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| 2007 || ? || Recommendation || After conducting an open grant application process and reviewing 59 applications in global health and development, Givewell announces the first recommendations: {{w|Population Services International}} (PSI), which markets and distributes life-saving materials (mostly condoms and insecticide treated bednets); Partners in Health (PIH), which creates comprehensive health programs (hospital, health center, and community health workers) in disadvantaged, generally rural, areas in the developing world; and Interplast, which devotes to correcting deformities requiring surgery (such as cleft lip and palate deformities), both through direct treatment and through support of local doctors.<ref name="Process for Identifying Top Charities">{{cite web|title=Process for Identifying Top Charities|url=https://www.givewell.org/how-we-work/process|website=givewell.org|accessdate=29 November 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Overview: Saving Lives (Focus on Africa)|url=https://www.givewell.org/archive/2008/saving-lives-in-africa|website=www.givewell.org|accessdate=29 November 2017}}</ref>
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| 2007 || December || Scandal Controversy || {{w|Holden Karnofsky}} is discovered posting a question about GiveWell to [[w:Online community|community]] {{w|weblog}} {{w|MetaFilter}} using another individual's name, and then posting an answer about the organization with his own name but without disclosing his affiliation with GiveWell. Negative publicity would rise, leading Karnofsky to resign from the role of executive director, though he would be later reinstated.<ref>{{cite web|title=Hacker News|url=https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5048123|website=news.ycombinator.com|accessdate=8 January 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=GiveWell, or Give 'em Hell?|url=https://metatalk.metafilter.com/15547/GiveWell-or-Give-em-Hell|website=metatalk.metafilter.com|accessdate=8 January 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last1=STROM|first1=STEPHANIE|title=Founder of a Nonprofit Is Punished by Its Board for Engaging in an Internet Ruse|url=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/08/us/08givewell.html|website=nytimes.com|accessdate=24 October 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Statement from the GiveWell Board of Directors|url=https://blog.givewell.org/2008/01/06/statement-from-the-givewell-board-of-directors/|website=blog.givewell.org|accessdate=8 January 2018}}</ref>
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| 2008 || June 19 || Publication || GiveWell's first-year review is published.<ref name="Our Progress to Date"/>
| 2017 || April || Incubation Grant || Regents of the {{w|University of California, Berkeley}} receives a GiveWell Incubation Grant of US$1,104,259 to support the Kenya Life Panel Survey Round 4 (KLPS-4), a follow-up study to assess the long-term impact of deworming on consumption.<ref>{{cite web|title=UC Berkeley — KLPS-4 Survey|url=https://www.givewell.org/research/incubation-grants/uc-berkeley/april-2017-grant|website=www.givewell.org|accessdate=29 November 2017}}</ref> In the same month, under the incubation grant program, Good Ventures makes a grant of US$2,642,300 to Evidence Action –which expects to strengthen its financial systems, human resources, and information technology, and another grant of US$820,000 to New Incentives, which plans to use these funds to support its work on conditional cash transfers to incentivize child immunization.<ref>{{cite web|title=Evidence Action — Strengthen Operations|url=https://www.givewell.org/charities/evidence-action/april-2017-grant|website=givewell.org|accessdate=13 December 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=New Incentives — General Support|url=https://www.givewell.org/charities/new-incentives/april-2017-grant|website=givewell.org|accessdate=13 December 2017}}</ref>
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| 2017 || April 3 || Discretionary Grant Grantmaking || GiveWell announces plan to allocate US$4.4 million to the {{w|Against Malaria Foundation}} and US$0.5 million of the funding it received for granting to the {{w|Deworm the World Initiative}}. Such allocations have their source in US$4.9 million GiveWell received in funding for making grants at its discretion.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Crispin|first1=Natalie|title=Allocation of discretionary funds and new recommendation for donors|url=https://blog.givewell.org/2017/04/03/allocation-of-discretionary-funds/|website=blog.givewell.org|accessdate=21 December 2017}}</ref>
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| 2017 || May || Incubation Grant || IDinsight receives an Incubation Grant of US$2,321,617 to support its GiveWell-embedded team for the next twelve months. This grant is in addition to June 2016 and October 2016 GiveWell Incubation Grants to IDinsight, a company that supports and conducts rigorous evaluations of development interventions, often involving randomized controlled trials (RCTs), with an explicit focus on partnering with funders and policy makers to use data to inform key strategy decisions. IDinsight's "decision-focused evaluation" is considered aligned with GiveWell's goals.<ref>{{cite web|title=IDinsight — Embedded GiveWell Team (2017)|url=https://www.givewell.org/charities/IDinsight/may-2017-grant|website=givewell.org|accessdate=29 November 2017}}</ref>
| 2017 || August || Incubation grant || The Centre for Pesticide Suicide Prevention receives a GiveWell Incubation Grant of $1,336,409 to start work aimed at reducing deaths from deliberate ingestion of pesticides. The funds are planned to start collecting data on pesticide suicides in {{w|Nepal}} and {{w|India}} with the aim of assisting governments in enacting bans on the most lethal pesticides currently used in suicide attempts.<ref>{{cite web|title=Centre for Pesticide Suicide Prevention – General Support|url=https://www.givewell.org/research/incubation-grants/centre-pesticide-suicide-prevention/august-2017-grant|website=givewell.org|accessdate=13 December 2017}}</ref>
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| 2017 || August || Discretionary grant Grantmaking || GiveWell announces plan to grant roughly $2.25 million in discretionary funding to the {{w|Deworm the World Initiative}}.<ref>{{cite web|title=The GiveWell Blog Month, August 2017|url=https://blog.givewell.org/2017/08/|website=blog.givewell.org|accessdate=24 December 2017}}</ref>
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| 2017 || November || Charity ranking || Givewell announces its top charities for giving season 2017:
* Project Healthy Children<ref name="The GiveWell Blog">{{cite web|title=The GiveWell Blog|url=https://blog.givewell.org/2017/11/27/our-top-charities-for-giving-season-2017/|website=blog.givewell.org|accessdate=30 November 2017}}</ref>
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| 2017 || November || Discretionary grant Grantmaking || GiveWell allocates US$0.7 million in discretionary grant to Evidence Action's Deworm the World Initiative. The donations were made between July and September 2017.<ref name="Discretionary Grantmakingv"/>
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| 2017 || Year round || Grantmaking || GiveWell receives over US$290,000 in {{w|Bitcoin}} donations.<ref name="We’ve added more options">{{cite web |title=We’ve added more options for cryptocurrency donors |url=https://blog.givewell.org/2018/12/07/donate-cryptocurrency/ |website=blog.givewell.org |accessdate=3 December 2019}}</ref>
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| 2018 || March || || Evidence Action Beta receives a GiveWell Incubation Grant of US$320,000 to support the Indian government's work on iron and folic acid supplementation.<ref>{{cite web |title=Evidence Action Beta — Iron and Folic Acid Supplementation |url=https://www.givewell.org/research/incubation-grants/march-2018-evidence-action-beta-iron-folic-acid |website=givewell.org |accessdate=3 December 2019}}</ref>
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| 2018 || March || Discretionary grant Grantmaking || GiveWell allocates US$5.6 million in discretionary grant to Schistosomiasis Control Initiative. The donations were made between October and December 2017.<ref name="Discretionary Grantmakingv"/><ref>{{cite web |title=Allocation of discretionary funds from Q4 2017 |url=https://blog.givewell.org/2018/04/06/allocation-of-discretionary-funds-from-q4-2017/ |website=blog.givewell.org |accessdate=4 December 2019}}</ref>
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| 2018 || April || Staff || Whitney Shinkle joins GiveWell as new Director of Operations.<ref name="Review of GiveWell’s work in 2018">{{cite web |title=Review of GiveWell’s work in 2018 |url=https://blog.givewell.org/2019/05/15/review-of-givewells-work-in-2018/ |website=blog.givewell.org |accessdate=3 December 2019}}</ref>
| 2018 || June || || Fortify Health receives a GiveWell Incubation Grant of US$295,217 to start a new program aimed at mass fortification of wheat flour with iron in {{w|India}}.<ref>{{cite web |title=Fortify Health — General Support |url=https://www.givewell.org/research/incubation-grants/fortify-health/june-2018-grant |website=givewell.org |accessdate=3 December 2019}}</ref>
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| 2018 || August || Discretionary grant Grantmaking || GiveWell allocates US$4.1 million in discretionary grant, distributing 70% to Against Malaria Foundation and 30% to Schistosomiasis Control Initiative. The donations were received between April and June 2018.<ref name="Discretionary Grantmakingv"/>
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| 2018 || November || Discretionary grant Grantmaking || GiveWell allocates US$1.1 million in discretionary grant to Malaria Consortium's seasonal malaria chemoprevention program. The donations were received between July and September 2018.<ref>{{cite web |title=Our updated top charities for giving season 2018 |url=https://blog.givewell.org/2018/11/26/our-updated-top-charities-for-giving-season-2018/ |website=blog.givewell.org |accessdate=4 December 2019}}</ref><ref name="Discretionary Grantmakingv"/>
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| 2018 || December || || GiveWell updates its donations processing and announces accepting donations in {{w|Bitcoin}}, {{w|Bitcoin Cash}},{{W|Ethereum}}, {{W|Ethereum Classic}}, {{w|Litecoin}}, and 0x.<ref name="We’ve added more options"/>
| 2019 || March || || GiveWell announces plan to expand the scope of its research and to roughly double the size of its full-time research staff (from approximately 10 to 20) over the next three years.<ref name="March 2019">{{cite web |title=The GiveWell Blog Month: March 2019 |url=https://blog.givewell.org/2019/03/ |website=blog.givewell.org |accessdate=4 December 2019}}</ref>
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| 2019 || March || Discretionary grant Grantmaking || GiveWell allocates US$7.6 million in discretionary grant to Malaria Consortium's seasonal malaria chemoprevention program. The donations were received between October and December 2018.<ref name="Discretionary Grantmakingv"/><ref>{{cite web |title=Allocation of discretionary funds from Q4 2018 |url=https://blog.givewell.org/2019/03/29/allocation-of-discretionary-funds-from-q4-2018/ |website=blog.givewell.org |accessdate=4 December 2019}}</ref>
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| 2019 || June || Discretionary grant Grantmaking || GiveWell allocates U$4.7 million in discretionary grant to the {{w|Against Malaria Foundation}}. The donations were received between January and March 2019.<ref name="Discretionary Grantmakingv"/><ref>{{cite web |title=Allocation of discretionary funds from Q1 2019 |url=https://blog.givewell.org/2019/06/12/allocation-of-discretionary-funds-from-q1-2019/ |website=blog.givewell.org |accessdate=4 December 2019}}</ref>
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| 2019 || August || Discretionary grant Grantmaking || GiveWell allocates US$2.3 million in discretionary grant to the {{w|Against Malaria Foundation}}. The donations were received between April and June 2019.<ref name="Discretionary Grantmakingv">{{cite web |title=Discretionary Grantmaking |url=https://www.givewell.org/about/FAQ/discretionary-grantmaking |website=givewell.org |accessdate=4 December 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Allocation of discretionary funds from Q2 2019 |url=https://blog.givewell.org/2019/08/21/allocation-of-discretionary-funds-from-q2-2019/ |website=blog.givewell.org |accessdate=4 December 2019}}</ref>
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| 2019 || September || Site visit || GiveWell staff visits Burkina Faso to meet with staff of Malaria Consortium’s seasonal malaria chemoprevention (SMC) program, and observe its work.<ref>{{cite web |title=Our recent visit to Burkina Faso |url=https://blog.givewell.org/2019/09/18/our-recent-visit-to-burkina-faso/ |website=blog.givewell.org |accessdate=3 December 2019}}</ref>
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