We encourage Incubation Program applicants to start a charity from our list of recommended ideas. Thousands of hours have been put into identifying the most promising ideas. In 2019, we recommended ideas for global health and animal welfare. We will do the same this year in addition to mental health and family planning.
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Recommendations for 2020 are currently in the process of being researched and have not been released yet. Our priority research areas for the year are described below. We expect that each of these areas will have one to four recommended charities for founding in the 2020 Incubation Program.

2020 TOP RESEARCH AREAS FOR
​STARTING NEW CHARITIES

MENTAL HEALTH
​and Happiness

Mental health directly influences happiness and can fill large gaps in both high- and low-income countries. The evidence base also looks promising despite limited historical work on prioritization.
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​ANIMAL WELFARE

Farmed and wild animals are victims of huge suffering and extreme neglect. There appear to be many promising ways to massively improve their lives. Now seems like a uniquely good time to found new animal organizations. 

HEALTH and
​Development POLICY

Leveraging government resources through technical assistance and advocacy can make an impact at a very large scale. Health policies can be both evidence based and extremely cost effective. 
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​Family Planning ​

Family planning has a range of positive effects on health, wealth, empowerment and more. The area looks highly promising and is growing dramatically but has not yet applied the same methodologies as other areas of global health.

CHARITIES STARTED - 2019

HAPPIER LIVES INSTITUTE

Researching the most effective methods for improving global well-being.
​Website: happierlivesinstitute.org
Contact: hello@happierlivesinstitute.org
Room for more funding: $100K until August 2020
Donate here ->

FISH WELFARE INITIATIVE

Reducing the suffering of billions of fish through targeted, scalable interventions.
​Website: fishwelfareinitiative.org
Contact: haven@fishwelfareinitiative.org

​SUVITA

Harnessing the power of community-led nudges to combat vaccine-preventable diseases
Website: suvita.org
Contact: contact@suvita.org
Room for more funding: $210k to the end of 2020
Donate here -> 

Good Policies

Shaping health policy for impact at scale. Looking to improve tobacco control in neglected countries. 
Website: goodpolicies.org
Contact: hello@goodpolicies.org
Room for more funding: $120,000 until September 2020   Donate here ->


​ANIMAL ADVOCACY CAREERS

Researching career trajectories and addressing talent constraints in the animal movement.
Website: animaladvocacycareers.org 
Contact: lauren@animaladvocacycareers.org
Room for more funding: $129,000 until November 2020   Donate here -> 

POLICY ENTREPRENEURSHIP NETWORK

Microexperiments in the space of health policy in low and middle-income countries.
​Website: policyentrepreneurs.org
Contact: contact@policyentrepreneurs.org
Room for more funding: $100k to the end of 2020
Donate here ->
You can now support these charities with a recurring donation through Charity Entrepreneurship. Just pick your favorite organizations from the PayPal list:
For donations over $2,000, please contact us at: jake@charityscience.com

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​CE-INCUBATED CHARITIES

GIVEWELL INCUBATED CHARITIES
​STARTED BEFORE 2019

Before the first round of the Incubation Program in 2019, we did a less formal research program that resulted in founding two GiveWell-incubated, high-impact charities that otherwise would not have been founded.

FORTIFY HEALTH

Fortify Health aims to improve hundreds of thousands of lives by tackling anaemia and neural tube defects in India. They are working on open market wheat flour fortification and building strong partnerships to reach their 2020 goal of 12 mills in total across the two states, with the projected outcome of 214.8 metric tonnes of fortified flour being produced per day across the 12 mills. It has received two GiveWell Incubation Grants, including $1,000,000 in 2019 that provided the organisation with two years of funding for operations in Maharashtra and West Bengal.
Website: fortifyhealth.global
Contact: fortifyhealth.global/contact

Charity Science Health

Charity Science Health, another GiveWell-incubated organization, sends SMS reminders to mothers in India to help them remember when it is time to get their children vaccinated. Mobile vaccination reminders increase vaccination rates by 7 percentage points on average, and they cost only a few cents. CSH has reached over 250,000 families across India with these life-saving reminders, and we’ve now forged a clear path to scale through the public health system alongside a wide network of NGO partners.
Website: charitysciencehealth.com
Contact: health@charityscience.com
Donate: charitysciencehealth.com/donate.html