Starting a Charity

Looking for an Entrepreneur Who Will Do Whatever I Say

Joey Savoie

May 25, 2022
6 min

Looking for an Entrepreneur Who Will Do Whatever I Say

Given the excitement and importance of new projects getting started, there have been a huge number of people interested in helping in the...

Key Differences between Gritty and Irrepressible Founders

Joey Savoie

Apr 23, 2021
2 min

Key Differences between Gritty and Irrepressible Founders

Irrepressibility overlaps with grit, but takes a more positive framing – someone “full of energy and enthusiasm; impossible to stop”.

How to Strengthen Your Co-Founder Relationship

Patrick Stadler

Mar 1, 2021
7 min

How to Strengthen Your Co-Founder Relationship

“Your co-founder relationship is like a marriage”. This common statement from experienced startup operators might sound like a stretch,...

Joey Savoie

Feb 22, 2021
5 min

How Do You Know Who to Trust?

When you are wheeled into a hospital with a broken arm, you place your trust in multiple people and establishments. You trust that the...

What is a Reasonable Financial Safety Net for a Charity Entrepreneur

Joey Savoie

Apr 13, 2020
4 min

What is a Reasonable Financial Safety Net for a Charity Entrepreneur

Charity entrepreneurship in many ways is a less stable career than a traditional job. Charities in their early days will have limited...

How Your Team Benefits from Charity Entrepreneurship

Joey Savoie

Apr 9, 2020
3 min

How Your Team Benefits from Charity Entrepreneurship

We have written previously about the expected value of founding an impactful charity in direct terms, considering the largest and most...

The Impact of Charity Entrepreneurship on the NGO Sector

Joey Savoie

Apr 5, 2020
5 min

The Impact of Charity Entrepreneurship on the NGO Sector

Founding a new organization has a wide range of effects on the charitable sector as a whole. If a charity is good, it can raise standards...

Patrick Stadler

Mar 1, 2020
10 min

How to Successfully Pick a Co-Founder

No pressure, but picking your co-founder is one of the most important decisions you will ever make as a charity entrepreneur. Only...

Why charity entrepreneurship is one of the highest-impact things you can do

CE Team

Feb 24, 2019
22 min

Why charity entrepreneurship is one of the highest-impact things you can do

In this talk from EA Global 2018: London, Joey Savoie, Charity Entrepreneurship's director, discusses why charity entrepreneurship is one...

Which jobs will best prepare you to become a charity entrepreneur?

CE Team

Dec 12, 2018
4 min

Which jobs will best prepare you to become a charity entrepreneur?

The first thing to consider is whether you need a job to prepare yourself for charity entrepreneurship as a career path. A number of...

Setting our salary based on the world’s average GDP per capita

CE Team

Aug 25, 2018
2 min

Setting our salary based on the world’s average GDP per capita

A lot of people in the EA movement have a large say over their salary, whether it be earning to give where you can donate down to a...

How to prepare for founding your own charity

CE Team

Jul 28, 2018
3 min

How to prepare for founding your own charity

There are a variety of ways to prepare for founding your own charity. There is, of course, the legal and bureaucratic work, but much more...

What traits make a great charity entrepreneur

CE Team

Jul 18, 2018
5 min

What traits make a great charity entrepreneur

“I’m convinced that half of what separates the successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance.” -- Steve Jobs...

How Logistics Will Influence Which Intervention You Pick

CE Team

Apr 16, 2018
8 min

How Logistics Will Influence Which Intervention You Pick

“You will not find it difficult to prove that battles, campaigns, and even wars have been won or lost primarily because of logistics.” -...

CE Team

Apr 11, 2018
5 min

Why You Should Care About Scalability

“The difference between a charity that saves two million lives and a million lives is the same as the difference between one that never...

CE Team

Apr 7, 2017
11 min

The Importance of Evidence

“Insofar as a scientific statement speaks about reality, it must be falsifiable; and in so far as it is not falsifiable, it does not...

Which metrics to use when picking an intervention

CE Team

Apr 2, 2017
15 min

Which metrics to use when picking an intervention

What gets measured gets improved. - Robin Sharma When selecting which projects to implement, you should also try to maximize your...

What is the expected value of creating a GiveWell top charity?

CE Team

Dec 17, 2016
7 min

What is the expected value of creating a GiveWell top charity?

Earlier this year, GiveWell Experimental predicted that we, the team behind Charity Science Health (CSH), have a 15% chance of becoming a...

Starting charities: When to Do it Yourself, Hire, and Inspire?

CE Team

Jun 1, 2016
2 min

Starting charities: When to Do it Yourself, Hire, and Inspire?

There are many different ways to help create a charity and they each come with different trade-offs between time, money, and execution....

CE Team

Apr 1, 2016
3 min

Lessons learned from India

Everything takes longer One of the biggest things we noticed while in India was that it takes large amounts of time even to accomplish...