Join us for a Skype call and Q&A with the founder/CEO of AMF! Monday, October 27 at 5pm, Sever 102. RSVP here.
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Location Change: Tonight’s Harvard Effective Altruism Event with GiveWell Founder
As indicated in the revised poster below, the event with Elie Hassenfeld, scheduled for tonight, October 13th at 8pm, has been moved to Lowell Junior Common Room. Apologies for the hassle!
HHIP: Evaluating Effective Charities – GiveWell cofounder Elie Hassenfeld: Tuesday, 8 PM
Harvard High Impact Philanthropy presents:
Evaluating Effective Charities with Elie Hassenfeld of GiveWell
How can you maximize the impact of your charitable giving? What distinguishes the most effective causes and organizations? Elie Hassenfeld, co-founder and co-Executive Director of GiveWell, will describe how his organization is revolutionizing charity evaluation with completely transparent, rigorous analysis. Q&A to follow.
8 pm, Tuesday, Nov. 12; Sever 102
RSVP here
Elie Hassenfeld graduated from Columbia in 2004 and co-founded GiveWell in mid-2007 where he currently serves as co-Executive Director. GiveWell finds outstanding charity and publishes the full details of its analysis to help donors decide where to give. The Boston Globe has called GiveWell “The gold standard for giving” and its research has attracted attention from Peter Singer and other media. GiveWell has tracked over $10 million in donations to its recommendations as a direct result of its research.
Harvard HIP (High Impact Philanthropy): Toby Ord speaking tonight
Are you interested in foreign aid, global development, medicine? Want to know how philanthropy and charitable giving can do the most good?
Aid Works (On Average) – By Toby Ord
Tuesday, March 26th; Emerson Hall 108; 8 PM
There is considerable controversy about whether foreign aid helps poor countries, with several prominent critics arguing that it doesn’t. Dr. Ord shows that these critics have only reached this conclusion because they have failed to count the biggest successes of aid, such as the eradication of smallpox, which have been in the sphere of global health rather than economic growth. These health successes have often been neglected in analysis of aid because they have only made up a small proportion of aid spending. When we look at the impact of this spending, though, we see that it the big wins have been so utterly vast that they more than justify all aid spending to date.
Dr. Toby Ord is a philosopher at the University of Oxford and a research associate at the Uehiro Center for Practical Ethics and the Future of Humanity Institute. He is also the founder and director of Giving What We Can, an international society dedicated to eliminating poverty in the developing world.
Join Dr. Ord tonight, March 26, at 8 PM for a talk and discussion of the effectiveness of foreign aid. Refreshments will be provided, and a reception will follow.
Planning to come? Please RSVP on Facebook to help us plan refreshments.
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