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9 unusual facts about Giving What We Can


Adam Swift

Swift is a member of Giving What We Can, an international society for the promotion of poverty relief.

GiveWell

Charity evaluator and effective giving advocacy group Giving What We Can had multiple blog posts with critical analysis of GiveWell's 2012 recommendations.

GiveWell does not have a formal relationship with charity evaluator Giving What We Can, but Giving What We Can does reference (and occasionally critique) GiveWell's reviews of the charities that it recommends.

Effective giving advocacy group and charity evaluator Giving What We Can published a blog post on December 12, 2013, stating that they continued to recommend Against Malaria Foundation as their top charity, despite it getting delisted by GiveWell.

In this respect, GiveWell is quite similar to Giving What We Can, though the latter focuses on a much smaller set of recommended charities and does not publish so many detailed reviews.

High impact philanthropy

Giving What We Can’s cost-effectiveness approach, first identifying the most promising causes, then the most promising interventions within these causes and ultimately recommending the most effective charities implementing them.

Michael Kremer

In addition to his work at Innovations for Poverty Action, Kremer is a member of Giving What We Can, an international society for the promotion of poverty relief.

Rachel Glennerster

Glennerster is a member of Giving What We Can, an international society for the promotion of poverty relief.

Thomas Pogge

Giving What We Can is an international society for the promotion of poverty relief, in particular in the developing world.



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