Givewell has received great coverage lately. (2 Young Hedge-Fund Veterans Stir Up the World of Philanthropy - New York Times and Doing Due Diligence on Your Donations-Wall Street Journal.)
We love that these guys are thinking about how to help individuals decide on how to spend their charitable and political dollars. It's clear that it is a problem to only look at the financials, or to simply look at qualitative data. Our position is that there is no one magical piece of information—just like there isn’t one in the stock market. If there were, we’d all be investing in the same four companies. Instead, we want to provide the necessary information that our customer needs to take an intelligent risk and make an impact in an issue or field they care about.
