Current top charities

• Tobacco Taxation
• Conditional Cash Transfers​
• Top animal charities 

Historically recommended charities

• SMS Reminders for Immunizations (charity founded)
• Iron and Folic Acid Fortification (charity founded)
• Poverty Research Organization (why we removed this idea)

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Charity Entrepreneurship

Incubation Program

• Charity Entrepreneurship Incubation Program - What To Expect
• Benefits After the Incubation Program
• Why Charity Entrepreneurship? Meet our Incubation Program participants
• Application process for the 2019 Charity Entrepreneurship Incubation Program
• How to increase your odds of getting accepted into the Charity Entrepreneurship Incubation Program

Should you start a charity

• Charity Entrepreneurship - video and transcript from EA Global 2018: London
  
• Why charity entrepreneurship?
• What traits make a great charity entrepreneur?
• Why EAs in particular are good people to start charities
• Why founding charities is one of the highest impact things one can do
• Are you a good fit for Charity Entrepreneurship quiz​
• What is the expected value of creating a GiveWell top charity?​​​

Preparing to start a charity

• How to prepare for founding your own charity?
• ​Which jobs will best prepare you to become a charity entrepreneur?

How to start a charity

• Starting charities: When to Do it Yourself, Hire, and Inspire?
• How to get a new cause into EA

About Charity Entrepreneurship (organization)

• Introducing Charity Entrepreneurship: an Incubation and Research Program for New Charities​​
• Charity Entrepreneurship Update 2017

How to run a charity

• What are charity’s real goals
• Charities love feedback (as long as it’s complimentary)
• Six Examples of Measuring Incomplete Metrics ...and How to Fix Them​​​​​
• How charities are actually wasting your money
• What does it take to be a skeptical charity
• What if you’re working on the wrong cause? Preliminary thoughts on how long to spend exploring vs exploiting
• When to focus and when to re-evaluate
• The Value of Being Flexible
• What people over-value when hiring
• Talent gaps from the perspective of talent limited organization
• Organizational slack. How to run a stable organization
• Cluster Approach Thinking Applied to Selecting Fundraising Methods
• How to come to better conclusions by playing steelman solitaire​

Staying altruistic

• The Importance of EA Dedication and Why it Should Be Encouraged
  
• Empirical data on value drift
• How to keep your good intentions and do more good in the long run
• Setting our salary based on the world’s average GDP per capita
• How to have cost-effective fun
• Could a gap year save your career?

​Animal research

Process

• Why focus on animals
• Why Research Matters if We Want to Save More Animal Lives
• Using a Spreadsheet to Make Good Decisions: Five Examples​
• Our Process for Narrowing Down Which Charity Ideas to Research​
• Our research is focused on where to found new charities
• Unique timing - Targeting new and growing areas in factory farming
  
• The Importance of Time Capping
• How scale is often misused as a metric and how to fix it
• Why we look at the limiting factor instead of problem scale

Broad research

• The benefit of broad understanding
• How to make an impact in animal advocacy, a survey.
• Small animal replacement problem
• How do you pick what research to do within animal rights?
• Some mixed views on the treatment of animals in India ​
• Should we minimize the suffering felt next year or speed up neglected welfare improvements? A simple model

Animal research

• Is it better to be a wild rat or a factory farmed cow? A systematic method for comparing animal welfare.
• From humans in Canada to battery caged chickens in the United States, which animals have the hardest lives: results
• Which animals need the most help from the animal advocacy movement?
• Beef Cattle - Factory-Farmed
• Bird - Wild
• Broiler chicken
• Bug - Wild
• Chimp - Wild
• Dairy Cow - Factory-Farmed
• Fish - Factory-Farmed
• Fish - Wild for Human Use
• Fish - Wild Not for Human Use
• Human - High-Income Country
• Human - Low/Middle-Income Country
• Laying Hens - Battery Cages
• Laying Hens - Enriched Cages
• Rat - Wild
• Turkey - Factory Farmed

Ask research

• How to help animals by changing their diet
• Can expensive food do more good? High-welfare meat and helping animals​
• High lifetime suffering and painful deaths. Can we improve pest control
• How High Contraceptive Use Can Help Animals?
• Helping Fish Breathe - A Promising Intervention for Animals​​
• Preventing practices of mutilation on factory farms
• Switching Consumption from Chicken to Beef
• Fish Feed Optimization
• Increasing The Price of Animal Products
  
• Humane Slaughter and Transportation Methods
• Meat Reduction
• Fish Stocking and Live Bait Reduction
• Welfare Focused Gene Modification
• Which asks should be prioritized in animal advocacy
• ​35 Independent Pieces of Evidence for Why New Corporate Campaigns Might (or Might Not) Work
• Did corporate campaigns in the US have any counterfactual impact? A quantitative model
• ​Are China and India the most promising countries for animal advocacy? A systematic country comparison
• ​Do corporate campaigns work? A comprehensive analysis of the evidence for and against
• Research as an impactful intervention for animals

Poverty research

Process and research criteria

• Broad phases of our project
• Metrics
• Cost-Effectiveness
• The importance of evidence
• The importance of being flexible
• Why you should care about scalability
• Why you should care about indirect effects
• How logistics will influence which intervention you pick
  
• Counterfactual impact: what would happen if you didn’t act?
• What are DALYs and are they a good metric?

Research

• Request for feedback on research process
• Progress update
• Reflections on our first slum tour
• ​Thoughts on living in the developing world​
• Lessons learned from India​
• Progress update and prioritization change
• A High-level Review of our Thoughts on Interventions
• What's so great about increasing IQ?
• $500 prize for anybody who can change our current top choice of intervention

Results

• Summaries on areas we are no longer researching
• SMS Reminders for Immunizations
• Iron and Folic Acid Fortification
• Tobacco Taxation
• Conditional Cash Transfers​
• Poverty Research Organization

Updates

• Update on Evidence Base for Conditional Cash Transfers
• Update to Recommended Poverty Charities