In 2021, GiveWell directed the largest amount of money in our history, over $500 million, which we believe will be beneficial or life saving to many people in need. We thank our donors for continuing to trust us to find and recommend some of the most highly cost-effective giving opportunities in the world.| The GiveWell Blog
GiveWell’s ability to find and fund highly cost-effective health programs relies on a foundation of credible data. A key source of that data, the Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS), recently had its primary funding from USAID discontinued. This creates the potential of a significant challenge for GiveWell’s research—and for evidence-based grantmaking across the global health sector. In this episode, GiveWell CEO and co-founder Elie Hassenfeld speaks with Senior Researcher Adam Salisbu...| The GiveWell Blog
GiveWell is dedicated to finding and funding outstanding giving opportunities. This post describes our financial performance and impact in 2024.| The GiveWell Blog
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
We publish selected portions of our monthly email newsletter on our blog to make this news more accessible to people who visit our website.| The GiveWell Blog
This year, we re-evaluated the cost effectiveness of direct cash transfers as implemented by GiveDirectly.| The GiveWell Blog
Malaria is the cause area where GiveWell has directed the most funding over our 18-year history. We’ve recommended over $1 billion to malaria programs, which we estimate will avert over 200,000 deaths, mostly in young children, through support for programs like Against Malaria Foundation’s insecticide-treated nets and Malaria Consortium’s seasonal malaria chemoprevention. Despite significant progress against malaria in the past 25 years (reducing annual deaths from 900,000 to 600,000), ...| The GiveWell Blog
Imagine you are planning to make a charitable donation and want your gift to make a real difference. You’ve done your research and found three very effective programs: one provides cash transfers to increase the incomes of very poor households; one provides treatment to correct clubfoot, a congenital condition that causes pain and mobility loss; and one provides children with medication to prevent illness and death from malaria. How do you decide? Like GiveWell, you may aim to maximize the ...| 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
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 newsletter in your inbox each month, you can subscribe here. Read More The post June 2025 Updates appeared first on The GiveWell Blog.| 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
While some people feel that GiveWell puts too much emphasis on the measurable and quantifiable, there are others who go further than we do in| 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
In 2022, the most recent year for which data is available and analyzed, GiveWell raised the largest amount of money in our history, over $600 million. We thank our donors for continuing to trust us to find and recommend highly cost-effective giving opportunities.| The GiveWell Blog
Over the years, we've had many exchanges along these lines: Q: Why can't you A: We don't have enough people; we're already stretched thin with our current| The GiveWell Blog
We provide a preliminary summary of new research on the effects of cash transfers, our plans for reviewing this research, and how it might affect our views.| The GiveWell Blog
We recently received results from research we supported to help us understand how to value different good outcomes that charities can achieve.| The GiveWell Blog
Discussing how GiveWell's approach to accounting for charities' influence on how others allocate their funds has changed over time.| The GiveWell Blog