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Why GiveWell Labs? - The GiveWell Blog

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We previously announced GiveWell Labs, a new arm of our research process that will be open to any giving opportunity, no matter what form and what sector. Here I share a bit more of the thinking behind why we’re doing this. Our goals are twofold: Find better giving opportunities. When we laid out our main goals for 2011, #1 was finding more great giving opportunities, and our possible strategies for doing so involved (a) broadening our scope (b) considering project-based funding. With GiveWell Labs, we are doing both simultaneously. Position ourselves to advise seven-figure donors. When analyzing our own impact, we’ve noted that it comes disproportionately from large donors. (We influence more $100 donors than $10,000 donors, but the ratio is far under 100:1, so the $10,000 donors end up accounting for the lion’s share of our money moved.) This seems logical to us, when considering that GiveWell is a “niche product” – we don’t appeal to large interconnected groups of people, but the ra

This post is more than 14 years old [Added August 27, 2014: GiveWell Labs is now known as the Open Philanthropy Project .] We previously announced GiveWell Labs, a new arm of our research process that will be open to any giving opportunity, no matter what form and what sector. Here I share a bit more of the thinking behind why we’re doing this. What we’re trying to accomplish with this initiative Our goals are twofold: Find better giving opportunities. When we laid out our main goals for 2011 , #1 was finding more great giving opportunities, and our possible strategies for doing so

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