This post describes some key features and issues of our recommendation process ending in December 2015. For more detail on our recommendation process in general, see this page.
What We Did
During 2015, we selected groups to review and conducted shallow and medium reviews in a manner similar to previous years. … Read more
Recommendations
Things That Surprised Us About the December 2014 Review Process
We’ve written elsewhere about our general and December 2014 review processes, with the goal of helping readers understand what we did to arrive at our recommendations. Here, I’d like to discuss in greater detail some of the surprises we encountered during our December 2014 organization review process. … Read more
Our Thinking About the Process Leading to Our December 2014 Recommendations
This post describes some of the specifics of the evaluation process leading to our December 2014 recommendation update, and what we learned from the process. For more general thoughts about our recommendation process, see this page.
General Preparation
We began preparing for this recommendation update almost immediately after we posted our previous recommendations in mid-May. … Read more
Our Thinking on Upcoming Recommendations
For our first round of recommendations that involved utilizing our evaluation template, we ended up recommending two organizations as our “top charities,” and two organizations as “standout charities.” Our initial thinking going into that round of reviews was that we would have 2 or 3 top charities, … Read more