If you're feeling overwhelmed by all of the important problems in the world, and you'd like to make a difference, ...
By: Barry Grimes
Month: November 2022
Our charity recommendation for 2022 is StrongMinds, a non-profit that provides group psychotherapy for women in Uganda and Zambia who are struggling with depression.
The Nippon Foundation will launch the Asia Philanthropy Congress in Tokyo on November 19, 2022. It aims to ...
By: Barry Grimes
How should we compare the value of extending lives to improving lives? Doing so requires us to make various philosophical assumptions, either implicitly or explicitly. But these choices are rarely acknowledged or discussed by decision-makers, all of them are controversial, and they have significant implications for how resources should be distributed.
We raise twelve critiques of GiveWell’s cost-effectiveness analyses. Ten apply to specific inputs for malaria prevention, cash transfers, and deworming. Two are relevant for more than one intervention.