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Back of the Envelope Guide to Philanthropy

Quantitative charity evaluation. This website aims to serve as a resource for assessing the impact of different charitable organizations and endeavors. The phrase Back of the Envelope comes from the sciences where it refers to rough calculations that while not precise tend to support a line of reasoning.

We maintain a Ranked list of charitable organizations and endeavors.

In making our rough calculations we consistently use a common Valuation of outcomes. You don't have to agree with our valuation of outcomes. We maintain a Google spreadsheet that anyone can play with to see how changes in valuations and effectiveness assessments affects the rankings. For permission to update this spreadsheet please contact User:Gordoni.

Anyone is free to contribute to this project. We welcome both improvements to existing evaluations and the evaluation of additional organizations and endeavors.