{
  "name": "checklist",
  "description": "The Giver’s Checklist.",
  "license": "CC BY 4.0. Cite “Charitology (charitology.org)”.",
  "generated": "2026-10-26",
  "data": [
    {
      "id": "depth",
      "question": "Symptom or source?",
      "detail": "Where on the chain does this gift act: relief, repair, prevention, structure or source? Every level is needed. Know which one you are paying for.",
      "link": "/method/#depth"
    },
    {
      "id": "counterfactual",
      "question": "What happens if I don’t give?",
      "detail": "If the work would be funded anyway, the real effect of your gift lands somewhere else.",
      "link": "/record/encyclopedia/counterfactual-impact/"
    },
    {
      "id": "evidence",
      "question": "How do we know it works?",
      "detail": "Look for outcomes, not activity: lives changed, not meals counted. Ask what the strongest study found.",
      "link": "/method/#evidence"
    },
    {
      "id": "feedback",
      "question": "How would anyone find out if it stopped working?",
      "detail": "A program nobody measures can fail for years without anyone noticing.",
      "link": "/diagnosis/missing-feedback-loop/"
    },
    {
      "id": "voice",
      "question": "Who decided this was the need?",
      "detail": "The people closest to a problem often know which fix will last.",
      "link": "/diagnosis/missing-voice/"
    },
    {
      "id": "cost",
      "question": "Is this the cheapest way to get this result?",
      "detail": "Two programs with the same goal can differ enormously in cost. Compare results per dollar, not overhead ratios.",
      "link": "/diagnosis/overhead-myth/"
    },
    {
      "id": "strings",
      "question": "Does my gift come with strings it doesn’t need?",
      "detail": "Unrestricted money lets an organization fix what it learns is broken.",
      "link": "/diagnosis/restriction-reflex/"
    },
    {
      "id": "durability",
      "question": "Will it still matter in ten years?",
      "detail": "Some good ends when the money stops. Some good compounds.",
      "link": "/diagnosis/short-horizon/"
    },
    {
      "id": "story",
      "question": "Am I giving to the story or to the size of the problem?",
      "detail": "One face moves us more than a million people. That is human, and it is also a bias.",
      "link": "/diagnosis/story-bias/"
    },
    {
      "id": "neglect",
      "question": "Who else is already funding this?",
      "detail": "An extra dollar does more where few other dollars go.",
      "link": "/record/encyclopedia/neglectedness/"
    }
  ]
}