If there’s one group of people who are as obsessed as we are with rigorously analyzing a complicated domain and figuring out where to prioritize scarce resources, it’s Major League Baseball f...
GiveWell started supporting vaccines in 2015 and has made over $160 million in grants to date. With strong results from past work in this space, we're now exploring how to reach more people with ...
https://blog.givewell.org/2024/09/10/research-strategy-vaccines/
Our goal with hosting quarterly open threads is to give blog readers an opportunity to publicly raise comments or questions about GiveWell or related topics (in the comments section below). As al...
https://blog.givewell.org/2024/09/04/september-2024-open-thread/
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 peo...
Sometimes statistics can help when it's hard to decide what to do. You’re at a local art fair, and they’re raffling off a car worth $10,000. Five hundred tickets are being sold, each for $1...
https://blog.givewell.org/2024/08/21/raffles-deworming-and-statistics/
It started in my early forties, and it's only gotten worse since then. At first, it was a mild annoyance, but now it affects my quality of life and makes it harder to get things done. I'm definit...
https://blog.givewell.org/2024/08/13/bringing-the-economic-benefits-of-reading-glasses-into-focus/
What do you do if you’re in the very fortunate position of having more money than you need to meet your own immediate needs? You might find new things to buy. You might stockpile it for a rainy...
What does it take to prevent malaria? Some of the programs GiveWell recommends might sound straightforward—for example, seasonal malaria chemoprevention (SMC) programs provide antimalarial drug...
https://blog.givewell.org/2024/07/11/more-than-a-spoonful-of-medicine/
Today we’re sharing a few quotes from pieces we’ve come across recently in our work—claims have not been vetted, and (of course) interest is not endorsement. “The story of Ethiopian manuf...
https://blog.givewell.org/2024/07/02/some-things-were-reading/
We’re crossposting a blog post by New Incentives, one of our grantee organizations and Top Charities. New Incentives promotes vaccination in Northern Nigeria by providing cash incentives to par...
https://blog.givewell.org/2024/06/28/100-miles-of-monitoring/