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The Charity Entrepreneurship top ideas new charity prediction market

May 17
10 min

The Charity Entrepreneurship top ideas new charity prediction market

TL;DR: Charity Entrepreneurship would like your help in our research process. We are running a prediction market on the top 10 ideas...

Charity Entrepreneurship’s research into large-scale global health interventions

CE Team

May 17
5 min

Charity Entrepreneurship’s research into large-scale global health interventions

Every year at Charity Entrepreneurship, we try to find the best interventions to launch impact-focused charities through our Incubation...

CE Team

Oct 13, 2020
7 min

Presenting: 2020 Incubated Charities

Hundreds of ideasresearched, thousands of applications considered, and a two-month intensiveIncubation Programculminated in five new...

Implementing Surveys in Developing Countries

Erik Hausen

May 13, 2020
4 min

Implementing Surveys in Developing Countries

This article outlines some simple tips for how to answer questions you have about your program. These tips will hopefully be useful...

Stronger Together: Suvita and CSH Team up to Fight COVID-19 in India

CE Team

May 3, 2020
2 min

Stronger Together: Suvita and CSH Team up to Fight COVID-19 in India

Charity Entrepreneurship co-founded Charity Science Health in 2016, and helped launch Suvita through our 2019 Incubation Program. Today...

Top Health and Development Policy Charity Ideas We're Researching in 2020

Ali Ladak

Mar 27, 2020
12 min

Top Health and Development Policy Charity Ideas We're Researching in 2020

From a starting point of 256 ideas, we selected the top 31 for further research through an idea sort. This Idea Prioritization Report is...

Update on Evidence Base for Conditional Cash Transfers

CE Team

Sep 9, 2018
3 min

Update on Evidence Base for Conditional Cash Transfers

As part of researching the most effective charity options, Charity Entrepreneurship (CE) has previously conducted research on Conditional...

CE Team

Apr 26, 2017
7 min

Poverty Research Organization

This is one of our charity profiles, where we present our shallow, preliminary research on a potential, promising charity idea. We...

Which metrics to use when picking an intervention

CE Team

Apr 2, 2017
15 min

Which metrics to use when picking an intervention

What gets measured gets improved. - Robin Sharma When selecting which projects to implement, you should also try to maximize your...

What is the expected value of creating a GiveWell top charity?

CE Team

Dec 17, 2016
7 min

What is the expected value of creating a GiveWell top charity?

Earlier this year, GiveWell Experimental predicted that we, the team behind Charity Science Health (CSH), have a 15% chance of becoming a...

CE Team

May 8, 2016
9 min

Iron and Folic Acid Fortification

This is one of our charity profiles, where we present our shallow, preliminary research on a potential, promising charity idea. We...

CE Team

May 6, 2016
7 min

Conditional Cash Transfers

This is one of our charity profiles, where we present our shallow, preliminary research on a potential, promising charity idea. We...

CE Team

Apr 24, 2016
9 min

SMS Reminders for Immunizations

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...

CE Team

Apr 8, 2016
6 min

Tobacco Taxation

This is one of our charity profiles, where we present our shallow, preliminary research on a potential, promising charity idea. We...

CE Team

Apr 1, 2016
3 min

Lessons learned from India

Everything takes longer One of the biggest things we noticed while in India was that it takes large amounts of time even to accomplish...

CE Team

Mar 30, 2016
10 min

What's so great about increasing IQ?

--- This blog post has been edited and updated based on new information sent to us about the relationship between IQ and income. We feel...

Thoughts on living in the developing world

CE Team

Mar 22, 2016
2 min

Thoughts on living in the developing world

When we decided to do this project many of our advisors suggested we spend time in the developing world to get a stronger sense of some...

CE Team

Jan 26, 2016
4 min

Reflections on our first slum tour

Our team is now in India, and one of the first things we did was arrange a tour of a large slum in New Delhi. We did this through PETE, a...

What are DALYs and are they a good metric?

CE Team

Jan 23, 2014
3 min

What are DALYs and are they a good metric?

Disability Adjusted Life-Years (DALYs) are a measure of how many years of healthy life are lost due to an early death or a debilitating...