The Importance of Committing to Causes
A blog post by Holden Karnofsky about how committing to causes will help us learn.
We envision a world in which philanthropists increasingly document and share their research, reasoning, results, and mistakes to help each other learn more quickly and serve others more effectively.
In this space, we often cross-post items from the blog of our partner, Open Philanthropy, to give readers a fuller picture of the reasoning behind our work.
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A blog post by Holden Karnofsky about how committing to causes will help us learn.
A blog post by Elie Hassenfeld about our research into opportunities to support malaria control and elimination.
Topics: Global Health & DevelopmentA blog post by Holden Karnofsky about our research into the cause of criminal justice reform.
Topics: Criminal Justice Reform, PolicyThe first case study from our history of philanthropy project focuses on the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Health Care for the Homeless program.
Topics: History of PhilanthropyRead about the progress we've made toward identifying focus areas and our plans for 2014.
Good Ventures announces its plans for the 2013 giving season, including $5 million in matching funds for GiveDirectly.
Effective altruism isn't about having the "right" answers. It’s about continuous learning and being open to any cause or approach to doing good.
Topics: Effective AltruismGood Ventures shares a report it commissioned on the drug policy reform landscape.
Topics: PolicyA blog post by Cari Tuna about Good Ventures' grant to the Center for Global Development to learn about the history of philanthropy.
Topics: Global Health & Development, History of PhilanthropyAn update on Good Ventures' grant to Population Services International Myanmar.
Topics: Global Health & Development