GiveWell
Formation | 2007 |
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Founders |
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Type | Charity evaluation |
Location |
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Region | Global |
President | Elie Hassenfeld |
Website | givewell |
GiveWell is an American
History
In 2006,
In the first year, Karnofsky and Hassenfeld advocated that charities should generally spend more money on overhead, so that they could pay for staff and record keeping to track how effective their efforts were; this ran counter to standard ways of evaluating charities based on the ratio of overhead to funds deployed for the charity work itself.[3]
In late 2007, GiveWell's founders promoted the organization on several internet blogs and forums using
In 2008, GiveWell received funding from the
In 2013, GiveWell moved its offices to San Francisco where people in Silicon Valley had become strong supporters of the effective altruism philosophy.[2]
Givewell's approach is data-driven, and they recommend charities which work in the
Open Philanthropy
In 2011, Good Ventures, founded with $8.3 billion by husband and wife Dustin Moskovitz and Cari Tuna, partnered with GiveWell to set up a partner organization called Open Philanthropy, as a vehicle to direct the funding done by Good Ventures.[11][12] In 2015, Mike Krieger and his fiancee Kaitlyn Trigger pledged $750,000 to Open Philanthropy over two years, with 10% going to fund the operations of the project.[13]
Open Philanthropy has investigated giving money to criminal justice reform[13] and a range of other policy areas,[14] and has funded work into mitigating risks of artificial intelligence,[15][16][17] biosecurity,[18] and global health.[19]
In 2017, Open Philanthropy separated from GiveWell, and upon Karnofsky stepping down as Co-Executive Director of GiveWell, Elie Hassenfeld became GiveWell's sole Executive Director.[20]
Recommended charities
GiveWell makes annual recommendations of the most cost-effective charities. They estimate that they save an average of one life for every
- Malaria Consortium (malaria prevention)
- Against Malaria Foundation (malaria prevention)
- Helen Keller International (supplements to prevent vitamin A deficiency)
- New Incentives (conditional cash transfers to encourage vaccination)
See also
- American Institute of Philanthropy
- Earning to give
- Ethics of philanthropy
- Founders Pledge
- Giving What We Can
- Raising for Effective Giving
- Venture philanthropy
References
- ^ "Clear Fund". Retrieved April 4, 2017.
- ^ Huffington Post. Retrieved April 27, 2015.
The tech community around Silicon Valley has embraced the movement with particular enthusiasm, and GiveWell moved its offices to San Francisco in 2013.
- ^ a b "Young Duo to 'Clear' the Way for Charitable Giving". National Public Radio.
- OCLC 588998863.
- ^ Peter Singer. The Life You Can Save: Acting Now To End World Poverty, Random House, 2009. Ch. 6, pp. 81–104
- ^ Strom, Stephanie (December 20, 2007). "2 Young Hedge-Fund Veterans Stir Up the World of Philanthropy". The New York Times.
- ^ a b Stephanie Strom (January 8, 2008). "Founder of a Nonprofit Is Punished by Its Board for Engaging in an Internet Ruse". The New York Times. Retrieved September 13, 2011.
- ^ Strom, Stephanie (January 15, 2008). "Nonprofit Punishes a 2nd Founder for Ruse". The New York Times.
- William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. Archived from the originalon September 18, 2016. Retrieved September 6, 2014.
- ^ Aizenman, Nurith (November 27, 2017). "On #GivingTuesday, How To Get The Most Bang For Your Charity Buck". NPR.org. NPR. National Public Radio. Retrieved February 27, 2018.
- Chronicle of Philanthropy. Retrieved March 25, 2014.
- ^ Nicole Bennett; Ashley Carter; Romney Resney & Wendy Woods (February 10, 2016). "bcg.perspectives - How Tech Entrepreneurs Are Disrupting Philanthropy". The Boston Consulting Group. Retrieved September 12, 2017.
- ^ a b Matthews, Dylan (April 24, 2015). "You have $8 billion. You want to do as much good as possible. What do you do?". Vox. Retrieved April 27, 2015.
- ^ Berkey, Brian. "The Institutional Critique of Effective Altruism" (PDF). Utilitas: 22. Retrieved September 12, 2017.
- ^ Elizabeth Preston (July 1, 2015). "Boston group awards $6m from Elon Musk to jump-start artificial intelligence research". Boston Globe. Retrieved March 20, 2016.
- ^ Jack Clark (July 1, 2015). "Musk-Backed Group Probes Risks Behind Artificial Intelligence". Bloomberg Business. Retrieved March 20, 2016.
- ^ Vanian, Jonathan (July 1, 2015). "Why Elon Musk is donating millions to make artificial intelligence safer". Fortune. Retrieved March 19, 2016.
- PMID 28745920.
- ^ "Leverage: Why This Silicon Valley Funder Is Doubling Down on a Beltway Think Tank". Inside Philanthropy. March 9, 2016. Retrieved March 19, 2016.
- ^ Hollander, Catherine (June 12, 2017). "Separating GiveWell and the Open Philanthropy Project". GiveWell. Retrieved August 20, 2022.
- ^ a b "Our Top Charities". GiveWell. August 2022. Retrieved August 17, 2022.
Further reading
- Lieber, Ron (April 25, 2014). "Donating, and Making Sure the Money Is Put to Work". The New York Times. Retrieved June 4, 2016.