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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Brief history: Charity Entrepreneurship was a project started by the Charity Science team with the intention of founding a highly...

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

This post was previously published at EA forum by Peter Hurford We all make decisions every day. Some of these decisions are pretty...

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

We have completed our second phase of research which was to narrow a list of about thirty charity ideas to a more concise list of five...

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

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

Update 07/12/16: The post below has been updated to more accurately represent some studies This is one of our charity profiles, where we...

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

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