

Organizational Slack. How to run a stable organization
He quit! It was a tricky decision that Bill had been considering for months. He was an impact-focused EA, and although he thought his job...

CE Team
Jan 10, 20194 min read


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...

CE Team
Dec 12, 20184 min read


Which animals need the most help from the animal advocacy movement?
Authors of the research: Joey Savoie, Karolina Sarek, David Moss When recommending different charities to found in the field of animal...

CE Team
Dec 3, 20182 min read


From humans in Canada to battery caged chickens, which animals have the hardest lives
Authors of the research: Karolina Sarek, Joey Savoie, David Moss After spending considerable time on creating the best system we could...

CE Team
Nov 25, 20184 min read


The Importance of Time Capping
Time capping can be defined as fixing the number of hours for a certain task, research project or decision, and keeping our research...

Joey Savoie
Nov 16, 20184 min read


Our Process for Narrowing Down Which Charity Ideas to Research
Animal advocacy is a huge area and there are thousands of possible ideas to investigate, which could all be the basis for forming...

CE Team
Oct 1, 20186 min read


Small animal replacement problem
The small animal replacement problem is the concern that certain diet changes aimed at causing less harm to the world might, in fact,...

CE Team
Sep 24, 20182 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...

CE Team
Sep 16, 20186 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...

CE Team
Sep 9, 20183 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...

Joey Savoie
Sep 2, 20184 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...

CE Team
Aug 25, 20182 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...

CE Team
Jul 28, 20183 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 18, 20185 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 17, 20182 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
Jul 15, 20183 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 29, 20188 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...

CE Team
Jun 13, 20185 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...

CE Team
Jun 4, 20188 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...

CE Team
Jun 3, 20186 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.” -...

CE Team
Apr 16, 20188 min read