Key Points
(Strangers Drowning, by Larissa MacFarquhar, remains the best recent book on altruism and its discontents.) But only in sitting down with Elie Hassenfeld, the CEO of GiveWell, the charity-reviewer that has long been the stablemate of Silicon Valley philanthropists, did I realize that EA does not have to be a creed or a philosophy or debate..
These are GiveWells top charities, chosen because they stave off malaria, prevent childhood blindness and death, and get kids vaccinated..
Virginia Heffernan: Looking around your offices, I dont see a lot of posters of happy, hydrated kids helped by GiveWells top charities..
But weve allocated funding from donors to water projects, including $65 million in 2022 to a program that installs chlorine dispensers in rural areas in Kenya, Malawi, and Uganda...
Theres also a thing we find at GiveWell where donors often dont want to support a program if its been around a long time...
