Thanks for hunting us Kat!
We're the founders of the Centre for Effective Altruism, and we're proud to be one of the non-profits in the current Y Combinator (W17) batch.
We build evidence-based funds for your charitable giving, helping you maximise the impact your charitable dollars have, it's like Vanguard for charitable giving. Our expert fund managers use data and detailed analysis to find and fund the most effective charities, putting in hundreds of hours of research to find and compare the very best giving opportunities in each area. Our research community has found that the best charities are 100s of times more effective than the average charity, some of the most cost-effective charities can save a child's life for as little as $3,500. Over our lifetime we’ve raised $33M dollars for effective charities including $17M in the past year alone. Our goal for this year is to raise $80M for effective charities and enable individual donors to give with the confidence, research, and impact of a billion dollar foundation.
We started this project because we were frustrated with how difficult it was to compare charities based on the amount of good they do, rather than how much they pay their CEO, or how compelling their story is. Will literally wrote the book on Effective Altruism, "Doing Good Better" and has spent most of his career as an Oxford Professor of Philosophy finding the best ways to use your money and your time to do good. I used to be a Pharmacist and spent 3 years doing overseas aid work for organizations like the Red Cross across 20+ different countries. I've got so many great stories about waste and inefficiency in the charity sector to share with you all!
We built Effective Altruism funds during YC, as a new way for donors to give to charity. We'd love to hear your feedback, and answer any questions you have about giving effectively, the effective altruism community or what it's like as a non-profit startup.
Effective Altruism Funds