GiveWell

09/04/2026

🎧 As GiveWell's grantmaking grows, we're scaling the work of our Cross-Cutting research subteam, which pressure-tests our research to strengthen the rigor of our work.

In this episode, GiveWell co-founder and CEO Elie Hassenfeld speaks with Program Director Alex Cohen, who leads the Cross-Cutting subteam, about how better data can improve our decision-making.

They discuss how we're funding independent studies to check the accuracy of the data we rely on, developing survey guidelines to improve how that data is collected, and testing AI as a tool to check our work.

👉 Listen now: https://bit.ly/3URHfUw

08/31/2026

Our 2025 metrics report is out.

Last year, GiveWell raised $616 million—more than in any previous year—and directed $427 million to programs in 32 countries. We expect those programs will save about 86,000 lives.

Global needs still far exceed available resources. We've spent years growing our research capacity and scope so we can direct significantly more funding to the most impactful opportunities we can find, and 2025 was a milestone in that ongoing growth.

We're grateful to the donors who make this work possible.

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Thanks to the trust and generosity of our donors, GiveWell raised $616 million in metrics year 2025 and directed $427 million to support outstanding opportunities to do good in 32 countries. We estimate that the programs supported by the funds we directed this year will save an additional 86,000 liv...

08/24/2026

GiveWell, with co-funding from Coefficient Giving, recently made our largest grant to date: $276 million to The Against Malaria Foundation for insecticide-treated net campaigns in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

This grant will support the procurement and distribution of around 92 million nets for campaigns across all 26 provinces from 2027 through 2029, 46 million of which we think would not have been distributed otherwise. We estimate that this will avert approximately 67,000 deaths.

A grant of this size called for research we couldn't have taken on a few years ago. We've spent years building a team that can do this kind of work, and it's showing up in how much funding we can move—we anticipate our grantmaking will approach or even exceed $1 billion this year.

In our new podcast episode, GiveWell co-founder and CEO Elie Hassenfeld speaks with Senior Program Officer Alex Bowles, who led the investigation.

👉 Listen now: https://bit.ly/4qA13HJ

08/13/2026

Helen Keller Intl's vitamin A supplementation program has been one of our Top Charities since 2017. In Cameroon, our funding supports Helen Keller's work with the government to deliver vitamin A to young children during the nationwide Mother and Child Health and Nutrition Action Week, which happens twice a year.

Members of our research team traveled to Cameroon last month to see one of these campaigns take place and meet some of the people doing this work in their own communities.

Helen Keller's recent blog post profiles a community leader in another part of Cameroon who helps these campaigns reach children in his community.

Noé is 86 years old, but that doesn’t stop him from working day and night to protect the health of children in his community. Under his leadership, the local health committee has worked with Helen Keller Intl and the government of Cameroon to help all eligible children receive vitamin A supplemen...

08/06/2026

🎧 A year ago, family planning was a new area for GiveWell—we were still exploring a wide range of programs and had made only a couple of small grants. Since then, we've made around $20 million in grants to family planning programs across commodity procurement, supply chain support, and service delivery.

In this episode, GiveWell co-founder and CEO Elie Hassenfeld speaks with Senior Program Officer Dilhan Perera about our grants to the UNFPA Supplies Partnership, MSI Reproductive Choices, and Lafiya, how the portfolio fits together, and what we're hoping to learn about bottlenecks in family planning access.

👉 Listen now: https://bit.ly/4co087k

08/04/2026

Our July newsletter is out featuring:

📈 Coefficient Giving's commitment of $1 billion to support the continued scaling of our work
🎧 A podcast episode featuring three grants exploring interventions beyond our core grantmaking
💧 A grant to support a water, sanitation, and hygiene program to prevent diarrheal disease in DRC and South Sudan
🤝 Updates from our partners, including Giving What We Can's new short film on the global fight against malaria

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07/28/2026

🎧 Diarrhea kills more than 400,000 children under five every year, and when a child experiences severe diarrheal disease, everyone in their household is suddenly at higher risk too. GiveWell recently made a grant to support WASHmobile in Eastern DRC and South Sudan—a water, sanitation, and hygiene program that aims to reach families at that moment of heightened risk.

In this episode, GiveWell co-founder and CEO Elie Hassenfeld speaks with Senior Program Officer Erin Crossett about how the program works, why these locations are so challenging to work in, and what we hope to learn from this grant.

👉 Listen now: https://bit.ly/4pXm8vL

07/23/2026

Halfway through this year, we’ve already surpassed our 2025 grantmaking total, with more than $400 million in grants committed so far. We now expect to make about $1 billion in grants to save and improve lives this year, and our team is working toward a future that could be several times this year’s scale.

This growth is possible because of years spent building a research team that can find more, and bigger, high-impact opportunities. It's also possible because of donors who share our mission to help people in need as much as we can.

Today, we're excited to share that Coefficient Giving has increased its near-term funding commitment for GiveWell grants to $1 billion to support the continued scaling of our work.

This commitment is both extraordinary and timely. Near-term needs continue to far surpass our fundraising expectations, and we are actively working to raise more funds to support a growing set of cost-effective opportunities to help people.

Learn more about how we’re scaling our impact: https://bit.ly/3TPh1kY

We’re excited to share another major step in our growth: Coefficient Giving has increased its near-term funding commitment to $1 billion in support of our continued scaling.

07/15/2026

🎧 GiveWell's New Areas team investigates program areas we haven't focused on much historically, looking for cost-effective programs we could support at scale in the future.

In this episode, GiveWell co-founder and CEO Elie Hassenfeld speaks with Senior Program Officer Dan Brown, who leads the New Areas team, about three very different grants: a digital system aimed at reducing medicine stockouts in health facilities in Laos, early support to help bring a new medical oxygen device to market, and a randomized controlled trial testing the impact of a maternal and newborn health program in India.

👉 Listen now: https://bit.ly/4fiPvn4

06/30/2026

Our June newsletter is out featuring:

🦟 How we’re growing our malaria research by funding new studies, increasing core program coverage, and searching for new opportunities
🎙️ A podcast on expanding our search for cost-effective livelihoods programs
🔎 Senior Researcher roles open across grantmaking subteams—including malaria, new areas, and nutrition
🎥 A recording of our webinar on how we evaluate past grants against our initial estimates to learn for the future
💰 A grant funding technical assistance and advocacy to expand rural trailbridge construction in Rwanda and Uganda

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Every month we send a newsletter to our supporters sharing recent updates. We publish selected portions on our blog to make this news more accessible to people who visit our website.