We're hiring Program Officers and Senior Program Officers to help direct funding to programs we believe will do the most good! Program Officers will own grant investigations, and Senior Program Officers will drive a grantmaking portfolio. Learn more and apply in 🧵.
Our June newsletter is out featuring:
🦟 How we’re growing our malaria research
🎙️ A podcast on our expanding work on livelihoods programs
🔎 New Senior Researcher roles
💰 A grant to help build rural trailbridges in 🇷🇼 & 🇺🇬
Read it on our blog ⬇️
bit.ly/4eDD727
🎥 Missed GiveWell's latest webinar on how we evaluate past grants to learn for the future? You can watch the recording and read a summary on our blog! Researchers shared findings from four grant lookbacks and answered audience questions live. bit.ly/4waXpps
Our malaria RFI deadline has been extended! Submissions are now due July 3.
Apply through 1 of 2 tracks:
1️⃣ Malaria chemoprevention & vector control pilot programs
2️⃣ Research & evaluation to improve our future grantmaking
Learn more & apply: bit.ly/3R6354R
📣 We’re hiring a Senior and a Staff Accountant to join our growing Finance team dedicated to accuracy, transparency, and integrity.
👉 Apply to the Senior Accountant role: grnh.se/clhfom2h8us
👉 Apply to the Staff Accountant role: grnh.se/hrzmeuy38us
Malaria kills ~600,000 people a year.
GiveWell has directed $1B+ to malaria prevention—with our growing research team, we're expanding the work: funding new studies, increasing core program coverage, & exploring other prevention strategies.
Read more ⬇️ bit.ly/4apLgo4
Don't miss tomorrow’s webinar at 12 PM ET / 9 AM PT!
Researchers will discuss our evaluations of 4 past grants for:
1️⃣ Childhood vaccinations
2️⃣ Safe water
3️⃣ Insecticide-treated nets
4️⃣ Pneumonia treatment for children
We hope to see you there!
bit.ly/4tN1UWA
🎧 Livelihoods programs—which increase the economic well-being of people in extreme poverty—are an area we've long supported. We've recently expanded this work with a new, dedicated team.
CEO Elie Hassenfeld + Sr Program Officer Adam Salisbury dig in: bit.ly/4ugA83S
📣 New speaker alert! Adam Salisbury, Senior Program Officer, joins our June 9 webinar on how GiveWell evaluates whether a grant achieved the impact we initially estimated—and how we use those findings to make better impact estimates over time.
Register: bit.ly/4tN1UWA
📢 We're hiring Senior Researchers across 6 grantmaking teams: nutrition, water, vaccination, livelihoods, new areas, & cross-cutting!
We're aiming to grant at least $500M to save & improve lives this year. Be part of that work—role links in 🧵
⏰ Less than 2 weeks until our webinar, Looking Back to Give Better: How GiveWell Evaluates Its Grantmaking!
Join us Tuesday, June 9 for a conversation about grant lookbacks—evaluations that help us understand if our funding achieved the estimated impact.
bit.ly/4tK1b8i
GiveWell has granted $5M to the @DIVFund to identify and support promising innovations for safe water through their RFP.
Our grant aims to build a pipeline of potential opportunities that GiveWell could consider for future funding.
Learn more and apply! bit.ly/3RwNUSz
🎧 Anemia (commonly caused by iron deficiency) affects ~2 billion people. But understanding how much iron programs improve lives is surprisingly hard.
CEO Elie Hassenfeld + Researcher Andrew Martin discuss our work on iron + our grants to @FortifyHealth: bit.ly/4dG9FGT
Our May newsletter is out featuring:
📈 A podcast episode on our 2021 grant evaluation + $10M renewal to @fortify_health
🔎 New Senior Researcher roles
💰 A grant funding 3 pilot variations of @GiveDirectly's cash transfer program
Read it on our blog ⬇️ bit.ly/4nISMjx
🎧 Our research doesn't end once we've made a grant.
In our latest episode, go "Behind the Analysis" of an @AgainstMalaria net distribution grant in the DRC, featuring a conversation from our internal staff podcast for the first time: bit.ly/493U3vr
GiveWell co-founder & CEO Elie Hassenfeld named to 2026 TIME100 Philanthropy list
👉 bit.ly/4drvYA2@TIME highlights a core idea that's guided GiveWell from the start—rigorous analysis can help donations do as much good as possible.
Full list: bit.ly/4dkGfPP
Interested in our open malaria RFI? We're hosting a webinar for each RFI track to answer applicant questions:
1️⃣ Pilot program track – May 15 @ 9am ET
2️⃣ Research & evaluation track – May 18 @ 9am ET
Submissions are due June 24. Learn more & register: bit.ly/3R6354R
⏳ The countdown is on—less than a month until our webinar, Looking Back to Give Better: How GiveWell Evaluates Its Grantmaking, on June 9!
Join us for a conversation about our grant lookbacks, the methodology behind them, & what we've learned so far. bit.ly/4tN1UWA