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What traits make a great charity entrepreneur

“I’m convinced that half of what separates the successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance.” -- Steve Jobs...

Update to Recommended Poverty Charities

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

Why focus on animals

In the past, Charity Entrepreneurship (CE) has been focused on poverty charities, founding one ourselves and supporting the creation of...

How to have cost-effective fun

Joey and I run a nonprofit, and we pay ourselves what we would make if the world’s wealth was entirely equally distributed. Often when...

Introducing Charity Entrepreneurship: an Incubation and Research Program for New Charities

How do we get more EA charities started? There’s a good case that charity entrepreneurship is high impact for EAs, but it seems not many...

Why EAs in particular are good people to start charities

There have been previous posts about the impact of founding a new GiveWell top charity, the impact of charity founding, and some of the...

Why founding charities is one of the highest impact things one can do

Track record and tractability Historically, some of the highest impact individuals in the EA movement and across the broader world have...

How Logistics Will Influence Which Intervention You Pick

“You will not find it difficult to prove that battles, campaigns, and even wars have been won or lost primarily because of logistics.” -...

Why You Should Care About Indirect Effects

“Without reflection, we go blindly on our way, creating more unintended consequences, and failing to achieve anything useful.” - Margaret...

Why You Should Care About Scalability

“The difference between a charity that saves two million lives and a million lives is the same as the difference between one that never...