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Is it better to be a wild rat? A systematic method of comparing animal welfare

CE Team

Sep 16, 20186 min read

Is it better to be a wild rat? A systematic method of comparing animal welfare

TLDR: We looked at a lot of different systems to compare welfare and ended up combining a few common ones into a weighted animal welfare...

Update on Evidence Base for Conditional Cash Transfers

CE Team

Sep 9, 20183 min read

Update on Evidence Base for Conditional Cash Transfers

As part of researching the most effective charity options, Charity Entrepreneurship (CE) has previously conducted research on Conditional...

Joey Savoie

Sep 2, 20184 min read

The Benefit of Broad Understanding

Some of the books I read to get a sense of animals' lives from different perspectives. I have been a vegan for 8 years and have been...

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

CE Team

Aug 25, 20182 min read

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, 20183 min read

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, 20185 min read

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...

CE Team

Jul 17, 20182 min read

Update to Recommended Poverty Charities

We created the list of our recommended poverty charities to found in 2016. Our original list included 5 promising interventions: SMS...

CE Team

Jul 15, 20183 min read

Why focus on animals

In the past, Charity Entrepreneurship (CE) has been focused on poverty charities, founding one ourselves and supporting the creation of...

CE Team

Jun 29, 20188 min read

How to have cost-effective fun

Joey and I run a nonprofit, and we pay ourselves what we would make if the world’s wealth was entirely equally distributed. Often when...

CE Team

Jun 13, 20185 min read

Introducing Charity Entrepreneurship: an Incubation and Research Program for New Charities

How do we get more EA charities started? There’s a good case that charity entrepreneurship is high impact for EAs, but it seems not many...

Why EAs in particular are good people to start charities

CE Team

Jun 4, 20188 min read

Why EAs in particular are good people to start charities

There have been previous posts about the impact of founding a new GiveWell top charity, the impact of charity founding, and some of the...

Why founding charities is one of the highest impact things one can do

CE Team

Jun 3, 20186 min read

Why founding charities is one of the highest impact things one can do

Track record and tractability Historically, some of the highest impact individuals in the EA movement and across the broader world have...

How Logistics Will Influence Which Intervention You Pick

CE Team

Apr 16, 20188 min read

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.” -...

Why You Should Care About Indirect Effects

CE Team

Apr 13, 20188 min read

Why You Should Care About Indirect Effects

“Without reflection, we go blindly on our way, creating more unintended consequences, and failing to achieve anything useful.” - Margaret...

CE Team

Apr 11, 20185 min read

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 9, 20184 min read

The importance of being flexible

How often should you re-evaluate whether your charity is worth continuing? Although it is crucial to do your best to disconfirm your...

CE Team

Apr 26, 20177 min read

Poverty Research Organization

This is one of our charity profiles, where we present our shallow, preliminary research on a potential, promising charity idea. We...

Counterfactual impact: what would happen if you didn’t act?

CE Team

Apr 16, 20175 min read

Counterfactual impact: what would happen if you didn’t act?

“In order to be irreplaceable, you must always be different.” - Coco Chanel WHAT IS COUNTERFACTUAL IMPACT? Counterfactual impact is what...

CE Team

Apr 7, 201711 min read

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...

CE Team

Apr 3, 20177 min read

Cost-effectiveness

“Smart can also mean wise, kind, inspiring - and cost-effective. And that has a charm all its own.” - Nancy Gibbs When researching what...

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