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CE ARTICLES

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)

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

About Us

Charity Entrepreneurship (“CE”) is operating through a fiscal sponsorship with Players Philanthropy Fund (Federal Tax ID: 27-6601178), a Maryland charitable trust with federal tax-exempt status as a public charity under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. Contributions to CE are tax-deductible to the fullest extent of the law.

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