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GiveWell
Charity evaluator GiveWell started in 2007. Its focus on identifying the most promising causes and charities to donate to, and most of its recommendations have been in the area of developing world health, largely because of the higher value for money in that domain. Although it was started well before the effective altruism movement took shape as a distinct movement, its principles are closely aligned with effective altruism. Some of the concepts pioneered at GiveWell include room for more funding and the idea that the burden of proof should fall on the charity to demonstrate that what it's doing is worth the money.

In his book The Life You Can Save as well as in his 2013 TED talk that first put effective altruism in the public limelight, Peter Singer cited GiveWell as a go-to resource to identify charities that would provide good altruistic value for money.

In August 2013, as the effective altruist movement was taking shape, a blog post by GiveWell co-founder HOlden Karnofsky on the blog noted that the organization is "proud to be part of the nascent “effective altruist” movement." A January 2015 blog post by GiveWell noted the significant role that effective altruist movement-building organizations had played in making more people aware of GiveWell and facilitating more donations to GiveWell and GiveWell-recommended charities.

GiveWell also works closely with Good Ventures, a philanthropic foundation with money from Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz and managed by his wife Cari Tuna. Tuna herself had heard about GiveWell from Peter Singer's book The Life You Can Save.

Giving What We Can
Giving What We Can (GWWC) is a community of people interested in maximizing the good they can do in the world through donations. Founded in November 2009 by moral philsoopher Toby Ord, the organization's focus is on causes related to the alleviation of global poverty. Although GWWC does some in-house research evaluating causes and charities, it largely relies on research by other organizations such as GiveWell. The Giving What We Can pledge initially required people to donate at least 10% of their income to global poverty alleviation, but the pledge has since been reworded to be more cause-agnostic as well as more agnostic about how much money needs to be pledged, even though GWWC's own focus remains poverty alleviation.

GWWC was also cited by Peter Singer in his book The Life You Can Save and in his 2013 TED talk.