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GiveWell's co-founder and CEO Elie Hassenfeld has been named to the 2026 TIME100 Philanthropy list! In TIME's profile, they highlight a core idea that has guided GiveWell from the beginning—rigorous analysis can help donations do as much good as possible. Last year, our team directed over $400 million to highly cost-effective programs that save and improve lives. 👉 Read the profile here: https://bit.ly/4drvYA2 If you want to see what that work looks like in practice, our latest podcast episode is a great place to start. We look back at past grants we've made to support insecticide-treated net distributions in the DRC—what worked, what didn't, and how we're applying those lessons to direct donor funds to highly cost-effective opportunities. 🎧 Listen here: https://bit.ly/493U3vr See the full TIME100 Philanthropy 2026 list here: https://bit.ly/4dkGfPP

Interested in our open RFI for malaria pilot programs and research? We're hosting a webinar for each submission track to answer applicant questions: 1️⃣ Pilot program track 🗓️ Friday, May 15 at 9:00am ET 2️⃣ Research & evaluation track 🗓️ Monday, May 18 at 9:00am ET Malaria kills around 600,000 people annually, mostly children under 5 in Africa. This RFI aims to pilot promising malaria prevention strategies and generate evidence with potential to inform our future grantmaking. Submissions are due June 24. Learn more and register for either webinar at: https://bit.ly/3R6354R

⏳ The countdown is on—we're just under a month away from our webinar, Looking Back to Give Better: How GiveWell Evaluates Its Grantmaking, on Tuesday, June 9! ➡️ Register to join us: https://bit.ly/4tK1b8i GiveWell co-founder and CEO Elie Hassenfeld will speak with Program Directors Alex Cohen and Julie Faller, PhD about how our growing research capacity has enabled us to begin publishing grant lookbacks—comprehensive evaluations of select grants—on our website. Our goal is to better understand the true impact of our funding, transparently share what we learn, and continue improving the cost-effectiveness of donations in the future. Alex and Julie will answer questions from Elie and the audience about the methodology behind lookbacks, what we’ve learned so far, and how those lessons have informed our grantmaking. We hope to see you there!

📣 New RFI now open for malaria pilot programs and research! Submissions are due June 24. Organizations can apply through two submission tracks: 🦟 Pilot programs focused on malaria chemoprevention and vector control across Africa 🔍 Research and evaluation with potential to improve GiveWell’s future grantmaking in sub-Saharan Africa We have directed more than $1B in donations to malaria prevention programs to date, and our growing research capacity is enabling us to expand and strengthen this work. Through this RFI, we aim to help our donors make a greater impact. Want to learn more? Join our upcoming webinars where we’ll answer applicant questions: • Pilot program track - Friday, May 15 at 9:00am ET • Research and evaluation track - Monday, May 18 at 9:00am ET We’d love to reach as many organizations as possible—please share with your network and consider applying! Learn more, apply, and register for the webinars at: • Pilot program track: https://bit.ly/3QHTQYy • Research and evaluation track: https://bit.ly/4waruWX

📅 Save the date for our upcoming webinar, Looking Back to Give Better: How GiveWell Evaluates Its Grantmaking, on Tuesday, June 9. 👉 Register now: https://bit.ly/4tK1b8i GiveWell co-founder and CEO Elie Hassenfeld will moderate a conversation with Program Directors Alex Cohen and Julie Faller, PhD about how we evaluate whether a grant achieved the impact we initially estimated—and how we use those findings to make better impact estimates over time.

Our April newsletter is out featuring: 👶 An update on our 2023 grant to MiracleFeet + reflections from our recent site visit to Côte d’Ivoire 📅 Our upcoming webinar on “lookbacks”—how we evaluate whether grants achieved the impact we estimated 💊 A podcast episode scrutinizing the evidence base for vitamin A supplementation 📣 New open roles including three Senior Recruiter positions Read it on our blog ➡️ https://bit.ly/4cCTkDy

Malaria Consortium and BIT shared an update on work we funded to understand why insecticide-treated nets, a highly effective tool for preventing malaria, sometimes go unused in Nigeria and Uganda—and to design practical solutions to increase their usage. 👉 Read more about the grant here: https://bit.ly/4ttbq0C

🎧 Most of GiveWell's grantmaking focuses on preventing child deaths from widespread conditions like malaria. But as our research capacity has grown, so has our ability to evaluate and fund programs that look different from our typical work, including treatments for disabilities like clubfoot—an area we’ve long wanted to explore. In this episode, GiveWell CEO and co-founder Elie Hassenfeld speaks with Program Officer Meika Ball about our grant to MiracleFeet, which expands access to clubfoot treatment in countries where most children who need care go untreated. They discuss how we assessed the cost-effectiveness of this kind of grant, and what Meika learned during a recent site visit to Côte d'Ivoire, including some reflections recorded during the visit. 👉 Listen now: https://bit.ly/4nzx8Oy

We’re excited to be funding these pilots with GiveDirectly to learn more about what could make cash transfer programs even more cost-effective. This is part of a growing area of our work—we’re investing more in research, pilots, and data collection to improve our future grantmaking. Our recent podcast episode explores these pilots and other examples of this work: https://bit.ly/4demfP6

We are honored to see our ‘evidence-backed, cost-effective, and scalable’ vitamin A supplementation work featured on the GiveWell Conversations podcast. 💜 We’re so proud to be one of GiveWell’s Top Charities. For just $2, we can deliver twice-yearly vitamin A doses to a child — supporting vision, strengthening immunity, and helping save lives. ✨  https://lnkd.in/g88yDy4X