Metacharity summary

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1				Characteristics of their methodology
2	Name of organisation	Website	What they recommend	Do they consider cost effectiveness?	They do detailed analysis	Do they publish their research so others can use it?	They consider room for more funding	Do they look at charities or only general approaches?	Do they have academic credibility?	Do they do primary research (RCTs)?	Do they consider potential publication bias in results? http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/12/13/101213fa_fact_lehrer	LOCATION	Is their advice easy to understand?			More comments						Main strenghts		Can we learn from them?	what?

3	GiveWell	www.givewell.org	AMF, SCI, GD	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Charities	Yes	No	Yes		Yes			third party evidence	very detailed criteria	track of donations	too many links?	massive/too heavy website				yes	rigourous instruction- the structure of evaluation
4	J-Poverty Action Lab	http://www.povertyactionlab.org		Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Only approaches not charities	Yes	Yes	Yes		No	impact evaluation trough randomized evaluations	impact on development economics	pdf version of the articles	use of randomized evaluation	linked to MIT	direct link for giving	mission :	easy website, but lot of deepenings if a person is interested	academic reputation	possibility to teach others how to do a randomize evaluation	yes	research
5	Charity Navigator			No	No	-	No	Charities		No	N/A													no
6	GuideStar	http://www.guidestar.org/Home.aspx	Nothing (but AMF is on the home page at the moment)	yes (not specified clearly and one of multiple parameters)	yes ( is it reliable? )		no	charities	no	No	no		yes			data collection	offer services	detailed report on each organization provided only if you pay						no
7	AidGrade	http://www.aidgrade.org/		Yes	meta anlysis	Yes	no	general approach / programs	Yes	No	Yes		No			meta analisis based	incomplete idea: website does not work	website easy to read and quick to understand						yes	research (when the website...)
8	Innovations for Poverty Action	http://www.poverty-action.org/		yes	yes	Yes	- (question not applicable)	general approaches	no	yes	no		yes			rct	where to donate (research or programs?)	https://poverty-action.org/donation_form						yes	research
9	Greatnonprofit?	http://greatnonprofits.org/	help in finding your nearest org or the one you are interested in	no	no		no	charities in general approaches	no	No	no					not useful to include	division of GuideStar							no
10	Philantropedia	http://www.myphilanthropedia.org/	different top charities according to different programs	no ( it is important that a charity has an impact- not specified what "impact is )	no		no	charities	no	No	no					a division of guide star	it pushes to take 1 % monthly pledge							no
11	Leverage	http://www.leverageresearch.org		no	no		no	general approaches	no	no	no					phylosophy reasearch								no
12	Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation	http://www.gatesfoundation.org/		yes (not all programs)	no	Mostly not	??	??	no	no	??													no
13	Aid Data	http://www.aiddata.org/content/index		no	no		no	none	no	no	??					database								yes	overview of aid flows
14	GHO Global Happiness Organization	http://www.globalhappiness.com/en		no	no		no	general approaches	no	no	no													no
15	Global Poverty Project	http://globalpovertyproject.com/		no	no		no	general approaches / advocacy	no	no	no					advocacy	campaigns							no
16	Charity watch	http://www.charitywatch.org/	different organization for different interests	charity guide?	charity guide?		charity guide?	http://www.charitywatch.org/ratingguide.html	charity guide?	charity guide?	charity guide?					not clear how they rated	donation first and then you may know							no
17				http://www.charitywatch.org/criteria.html	@@@ percentage spent on program vs running the organization @@@		efficiency on the financial side
18	End Poverty 2015	http://www.endpoverty2015.org/		no	no		no	approaches / advocacy for millenium development goals	no	no	no													no
19	Make Poverty History	http://www.makepovertyhistory.com.au/		no	no		no	approaches / advocacy for millenium development goals	no	no	no													no
20	The Center for High Impact Philanthropy	http://www.impact.upenn.edu/		yes / not only	yes		???	not clear	yes		-		not immediate and not clear			http://www.impact.upenn.edu/international-issues/view-malaria/	see page 7 you find the method		how they work. not clear. More investigation if needed	http://www.impact.upenn.edu/images/uploads/UPenn_CHIP_CostPerImpact_Malaria_Feb09.pdf				yes	research/ how to run our organization or to see at others are run
21	Be Guide/Back of the Envelope Guide	http://www.beguide.org/index.html	Hostile Artificial Inteligence, Action, Antibiotic resistance	yes(leverage factor)	no		no	charities	no	not clear	no					page for "valuation of outcomes"	the website seems not updated	not useful for research	useful for tips on organisations					no
22	Bolder Giving	http://www.boldergiving.org/index.php		no	no		no	encouraging in giving	no	no / do not know from the website	no													no
23	The Giving Pledge	http://givingpledge.org/index.html		no	no		no	encouraging in giving	no	no	no					similar to Bolder Giving								no
25	Good Ventures	http://www.goodventures.org/	they do not recommend directly, but they gave money to some causes / GiveWell, Schistosomiasis Control Initiative, Give Directly, AMF	yes (but based on what GiveWell says)	more reporting the experience		yes (but based on what GiveWell says)	both? not clear	no	not clear	no					higly connected to GiveWell and Gates Foundation	website quotation: "The grants we're making today are designed to teach us how to have the greatest impact long-term. "	not clear where they get the money from ( fundraising? )	could be an important organization to look at in the future ( now it seems it is learning how to work)					at the moment nothing
26	Live Below the Line	https://www.livebelowtheline.com/uk?lang=en	no	no	no		no	geneal approaches / making peeople aware	no	no														no
27	Copenhagen Consensus	http://www.copenhagenconsensus.com/		yes	yes		Somewhat	general approaches	no	????	???													yes	research- effectiveness of interventions
28	GOOGLE Global Impact Awards	http://www.google.com/giving/																						no
29	Bixby Centre	http://bixby.berkeley.edu/research/cost-effectiveness/
30	ACUMEN FUND	http://acumen.org/
31	THE CENTER FOR HIGH IMPACT PHYLANTROPY		see above
32	ROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION	http://www.robinhood.org/		Yes	NA	no	?	they directly use the money	no	no	no	only NYC	yes
33	FOCUSSING PHILANTHROPY	http://www.focusingphilanthropy.org/		Yes	it seems - other criteria also analyzed	no	not sure. emphasis is put on this isssue: can the recipient handle extra fund?	charities	no	no	no		YES!!!!!			MESSAGE CLEAR, SYSTEMATIC, CONCISE, POWERFUL	http://www.focusingphilanthropy.org/registryitem.asp?ID=773&title=Against%20Malaria%20Foundation
34	THE MAXIMIN PROJECT	http://maximin.org/		software and site in development	see comments											It is good the idea that people can choose their own charity/ program and visualize it
35	OPHI	http://www.ophi.org.uk/		no / based on the concept of multidymension of Amartya Senn	yes	yes	no	approaches - influence policy makers	yes				research im multidymensions no cost-effectiveness. no it is difficult without an economic or ohilosofical background			Based on Amartya Senn approach. Alkire-Foster method is applied
36		http://cega.berkeley.edu/
37		link:http://cega.berkeley.edu/
38	WHO-CHOICE
39	GiveMore
40		http://www.thinknpc.org/publications/
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44	Centre for the Study of African Economics (Oxford University)	http://www.csae.ox.ac.uk/		no	yes	yes	no	general approaches	yes	-	-					Based in Oxford	Useful to look at and maybe to talk to	http://www.gprg.org/themes/default.htm	this is the website of their research
45	Institute for Development Policy and Management (The University of Manchester)	http://www.sed.manchester.ac.uk/idpm/		no	yes	yes	no	general approaches	yes	-	-
46		http://www.effective-states.org/research/index.htm	research team of Institute... (Manchester)	look at the comment												Research is based on effectiveness	They state their methodology (this makes the process transparent and reliable). See the link (pdf)	http://www.effective-states.org/_assets/documents/esid_research_overview.pdf						yes	How they conduct their research (stating the process in advance in order to give to the reader an idea)
47	Chronic Poverty Research Center	http://www.chronicpoverty.org/		no	yes	yes	no	general approaches	yes	-	-					Especially interesting the section regarding poverty dynamics	http://www.chronicpoverty.org/page/poverty	maybe multiple dymension in the future?
48	Oxford Uehiro Centre for practical Ethics	http://www.practicalethics.ox.ac.uk/ht_landing_page
49	ASAP (Academics Stand Against Poverty)	http://academicsstand.org/		no, but they are focussing on their impact	-	yes	-	general approaches (try to influence what the next MDGs should be)	yes	-	-		yes			Message addressed to a small group of people						Interdisciplinarity	resources online not available yet	yes	research. new ideas on the possible new MDGs .
50	Health Impact Fund	http://healthimpactfund.com/		yes	yes	yes	-	specific programs	no	?						A website-organisation to look at								yes	research / use of DALY
51	Center for Effective Philanrthropy	http://www.effectivephilanthropy.org/index.php														Useful to look at in terms of management. Moreover, when the website and the software will work, useful also for comparing the effectiveness of other charities	it does evaluate (financially primary) the effectiveness of the charity							yes	research / presenting results in an interactive way
52	Databases of Best Practices http://ctb.ku.edu/en/promisingapproach/Databases_Best_Practices.aspx
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54	see also the spreadsheet	https://docs.google.com/document/d/1wuOxedfRhGRYosj5WaCuC5RtHVjRp2fahFI5Z8rJaNs/edit
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