Not all of these are effective. More or less, at the moment, the charities GiveWell rates as effective do make it to those lists, but other charities that are clearly less effective also make it to those lists. The lists are not-cause-neutral or cosmopolitan; they tend to include US-operating charities that are likely to be an order of magnitude less effective
In general I would ~not trust their standards much (from an EA perspective) outside of the Charities Working in High-Impact Causes list. But IIRC that list depends on the union of GiveWell, Founders Pledge, and some other EA and EA-adjacent lists, and thus it’s arguably pretty good, depending on who is using it and how.
Most/all of the charities on that list are plausibly effective (at least someone in EA would probably argue that they are).
In general CN’s recommendations include many things we would not see as important for the effectiveness or ultimate outcome, like ‘overhead ratio’. See some other posts I made on this (I just added the ‘Charity Navigator’ tag and a wiki stub fwiw).
Note that there are some EA people in or working with CN, and I see some real promise! Hopefully one of them will chime in here too.
Quick-ish answer:
Not all of these are effective. More or less, at the moment, the charities GiveWell rates as effective do make it to those lists, but other charities that are clearly less effective also make it to those lists. The lists are not-cause-neutral or cosmopolitan; they tend to include US-operating charities that are likely to be an order of magnitude less effective
In general I would ~not trust their standards much (from an EA perspective) outside of the Charities Working in High-Impact Causes list. But IIRC that list depends on the union of GiveWell, Founders Pledge, and some other EA and EA-adjacent lists, and thus it’s arguably pretty good, depending on who is using it and how. Most/all of the charities on that list are plausibly effective (at least someone in EA would probably argue that they are).
In general CN’s recommendations include many things we would not see as important for the effectiveness or ultimate outcome, like ‘overhead ratio’. See some other posts I made on this (I just added the ‘Charity Navigator’ tag and a wiki stub fwiw).
Note that there are some EA people in or working with CN, and I see some real promise! Hopefully one of them will chime in here too.