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Joey Savoie
May 25, 20226 min read
Looking for an Entrepreneur Who Will Do Whatever I Say
Given the excitement and importance of new projects getting started, there have been a huge number of people interested in helping in the...


Joey Savoie
Apr 23, 20212 min read
Key Differences between Gritty and Irrepressible Founders
Irrepressibility overlaps with grit, but takes a more positive framing – someone “full of energy and enthusiasm; impossible to stop”.


Patrick Stadler
Mar 1, 20217 min read
How to Strengthen Your Co-Founder Relationship
“Your co-founder relationship is like a marriage”. This common statement from experienced startup operators might sound like a stretch,...


Joey Savoie
Feb 22, 20215 min read
How Do You Know Who to Trust?
When you are wheeled into a hospital with a broken arm, you place your trust in multiple people and establishments. You trust that the...


Joey Savoie
Apr 13, 20203 min read
What is a Reasonable Financial Safety Net for a Charity Entrepreneur
Charity entrepreneurship in many ways is a less stable career than a traditional job. Charities in their early days will have limited...


Joey Savoie
Apr 9, 20203 min read
How Your Team Benefits from Charity Entrepreneurship
We have written previously about the expected value of founding an impactful charity in direct terms, considering the largest and most...


Joey Savoie
Apr 5, 20205 min read
The Impact of Charity Entrepreneurship on the NGO Sector
Founding a new organization has a wide range of effects on the charitable sector as a whole. If a charity is good, it can raise standards...


Patrick Stadler
Mar 1, 202010 min read
How to Successfully Pick a Co-Founder
No pressure, but picking your co-founder is one of the most important decisions you will ever make as a charity entrepreneur. Only...


CE Team
Feb 24, 201922 min read
Why charity entrepreneurship is one of the highest-impact things you can do
In this talk from EA Global 2018: London, Joey Savoie, Charity Entrepreneurship's director, discusses why charity entrepreneurship is one...


CE Team
Dec 12, 20184 min read
Which jobs will best prepare you to become a charity entrepreneur?
The first thing to consider is whether you need a job to prepare yourself for charity entrepreneurship as a career path. A number of...


CE Team
Aug 25, 20182 min read
Setting our salary based on the world’s average GDP per capita
A lot of people in the EA movement have a large say over their salary, whether it be earning to give where you can donate down to a...


CE Team
Jul 28, 20183 min read
How to prepare for founding your own charity
There are a variety of ways to prepare for founding your own charity. There is, of course, the legal and bureaucratic work, but much more...


CE Team
Jul 18, 20185 min read
What traits make a great charity entrepreneur
“I’m convinced that half of what separates the successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance.” -- Steve Jobs...


CE Team
Apr 16, 20187 min read
How Logistics Will Influence Which Intervention You Pick
“You will not find it difficult to prove that battles, campaigns, and even wars have been won or lost primarily because of logistics.” -...


CE Team
Apr 11, 20185 min read
Why You Should Care About Scalability
“The difference between a charity that saves two million lives and a million lives is the same as the difference between one that never...


CE Team
Apr 7, 201711 min read
The Importance of Evidence
“Insofar as a scientific statement speaks about reality, it must be falsifiable; and in so far as it is not falsifiable, it does not...


CE Team
Apr 2, 201715 min read
Which metrics to use when picking an intervention
What gets measured gets improved. - Robin Sharma When selecting which projects to implement, you should also try to maximize your...


CE Team
Dec 17, 20167 min read
What is the expected value of creating a GiveWell top charity?
Earlier this year, GiveWell Experimental predicted that we, the team behind Charity Science Health (CSH), have a 15% chance of becoming a...


CE Team
Jun 1, 20162 min read
Starting charities: When to Do it Yourself, Hire, and Inspire?
There are many different ways to help create a charity and they each come with different trade-offs between time, money, and execution....


CE Team
Apr 1, 20163 min read
Lessons learned from India
Everything takes longer One of the biggest things we noticed while in India was that it takes large amounts of time even to accomplish...