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Global Health and Development

Global Health & Development

We believe that every life has equal value—and that philanthropic dollars can go particularly far by helping those who are living in poverty by global standards. Most of our giving in this category is to organizations recommended by GiveWell, with whom we have a close relationship. We are excited to support evidence-backed, cost-effective interventions to save and improve lives in the developing world. An additional subset of our giving supports scientific research we believe can help address diseases that disproportionately afflict the global poor.

4
AREAS
194
GRANTS MADE
$611.3
MILLION GIVEN

Highlights

  • Blog Post by Holden Karnofsky
    2020 Allocation to GiveWell Top Charities

    We have allocated an additional $100 million for GiveWell top charities, GiveWell standout charities, and GiveWell Incubation Grants in the year-end period (beyond what we’ve already granted to GiveWell-recommended charities earlier this year).

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    Blog Post
    2020 Allocation to GiveWell Top Charities
  • Blog Post by Alexander Berger
    GiveWell’s Top Charities Are (Increasingly) Hard to Beat

    Our thinking on prioritizing across different causes has evolved as we’ve made more grants. This post explores the high bar set by the best global health and development interventions, and what we’re learning about the relative performance of some of our other grantmaking areas that seek to help people today.

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    GiveWell-Recommended Charities
    Blog Post
    GiveWell’s Top Charities Are (Increasingly) Hard to Beat
  • Press from Vox
    GiveWell expands cost-effective giving focus to include policy interventions

    GiveWell recently announced that it’s more than doubling the size of its research team to try to find more cost-effective programs. Its revised approach involves increased attention to something relatively new for GiveWell: policy-oriented philanthropy.

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    Learning and Experimentation
    Press
    GiveWell expands cost-effective giving focus to include policy interventions

Thematic areas

GiveWell-Recommended Charities
Science for Global Health
Learning and Experimentation
Other Global Health and Development

Grantmaking process

We are not accepting unsolicited proposals at this time.

In past years, GiveWell has conducted extensive searches for charities that focus on priority programs. If you know of organizations they are missing, you can submit them for consideration.

For more information see our Guide for Grant Seekers.

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