“GWWC’s evaluations of evaluators” by Sjir Hoeijmakers, Giving What We Can, Michael Townsend, Alana HF

The Giving What We Can research team is excited to share the results of our first round of evaluations of charity evaluators and grantmakers! After announcing our plans for a new research direction last year, we have now completed five[1] evaluations that will inform our donation recommendations for this giving season. There are substantial limitations to these evaluations, but we nevertheless think that this is a significant improvement on the status quo, in which there were no independent evaluations of evaluators’ work. We plan to continue to evaluate evaluators, extending the list beyond the five we’ve covered so far, improving our methodology, and regularly renewing our existing evaluations.In this post, we share the key takeaways from each of these evaluations, and link to the full reports. Our website will be updated to reflect the new fund and charity recommendations that came out of these evaluations (alongside many other updates) on [...] ---Outline:(02:23) Global health and wellbeing(02:26) GiveWell (GW)(03:43) Happier Lives Institute (HLI)(04:00) Animal welfare(04:04) EA Funds’ Animal Welfare Fund (AWF)(05:07) Animal Charity Evaluators (ACE)(08:13) Reducing global catastrophic risks(08:17) EA Funds’ Long-Term Future Fund (LTFF)(09:57) Longview's Longermism Fund (LLF)The original text contained 4 footnotes which were omitted from this narration. --- First published: November 22nd, 2023 Source: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/PTHskHoNpcRDZtJoh/gwwc-s-evaluations-of-evaluators --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.