Director, Giving Evidence: enabling charitable giving based on sound evidence. Cambridge Visiting Fellow. "Charmingly disruptive": Nobel laureate Richard Thaler
Oct 29, 2021 • 12 tweets • 6 min read
Anti-malaria bednets are cheap & effective at preventing a common & fatal disease. It is not OK to write in int'l newspapers claiming they fail. So Prof Paul Garner of the Liverpool School of - !! - Tropical Medicine & I wrote in The Economist in response to the recent letter:🧵 2/ Here are the citations:
Study of use: malariajournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11….
Study of effects (there as zillions of these):
- Cochrane study: cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10.10…
- 'Oxford' study of large-scale effects: nature.com/articles/natur…
Jul 16, 2020 • 22 tweets • 12 min read
Giving Evidence today publishes #research about Royal patronages of charities: what are they, which charities have them, and whether they help.
It's in today's @TheTimes (£).
Our findings include these (thread):
We couldn't find any effect of Royal patronages on charities’ revenues, despite multiple sophisticated statistical analyses. #charity#fundraising
Oct 18, 2019 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
Wow. I found a donor trying to give >£1m to delivery work in a certain sector. I also found*, and told them, that there's very little evidence about 'what works' in that sector. So they can't reliably fund delivery b/c nobody knows what to deliver. They'd better fund production…
2/ of research about what to deliver (& how). I connected them to some researchers. Now, 3 months later, they're starting a partnership to produce effective #research in that sector.
That entire intervention only took me about 2 hours. Rescued >£1m from almost certain fail.
Jul 2, 2019 • 21 tweets • 7 min read
Alors, je vous présente… our findings about (1) what academic #research already exists about UK charities & #philanthropy and (2) the topics on which UK charities & donors say that they would like more academic #research.
(Thread) #charity#impact#eval#impinv2/ Combined, the results are a ‘gap analysis’ which can inform future research. Both studies were funded by @Charity_Futures, re its work establishing an Institute of Charity at Oxford University. But the findings can inform the agenda of any researchers in this terrain.
