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Fwd: Trip to India

Alexander Berger — Wed, 27 Feb 2013 00:37:44 GMT

Hi folks, Evan Larson, a Princeton student-journalist, is interested in some details of GiveWell's trip to India. We've tried to answer his questions briefly

Re: Fwd: Cooperation incentives for charities

Elie Hassenfeld — Mon, 31 Dec 2012 04:40:32 GMT

Hi Ian, It was more that transparency incentives in general were not a good enough reason to recommend funding. -Elie ... Hi Ian, It was more that transparency

Re: Fwd: Cooperation incentives for charities

Ian David Moss — Mon, 31 Dec 2012 04:16:03 GMT

Thanks, Elie, I appreciate the response. I am curious, though, about why you decided against recommending for the sake of transparency. Was there new

Re: Fwd: Cooperation incentives for charities

Elie Hassenfeld — Mon, 31 Dec 2012 03:28:37 GMT

Hi Ian, We have continued to follow VillageReach and did consider potentially recommending funding for them for the sake of "transparency incentives." I don't

Re: Fwd: Cooperation incentives for charities

Ian David Moss — Sun, 30 Dec 2012 17:20:21 GMT

Hi guys, On a related note, I'm getting ready to donate to GW's recommended charities and have been thinking a bit about VillageReach. In your July 26 blog

Fwd: Cooperation incentives for charities

Alexander Berger — Fri, 28 Dec 2012 00:52:32 GMT

We thought this exchange about our shift away from emphasizing the "standouts" list might be of some general interest: Vipul Naik wrote to us, asking: Dear

Changes in estimated cost-effectiveness of AMF

Alexander Berger — Mon, 17 Dec 2012 18:20:26 GMT

A donor recently emailed us asking about the changes in our cost-effectiveness estimates for AMF. The donor pointed out that our estimate had changed and

Re: conerns about SCI

Holden Karnofsky — Thu, 15 Nov 2012 20:32:42 GMT

Hi all, thanks for the thoughts. A few responses: 1. We really appreciate Aaron's raising this concern. In general, we encourage people to raise any issues

Re: conerns about SCI

Holly Morgan — Thu, 15 Nov 2012 20:28:59 GMT

Ah fair enough, thanks Natalie -- Please excuse brevity; this message has been sent from my mobile phone. Holly Morgan | Executive Director | The Life You Can

Re: conerns about SCI

Natalie Stone Crispin — Thu, 15 Nov 2012 20:05:10 GMT

Hi Holly, SCI provided the spending figure to us in pounds (?1,329), and we converted these to the dollar figure that we then asked SCI about ($2,100). The

Re: conerns about SCI

Ben Hoskin — Thu, 15 Nov 2012 00:50:04 GMT

A similar thing occurs with public companies in immature markets becoming very emotional about stockbrokers, often completely shutting them out after a 'sell'

Re: conerns about SCI

rnoble@... — Wed, 14 Nov 2012 23:18:10 GMT

I had wondered if there is reluctance to communicate with GiveWell because GiveWell may have developed a reputation for being harsh on charities. I'm not

If microfinancing creates a cycle of debt, is handing out cash a bet

martajbornstein3 — Wed, 14 Nov 2012 22:17:37 GMT

I realize this mailing list isn't for sharing content from subscribers, but I thought this article published by GOOD Magazine on Monday is especially relevant

Re: conerns about SCI

Holly Morgan — Wed, 14 Nov 2012 20:22:19 GMT

Perhaps the person who gave the figure in ?s had received it in $s from someone else, and this latter person had made the typo? -- Please excuse brevity; this

conerns about SCI

Aaron Swartz — Wed, 14 Nov 2012 19:46:54 GMT

In GiveWell's recent update about SCI, they write