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GiveWell
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01.16.08My thoughts on GiveWell’s recent controversyNOTE: The first three paragraphs of this post was written before my vacation which started on New Year's Day... On New Year's Eve I learned about the problems over at GiveWell from the Agitator blog. Full disclosure: I really like Holden and we hang out. He gets invited to socialmarkets events. We have even karaoked together. It's a damn shame. And no, I'm not planning to shun him Dwight Schrute style over this. In short, Holden posed as an innocuous user over at MetaFilter asking a general question: "what is the best high-performance charity?". He then logged on as himself to answer ...
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11.13.07GiveWell releases reviews of nonprofit organizations on the WebAnd the philanthropic world will never be the same again. Kudos to Holden and Elie at GiveWell for what I believe to be a groundbreaking approach to philanthropy. They are -gasp- releasing their analyses of multiple nonprofit organizations COMPLETE with the grant application materials that the nonprofit sent to GiveWell. This is the first time I've seen this kind of thing on the Web. Dear reader, please e-mail me at abenamer@nonprofittechblog.org if I'm wrong. Forget about Charity Navigator or Guidestar, GiveWell is the real deal when it comes to transparency and accountability in the nonprofit world. Continue Reading...
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02.23.07Donors unite to rate nonprofitsGiveWell is a great new service to check out and a tremendous challenge to nonprofits out there. They're a bunch of donors looking to leverage the Web so that they can ask questions of nonprofits. Their stated goal is as follows: Our goal is to make it easy for you to do as much good as possible with your charitable donations. We believe that in giving, as in everything else, generosity and good intentions are helpful but not sufficient. Nonprofits should be thoroughly analyzed and compared with each other, in order to determine which ones can most improve the world. We aim to ...
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