OUR RESEARCH
Identifying the next great charity ideas
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Only a small number of charities are amongst the most effective in the world. We continually profile and study these rare organizations, so that we can help launch more of them.
Our team conducts thousands of hours of research each year to identify the most exciting new charity ideas. We prioritize cost-effectiveness, impartial evidence, and exceptional levels of expected impact.
We publish detailed reports on the top 3-5 ideas for peer review and then recruit, train and fund aspiring entrepreneurs to bring them into reality.
OUR PAST REPORTS
To date, our research process has successfully identified 34 highly effective charity ideas across 5 vital cause areas.
We produce dozens of reports that inform our decisions about the top ideas for charities we should start. We publish them in open access to provide other researchers and organizations with useful data.
Animal Advocacy
Global Health & Development
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Top ideas to launch in early 2025
We’re pleased to share with you our top four charity ideas to launch through our February 2025 Incubation Program.
Our February-March 2025 Incubation Program will be focused on Expert-sourced neglected interventions in the areas of Global Health and Development and Farmed Animal Advocacy.
OUR RESEARCH PROCESS IN BRIEF
Our primary goal is to identify the most high-impact intervention opportunities. Our approach is to conduct increasingly deep rounds of inquiry into the ideas that survive each previous stage. Ideas that we can’t discredit move forward for further interrogation.
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The process starts with inputs from across the NGO sector and academia where we collect and brainstorm hundreds of the most promising ideas worldwide per cause area.
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Each idea then goes through a multiple-stage process to sort from the most to the least promising.
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This process varies depending on the cause area we’re investigating in a given year and results in 3-5 ideas that we believe are exceptionally high value and plausible.
Learn more about our research process for a given year:
HOW TO DO RESEARCH THAT MATTERS
Research findings can change the world or be ignored entirely. In this talk, filmed at the EA Global conference, our Co-founder Karolina Sarek examines how to ensure your research is impactful and decision-relevant.