Tis Giving Season and in the holiday spirit of generosity, we at the EA@EY network are hoping to raise $5,000 (~£3,900) for GiveWell's Top Charities fund.

Why GiveWell's Top Charities Fund?
GiveWell aims to find charitable programs that are the most cost-effective at saving lives. They publish rigorous research and recommendation to make it easy for donors to find charity programs that maximise their impact per dollar donated. To be recommended by GiveWell, a program must be estimated to be 10 times as cost-effective as unconditional cash transfers.

Why $5,000?
This is GiveWell's conservative estimate of the cost to save a life based on thousands of hours of research and analysis.

Many charities make exaggerated marketing claims about how cheaply they can save lives, but they can’t back these up. Most charities don’t have rigorous evidence showing that the programs they run actually work. Few conduct high-quality monitoring of their own programs to make sure they’re successful.

If we achieve our goal and donate $5,000 to GiveWell, we would be able to say with a reasonable level of certainty, that generous folks at EY have counterfactually saved the life of a child under 5.

As an extra incentive to be generous, two of our EA@EY organisers (Gemma and Michael) have committed to:
💌 Send a personal thank you to everyone who donates *
💸 Donation match the largest individual donation (if you are comfortable, we will also shout you out in our next newsletter) *

*requires opting in to share your name and email

EY UK will match £1,000 in donations to this fundraiser.

Programs supported by the fund:
* Malaria Consortium - Seasonal malaria chemoprevention ($7 per child/$5,000 per life saved)
* Against Malaria Foundation - Provision of bed nets to protect against malaria ($5 per net/$5,500 per life saved)
* Helen Keller International - Vitamin A supplementation ($1 per supplement/$4,000 per life saved)
* New Incentives - Cash transfers to incentivise childhood vaccines ($155 per infant vaccinated/$5,000 per life saved)