GiveWell Updates

• In our 2025 grantmaking year, GiveWell approved $418 million across 131 grants to 69 organizations—the most grants we’ve made in a year so far.
  
  Through years of deliberate groundwork, we’ve been growing our research capacity and scope in order to direct substantially more funding to the most impactful opportunities we can find. Last year’s grantmaking reflects this growth, and we will be continuing an intensive effort this year to scale our ability to partner with donors to help people in need. 

• GiveWell recently launched two new RFIs to expand our funding in vaccination and iron fortification and supplementation programs. Submissions for both RFIs are due March 27.
  • Vaccination outreach RFI: Seeking targeted outreach or mobile vaccination programs that aim to increase uptake of routine vaccinations for children under 2 in the DRC, Nigeria, or Somalia.
  • Anemia control RFI: Seeking programs that reduce iron deficiency anemia through large-scale iron fortification, supplementation, or biofortification in Africa. 

• GiveWell aims to find and fund programs that will do the most good per dollar, and we regularly evaluate results to decide whether to continue our support. Sometimes, even if a program we fund is doing a lot of good, it may not have the impact per dollar we expected. 
  
  In our latest podcast episode, GiveWell CEO and co-founder Elie Hassenfeld and Senior Program Officer Erin Crossett discuss how we responded when early data on Evidence Action's Dispensers for Safe Water in Malawi and Uganda indicated the program wasn't reaching as many people as estimated.

• GiveWell is hiring a Salesforce Administrator to deliver exceptional technical support to our internal users and drive continuous improvements to the systems that power our life-saving work. 

In Wild Animal Initiative's latest call for proposals, we solicited ideas for projects that explore how variation in environmental conditions interacts with wild animal welfare, how welfare variation correlates with mortality risk, and other priority research topics. We received 401 expressions of interest, one of the highest levels of interest we’ve seen in funding for wild animal welfare research since we began our Grants Program in 2021.

Following intensive internal review, we invited 53 applicants to submit full grant proposals. Our Science Team and external review panel are currently reviewing these to select the finalists. Projects are evaluated according to selection criteria that include cost-effectiveness, potential impact, and neglectedness of the topic. We’re excited to share details about the newly funded projects with you this summer!

Update from the Cooperative AI Foundation: Summer School 2026

The Cooperative AI Summer School 2026 ‘Expression of interest’ applications are now open! Taking place in Canada (location TBA) from 3-7 August. Watch last year’s recap video for a flavour on what to expect.

This is an advanced programme for early-career professionals already working in or studying cooperative AI. Over five intensive days, participants will attend talks by leading researchers and work on collaborative projects tackling real cooperative AI challenges. Financial assistance is available, and we especially encourage people from underrepresented groups to apply.

Find out more and apply by 22 March 2026 (11.59pm AoE) on the Cooperative AI website. 

Fish Welfare Initiative Updates

We recently published two new datasets:

• Our farm program dataset, comprising of 10K+ (anonymized) data points on fish farms in Andhra Pradesh, India collected from 2021 to 2026.
• Our continuous water quality dataset, comprising of near continuous water quality data taken from farms in Andhra Pradesh, India over 2 months.

We also recently published our 2025 farm program M&E report.

New Incentives has a new, high-impact funding opportunity. We are looking to expand our pilot, which distributes ORS through routine immunization visits in northern Nigeria.

We think there is an opportunity to increase timely access to ORS by providing it through these same touchpoints, leveraging our platform to distribute ORS to infants at a very low cost. Because the delivery platform already exists, the marginal cost of distributing ORS during routine immunization visits is approximately $1 per child. The fixed costs—field officers, clinic relationships, monitoring infrastructure, and data systems—are already covered by the immunization program.

Read the full EA Forum post here, or visit our website to learn more.