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OUR TRACK RECORD
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TOP HIGHLIGHTS FROM
OUR CHARITIES
Beating the bar for the most cost-effective projects
​Global Health and Development
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Suvita (2019 cohort) is estimated to be on a similar level of cost-effectiveness to GiveWell's top charities (GiveWell, Founders Pledge)
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Fortify Health (launched 2017) is estimated by to be 11x* (GiveWell)more effective than cash transfers
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Family Empowerment Media (2020 cohort) is estimated to be ~22x* (Founders Pledge) or even up to ~60x* (Rethink Priorities) more effective than cash transfer
*Research organizations like GiveWell assess the cost-effectiveness of global health and poverty programs by comparing their impact to direct cash transfers, which serve as a benchmark. This comparison helps to determine whether a charity creates more impact per dollar than simply giving cash directly to the world's poorest—an intervention with well-documented benefits. For more information on how research organizations implement this comparison, check out our FAQs.
Animal Welfare
For less than $1 USD:
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Fish Welfare Initiative (2019 cohort) can help 1 fish
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Shrimp Welfare Project (2021 cohort) can improve the welfare of 1,500 shrimp
Reaching millions
Fortify Health reaches 6 million beneficiaries per month, who are now consuming fortified wheat flour through the organization's programmes. Fortify Health has secured over 120 miller partnerships and is continuing to scale its work with industry and government.
Family Empowerment Media has reached 20 million people in Nigeria with radio messaging. Their pilot correlated with a 75% increase in contraceptive uptake in the region, resulting in potentially 250,000 new users and an estimated 200 fewer maternal deaths.
Fish Welfare Initiative has helped 2.7 million fish already.
Shrimp Welfare Project will potentially affect over 2.7 billion in expectation a year based on signed Memorandums of Understanding.
Making progress in policy
The Lead Exposure Elimination Project (2020 cohort) convinced the government of Malawi to change and enforce a policy on lead paint which could decrease lead poisoning in ~215,000 children. They have received commitments of regulation implementation in 5 further countries and are running lead paint elimination programs in 14.
The Centre for Alcohol Policy Solutions (2021 cohort) helped achieve agreement with the Government of Sri Lanka and UNDP to develop the Investment Case for alcohol taxation and other alcohol policy best buys.
Animal Policy International (2023/1 cohort) released strong polling results before the general election, showing that over 80% of New Zealanders say imports should respect New Zealand animal welfare standards. In a significant development, the Green Party has also included API’s ask in their election manifesto.
Receiving support from the biggest grantmakers
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Since launching, our charities have fundraised over $30 million
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Fortify Health received 3 incubation grants from GiveWell totaling $10 million, the Centre for Alcohol Policy Solutions has become part of a $15 million GiveWell-funded initiative called RESET Alcohol that works on introducing alcohol taxation in 6 countries, and Suvita has received $3.3 million.
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Open Philanthropy has supported CE and multiple CE charities with grants, e.g., Animal Advocacy Careers, High Impact Professionals, and Animal Ask.
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Other grantmakers supporting our projects include Founders Pledge, Animal Charity Evaluators, Mulago, Schmidt Futures, The Agency Fund, Grand Challenges Canada, and D-Prize.
Paving new paths
We've created multiple meta charities that are focused on helping talented individuals advance their careers in the most impactful directions (Training for Good - 2021 cohort, High Impact Professionals - 2021 cohort), helping animal organizations find better talent and the best programs they should run (Animal Advocacy Careers - 2019 cohort, Animal Ask - 2020 cohort), helping impact-focused communities find new cause areas to work on (CEARCH - 2022 cohort), and helping donors find the most impactful interventions focused on climate change (Giving Green).
We’re pioneering evidence-based and impact-focused mental health interventions by launching organizations like Happier Lives Institute (2019 cohort - key definers and proponents of the now-famous WELLBYs - a new intervention evaluation system focused on subjective well-being), Canopie (an app focused on preventing perinatal mood disorders), Vida Plena (2022 cohort - self-help groups in Latin America), and Kaya Guides (2022 cohort - self-help programs in India).
MEET OUR CHARITIES
2024
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Keyur Doolabh
Co-founder
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Karl Keefer
Co-founder
2021
MEDIA COVERAGE
Highlights about Charity Entrepreneurship:
Rutger Bregman, author of Utopia for Realists and Human Kind, featured Charity Entrepreneurship in his article for The Correspondent and a very popular Twitter thread. The author also plans to feature CE's Co-founder story in his upcoming 2024 book on moral ambition.
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Karolina Sarek on why you should start a new charity to help animals, and how Charity Entrepreneurship can help you do it - How I Learned to Love Shrimp podcast, August 2023
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Should you become a charity entrepreneur? - Clearer Thinking podcast with Joey Savoie, CE Co-founder & Co-executive director, April 2023
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Making it easier for great charities to exist - Giving What We Can podcast with Joey Savoie, August 2022
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Unexpected ways to help farmed animals – an interview with Joey Savoie for The Vegan Strategist, May 2019
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Joey Savoie on the Science of Charity - Our Hen House podcast, April 2019
Highlights from our charities:
Articles:
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Wie Blei im Globalen Süden Kinder vergiftet - featuring LEEP, Spiegel Ausland, Spetember 2023
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Shock lead levels in oil paints uncovered - feature on the LEEP, The Herald, June 2023
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Hun redder liv med informasjon om prevensjon - profile on Anna Christina Thorsheim, Co-founder of FEM, May 2023
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The project to save children from poisonous lead paint - profile on Clare Donaldson, Co-founder of LEEP, May 2023
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Want to fight climate change effectively? Here’s where to donate your money - Giving Green in Vox, November 2022
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Lucia Coulter and Jack Rafferty want to strip the world of lead-based paint - article about the Co-founders of LEEP, Vox, October 2022
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Lead paint is poisoning children in Malawi - LEEP's research release, Africa Press, February 2022
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A Giving Guide - Giving Green Program mention in The New York Times, December 2021
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Mayor Bowser Announces Partnership to Provide Free Access to the Canopie Maternal Mental Health Program - announcement on Canopie by Muriel Bowser, Mayor of Washington, DC, September 2021
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Serving as a “Charity Entrepreneur,” after a Career in Clinical Medicine: An Interview with Dr. Lucia Coulter of the Lead Exposure Elimination Project (LEEP) - profile for Mayo Clinic, August 2021
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The economics and ethics of improving the welfare of farmed fish - interview with Marco Cerqueira from FWI, January 2021
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The Best Way to Donate to Fight Climate Change (Probably) - on Giving Green, The Atlantic, December 2020
Podcasts:
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Andrés Jimenez Zorilla on Shrimp Welfare Project (2021 cohort), How I Learned to Love Shrimp podcast, July 2023
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Andrés Jiménez Zorrilla on the Shrimp Welfare Project, 80,000 Hours After Hours podcast, September 2022
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​​Reproductive Freedom in the Developing World: Anna Christina Thorsheim and Family Empowerment Media, Business For Good Podcast, May 2022
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Varsha Venugopal on using gossip to help vaccinate every child in India - about Suvita (2019 cohort), on the 80,000 Hours podcast, October 2021