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| 2008 || August 9 || Strategy || At a board meeting, GiveWell members agree that their top priority for the coming year is money moved, with research as a secondary priority. After several months, the team would comclude that they were prioritizing their time and resources badly, and that they weren't on the best possible path to their eventual goal.<ref name="Our Progress to Date">{{cite web|title=Our Progress to Date|url=https://www.givewell.org/about/progress#Originalbusinessplanpublished472007|website=givewell.org|accessdate=29 November 2017}}</ref>
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| 2008 || September 14 || {{w|Online community}} || GiveWell mailing list on {{w|Yahoo! Groups}} launches.<ref name="yahoo">{{cite web |title=Group Description |url=https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/givewell/conversations/topics/287?guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAADolV4EWQ9fkCXmFj1Hqj8aSgjS_ePOWaaZYxseJ0yhckRKcE2k-ItU1WklVttV5G-rm4L1YE5dYQaVPB8KAs8ePDmjWNXlxzfGZpIWqKvA7-u1TE2tH394DstCybO6Ha8tjtAPG_aGZKaWew-LEzS6yxiVFSMh5JOT3du6309eL |website=groups.yahoo.com |accessdate=28 January 2020}}</ref>
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| 2008 || November 17 || Strategy || GiveWell publishes its Change of Direction, based on reforms of the plan resulting from the board meeting on August 9 2008.<ref name="Our Progress to Date"/>
| 2013 || January || Administration || GiveWell moves its offices to {{w|San Francisco}}.<ref name="That Time A Hedge Funder Quit His Job And Then Raised $60 Million For Charity"/><ref>{{cite web|title=Relationship Disclosures|url=https://www.givewell.org/about/official-records/relationship-disclosures|website=givewell.org|accessdate=8 January 2018}}</ref>
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| 2013 || February || {{w|Online community}} || The GiveWell mailing list on {{w|Yahoo! Groups}} is discontinued. Around this time, the organization begins posting more frequent research updates to its website and blog.<ref name="yahoo"/>
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| 2013 || February, March || Publication || GiveWell's 2012 Review and Plan is published.<ref name="Our Progress to Date"/>
| 2015 || October 23 || External citation || Alexandra Zaslow at ''[[w:Today (American TV program)|Today]]'' publishes article about Julia Wise and Jeff Kaufman, a couple notable for donating half of income every year to charity. Wise and Kaufman cite GiveWell as their source for picking out charities.<ref>{{cite web |title=Couple donates half of income every year to treat world health |url=https://www.today.com/news/couple-donates-half-income-every-year-treat-world-health-t51916 |website=today.com |accessdate=31 March 2020}}</ref>
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| 2015 || November 18 || {{w|Online community}} || GiveWell Community launches as a {{w|Facebook}} group.<ref>{{cite web |title=GiveWell Community |url=https://www.facebook.com/groups/GiveWellCommunity/about/ |website=facebook.com |accessdate=23 February 2020}}</ref>
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| 2015 || November || Charity ranking || GiveWell announces its top charities for giving season 2015:
