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Timeline of GiveWell

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| 2006 || || Prelude || {{w|Holden Karnofsky}} and Elie Hassenfeld, working at a {{w|hedge fund}} in {{w|Connecticut}}, set up an informal “charity club” with colleagues, to help them make informed decisions about their giving. Each person would pick a cause and then research the best charities working on that cause, evaluating them based on data and {{w|performance metric}}s. Hassenfeld and Karnofsky find this work so satisfying that it would ultimately lead them to create GiveWell.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Pitney|first1=Nico|title=That Time A Hedge Funder Quit His Job And Then Raised $60 Million For Charity|url=https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/03/26/elie-hassenfeld-givewell_n_6927320.html|website=huffingtonpost.com|accessdate=17 December 2017}}</ref>
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| 2006 || November 19 || Website registration || <code>givewell.net</code> is registered.<ref>{{cite web |title=givewell.net |url=https://who.is/whois/givewell.net |website=who.is |accessdate=25 February 2020}}</ref>
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| 2006 || November 25 || Content creation || Probably the earliest GiveWell {{w|wiki}} edit is made on this date. The wiki would later be shut down.<ref>{{cite web |title=Givewell wiki |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070810061246/http://www.givewell.net/wiki/index.php?title=Contact_Us&action=history |website=archive.org |accessdate=24 February 2020}}</ref>
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