortality. GiveWell believes VAS is one of the most cost-effective programs donors can support. We estimate that it costs ~$1,000 to $8,500 to avert a death in locations where GiveWell supports campaigns. We think VAS is cost-effective because:| GiveWell
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It is wrong to think these three statements contradict each other. We need to see that they are all true to see that a better world is possible.| Our World in Data
An overview of the arguments and counterarguments| bobjacobs.substack.com
What problem is the All Grants Fund working on?| www.givingwhatwecan.org
Bridging Effective Altruism and Holistic Tantra| honestliving.substack.com
I used to be heavily sceptical about charitable giving. I wanted to help others, but worried that my charitable donations might be doing little more than alleviating my own guilt. After all, how could I know that my money was actually doing something? The pile of address labels, stickers, and greeting cards arriving in the mail from charities I didn’t even donate to certainly didn’t inspire confidence; why were charities spending precious funds on unsolicited address labels while simultan...| www.givingwhatwecan.org
We live in a world in which ten children die every minute.| Our World in Data
This page logs mistakes we've made, ways in which our organization has failed or currently fails to live up to our values, and lessons we've learned. This page focuses on issues that could affect the impression that people external to the organization have of our work and its reliability. We don't list missteps whose main cost was to our productivity or our growth.| GiveWell
Note: This page summarizes the rationale behind a GiveWell grant to Evidence Action's Dispensers for Safe Water program. Evidence Action staff reviewed this page prior to publication. The page reflects our rationale at the time the grant was recommended.| GiveWell
Note added August 2022: Our approach to moral weights has changed over the past several years, as has our list of top charities. As a result, the page below may be out-of-date.| GiveWell
Vitamin A is critical to children’s growing bodies and brains.| Helen Keller Intl
Learn how to evaluate the additional benefits caused by your actions with counterfactual impact. Compare different decisions and their potential outcomes.| Probably Good
In a nutshell Seasonal malaria chemoprevention (SMC) involves giving children monthly courses of antimalarial medicines during the high malaria season (in places where malaria is seasonal). We estimate that it costs approximately $2,000 to $7,000 (depending on the location) to avert a death in areas where GiveWell supports SMC. We think SMC is cost-effective because we think:| GiveWell
This blog post looks at the overall scope of GiveWell's grantmaking, why we dedicate funding and research capacity to programs other than our top charities, and the types of opportunities we support.| The GiveWell Blog
In a nutshell GiveWell believes that distributing insecticide-treated nets (ITNs) is one of the most cost-effective programs that donors can support. We estimate that it costs approximately $3,000 to $8,000 to avert a death in locations where GiveWell supports campaigns. We think mass distribution of ITNs is cost-effective because:| GiveWell
GiveWell tries to help donors do as much good as possible with each dollar they give. We aim to find outstanding giving opportunities and to publish the full details of our analysis to help donors decide where to give. We do not aim to rate every charity, but to find the ones which we feel will maximize the impact of additional donations in terms of lives saved or improved.| GiveWell
Published: November 2017; Last Updated: July 2023 (August 2022 version, 2009-2015 version)| GiveWell
The majority of GiveWell's work focuses on identifying quantifiable, evidence-based giving opportunities that directly deliver goods and services to people, or provide technical assistance that supports government provision of goods and services.| GiveWell
This page shares our general approach to creating impact estimates for the programs and funding opportunities we recommend and walks through the decisions and judgment calls behind those estimates.| GiveWell
Effective altruism is a project that aims to find the best ways to help others, and put them into practice. It’s partly a research field, which aims to identify the world’s most pressing problems and| www.effectivealtruism.org
Effective altruism, air pollution in Delhi, Supreme Court of India, and trade off between legibility and complexity in evaluating philanthropic efforts.| srajagopalan.substack.com
Donate to high-impact, cost-effective programs—backed by evidence and analysis Last updated: January 2025| GiveWell
