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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...

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...

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...

Jul 17, 20182 min read

Update to Recommended Poverty Charities

We created the list of our recommended poverty charities to found in 2016. Our original list included 5 promising interventions: SMS...

Jul 15, 20183 min read

Why focus on animals

In the past, Charity Entrepreneurship (CE) has been focused on poverty charities, founding one ourselves and supporting the creation of...

Jun 29, 20188 min read

How to have cost-effective fun

Joey and I run a nonprofit, and we pay ourselves what we would make if the world’s wealth was entirely equally distributed. Often when...

Jun 13, 20185 min read

Introducing Charity Entrepreneurship: an Incubation and Research Program for New Charities

How do we get more EA charities started? There’s a good case that charity entrepreneurship is high impact for EAs, but it seems not many...

Jun 4, 20188 min read

Why EAs in particular are good people to start charities

There have been previous posts about the impact of founding a new GiveWell top charity, the impact of charity founding, and some of the...

Jun 3, 20186 min read

Why founding charities is one of the highest impact things one can do

Track record and tractability Historically, some of the highest impact individuals in the EA movement and across the broader world have...

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.” -...