Timeline of Against Malaria Foundation

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This is a timeline of the Against Malaria Foundation (AMF).

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Year Month and date Event type Details
2003 June 9 The documentary "Being Terri" airs on British television. This documentary serves as the inspiration for "Swim For Terri", which would morph into the Against Malaria Foundation.[1][2]
2003 December 6 "Swim For Terri" takes place.[1]
2004 June 24 AMF's Memorandum and Articles of Association (in the United Kingdom) dates to this day.[3]
2005 July 19 In the United States, the Internal Revenue Service grants tax exempt status to AMF under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code.[4]
2005 July 19 AMF finishes raising its first $1000.[5]
2006 May The first net distributions due to AMF take place. These distributions are done by the Red Cross.[6]
2006 August 31 The first Madness Against Malaria is announced. Madness Against Malaria is a fundraising tournament inspired by the basketball tournament March Madness. The competition is planned to last from September 2006 to February 2007.[7] AMF acts as an operating partner for the tournament and hosts the website.[8]
2007 May 18 In the United Kingdom, AMF formally changes its name from "The World Swim for Malaria Foundation" to "The Against Malaria Foundation".[9]
2009 April 28 Possibly the first phone conversation between AMF and GiveWell is from this day.[10]
2009 May 7 The AgainstMalaria Twitter account is created.[11]
2009 July 8 AMF reaches 1 million mosquito nets (distributed or funded?).[12]
2010 GiveWell publishes its first review of AMF, ranking it a "Silver Medal organization".[10]
2010 March 30 AMF is first recommended by Giving What We Can around this time.[13]
2010 November 30 GiveWell ranks AMF third on its list of top international charities, and gives it a silver rating. AMF is also listed as the top malaria charity in its list of top charities by cause.[14][15]
2011 December Good Ventures awards a grant of $500,000 to AMF.[16] Cari Tuna announces the grant in a guest post on the GiveWell blog.[17]
2012 December Good Ventures awards a grant of $1.25 million to AMF.[18]
2013 November 26 Holden Karnofsky publishes a post on the GiveWell blog saying that GiveWell plans not to recommend more donations to AMF due to room-for-more-funding issues.[19]
2013 December 12 Following GiveWell's removal of AMF from its list of top charities, Giving What We Can publishes a blog post explaining why it continues to recommend AMF.[20]
2014 March 25 AMF finalizes an agreement to fund 676,000 mosquito nets in the Democratic Republic of Congo.[21] The charity evaluator GiveWell notes that this is AMF's largest single net distribution finalized to date at the time.[22]
2014 December Good Ventures awards a $5 million grant to AMF.[23]
2016 January Good Ventures awards a $22.8 million grant to AMF.[24]
2016 May 5 AMF begins accepting donations in Bitcoin around this time.[25][26]
2017 January Good Ventures awards a grant of $15 million to AMF.[27]

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  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "History". The Against Malaria Foundation. Retrieved April 24, 2017. 
  2. ↑ "Swim for Terri". Retrieved April 24, 2017. 
  3. ↑ "Memorandum and Articles of Association of the World Swim for Malaria Foundation" (PDF). Retrieved April 24, 2017. 
  4. ↑ "AMF Charity IRS Determination Letter" (PDF). July 19, 2005. Retrieved April 24, 2017. 
  5. ↑ "Milestones". The Against Malaria Foundation. Retrieved April 24, 2017. 
  6. ↑ "Distributions". The Against Malaria Foundation. Retrieved April 24, 2017. 
  7. ↑ Laifer, Lance (August 31, 2006). "Madness Against Malaria". Africa Fighting Malaria. Retrieved April 24, 2017. 
  8. ↑ "Madness Against Malaria". The Against Malaria Foundation. Retrieved April 24, 2017. 
  9. ↑ "Certificate of Incorporation on Change of Name" (PDF). Retrieved April 24, 2017. 
  10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 "Against Malaria Foundation (AMF) - 2010 Review". GiveWell. 2010. Retrieved April 24, 2017. 
  11. ↑ "Against Malaria (@AgainstMalaria)". Twitter. Retrieved April 24, 2017. 
  12. ↑ Garner, Andrew (July 8, 2009). "1 MILLION nets reached". The Against Malaria Foundation. Retrieved April 24, 2017. 
  13. ↑ Garner, Andrew (March 30, 2010). "Giving What We Can - Recomended Charity". The Against Malaria Foundation. Retrieved April 24, 2017. 
  14. ↑ "Top-Rated Charities - 2010 Archived Version". GiveWell. 2010. Retrieved April 24, 2017. 
  15. ↑ "Against Malaria: Top five charity rating". The Against Malaria Foundation. November 30, 2010. Retrieved April 24, 2017. 
  16. ↑ "Against Malaria Foundation — General Support". Good Ventures. Retrieved April 24, 2017. 
  17. ↑ Tuna, Cari (July 9, 2014). "Guest post from Cari Tuna - The GiveWell Blog". GiveWell. Retrieved April 24, 2017. 
  18. ↑ "Against Malaria Foundation — General Support". Open Philanthropy Project. Retrieved April 24, 2017. 
  19. ↑ Karnofsky, Holden (February 22, 2016). "Change in Against Malaria Foundation recommendation status (room-for-more-funding-related)". The GiveWell Blog. GiveWell. Retrieved April 24, 2017. 
  20. ↑ Mogensen, Andreas (December 12, 2013). "Why we continue to recommend the Against Malaria Foundation". Giving What We Can. Retrieved April 24, 2017. 
  21. ↑ "676,000 LLIN distribution agreed in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)". The Against Malaria Foundation. March 25, 2014. Retrieved April 24, 2017. 
  22. ↑ "Against Malaria Foundation finalizes distribution agreement for ~676,000 nets - The GiveWell Blog". GiveWell. May 12, 2014. Retrieved April 24, 2017. 
  23. ↑ "Against Malaria Foundation — General Support". Good Ventures. Retrieved April 24, 2017. 
  24. ↑ "Against Malaria Foundation — General Support". Good Ventures. Retrieved April 24, 2017. 
  25. ↑ JP Buntinx (May 5, 2016). "Against Malaria Foundation Now Accepts Bitcoin Donations". The Merkle. Retrieved April 24, 2017. 
  26. ↑ Garner, Andrew (May 9, 2016). "We now accept donations in bitcoins". The Against Malaria Foundation. Retrieved April 24, 2017. 
  27. ↑ "Against Malaria Foundation — General Support". Good Ventures. Retrieved April 24, 2017. 
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