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01 · programs · Research ● Live
A public list of 23 proposed unanswered questions in doing good, each precise enough to work on, with progress tracked in the open.
Scope: All 23 problems are published and open for work. Prizes wait on the Question Bounties program.
Current state: All 23 problems are published and open for work. Prizes wait on the Question Bounties program.
Milestone: The first partial result on any open problem, published and reviewed in public.
Original idea
a public list of the biggest unanswered questions in doing good, like Hilbert’s famous list of math problems. Fund people to solve them. This is your most memeable flagship.
02 · programs · Research ● Live
Compare editorial cause priorities through eight moral lenses, test your own weights and keep a reasoned deliberation record.
Scope: Live comparison and deliberation software uses eight draft framework sketches and 17 cause areas. Independent review by people who hold each view remains a milestone.
Current state: Live comparison and deliberation software uses eight draft framework sketches and 17 cause areas. Independent review by people who hold each view remains a milestone.
Milestone: Every framework sketch reviewed by at least two people who hold that framework, with their changes merged and credited.
Original idea
compares how different value systems rank causes (utilitarian, rights-based, justice, religious, community-first) and shows where they agree.
03 · programs · Research ● Live
Design alternatives across seven ways of giving and compare their user-entered scenarios within a common outcome, scope, currency and horizon.
Scope: Live scenario and experiment-planning software is available. Its ranges are user assumptions, not empirical estimates; staffed comparative research and published findings remain milestones.
Current state: Live scenario and experiment-planning software is available. Its ranges are user assumptions, not empirical estimates; staffed comparative research and published findings remain milestones.
Milestone: A published comparison of all seven methods on one shared problem, with the evidence for each method graded and its place on the depth scale stated.
Original idea
compares the ways of giving itself, such as direct cash, policy advocacy, research funding, local mutual aid, volunteering, impact investing and prizes.
04 · programs · Research ● Live
Explore coverage of 17 cause areas and capture source-linked estimates with units, years, uncertainty and value assumptions.
Scope: Live cause filters and evidence-capture software are available. Existing mappings are editorial hypotheses; a complete global funding or depth census has not been produced.
Current state: Live cause filters and evidence-capture software are available. Existing mappings are editorial hypotheses; a complete global funding or depth census has not been produced.
Milestone: Sourced estimates of scale, neglectedness and solvability for all 17 cause areas in the Cause Atlas, each with its framework assumptions stated.
Original idea
maps every cause area by scale, neglect and solvability.
05 · programs · Research ● Live
Plan a review, inspect linked intervention sources and save study extractions, bias appraisals and an evidence synthesis.
Scope: Live protocol and study-extraction software links the draft Intervention Database. The workspace does not run literature searches or publish independently reviewed systematic reviews.
Current state: Live protocol and study-extraction software links the draft Intervention Database. The workspace does not run literature searches or publish independently reviewed systematic reviews.
Milestone: Reviews of 25 widely funded interventions, each graded and checked against its sources by a second contributor.
Original idea
systematic reviews of every major intervention.
06 · programs · Research ● Live
Write and freeze local replication protocols, fork amendments and export the design, analysis rules and review plan.
Scope: Live replication-planning software saves immutable local versions and exports protocols. Browser timestamps are not public registration; studies, participant safeguards and independent replications still need people and resources.
Current state: Live replication-planning software saves immutable local versions and exports protocols. Browser timestamps are not public registration; studies, participant safeguards and independent replications still need people and resources.
Milestone: A list of 20 influential charity impact findings, chosen by published rules, with a replication plan for each registered before any results are known.
Original idea
re-runs famous charity impact studies to see if they hold up.
07 · programs · Research ◇ Needs partners
Planned independent, on-the-ground checks that programs do what they report, including asking the people served what changed, with findings published in the open.
Scope: Field work needs funding, local research partners and ethics review. The program waits on partners and a proper legal and governance setup, and it accepts no money now.
Current state: Field work needs funding, local research partners and ethics review. The program waits on partners and a proper legal and governance setup, and it accepts no money now.
Milestone: A published verification protocol, reviewed by field researchers and community organizations, and one pilot check run with a local research partner.
Original idea
on-the-ground audits that check charities do what they claim.
08 · programs · Research ● Live
Build a source-linked postmortem, test possible failure mechanisms and track a corrective action and its follow-up.
Scope: Live case browsing and postmortem software are available. Archive entries remain drafts; cross-case findings and independent field investigations still need researchers and evidence.
Current state: Live case browsing and postmortem software are available. Archive entries remain drafts; cross-case findings and independent field investigations still need researchers and evidence.
Milestone: Fifty documented cases in the Failure Archive, each with public sources, and a first published analysis of the harm mechanisms they share.
Original idea
studies charities that failed or did harm, so others don’t repeat them.
09 · programs · Research ● Live
Browse a sourced historical timeline and compare cases through their mechanisms, contexts, missing records and conditional lessons.
Scope: Live filters, a source-linked timeline and a comparison notebook cover the current 13 draft cases. Broader historical coverage and independent source review remain open.
Current state: Live filters, a source-linked timeline and a comparison notebook cover the current 13 draft cases. Broader historical coverage and independent source review remain open.
Milestone: Twenty sourced case studies spanning at least four centuries and five world regions, with successes, failures and mixed results all represented.
Original idea
what actually worked across centuries, like smallpox eradication, the Green Revolution and Carnegie libraries.
10 · programs · Research ● Live
People predict which interventions and policies will work before the results are in, and every forecast is scored with a Brier score when its question resolves.
Scope: Questions and forecasts are added by pull request and shown on the Forecasting Platform. Each forecast is scored when its question resolves.
Current state: Questions and forecasts are added by pull request and shown on the Forecasting Platform. Each forecast is scored when its question resolves.
Milestone: The first ten questions resolved and scored, with the scores published and a short report on what the forecasts got right and wrong.
Original idea
people predict which interventions will work, and you score them over time.
11 · programs · Research ● Live
A standing practice of attacking Charitology’s own claims. Every entry page links to a prefilled GitHub issue for challenging what it says.
Scope: Every entry page has a “Challenge a claim” link that opens a prefilled GitHub issue labeled red-team.
Current state: Every entry page has a “Challenge a claim” link that opens a prefilled GitHub issue labeled red-team.
Milestone: The first public red-team review of Charitology’s method, with every challenge and response published and the changes it forced listed.
Original idea
a standing team whose only job is attacking Charitology’s own recommendations.
12 · programs · Funding ◇ Needs partners
One pooled fund that would always give to the field’s current best estimate of where money does the most good. It does not exist yet and accepts no money.
Scope: The fund needs a legal entity, a fiscal sponsor and independent governance before it can exist. It accepts nothing now, so please don’t send money.
Current state: The fund needs a legal entity, a fiscal sponsor and independent governance before it can exist. It accepts nothing now, so please don’t send money.
Milestone: A published governance charter, a legal entity and fiscal sponsor in place and an allocation method that has passed public red-team review, all before a single gift is accepted.
Original idea
one fund that always gives to the current best estimate of what’s best.
13 · programs · Funding ◇ Needs partners
A planned incubator that would launch new organizations to fill gaps the research finds, but only after checking that no existing organization could fill them instead.
Scope: Incubation needs funding, a legal home and experienced mentors. The program waits on partners and a proper legal and governance setup, and it accepts no money now.
Current state: Incubation needs funding, a legal home and experienced mentors. The program waits on partners and a proper legal and governance setup, and it accepts no money now.
Milestone: A published gap report naming three gaps the research has found, each checked for whether an existing organization could fill it.
Original idea
launches new charities to fill the gaps the research finds.
14 · programs · Funding ◇ Needs partners
Cash prizes for answering specific Open Problems of Charitology, paid when a result meets the test each problem states. No prizes are funded yet.
Scope: Prize money needs a legal home, either a legal entity or a fiscal sponsor, and independent judges. The program waits on partners and a proper legal and governance setup, and it accepts no money now.
Current state: Prize money needs a legal home, either a legal entity or a fiscal sponsor, and independent judges. The program waits on partners and a proper legal and governance setup, and it accepts no money now.
Milestone: Published prize rules and an independent judging panel, with a legal home in place to hold prize money, before any prize is announced.
Original idea
cash rewards for answering specific open questions.
15 · programs · Funding ◇ Needs partners
A planned yearly award for published work that changed where generosity goes or how well it is aimed, with a category for the best published failure.
Scope: An award needs prize money, an independent jury and a legal home. The program waits on partners and a proper legal and governance setup, and it accepts no money now.
Current state: An award needs prize money, an independent jury and a legal home. The program waits on partners and a proper legal and governance setup, and it accepts no money now.
Milestone: Published categories, judging criteria and an independent jury, with the criteria tested in a public red-team review.
Original idea
an annual award for the best charity, research or idea.
16 · programs · People and education ● Live
A nonaccredited self-study completion record today, with a proposed professional credential that would require an independently reviewed exam and portfolio.
Scope: A printable nonaccredited course completion record is available from the shared ten-unit course progress. The proposed professional credential, independent exam and two-reviewer portfolio process do not operate.
Current state: A printable nonaccredited course completion record is available from the shared ten-unit course progress. The proposed professional credential, independent exam and two-reviewer portfolio process do not operate.
Milestone: Complete the self-study course and capstone to print a completion record. A separately governed professional exam and portfolio pilot still need people and public review.
Original idea
a credential for donors, nonprofit staff and advisors.
17 · programs · People and education ◇ Needs partners
Paid fellowships that would let researchers and practitioners spend a year working full-time on the field’s open problems, with everything they produce published openly.
Scope: Fellowships need funding and host institutions. The program waits on partners and a proper legal and governance setup, and it accepts no money now.
Current state: Fellowships need funding and host institutions. The program waits on partners and a proper legal and governance setup, and it accepts no money now.
Milestone: A host institution, a legal home and published selection criteria in place for a pilot cohort of three fellows.
Original idea
trains the next generation of researchers.
18 · programs · People and education ● Live
Student clubs that study and practice charitology together, using a free chapter kit whose sessions also contribute real work to the field.
Scope: A local chapter-launch workspace includes six facilitated session agendas, responsibilities, tasks, draft constitution and invitation, handover prompts and JSON/CSV/Markdown exports. No recognized chapters or university partnerships are claimed.
Current state: A local chapter-launch workspace includes six facilitated session agendas, responsibilities, tasks, draft constitution and invitation, handover prompts and JSON/CSV/Markdown exports. No recognized chapters or university partnerships are claimed.
Milestone: Use the kit to plan a term and run a first meeting with the institution’s permission. A multi-university pilot and published results remain future work.
Original idea
student clubs that spread the idea on campuses.
19 · programs · People and education ● Live
A free course built on the open textbook Principles of Charitology, with one unit per chapter and exercises that use real tools and data.
Scope: Ten-unit browser course with full textbook readings, twenty explained knowledge checks, saved practice notes and capstone, JSON backup and a printable nonaccredited completion record. No independent assessment is claimed.
Current state: Ten-unit browser course with full textbook readings, twenty explained knowledge checks, saved practice notes and capstone, JSON backup and a printable nonaccredited completion record. No independent assessment is claimed.
Milestone: Complete all ten units and a capstone, then export a self-study completion record. A study of whether training changes decisions remains future work.
Original idea
a free online course, the “Charity 101” of the field.
20 · programs · People and education ◇ Needs partners
Planned independent help for donors, families and foundations to work out what they value, when their money should move and how to weigh giving near and far.
Scope: Advising needs trained advisors, a legal home and partners licensed for tax, legal and investment questions. The program waits on partners and a proper legal and governance setup, and it accepts no money now.
Current state: Advising needs trained advisors, a legal home and partners licensed for tax, legal and investment questions. The program waits on partners and a proper legal and governance setup, and it accepts no money now.
Milestone: A published advising protocol and conflict-of-interest policy, tried with ten volunteer donors whose anonymized feedback is published.
Original idea
guidance for major donors and family foundations.
21 · programs · People and education ◇ Needs partners
Planned practical help for nonprofits to measure what their work changes and explain what it really costs, so they can be judged by results rather than overhead.
Scope: Advising needs trained advisors, evaluation partners and independent funding. The program waits on partners and a proper legal and governance setup, and it accepts no money now.
Current state: Advising needs trained advisors, evaluation partners and independent funding. The program waits on partners and a proper legal and governance setup, and it accepts no money now.
Milestone: A free, self-guided version of the advisory process, published alongside the Impact Measurement Toolkit and tried with five small nonprofits.
Original idea
helps existing charities measure and improve their impact.
22 · programs · Reach ◇ Needs partners
A planned yearly working gathering of researchers, funders, nonprofits and the people they serve, across every cause and framework, built around shared problems rather than speeches.
Scope: A summit needs a host, a venue, funding and a legal home. The program waits on partners and a proper legal and governance setup, and it accepts no money now.
Current state: A summit needs a host, a venue, funding and a legal home. The program waits on partners and a proper legal and governance setup, and it accepts no money now.
Milestone: A free online pilot with sessions on three Open Problems, a red-team session and a failure session, all recorded and published.
Original idea
an annual conference.
23 · programs · Reach ● Live
Applies the Charitology method to one city’s giving, mapping where local money goes by cause and depth and where organizations overlap or leave gaps.
Scope: A local research workspace records a geographic scope, sourced needs and activities, tentative depth descriptions and listening questions, then exports a methods-first brief. It is not a completed city census or a rating service.
Current state: A local research workspace records a geographic scope, sourced needs and activities, tentative depth descriptions and listening questions, then exports a methods-first brief. It is not a completed city census or a rating service.
Milestone: Create and check one public-data research brief with stated boundaries, source dates and blind spots. A published pilot-city map and community review still need local researchers.
Original idea
applies the methods to local giving, like “the best charity in your city.”
24 · programs · Reach ● Live
Studies the best use of volunteer hours, so people who give time can see which roles help most and organizations can see what each kind of help is worth to them.
Scope: A working volunteer planner compares direct service, travel, preparation, skills and staff support, checks weekly capacity and logs actual hours and observations. Optional personal-cost arithmetic never estimates social value. An organization survey and placements are not operating.
Current state: A working volunteer planner compares direct service, travel, preparation, skills and staff support, checks weekly capacity and logs actual hours and observations. Optional personal-cost arithmetic never estimates social value. An organization survey and placements are not operating.
Milestone: Build and review one realistic volunteer plan with an organization. The proposed survey of at least 50 organizations remains a research milestone.
Original idea
the best use of volunteer hours, not just dollars.
25 · programs · Reach ● Live
Redesigns workplace giving and gift matching so they fund flexibly, report what gifts achieved and recognize results rather than size.
Scope: A workplace matching calculator compares capped equal-gift scenarios, administration costs, budget shortfalls and participation sensitivity, alongside an editable policy and review checklist. It does not process gifts, payroll or establish company pilots.
Current state: A workplace matching calculator compares capped equal-gift scenarios, administration costs, budget shortfalls and participation sensitivity, alongside an editable policy and review checklist. It does not process gifts, payroll or establish company pilots.
Milestone: Export a concrete policy draft with explicit matching assumptions and an oversubscription rule for human review. A company pilot and published results remain future work.
Original idea
helps companies redesign workplace giving and matching.
26 · programs · Reach ● Live
Applies Charitology’s research to public budgets for aid and social programs, publishing analysis of their evidence, their mix of relief and prevention and their long-run costs.
Scope: A policy brief workspace compares a stated baseline and options, sourced claims, equity and participation, uncertainty and follow-up tasks. Optional discounted monetary scenarios show their assumptions without ranking options or claiming government adoption.
Current state: A policy brief workspace compares a stated baseline and options, sourced claims, equity and participation, uncertainty and follow-up tasks. Optional discounted monetary scenarios show their assumptions without ranking options or claiming government adoption.
Milestone: Export one draft options brief with evidence gaps, distributional questions and a review plan. Publication as a reviewed analysis and use by agencies remain future work.
Original idea
applies the research to government aid budgets.
27 · tools · For donors ● Live
Answer thirteen quick questions about what you care about and see which causes fit you, why they fit, and what the moral lenses you use least would show you.
Scope: Matches cause areas to your stated values. It does not recommend or rank named charities.
Original idea
a quiz on what you care about, which then shows your best-matched charities. This is how you make “all ways” personal.
28 · tools · For donors ● Live
Split a giving budget across causes when you aren’t sure which moral framework is right, compare two ways of doing it, and see how much they agree.
Scope: Split a giving budget across causes when you aren’t sure which moral framework is right, compare two ways of doing it, and see how much they agree.
Original idea
spreads your giving across causes when you’re unsure which values are right.
29 · tools · For donors ● Live
Search the Charitology Charity Index by name, see where on the chain from symptom to source a charity’s work is thought to act, and open the public registries in one click.
Scope: Searches the starter Charity Index and links to public registries. Depth labels are hypotheses, never ratings.
Original idea
search any charity and see its Charitology rating.
30 · tools · For donors ● Live
Puts the Giver’s Checklist on donation pages and one click away everywhere else, with a lookup in the open charity registries. Collects nothing.
Scope: Live as a developer install for Chrome, Edge and Firefox. Store packages, listing copy and privacy documentation are prepared; store submission and approval are pending.
Current state: Live as a developer install for Chrome, Edge and Firefox. Store packages, listing copy and privacy documentation are prepared; store submission and approval are pending.
Original idea
on any donation page or GoFundMe, it shows the rating and higher-impact alternatives.
31 · tools · For donors ● Live
See what a gift could achieve, as a range, for interventions with a published cost per outcome, and see which interventions have no reliable per-dollar estimate at all.
Scope: Scenario estimates only where a published, dated intervention model exists. Different outcome units are not made interchangeable.
Original idea
shows “what $100 does here vs. there.”
32 · tools · For donors ● Live
Put two or three interventions side by side on depth, evidence, durability, feedback, who steers and cost, and see exactly where they differ. There is no overall score, because the trade-offs are yours to weigh.
Scope: Compares interventions and their evidence, with no aggregate score or charity ranking.
Original idea
puts any two charities side by side.
33 · tools · For donors ● Live
Keep a private log of your gifts and see where your giving goes, by cause and by depth, from relief for today to work on sources.
Scope: Logs gifts, causes and self-described depth. It does not measure realized impact.
Original idea
tracks your lifetime giving and its estimated impact.
34 · tools · For donors ● Live
Turn a year of logged gifts into a card you can share, showing where your giving acted and the kind of giver it makes you, with or without the dollar amounts.
Scope: Turn a year of logged gifts into a card you can share, showing where your giving acted and the kind of giver it makes you, with or without the dollar amounts.
Original idea
a shareable year-end recap of your giving, Spotify Wrapped-style. Very memeable.
35 · tools · For donors ● Live
Split one giving decision across several charities, with whole-dollar amounts that add up exactly and a step-by-step list of where to give.
Scope: The split planner is live. True one-click payment needs a licensed donation partner.
Current state: The split planner is live. True one-click payment needs a licensed donation partner.
Original idea
give once and have it automatically divided across your portfolio.
36 · tools · For donors ● Live
A private worksheet for leaving gifts to charity in your will, with a printable summary and sample wording to take to your estate attorney.
Scope: A browser worksheet with sample language to discuss with a qualified adviser. It does not draft or execute a legal will.
Original idea
builds charitable giving into a will or bequest.
37 · tools · For donors ● Live
What responders and researchers advise about giving after a disaster, a planner that splits one gift across relief, recovery and preparedness, and a calendar reminder to give again when the news has moved on.
Scope: Sourced general guidance and a three-phase planner; no live disaster-specific charity recommendations.
Original idea
when a disaster hits, shows where money helps most, fast.
38 · tools · For donors ● Live
Make a card for a donation given in someone’s name, with what the gift does, a personal message and the reasons you chose it. No amount required.
Scope: Creates a printable or downloadable card. The actual donation happens through the charity.
Original idea
donate in someone’s name as a present.
39 · tools · For nonprofits and funders ● Live
Build a theory of change from the problem and its source to outcomes and indicators, with feedback from the people served, a comparison plan and a stop rule. Keep several drafts and export them as Markdown or JSON.
Scope: Build a theory of change from the problem and its source to outcomes and indicators, with feedback from the people served, a comparison plan and a stop rule. Keep several drafts and export them as Markdown or JSON.
Original idea
templates that help charities track their results.
40 · tools · For nonprofits and funders ● Live
Build a cost-per-outcome model with a low, likely and high value for every input, run 5,000 simulated draws in your browser, and see the range of results and which inputs drive them.
Scope: An open browser model with reproducible simulations and CSV export, rather than a hosted spreadsheet.
Original idea
open-source spreadsheets anyone can use and audit.
41 · tools · For nonprofits and funders ● Live
Review a proposal on nine dimensions, from source depth to risk of harm, keep unknowns as unknowns, compare your saved proposals side by side and export a review memo.
Scope: Review a proposal on nine dimensions, from source depth to risk of harm, keep unknowns as unknowns, compare your saved proposals side by side and export a review memo.
Original idea
a scoring framework for foundations reviewing proposals.
42 · tools · For nonprofits and funders ● Live
Check an organization against 25 questions on legitimacy, money, results, learning, its place in the system and red flags. Unknowns become questions to ask, and the report downloads as Markdown.
Scope: Check an organization against 25 questions on legitimacy, money, results, learning, its place in the system and red flags. Unknowns become questions to ask, and the report downloads as Markdown.
Original idea
a step-by-step vetting guide.
43 · tools · For everyone ● Live
Ask any question about giving and get answers drawn only from what Charitology has published, grouped by where they come from, with every passage linked.
Scope: Live as retrieval over the Record. The generative layer is designed and will cite the Record for every sentence.
Current state: Live as retrieval over the Record. The generative layer is designed and will cite the Record for every sentence.
Original idea
a chat assistant that answers giving questions from your knowledge base.
44 · tools · For everyone ● Live
Every Charitology dataset as static JSON, free to use with attribution. Build the Diagnosis, the interventions or the open problems into your own app or donation platform.
Scope: Publishes the Record and data as static JSON. It has no charity ratings.
Original idea
lets developers build your ratings into their apps and donation platforms.
45 · tools · For everyone ● Live
Predict what will happen in the charity system, put a number on it and get scored when the answer arrives. Forecasts are pull requests, so the record is public and permanent.
Scope: Forecasts are proposed by public pull request; resolved questions are scored with Brier scores.
Original idea
the home for the forecasting tournaments.
46 · Info bases · Flagship references ● Live
A searchable reference work on charity-system concepts, with aliases, source lists, review labels and downloadable reading dossiers.
Scope: 26 searchable concept entries with source lists, review labels and downloadable reading dossiers. Entries remain editorial drafts pending contributor review.
Current state: 26 searchable concept entries with source lists, review labels and downloadable reading dossiers. Entries remain editorial drafts pending contributor review.
Milestone: Fifty entries, each checked by a second contributor.
Original idea
the wiki of every cause, intervention and concept.
47 · Info bases · Flagship references ● Live
A searchable working index with descriptive depth hypotheses, cause filters, public-registry links, source lists and research dossiers.
Scope: 16 transparent classification records with multi-filter browsing, registry links and research dossiers. Classifications remain draft hypotheses, not charity ratings.
Current state: 16 transparent classification records with multi-filter browsing, registry links and research dossiers. Classifications remain draft hypotheses, not charity ratings.
Milestone: Five hundred organizations classified by depth, each classification checked by two contributors.
Original idea
a database of charities worldwide with financials and ratings.
48 · Info bases · Flagship references ● Live
A searchable intervention reference with evidence and depth filters, cost context, side-by-side recorded fields and source-linked research dossiers.
Scope: 15 sourced intervention records with six filters, side-by-side field comparison and research dossiers. Costs retain their original outcomes and caveats; review remains pending.
Current state: 15 sourced intervention records with six filters, side-by-side field comparison and research dossiers. Costs retain their original outcomes and caveats; review remains pending.
Milestone: Every intervention with a Cochrane or Campbell review is in the database.
Original idea
every intervention with its evidence strength and cost-effectiveness.
49 · Info bases · Flagship references ● Live
A map of the cause areas and the problems they touch, from symptoms on the surface to the six sources underneath.
Scope: A working cause browser with linked intervention evidence. Worldwide funding is not estimated.
Current state: A working cause browser with linked intervention evidence. Worldwide funding is not estimated.
Milestone: Each cause area has sourced estimates of scale and current funding.
Original idea
a visual map of the world’s problems and how much funding each gets.
50 · Info bases · Flagship references ● Live
Where charitable money goes, and a question for the Depth Census: how much reaches the sources of problems?
Scope: Financial baseline charts and a local depth census with classification coverage, undo and validated backups. No global depth estimate is claimed.
Current state: Financial baseline charts and a local depth census with classification coverage, undo and validated backups. No global depth estimate is claimed.
Milestone: The first published estimate of giving by depth, from the Depth Census.
Original idea
where the world’s charity money goes compared with where the need is.
51 · Info bases · Annual publications ● Live
The yearly state of the charity system. Edition 0 sets the baseline: what we know, what we don’t, and what to measure first.
Scope: A complete Edition 0 baseline with financial definitions, project coverage, unknowns and a downloadable report.
Current state: A complete Edition 0 baseline with financial definitions, project coverage, unknowns and a downloadable report.
Milestone: Edition 1, with the first Depth Census estimate.
Original idea
the yearly “state of the world” for giving.
52 · Info bases · Annual publications ● Live
A working nomination and method-review lab for a proposed future list. No named ranking is approved or published.
Scope: A working nomination and method-review lab. No named-charity ranking is approved or published.
Current state: A working nomination and method-review lab. No named-charity ranking is approved or published.
Milestone: Draft method published and red-teamed in public.
Original idea
the top charities list.
53 · Info bases · Annual publications ● Live
Where every open problem stands, whether open, partly answered or solved, updated as results come in.
Scope: Where every open problem stands, whether open, partly answered or solved, updated as results come in.
Original idea
which open problems got solved this year.
54 · Info bases · Research archives ● Live
Every source cited anywhere on Charitology, in one bibliography, with the pages that cite it.
Scope: An automatically assembled bibliography of cited sources, not every relevant study.
Original idea
every relevant study, tagged and summarized.
55 · Info bases · Research archives ● Live
A searchable archive of documented failures and mixed results, with settings, lessons, source lists and downloadable learning dossiers.
Scope: 8 searchable failure and mixed-result cases with lessons, sources and research dossiers. Inclusion does not estimate failure rates or judge the people involved.
Current state: 8 searchable failure and mixed-result cases with lessons, sources and research dossiers. Inclusion does not estimate failure rates or judge the people involved.
Milestone: Ten organizations voluntarily publish a failure here.
Original idea
post-mortems of charities and programs that didn’t work.
56 · Info bases · Research archives ● Live
A searchable archive of historical successes, failures and mixed results, with places, periods, lessons, source lists and reading dossiers.
Scope: 13 searchable cases with result, place and depth filters, full source lists and reading dossiers. This is a bounded draft collection, not a representative sample.
Current state: 13 searchable cases with result, place and depth filters, full source lists and reading dossiers. This is a bounded draft collection, not a representative sample.
Original idea
philanthropy’s greatest wins and losses.
57 · Info bases · Research archives ● Live
A searchable register of positions, cruxes and unresolved questions, with source lists, review labels and downloadable debate dossiers.
Scope: 8 searchable disagreements with positions, cruxes, sources and discussion dossiers. The collection remains editorial and open to correction.
Current state: 8 searchable disagreements with positions, cruxes, sources and discussion dossiers. The collection remains editorial and open to correction.
Original idea
where experts disagree and why. Publishing this openly builds trust.
58 · Info bases · Research archives ● Live
Dated national indicators, country comparisons and a research desk for locally accountable profiles.
Scope: 217 country/economy data profiles and a local research desk. Locally coauthored narrative profiles remain a separate milestone.
Current state: 217 country/economy data profiles and a local research desk. Locally coauthored narrative profiles remain a separate milestone.
Milestone: Ten profiles, each co-written with someone who lives there.
Original idea
needs and best options, country by country.
59 · Info bases · Research archives ● Live
Every Charitology dataset as open JSON, plus the public datasets the field builds on.
Scope: Every Charitology dataset as open JSON, plus the public datasets the field builds on.
Original idea
all cost-effectiveness estimates, uncertainty ranges included.
60 · Info bases · Thought and teaching ● Live
Essays and research for the field, reviewed in public. Volume 0 opens with the manifesto.
Scope: Real proposed-method papers and a manuscript desk. Independent peer review is not completed.
Current state: Real proposed-method papers and a manuscript desk. Independent peer review is not completed.
Milestone: Volume 1, with at least five peer-reviewed papers, including one reporting a null result.
Original idea
peer-reviewed research, which makes it a real academic field.
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A searchable library of giving traditions, with practices, interpretive limits, source lists, review labels and reading dossiers.
Scope: 8 searchable traditions with practice, origin, lens, sources and reading dossiers. These draft sketches cannot represent a whole living tradition.
Current state: 8 searchable traditions with practice, origin, lens, sources and reading dossiers. These draft sketches cannot represent a whole living tradition.
Original idea
the philosophy of giving across cultures and faiths, including Zakat, Tzedakah, Dāna and tithing.
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The field’s open textbook, written chapter by chapter in public.
Scope: The complete ten-chapter textbook, full reading and print edition, download, search and private reading notebooks.
Current state: The complete ten-chapter textbook, full reading and print edition, download, search and private reading notebooks.
Original idea
the field’s founding textbook.
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The vocabulary of the field, defined in plain language.
Scope: A searchable glossary with cross-references, definition study mode and CSV export.
Current state: A searchable glossary with cross-references, definition study mode and CSV export.
Original idea
a glossary of the field’s terms.
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A searchable collection of beliefs about giving, their editorial verdicts, source lists, review status and downloadable discussion dossiers.
Scope: 8 searchable belief analyses with verdict and condition filters, sources and discussion dossiers. Verdicts describe claims; contributor review remains pending.
Current state: 8 searchable belief analyses with verdict and condition filters, sources and discussion dossiers. Verdicts describe claims; contributor review remains pending.
Original idea
corrects misconceptions such as “low overhead means a good charity.”
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Exactly how Charitology labels evidence, classifies depth, reviews pages and handles corrections.
Scope: A public handbook for evidence, depth, review and corrections. No charity rating method has been approved.
Original idea
exactly how Charitology rates things, fully transparent.
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Six narrated textbook episodes with transcripts, a podcast feed and the first issue of The Charitology Letter.
Scope: Six actual MP3 episodes, transcripts and podcast RSS; a published letter and dedicated RSS. Email delivery is not configured.
Current state: Six actual MP3 episodes, transcripts and podcast RSS; a published letter and dedicated RSS. Email delivery is not configured.
Milestone: A first season of six episodes, one per group of conditions in the Diagnosis.
Original idea
the outward-facing voice.
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