Help us improve

GiveWell is a work in progress, and we need your help setting our future direction. Whether or not our site is useful to you in its current form, we very much appreciate your helping us to make it more useful in the future.

All questions are optional.

Future research: help set our direction

  1. Do you prefer your giving to benefit the:
    Developing world (i.e., poorest parts of Africa, Latin & South America, Asia, Developed world (i.e., United States, Europe, etc.)
    etc.)?

  2. Within the developing world, what region would you most like to see us cover?

    If "Other," please specify:

  3. Within the developed world, what city/region would you most like to see us cover?

    If "Other," please specify:

  4. How likely would you be to donate for each of the charitable causes below?

    Developing world

      Not likely   Possible   Very likely
    Save lives (AIDS, malaria, etc.)
    Fight poverty (microfinance, irrigation, etc.)
    Improve education
    Work against child slavery

    Developed world

      Not likely   Possible   Very likely
    Early childhood care
    K-12 education
    K-12 extracurricular (focused on character/self-esteem)
    Job training for adults
    Substance abuse programs
    Cancer research
    Other disease research
    Global warming
    Other environment-related
    Animal welfare
  5. Is your favorite cause listed above?
    Yes
    No

  6. If not, what is your favorite cause?

  7. Please enter your email address, if you might be interested in staying involved with our decisions as they progress (or in any of the options below).

    Contact me about future opportunities to influence the direction of GiveWell's research (i.e., when we are narrowing down our choice of future causes)
    Contact me when you publish research on new causes
    Contact me with general updates about GiveWell
    We will not give out or sell your email under any circumstances, and you will have a clear option to opt out of any communications at any time.

  8. Any other comments?

  9. Captcha

    This is a simple test to confirm that you're a person, not an automated spam script.

or continue below ...

About you

Please skip anything you don't feel comfortable answering. We're trying to get a rough picture of the people who are interested in our work.

  1. Name:

  2. Age:
  3. Occupation/affiliation:
  4. Zip code:

  5. How much did you or will you give to charity this year?
  6. Would you give more if you had more confidence that you were picking the best charity/ies?
    Yes
    No

  7. If so, how much?
  8. Anything else we should know about you?

How are we doing?

  1. Please rate this site on the following.
      Poor   Adequate   Excellent
    Overall usefulness
    Clarity and readability
    Transparency and honesty
    Intelligent and reasonable analysis
  2. Did/will this site affect your giving for the year?
    Yes
    No

  3. Did you or will you give directly using our site, through a "Donate Now Through Network or Good" button?
    Yes
    No

  4. Could this site affect your giving in the future, if we cover your favorite cause and cover it well?
    Yes
    No

  5. What could we do to make this site more likely to affect your giving?
      Not important   Important   Essential
    Cover my favorite cause
    More engaging/usable website
    Clearer/more readable analysis
    More intelligent analysis
  6. Other comments on what we could be doing better?