As GiveWell’s research team grows, our goal is to compare as wide a range of programs as we can to find the most cost-effective opportunities to help people. Over the past year and a half, we’ve been investigating family planning services that help people decide whether and when to have children as a new area of research. Family planning programs have particularly complex challenges around targeting, logistics, and ensuring informed and voluntary choice. However, GiveWell's increasing res...| The GiveWell Blog
GiveWell has long grappled with fundamental questions about how to value different positive impacts and make funding decisions across diverse programs. In particular, how much more valuable it is to save a life than to substantially improve it? And how can we prioritize between programs that achieve those outcomes in different measures when there’s no “right” answer to that question? In this episode, GiveWell CEO and co-founder Elie Hassenfeld speaks with Senior Program Officer Julie Fa...| The GiveWell Blog
GiveWell has begun conducting "lookbacks" to review past grants against their initial expectations, aiming to improve future decision-making and provide transparency on the impact of donor funding.| The GiveWell Blog
In the latest podcast episode in a series of conversations with our research team, GiveWell CEO and co-founder Elie Hassenfeld is joined by Principal Researcher Alex Cohen to outline GiveWell's forecasting work to better understand the future of global health funding.| The GiveWell Blog
In the latest podcast episode in a series of conversations with our research team, GiveWell CEO and co-founder Elie Hassenfeld and Program Officer Alice Redfern discuss our initial exploration into HIV/AIDS programming.| The GiveWell Blog
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