Effective Giving Quest

GiveWell is in many ways the gold standard of an evaluative organization, utilizing best practices, deep research, and unrivaled transparency. Publishing highly detailed reports that seek to understand the true efficacy of various interventions and charities via randomized controlled trials and in-depth models, GiveWell provides a great service to all donors who seek to help others the most in the area of global health and development. GiveWell targets low-income countries and includes interventions that have a highly understood evidence base. GiveWell’s Top Charities Fund includes recommended charities that represent some of the most cost-effective ways to save and improve human lives.

Giving What We Can hosts the Longtermism Fund, which seeks to reduce existential and catastrophic risks—such as those coming from misaligned artificial intelligence, pandemics, and nuclear war—while advancing key longtermist ideas. While a relatively new fund in this space, the host organization Giving What We Can was one of the first effective altruism organizations founded, and thus has a strong track record of thoughtful evaluation and transparency over the last decade. Additionally, the Longtermism Fund is managed by Longview Philanthropy, which works closely with other organizations in the field and is therefore positioned to efficiently direct funding to the most cost-effective opportunities. With exceptional levels of expected value, the Longtermism Fund provides an excellent giving opportunity for those who are thinking about longtermism.