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The first video from Giving What We Can's new channel is out now!

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Practice makes perfect. Agentic AI pro-social behavior as a missing alignment corpus.

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How does one plan for death as an effective altruist?

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How (not) to fundraise from Anthropic staff

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Webinar: How to start an effective giving group at your company (1 Sep, online)

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Thresholds for funding existential risk interventions

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Applications open for new supported programs on the GWWC donation platform (2026)

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GWWC's 2025 impact evaluation (executive summary)

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The “third wave” of philanthropy needs a new marketplace

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GiveWell Hiring: Senior Philanthropy Advisor

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Hiring: Grants & Operations Associate - Giving What We Can

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The Absorption Problem

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Casting a Wider Net for Cost-Effective Programs

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EGII - building evidence infrastructure for institutional philanthropy in India - testing an idea openly

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~85% of Major Hotels Groups and 80% of Restaurant Chains Locations in the Philippines Committed to Cage-Free Eggs

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Yuval Harari: philanthropy principles + 3 AI-focused charities he recommends (7/4, link udpate)

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MacKenzie Scott's $26 billion, in QALYs: an interactive, evidence-weighted CEA

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Time Sensitive Do Gooding Opportunities

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Which cause area is best?

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[Linkpost] How I would explain to others why I give to global health causes

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GiveWell Hiring: Program Officers and Senior Program Officers

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Disagreement = Counterfactuality for Matching Funds

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Inspiring colleagues in Luxembourg on Effective Giving + identifying infrastructural gaps

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Review on Doing Good Better by William MacAskill- How Effective Altruism helps us to do more Good.

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JGU on Coursera, and other very affordable online degrees

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