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06/05/2026

🎧 Livelihoods programs—which increase the economic well-being of people in extreme poverty—are an area that we've supported throughout GiveWell's history. Over the past several months, we've expanded this work, creating a new livelihoods grantmaking team with this focus.

With more dedicated capacity, we're now able to explore livelihoods programs in greater depth—and figure out where this kind of funding can do the most good.

In this episode, GiveWell co-founder and CEO Elie Hassenfeld speaks with Senior Program Officer Adam Salisbury about our expanding livelihoods work, which programs might be most cost-effective, and the research we're funding to answer key questions.

👉 Listen now: https://bit.ly/4ugA83S

06/03/2026

📣 We've added another speaker to our upcoming webinar, Looking Back to Give Better: How GiveWell Evaluates Its Grantmaking, on Tuesday, June 9!

Adam Salisbury, Senior Program Officer, will join Program Directors Alex Cohen and Julie Faller for a conversation moderated by GiveWell co-founder and CEO Elie Hassenfeld about how we evaluate whether a grant achieved the impact we initially estimated and use those findings to make better impact estimates over time.

They’ll share examples of what we've learned from past grants and answer audience questions live.

Register to attend: https://bit.ly/42bvOaN

05/28/2026

⏰ Less than two weeks until our webinar, Looking Back to Give Better: How GiveWell Evaluates Its Grantmaking!

Join us Tuesday, June 9, for a conversation with GiveWell co-founder and CEO Elie Hassenfeld and Program Directors Alex Cohen and Julie Faller about grant lookbacks—comprehensive evaluations of select grants that help us understand whether our funding achieved the impact we initially estimated.

You'll hear real examples from past grants, learn how findings from lookbacks are shaping our future grantmaking, and have the chance to ask Alex and Julie your own questions live.

👉 Register to join us:

05/25/2026

🎧 Anemia, which is commonly caused by iron deficiency, affects roughly a quarter of the world's population. Over the last decade, GiveWell has directed nearly $50 million to programs that deliver iron to people in need, but determining exactly how much these programs improve people's lives is surprisingly difficult.

In this episode, GiveWell CEO and co-founder Elie Hassenfeld speaks with Researcher Andrew Martin about our work on iron, including what an evaluation of our 2021 grant to Fortify Health revealed about the organization's success scaling iron fortification in India.

👉 Listen now: https://bit.ly/4dG9FGT

05/22/2026

Our May newsletter is out featuring:

📈 A podcast episode on our evaluation of a past grant to Fortify Health, which led to a $10 million renewal
🔎 Senior Researcher roles open across three grantmaking teams—Water, Vaccination, and Livelihoods
💰 A grant funding three pilot variations of GiveDirectly's cash transfer program across Malawi, Mozambique, and Uganda
🔔 Our upcoming webinar on how we evaluate whether grants achieved the impact we estimated

Read it on our blog ➡️

We publish selected portions of our monthly email newsletter on our blog to make this news more accessible to people who visit our website.

05/19/2026

🎧 Our research doesn't end once we've made a grant. We evaluate a subset of completed grants, comparing what we expected to happen to what actually took place, to improve our future funding decisions—and our growing research capacity is enabling us to go deeper.

This episode takes you "Behind the Analysis," featuring a conversation from our internal staff podcast for the first time, as Teryn Mattox, Alex Cohen, and Steven Brownstone walk through a detailed lookback of a grant we made to The Against Malaria Foundation for malaria net distribution in the DRC.

👉 Listen now: https://bit.ly/493U3vr

05/14/2026

GiveWell's co-founder and CEO Elie Hassenfeld has been named to the 2026 TIME100 Philanthropy list!

In TIME's profile, they highlight a core idea that has guided GiveWell from the beginning—rigorous analysis can help donations do as much good as possible. Last year, our team directed over $400 million to highly cost-effective programs that save and improve lives.

👉 Read the profile here: https://bit.ly/4drvYA2

If you want to see what that work looks like in practice, our latest podcast episode is a great place to start. We look back at past grants we've made to support insecticide-treated net distributions in the DRC—what worked, what didn't, and how we're applying those lessons to direct donor funds to highly cost-effective opportunities.

🎧 Listen here: https://bit.ly/493U3vr

See the full TIME100 Philanthropy 2026 list here: https://bit.ly/4dkGfPP

05/11/2026

⏳ The countdown is on—we're just under a month away from our webinar, Looking Back to Give Better: How GiveWell Evaluates Its Grantmaking, on Tuesday, June 9!

➡️ Register to join us: https://bit.ly/42bvOaN

GiveWell co-founder and CEO Elie Hassenfeld will speak with Program Directors Alex Cohen and Julie Faller about how our growing research capacity has enabled us to begin publishing grant lookbacks—comprehensive evaluations of select grants—on our website. Our goal is to better understand the true impact of our funding, transparently share what we learn, and continue improving the cost-effectiveness of donations in the future.

Alex and Julie will answer questions from Elie and the audience about the methodology behind lookbacks, what we’ve learned so far, and how those lessons have informed our grantmaking. We hope to see you there!

05/05/2026

📣 New RFI now open for malaria pilot programs and research! Submissions are due June 24.

Organizations can apply through two submission tracks:

🦟 Pilot programs focused on malaria chemoprevention and vector control across Africa.
🔍 Research and evaluation with potential to improve GiveWell’s future grantmaking in sub-Saharan Africa

We have directed more than $1B in donations to malaria prevention programs to date, and our growing research capacity is enabling us to expand and strengthen this work. Through this RFI, we aim to help our donors make a greater impact.

Want to learn more? Join our upcoming webinars where we’ll answer applicant questions:

• Pilot program track - Friday, May 15 at 9:00am ET
• Research and evaluation track - Monday, May 18 at 9:00am ET

We’d love to reach as many organizations as possible—please share with your network and consider applying! Learn more, apply, and register for the webinars at:

• Pilot program track: https://bit.ly/3QHTQYy
• Research and evaluation track: https://bit.ly/4waruWX

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05/01/2026

📅 Save the date for our upcoming webinar, Looking Back to Give Better: How GiveWell Evaluates Its Grantmaking, on Tuesday, June 9.

👉 Register now: https://bit.ly/42bvOaN

GiveWell co-founder and CEO Elie Hassenfeld will moderate a conversation with Program Directors Alex Cohen and Julie Faller about how we evaluate whether a grant achieved the impact we initially estimated—and how we use those findings to make better impact estimates over time.