>It could exceed the value of all the money that has ever flowed through EA to any charity GiveWell has ever recommended.
LEAF and the Partnership for a Lead-Free Future wouldnât have happened without GiveWell. They were the first major funder in the EA space to recommend grants for lead exposure, and much of the recent progress comes from those early investments, such as grants to Pure Earth and CGD. I also believe (though Iâm less certain) that Charity Entrepreneurshipâs recommendation of lead paint regulation and its incubation of LEEP were based largely on GiveWellâs research.
I know that wasnât really what you were saying, but felt compelled to mention because Iâve heard lead exposure used as an example of what GiveWell gets wrong, when, in fact, GiveWell was earlier to lead exposure than almost anyone, and Iâm grateful to former colleagues who put in a lot of hard work.
(For transparency: I was at GiveWell during this time and have since moved to Open Phil where I work on LEAF. I also think GiveWell made mistakes on lead exposure, many of them mine)
Hi Evan, thank you for the kind words!
I wanted to clarify one point:
>It could exceed the value of all the money that has ever flowed through EA to any charity GiveWell has ever recommended.
LEAF and the Partnership for a Lead-Free Future wouldnât have happened without GiveWell. They were the first major funder in the EA space to recommend grants for lead exposure, and much of the recent progress comes from those early investments, such as grants to Pure Earth and CGD. I also believe (though Iâm less certain) that Charity Entrepreneurshipâs recommendation of lead paint regulation and its incubation of LEEP were based largely on GiveWellâs research.
I know that wasnât really what you were saying, but felt compelled to mention because Iâve heard lead exposure used as an example of what GiveWell gets wrong, when, in fact, GiveWell was earlier to lead exposure than almost anyone, and Iâm grateful to former colleagues who put in a lot of hard work.
(For transparency: I was at GiveWell during this time and have since moved to Open Phil where I work on LEAF. I also think GiveWell made mistakes on lead exposure, many of them mine)