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2020 Top Charity Ideas

8/17/2020

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​We’re proud to announce our 2020 Top Charity Ideas!
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Each year Charity Entrepreneurship identifies highly effective interventions in chosen cause areas. Our Incubation Program gives participants the skills they need to start high-impact nonprofits based on our top intervention recommendations. 

Our 2020 research period focused on four cause areas: mental health, animal advocacy, family planning, and health & development policy. We began with several hundred ideas in each cause area. Progressive stages of our extensive research process whittled down to eight recommended ideas. 

Eighty-hour reports linked below illustrate how we came to recommend this year’s top interventions. We also provide Incubation Program participants with implementation reports, which provide specific recommendations to map a path forward for a new charity.
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Our 2020 top recommendations are as follows (in no particular order):

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Top Health and Development Policy Charity Ideas We're Researching in 2020 (Idea Prioritization Report)

3/28/2020

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From a starting point of 256 ideas, we selected the top 31 for further research through an idea sort. This Idea Prioritization Report is the second stage of our research process, and ranks the 31 ideas from most to least promising. Now the top 7 ideas will move to the next stage: 80-hour reports, which we will release in the coming weeks.

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Top Charity Ideas 2019

4/10/2019

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Update on Evidence Base for Conditional Cash Transfers

9/10/2018

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As part of researching the most effective charity options, Charity Entrepreneurship (CE) has previously conducted research on Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) programs (see here). Since then a few things have changed that we feel are important enough to merit an update (available here). ​

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The benefit of broad understanding

9/3/2018

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Some of the books I read to get a sense of animals' lives from different perspectives.

I have been a vegan for 8 years and have been semi-actively involved in animal rights for the past 5 years. Despite this, I have realized that my understanding of many aspects of the lives of animals is surprisingly narrow, and I think this is fairly common for activists in animal advocacy (or any movement, really). As the project I am now working on is recommending charities that should be founded in the animal advocacy movement and providing an incubation camp for them, I feel the need to broaden my understanding of these issues.

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Update to Recommended Poverty Charities

7/18/2018

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We created the list of our recommended poverty charities to found in 2016. Our original list included 5 promising interventions: 

  • SMS vaccination reminders
  • Iron and folic acid fortification
  • Tobacco taxation
  • Conditional cash transfers for medical interventions 
  • Poverty research

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$500 prize for anybody who can change our current top choice of intervention

5/11/2016

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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 top prospects worth further exploration. Below is a chart comparing these five possibilities. The rankings are relative to each other, not absolute and based on a primary and time limited review of the data on these causes.

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Iron and Folic Acid Fortification

5/9/2016

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This is one of our charity profiles, where we present our shallow, preliminary research on a potential, promising charity idea. We believe that this idea could be a potential contender for a GiveWell top charity, if further research confirmed the idea and if someone started the charity, executed it well, and resolved some of our outstanding questions and reservations

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Conditional Cash Transfers

5/7/2016

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This is one of our charity profiles, where we present our shallow, preliminary research on a potential, promising charity idea. We believe that this idea could be a potential contender for a GiveWell top charity, if further research confirmed the idea and if someone started the charity, executed it well, and resolved some of our outstanding questions and reservations

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Poverty Research Organization

4/27/2016

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This is one of our charity profiles, where we present our shallow, preliminary research on a potential, promising charity idea. We believe that this idea could be a potential contender for a GiveWell top charity, if further research confirmed the idea and if someone started the charity, executed it well, and resolved some of our outstanding questions and reservations.

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SMS Reminders for Immunizations

4/25/2016

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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 present our shallow, preliminary research on a potential, promising charity idea. We believe that this idea could be a potential contender for a GiveWell top charity, if further research confirmed the idea and if someone started the charity, executed it well, and resolved some of our outstanding questions and reservations.

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Tobacco Taxation

4/19/2016

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This is one of our charity profiles, where we present our shallow, preliminary research on a potential, promising charity idea. We believe that this idea could be a potential contender for a GiveWell top charity, if further research confirmed the idea and if someone started the charity, executed it well, and resolved some of our outstanding questions and reservations.

Basic Idea
Lobby low and middle-income countries (LMIC) to increase tobacco taxes.

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What's so great about increasing IQ?

3/31/2016

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--- This blog post has been edited and updated based on new information sent to us about the relationship between IQ and income. We feel as though the evidence is more positive than we originally wrote but still not enough to change our conclusion that there is insufficient evidence of a connection between IQ and other positive life outcomes for us to value increasing IQ as a potential metric.  ---

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 A High-level Review of our Thoughts on Interventions

3/18/2016

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Two months ago, we set out to identify possibilities for future GiveWell top charities, with the intention to start one ourselves.  We started out by looking at the GiveWell priority program list and added a few more interventions we thought could be promising as we conducted our initial research. We ended up with a list of 28 target interventions to research further.

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After two months of research, we have now reviewed all our target interventions, ranking each on eight key criteria (from low to high) and producing overall scores (out of ten). Here are our results:
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​We researched each intervention for about fifty hours each, producing over 900 pages of notes. We already explained
the interventions that didn’t make the cut and why. Over the next month, we will be posting many blog posts explaining our thinking on these criteria and outlining our research on six interventions that did make the cut.  We will also eventually start posting our ideas about which concrete charities we think may be high value and why.
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Broad phases of our project

1/9/2016

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We wanted to publish a quick update of a summary timeline and broad phases of our project. All these numbers are tentative, and we expect they will change as we conduct the research and get a better sense of each step. Throughout this whole process there will also be ongoing logistical and meta-work to support these main activities. ​
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What are DALYs and are they a good metric?

1/23/2014

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