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| 2007 || || || GiveWell is founded by [[wikipedia:Holden Karnofsky|Holden Karnofsky]] and Elie Hassenfeld.<ref name="That Time A Hedge Funder Quit His Job And Then Raised $60 Million For Charity">{{cite web|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/03/26/elie-hassenfeld-givewell_n_6927320.html|title = That Time A Hedge Funder Quit His Job And Then Raised $60 Million For Charity|last = Pitney|first = Nico|date = March 26, 2015|accessdate = 24 October 2017|publisher = ''[[Huffington Post]]''}}</ref> | | 2007 || || || GiveWell is founded by [[wikipedia:Holden Karnofsky|Holden Karnofsky]] and Elie Hassenfeld.<ref name="That Time A Hedge Funder Quit His Job And Then Raised $60 Million For Charity">{{cite web|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/03/26/elie-hassenfeld-givewell_n_6927320.html|title = That Time A Hedge Funder Quit His Job And Then Raised $60 Million For Charity|last = Pitney|first = Nico|date = March 26, 2015|accessdate = 24 October 2017|publisher = ''[[Huffington Post]]''}}</ref> | ||
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| + | | 2007 || April 7 || Publication || Givewell publishes '''The Case for the Clear Fund''', its so called original business plan, written mostly to solicit the support and feedback of its existing contacts.<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=25 October 2017}}</ref> | ||
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| 2007 || || || GiveWell's founders promote the organization on several internet blogs and forums using [[w:Sockpuppet (Internet)|sockpuppets]] to ask questions about where to find good information about how to donate and then answering them, recommending GiveWell.<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> | | 2007 || || || GiveWell's founders promote the organization on several internet blogs and forums using [[w:Sockpuppet (Internet)|sockpuppets]] to ask questions about where to find good information about how to donate and then answering them, recommending GiveWell.<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> | ||
Revision as of 17:25, 24 October 2017
This is a timeline of the charity evaluator GiveWell.
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| Year | Month and date | Event type | Details |
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| 2006 | Holden Karnofsky and Elie Hassenfeld, working at a hedge fund in Connecticut, form an informal group with colleagues to evaluate charities based on data and performance metrics similar to those they use at the fund, and become surprised to find the data often do not exist. | ||
| 2007 | GiveWell is founded by Holden Karnofsky and Elie Hassenfeld.[1] | ||
| 2007 | April 7 | Publication | Givewell publishes The Case for the Clear Fund, its so called original business plan, written mostly to solicit the support and feedback of its existing contacts.[2] |
| 2007 | GiveWell's founders promote the organization on several internet blogs and forums using sockpuppets to ask questions about where to find good information about how to donate and then answering them, recommending GiveWell.[3] | ||
| 2011 | Partnership | GiveWell partners with Good Ventures to set up a partner organization called the Open Philanthropy Project, as a vehicle to direct the funding done by Good Ventures.[4] | |
| 2013 | GiveWell moves its offices to San Francisco.[1] |
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References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Pitney, Nico (March 26, 2015). "That Time A Hedge Funder Quit His Job And Then Raised $60 Million For Charity". Huffington Post. Retrieved 24 October 2017.
- ↑ "Our Progress to Date". givewell.org. Retrieved 25 October 2017.
- ↑ STROM, STEPHANIE. "Founder of a Nonprofit Is Punished by Its Board for Engaging in an Internet Ruse". nytimes.com. Retrieved 24 October 2017.
- ↑ Preston, Caroline (January 10, 2012). "Another Facebook Co-Founder Gets Philanthropic". Chronicle of Philanthropy. Retrieved 24 October 2017.
