OUR RESEARCH
Identifying the next great charity ideas
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Only a small number of charities are amongst the most effective in the world. We continually profile and study these rare organizations, so that we can help launch more of them.
Our team conducts thousands of hours of research each year to identify the most exciting new charity ideas. We prioritize cost-effectiveness, impartial evidence, and exceptional levels of expected impact.
We publish detailed reports on the top 3-5 ideas for peer review; and then recruit, train, and fund aspiring entrepreneurs to bring them into reality.
OUR PAST REPORTS
To date, our research process has successfully identified more than 50 potentially transformative interventions for a new charity to pursue.
We have produced dozens of reports that inform our decisions about the top ideas for charities we should start. We publish them as open access documents to provide other researchers and organizations with useful information, and for transparency around our recommendations.
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OUR RESEARCH PROCESS IN BRIEF
Our primary goal is to identify the most high-impact intervention opportunities. Our approach is to conduct increasingly deep rounds of inquiry into the ideas that survive each previous stage. Ideas that we can’t discredit move forward for further interrogation.
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The process starts with inputs from across the NGO sector and academia where we collect and brainstorm hundreds of the most promising ideas worldwide per cause area.
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Each idea then goes through a multiple-stage process to sort from the most to the least promising.
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This process varies depending on the cause area we’re investigating in a given year and results in 3-5 ideas that we believe are exceptionally high value and plausible.
HOW TO DO RESEARCH THAT MATTERS
Research findings can change the world or be ignored entirely. In this talk, filmed at the EA Global conference, our Co-founder Karolina Sarek examines how to ensure your research is impactful and decision-relevant.