Programs
Research to find out what works, funding to act on it, training to grow the field and outreach to change the habits of giving. Each program names the conditions of the charity system it treats.
Research
The Open Problems of Charitology
A public list of 23 proposed unanswered questions in doing good, each precise enough to work on, with progress tracked in the open.
Moral Frameworks Program
Compare editorial cause priorities through eight moral lenses, test your own weights and keep a reasoned deliberation record.
Methods Lab
Compare ways of giving, preserve exact plan versions and connect artifact descriptions to self-recorded results and limitations.
Cause Census
Explore coverage of 17 cause areas and capture source-linked estimates with units, years, uncertainty and value assumptions.
Evidence Reviews
Import citation records, freeze a local protocol, reconcile screening decisions and export traceable review inputs alongside narrative extractions.
Replication Program
Preserve replication plans, describe versioned artifacts and connect sourced, self-recorded results to their exact protocol and deviations.
Field Verification
A protocol workspace for defining field checks, evidence limits, safeguards, responses and corrective actions, alongside the charter for an independent field-verification service.
Failure Lab
Build a source-linked postmortem, test possible failure mechanisms and track a corrective action and its follow-up.
History of Charity
Browse a sourced historical timeline and compare cases through their mechanisms, contexts, missing records and conditional lessons.
Forecasting Tournaments
People predict which interventions and policies will work before the results are in, and every forecast is scored with a Brier score when its question resolves.
Red Team
A standing practice of attacking Charitology’s own claims. Every entry page links to a prefilled GitHub issue for challenging what it says.
Funding
The Charitology Fund
Prepare grant proposals, conflicts, conditional allocation plans and a nonpayment authorization ledger with a selected-field transparency draft.
Charity Incubator
Investigate gaps and existing work, plan a cohort of projects and track experiments, milestones and hand-off decisions.
Question Bounties
Draft research questions and acceptance rules, record unverified conditional pledges and prepare evidence claims and award-discussion packets.
The Charitology Prize
Prepare public-work nominations, criteria, conflicts and jury discussion packets with reasons, uncertainty and dissent.
People and education
Certified Charitologist
A nonaccredited self-study completion record today, with a proposed professional credential that would require an independently reviewed exam and portfolio.
Charitology Fellowship
Plan public research projects, a cohort curriculum, milestones, supervision and transparent work-related review discussions.
University Chapters
Student clubs that study and practice charitology together, using a free chapter kit whose sessions also contribute real work to the field.
Principles of Charitology Course
A free course built on the open textbook Principles of Charitology, with one unit per chapter and exercises that use real tools and data.
Donor Advisory
A local workspace for donors to prepare values, constraints, giving alternatives, evidence questions and follow-up, alongside the charter for an independent advisory service.
Nonprofit Advisory
A self-guided workspace for nonprofit diagnostic questions, evidence and full costs, proportionate actions and learning checkpoints, alongside the advisory-service charter.
Reach
Charitology Summit
Prepare provisional working sessions, role placeholders, access and production checks, follow-up outputs and tentative UTC calendar drafts.
Local Charitology
Applies the Charitology method to one city’s giving, mapping where local money goes by cause and depth and where organizations overlap or leave gaps.
Time Charitology
Studies the best use of volunteer hours, so people who give time can see which roles help most and organizations can see what each kind of help is worth to them.
Corporate Program
Redesigns workplace giving and gift matching so they fund flexibly, report what gifts achieved and recognize results rather than size.
Policy Program
Applies Charitology’s research to public budgets for aid and social programs, publishing analysis of their evidence, their mix of relief and prevention and their long-run costs.