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For more than a billion people around the world, clean drinking water is out of reach. UNICEF and GiveWell are working to change that. We’re thrilled to announce a new partnership with GiveWell, who has committed $7.2 million over 18 months to support UNICEF’s water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) programming in Madagascar, Nigeria and Somalia. Officially launching this November, this partnership will enable UNICEF to implement in-line chlorination projects in communities across these three countries, helping to deliver safe water to children and their families. Learn more about the project, including how GiveWell is working with additional partners to make a difference for communities around the world.

More than 500,000 people die each year from diseases caused by contaminated water. We’ve been funding chlorination programs to address this for years, but we knew there were additional cost-effective opportunities out there—if we could find the right partners to implement them. Earlier this year, we issued a public request for information asking organizations to propose water chlorination programs in high-burden countries. From those proposals, we built a ~$16 million portfolio of 13 pilot programs across six African countries. We intentionally selected a diverse mix—different implementing partners, chlorination devices, and contexts ranging from refugee camps to rural villages. The goal: learn as much as possible, as quickly as possible, about what works where. Read our blog post to learn how we selected the grants, what we hope to learn, and why some pilots might fail (and why that’s okay).

🎧 The final episode in our Beyond the Spreadsheets: Malawi Site Visit mini-series is out now! https://bit.ly/4qHBDI8 This mini-series lets you ride along with our leadership team on their recent weeklong site visit to Malawi. Recorded daily during the trip, the series shares the behind-the-scenes experience of a GiveWell site visit through real-time reflections and clips of conversations. On day five, the GiveWell team visited a school in Lilongwe, where they spoke with school representatives and families of students in a nearby urban settlement. On day six, the GiveWell team stopped at a major hospital in Lilongwe to hear from hospital staff and an implementing partner about the impact of foreign aid funding cuts. You can find all the episodes, along with a photo and short summary of each day on our blog: https://bit.ly/43AZjDW

🎧 Day 4 of the Beyond the Spreadsheets: Malawi Site Visit mini-series just dropped! https://bit.ly/4qfLEff Our Beyond the Spreadsheets mini-series lets you ride along with our leadership team on their recent weeklong site visit to Malawi. Recorded daily during the trip, the series shares the behind-the-scenes experience of a GiveWell site visit through real-time reflections and clips of conversations. On day four, the GiveWell team visited community projects funded by Spark Microgrants, including a maize mill and a sunflower oil mill, and spoke with residents about their impact. New to the series? Start with Day 1: https://bit.ly/4mxssXr Subscribe here to be notified of the latest episodes: https://bit.ly/4lyMn8z

We’re hiring an Office and Events Manager to create vibrant in-office experiences and plan impactful events that bring our distributed team together in meaningful ways. In this role, you will: - Manage our Oakland office and support office improvements in our NYC and London coworking spaces - Own planning and execution of our twice-yearly all-staff visit weeks and annual department retreats - Foster team cohesion and engagement across our remote through team rituals, recognition programs, and social connection initiatives - Coordinate events from end to end including venue selection, vendor management, and logistics coordination We’re looking for candidates with 3+ years of experience with office management and event planning, and we also value experience with operations, employee engagement, or as an executive assistant! 📍 Oakland, California headquarters (3 days per week minimum) 💰 $105,000 ✅ Fully funded health coverage, 4 weeks PTO, 16 weeks parental leave, stipends for wellness and professional development If you’re passionate about creating high-trust, employee-centric environments through improving shared spaces and events, we’d love to hear from you. 👉 Apply here: https://lnkd.in/gG8QNyXa 🔁 Please repost to help us expand our reach, or share directly with people in your network who might be a great fit!

We're hiring 5-6 Program Associates to provide critical project management support for GiveWell's research team, helping direct hundreds of millions of dollars to highly cost-effective global health programs. As a Program Associate, you will: - Manage complex research and grantmaking workflows across multiple concurrent projects - Coordinate with internal teams and external stakeholders, including grantees and partner organizations - Maintain and optimize project management systems and tracking tools - Proactively identify bottlenecks and implement process improvements - Ensure smooth information flow between researchers, funders, and implementing partners We're seeking organized, detail-oriented professionals with 2-5 years of project management or operational support experience who thrive in high-volume, fast-paced environments. You should be energized by creating order from complexity and genuinely passionate about operational excellence. 📍Remote-friendly (must have 3+ hour overlap with PST; we cannot sponsor visas for this role) 💰108,800 (NYC/SF Bay Area) | $98,600 (all other US locations) ✅ Fully funded health coverage, 4 weeks PTO, 16 weeks parental leave, stipends for wellness and professional development ✈️ Quarterly retreats and occasional international site visits 👉 Apply here: https://lnkd.in/eidQYm7C 🔁 Please repost to help us expand our reach, or share directly with people in your network who might be a great fit!

🎧 Check out the latest episode in the series - Beyond the Spreadsheets: Malawi Site Visit Day 3 is live! https://bit.ly/4n1moGK Our Beyond the Spreadsheets mini-series lets you ride along with our leadership team on their recent weeklong site visit to Malawi. Recorded daily during the trip, the series shares the behind-the-scenes experience of a GiveWell site visit through real-time reflections and clips of conversations. On day three, the GiveWell team visited a rural health outpost where they met with health care workers to discuss the services they provide through village clinics and home visits—and the impact of foreign aid cuts on their work. New to the series? Start with Day 1: https://bit.ly/4mxssXr Subscribe here to be notified of the latest episodes: https://bit.ly/4lyMn8z

🎧 Beyond the Spreadsheets: Malawi Site Visit Day 2 is out now! https://bit.ly/4q6M0oy Our Beyond the Spreadsheets mini-series lets you ride along with our leadership team on their recent weeklong site visit to Malawi. Recorded daily during the trip, the series shares the behind-the-scenes experience of a GiveWell site visit through real-time reflections and clips of conversations. On day two, the GiveWell team met with district health officials to learn about the impact of foreign aid funding cuts and visited a local hospital to review health data. New to the series? Start with Day 1: https://bit.ly/4mxssXr Subscribe here to be notified of the latest episodes: https://bit.ly/4lyMn8z

🎧 We’re launching a new podcast mini-series that lets you ride along with our leadership team on their recent weeklong site visit to Malawi: https://bit.ly/4mxssXr Recorded daily during the trip, the series shares real-time reflections and clips of conversations with community members. New episodes will be released weekly over the next month, and you can subscribe to be notified when each episode is published. On day one, the GiveWell team visited Zingwangwa Health Center and two villages that had recently received unconditional cash transfers through GiveDirectly. Tune in each week to hear what the team saw, heard, and learned each day. Site visits are a small part of what we do, but they add crucial on-the-ground context that raises important questions, challenges our assumptions, and makes our research stronger. We invite you to listen, subscribe, and follow along! Subscribe here: https://bit.ly/4lyMn8z