Charity Navigator already exists. GuideStar too. If people would just use those, it would be better than something like 2⁄3 of Americans not looking into the causes they support. If an American is so set on rich country charities, just mentioning or encouraging those tools would be enough.
An American charity evaluator would have to compete with the charity ranking sites too. I don’t think it would get off the ground very easily.
I also don’t think it would be associated with Effective Altruism. Doesn’t make sense if it’s just based on location.
I support the spirit of this comment: use already existing resources, instead of creating new ones, and don’t make the solution more complicated than it needs to be. That said, neither Charity Navigator nor GuideStar currently make much of an attempt to calculate the cost-effectiveness of the charities in their database. They are both moving in the direction of encouraging charities to self-report impact data, but I’m not aware of any plans to use the kinds of standardized metrics or outcome definitions that would be necessary for a cost-effectiveness calculation. So I actually do think there would be a lot of value in an independent analysis of cost-effectiveness within a US framework, even a back-of-the-envelope one.
Charity Navigator already exists. GuideStar too. If people would just use those, it would be better than something like 2⁄3 of Americans not looking into the causes they support. If an American is so set on rich country charities, just mentioning or encouraging those tools would be enough.
An American charity evaluator would have to compete with the charity ranking sites too. I don’t think it would get off the ground very easily.
I also don’t think it would be associated with Effective Altruism. Doesn’t make sense if it’s just based on location.
I support the spirit of this comment: use already existing resources, instead of creating new ones, and don’t make the solution more complicated than it needs to be. That said, neither Charity Navigator nor GuideStar currently make much of an attempt to calculate the cost-effectiveness of the charities in their database. They are both moving in the direction of encouraging charities to self-report impact data, but I’m not aware of any plans to use the kinds of standardized metrics or outcome definitions that would be necessary for a cost-effectiveness calculation. So I actually do think there would be a lot of value in an independent analysis of cost-effectiveness within a US framework, even a back-of-the-envelope one.