Thanks for sharing—I think that the idea of making GiveWell’s CEAs more interactive and approachable is fantastic. Right now, I think many of us implicitly trust GiveWell’s transparent process and the mighty individuals who are willing to engage in depth and red-team critical CEAs. However, I do believe that in order for cost-effectiveness to become a norm in the philanthropic sector, approachability is critical.
Would you be open to piloting an extension of this approach with other organisations and interventions that may not be on GiveWell’s top recommended list but for whom they have prepared rigorous CEAs. I lead an organisation called Fortify Health that falls into this category and would love to see if there is a way we may be able to collaborate on an extension of this methodology and tool?
Thanks Tony! I built this as a side project with a fairly narrow scope — replicating the current GiveWell CEA specifically — so I’m not planning to extend it to other organizations myself. That said, the repo is open source and the model structure is modular, so if you or someone on your team wanted to add Fortify Health as a new charity module, I’d welcome a PR. Each charity is a self-contained TypeScript function, so adding one shouldn’t require changes to the rest of the codebase.
Thanks for sharing—I think that the idea of making GiveWell’s CEAs more interactive and approachable is fantastic. Right now, I think many of us implicitly trust GiveWell’s transparent process and the mighty individuals who are willing to engage in depth and red-team critical CEAs. However, I do believe that in order for cost-effectiveness to become a norm in the philanthropic sector, approachability is critical.
Would you be open to piloting an extension of this approach with other organisations and interventions that may not be on GiveWell’s top recommended list but for whom they have prepared rigorous CEAs. I lead an organisation called Fortify Health that falls into this category and would love to see if there is a way we may be able to collaborate on an extension of this methodology and tool?
Thanks Tony! I built this as a side project with a fairly narrow scope — replicating the current GiveWell CEA specifically — so I’m not planning to extend it to other organizations myself. That said, the repo is open source and the model structure is modular, so if you or someone on your team wanted to add Fortify Health as a new charity module, I’d welcome a PR. Each charity is a self-contained TypeScript function, so adding one shouldn’t require changes to the rest of the codebase.