The full roadmap

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.

Scope: All 23 problems are published and open for work. Prizes wait on the Question Bounties program.

Current state: All 23 problems are published and open for work. Prizes wait on the Question Bounties program.

Milestone: The first partial result on any open problem, published and reviewed in public.

Moral Frameworks Program

Compare editorial cause priorities through eight moral lenses, test your own weights and keep a reasoned deliberation record.

Scope: Live comparison and deliberation software uses eight draft framework sketches and 17 cause areas. Independent review by people who hold each view remains a milestone.

Current state: Live comparison and deliberation software uses eight draft framework sketches and 17 cause areas. Independent review by people who hold each view remains a milestone.

Milestone: Every framework sketch reviewed by at least two people who hold that framework, with their changes merged and credited.

Methods Lab

Compare ways of giving, preserve exact plan versions and connect artifact descriptions to self-recorded results and limitations.

Scope: Live scenario and experiment-planning software is available. Its ranges are user assumptions, not empirical estimates; staffed comparative research and published findings remain milestones.

Current state: Local scenario planning and a protocol-to-artifact-to-result register are available. Ranges remain assumptions; file hashes and entered results establish no performed study or independent review. Staffed comparative research remains a milestone.

Milestone: A published comparison of all seven methods on one shared problem, with the evidence for each method graded and its place on the depth scale stated.

Cause Census

Explore coverage of 17 cause areas and capture source-linked estimates with units, years, uncertainty and value assumptions.

Scope: Live cause filters and evidence-capture software are available. Existing mappings are editorial hypotheses; a complete global funding or depth census has not been produced.

Current state: Live cause filters and evidence-capture software are available. Existing mappings are editorial hypotheses; a complete global funding or depth census has not been produced.

Milestone: Sourced estimates of scale, neglectedness and solvability for all 17 cause areas in the Cause Atlas, each with its framework assumptions stated.

Evidence Reviews

Import citation records, freeze a local protocol, reconcile screening decisions and export traceable review inputs alongside narrative extractions.

Scope: Live protocol and study-extraction software links the draft Intervention Database. The workspace does not run literature searches or publish independently reviewed systematic reviews.

Current state: A private local study register connects the bibliography to protocol versions, recorded screening and extraction inputs. Reviewer labels are self-recorded. Actual searches, independent source checks and systematic-review publication require people and evidence.

Milestone: Reviews of 25 widely funded interventions, each graded and checked against its sources by a second contributor.

Replication Program

Preserve replication plans, describe versioned artifacts and connect sourced, self-recorded results to their exact protocol and deviations.

Scope: Live replication-planning software saves immutable local versions and exports protocols. Browser timestamps are not public registration; studies, participant safeguards and independent replications still need people and resources.

Current state: Local protocols, artifact manifests, results and descriptive comparisons can be saved and exported. Browser timestamps and checksums are not public registration or verified execution; studies, safeguards and independent replications still need people and resources.

Milestone: A list of 20 influential charity impact findings, chosen by published rules, with a replication plan for each registered before any results are known.

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.

Scope: Live field-protocol planning software records methods, site visits by code, nonpersonal findings, limitations and correction plans. It does not conduct an audit, verify a charity or establish ethics approval or field partners.

Current state: Local protocol-writing software is live. No field visit, interview, audit or independent verification has occurred through it. Actual fieldwork still needs funded local partners, ethics review, consent, safeguards and governance.

Milestone: A published verification protocol, reviewed by field researchers and community organizations, and one pilot check run with a local research partner.

Failure Lab

Build a source-linked postmortem, test possible failure mechanisms and track a corrective action and its follow-up.

Scope: Live case browsing and postmortem software are available. Archive entries remain drafts; cross-case findings and independent field investigations still need researchers and evidence.

Current state: Live case browsing and postmortem software are available. Archive entries remain drafts; cross-case findings and independent field investigations still need researchers and evidence.

Milestone: Fifty documented cases in the Failure Archive, each with public sources, and a first published analysis of the harm mechanisms they share.

History of Charity

Browse a sourced historical timeline and compare cases through their mechanisms, contexts, missing records and conditional lessons.

Scope: Live filters, a source-linked timeline and a comparison notebook cover the current 13 draft cases. Broader historical coverage and independent source review remain open.

Current state: Live filters, a source-linked timeline and a comparison notebook cover the current 13 draft cases. Broader historical coverage and independent source review remain open.

Milestone: Twenty sourced case studies spanning at least four centuries and five world regions, with successes, failures and mixed results all represented.

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.

Scope: Questions and forecasts are added by pull request and shown on the Forecasting Platform. Each forecast is scored when its question resolves.

Current state: Questions and forecasts are added by pull request and shown on the Forecasting Platform. Each forecast is scored when its question resolves.

Milestone: The first ten questions resolved and scored, with the scores published and a short report on what the forecasts got right and wrong.

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.

Scope: Every entry page has a “Challenge a claim” link that opens a prefilled GitHub issue labeled red-team.

Current state: Every entry page has a “Challenge a claim” link that opens a prefilled GitHub issue labeled red-team.

Milestone: The first public red-team review of Charitology’s method, with every challenge and response published and the changes it forced listed.

The Charitology Fund

Prepare grant proposals, conflicts, conditional allocation plans and a nonpayment authorization ledger with a selected-field transparency draft.

Scope: Live fund-planning software records proposals, conflicts, conditional allocations and a nonpayment authorization ledger, with internal and selected-field transparency exports. Legal authority, resources and independent governance remain unestablished; no money is accepted or moved.

Current state: Live local fund-planning software is available. No legal fund, cash custody, funded grant, payment or independently approved allocation method is established.

Milestone: A published governance charter, a legal entity and fiscal sponsor in place and an allocation method that has passed public red-team review, all before a single gift is accepted.

Charity Incubator

Investigate gaps and existing work, plan a cohort of projects and track experiments, milestones and hand-off decisions.

Scope: Live incubation software tracks a problem, existing-partner search, hypotheses, discovery, experiments, resources and launch gates. A functioning charity, funded cohort, mentors or legal home is not established.

Current state: Live local incubation software is available. No organization, funded cohort, recruited founder or independently verified result is created by using it.

Milestone: A published gap report naming three gaps the research has found, each checked for whether an existing organization could fill it.

Question Bounties

Draft research questions and acceptance rules, record unverified conditional pledges and prepare evidence claims and award-discussion packets.

Scope: Live bounty-design software links questions, answer criteria, conditional pledges, claim reviews and proposed decisions. It does not establish funding, an enforceable offer, independent judging or an awarded prize.

Current state: Live local bounty-planning software is available. No prize is funded, announced, contractually promised or paid; judging, legal readiness and resources remain separate requirements.

Milestone: Published prize rules and an independent judging panel, with a legal home in place to hold prize money, before any prize is announced.

The Charitology Prize

Prepare public-work nominations, criteria, conflicts and jury discussion packets with reasons, uncertainty and dissent.

Scope: Live nomination and jury-packet software records criteria, conflicts, reasons, dissent and review tasks. It produces no charity rating, selected winner or funded award.

Current state: Live local nomination and jury-packet software is available. No independent jury, funded prize, announced award or approved organization ranking is established.

Milestone: Published categories, judging criteria and an independent jury, with the criteria tested in a public red-team review.

Certified Charitologist

A nonaccredited self-study completion record today, with a proposed professional credential that would require an independently reviewed exam and portfolio.

Scope: A printable nonaccredited course completion record is available from the shared ten-unit course progress. The proposed professional credential, independent exam and two-reviewer portfolio process do not operate.

Current state: A printable nonaccredited course completion record is available from the shared ten-unit course progress. The proposed professional credential, independent exam and two-reviewer portfolio process do not operate.

Milestone: Complete the self-study course and capstone to print a completion record. A separately governed professional exam and portfolio pilot still need people and public review.

Charitology Fellowship

Plan public research projects, a cohort curriculum, milestones, supervision and transparent work-related review discussions.

Scope: Live fellowship planning software includes a curriculum, project-code records, mentorship plans, milestones and readiness checks. No application is submitted, participant selected, stipend offered or credential granted.

Current state: Live local fellowship-planning software is available. It recruits or selects no people, offers no stipend and grants no fellowship, employment or credential.

Milestone: A host institution, a legal home and published selection criteria in place for a pilot cohort of three fellows.

University Chapters

Student clubs that study and practice charitology together, using a free chapter kit whose sessions also contribute real work to the field.

Scope: A local chapter-launch workspace includes six facilitated session agendas, responsibilities, tasks, draft constitution and invitation, handover prompts and JSON/CSV/Markdown exports. No recognized chapters or university partnerships are claimed.

Current state: A local chapter-launch workspace includes six facilitated session agendas, responsibilities, tasks, draft constitution and invitation, handover prompts and JSON/CSV/Markdown exports. No recognized chapters or university partnerships are claimed.

Milestone: Use the kit to plan a term and run a first meeting with the institution’s permission. A multi-university pilot and published results remain future work.

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.

Scope: Ten-unit browser course with full textbook readings, twenty explained knowledge checks, saved practice notes and capstone, JSON backup and a printable nonaccredited completion record. No independent assessment is claimed.

Current state: Ten-unit browser course with full textbook readings, twenty explained knowledge checks, saved practice notes and capstone, JSON backup and a printable nonaccredited completion record. No independent assessment is claimed.

Milestone: Complete all ten units and a capstone, then export a self-study completion record. A study of whether training changes decisions remains future work.

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.

Scope: Live donor-deliberation software records goals, moral lenses, scenarios, questions, tradeoffs and follow-up actions. It does not appoint an adviser or provide personalized legal, tax or investment services.

Current state: The self-guided planning workspace is live. No advisor is engaged, recommendation issued or money handled. A staffed service still needs trained advisors, a legal home, independent funding and qualified professional partners.

Milestone: A published advising protocol and conflict-of-interest policy, tried with ten volunteer donors whose anonymized feedback is published.

Nonprofit Advisory

A self-guided workspace for nonprofit diagnostic questions, evidence and full costs, proportionate actions and learning checkpoints, alongside the advisory-service charter.

Scope: Live organization-improvement software records the system around a program, capacity, evaluation questions, change experiments and action plans. It does not establish a consulting engagement or independent evaluation.

Current state: The local planning workspace is live. It provides no consulting engagement, financial audit, evaluation finding or certification. A staffed advisory service and its volunteer trial still need trained advisors, evaluation partners, independent funding and governance.

Milestone: A free, self-guided version of the advisory process, published alongside the Impact Measurement Toolkit and tried with five small nonprofits.

Charitology Summit

Prepare provisional working sessions, role placeholders, access and production checks, follow-up outputs and tentative UTC calendar drafts.

Scope: Live summit-planning software includes a question-led program, sessions, responsibilities, access needs, costs and tentative UTC calendar export with overlap checks. No venue, speaker, invitation, registration or event is confirmed.

Current state: Live local summit-planning software is available. No event, host, venue, confirmed speaker, invitation or recording permission is established by a planning record.

Milestone: A free online pilot with sessions on three Open Problems, a red-team session and a failure session, all recorded and published.

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.

Scope: A local research workspace records a geographic scope, sourced needs and activities, tentative depth descriptions and listening questions, then exports a methods-first brief. It is not a completed city census or a rating service.

Current state: A local research workspace records a geographic scope, sourced needs and activities, tentative depth descriptions and listening questions, then exports a methods-first brief. It is not a completed city census or a rating service.

Milestone: Create and check one public-data research brief with stated boundaries, source dates and blind spots. A published pilot-city map and community review still need local researchers.

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.

Scope: A working volunteer planner compares direct service, travel, preparation, skills and staff support, checks weekly capacity and logs actual hours and observations. Optional personal-cost arithmetic never estimates social value. An organization survey and placements are not operating.

Current state: A working volunteer planner compares direct service, travel, preparation, skills and staff support, checks weekly capacity and logs actual hours and observations. Optional personal-cost arithmetic never estimates social value. An organization survey and placements are not operating.

Milestone: Build and review one realistic volunteer plan with an organization. The proposed survey of at least 50 organizations remains a research milestone.

Corporate Program

Redesigns workplace giving and gift matching so they fund flexibly, report what gifts achieved and recognize results rather than size.

Scope: A workplace matching calculator compares capped equal-gift scenarios, administration costs, budget shortfalls and participation sensitivity, alongside an editable policy and review checklist. It does not process gifts, payroll or establish company pilots.

Current state: A workplace matching calculator compares capped equal-gift scenarios, administration costs, budget shortfalls and participation sensitivity, alongside an editable policy and review checklist. It does not process gifts, payroll or establish company pilots.

Milestone: Export a concrete policy draft with explicit matching assumptions and an oversubscription rule for human review. A company pilot and published results remain future work.

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.

Scope: A policy brief workspace compares a stated baseline and options, sourced claims, equity and participation, uncertainty and follow-up tasks. Optional discounted monetary scenarios show their assumptions without ranking options or claiming government adoption.

Current state: A policy brief workspace compares a stated baseline and options, sourced claims, equity and participation, uncertainty and follow-up tasks. Optional discounted monetary scenarios show their assumptions without ranking options or claiming government adoption.

Milestone: Export one draft options brief with evidence gaps, distributional questions and a review plan. Publication as a reviewed analysis and use by agencies remain future work.

Values Compass

Answer thirteen quick questions about what you care about and see which causes fit you, why they fit, and what the moral lenses you use least would show you.

Scope: Matches cause areas to your stated values. It does not recommend or rank named charities.

Portfolio Builder

Split a giving budget across causes when you aren’t sure which moral framework is right, compare two ways of doing it, and see how much they agree.

Scope: Split a giving budget across causes when you aren’t sure which moral framework is right, compare two ways of doing it, and see how much they agree.

Charity Lookup

Search a dated IRS snapshot by primary name or EIN, read the editorial Charity Index’s draft depth hypotheses, and deliberately open external filing registries.

Scope: Searches the starter Charity Index and links to public registries. Depth labels are hypotheses, never ratings.

Current state: Local search of 1,975,975 IRS EO BMF identities posted 2026-10-13, plus 16 editorial draft profiles. No charity ratings, live tax-status guarantee or worldwide coverage.

Browser Extension

Puts the Giver’s Checklist on donation pages and one click away everywhere else, with a lookup in the open charity registries. Collects nothing.

Scope: Live as a developer install for Chrome, Edge and Firefox. Store packages, listing copy and privacy documentation are prepared; store submission and approval are pending.

Current state: Live as a developer install for Chrome, Edge and Firefox. Store packages, listing copy and privacy documentation are prepared; store submission and approval are pending.

Impact Calculator

See what a gift could achieve, as a range, for interventions with a published cost per outcome, and see which interventions have no reliable per-dollar estimate at all.

Scope: Scenario estimates only where a published, dated intervention model exists. Different outcome units are not made interchangeable.

Compare Tool

Put two or three interventions side by side on depth, evidence, durability, feedback, who steers and cost, and see exactly where they differ. There is no overall score, because the trade-offs are yours to weigh.

Scope: Compares interventions and their evidence, with no aggregate score or charity ranking.

Giving Dashboard

Keep a private log of your gifts and see where your giving goes, by cause and by depth, from relief for today to work on sources.

Scope: Logs gifts, causes and self-described depth. It does not measure realized impact.

Charitology Wrapped

Turn a year of logged gifts into a card you can share, showing your recorded depth mix and how it is described, with or without the dollar amounts.

Scope: Turn a year of logged gifts into a card you can share, showing where your giving acted and the kind of giver it makes you, with or without the dollar amounts.

One-Click Split

Split one giving decision across several charities, with whole-dollar amounts that add up exactly and a step-by-step list of where to give.

Scope: The split planner is live. True one-click payment needs a licensed donation partner.

Current state: The split planner is live. True one-click payment needs a licensed donation partner.

Legacy Planner

A private worksheet for leaving gifts to charity in your will, with a printable summary and sample wording to take to your estate attorney.

Scope: A browser worksheet with sample language to discuss with a qualified adviser. It does not draft or execute a legal will.

Disaster Response Guide

What responders and researchers advise about giving after a disaster, a planner that splits one gift across relief, recovery and preparedness, and a calendar reminder to give again when the news has moved on.

Scope: Sourced general guidance and a three-phase planner; no live disaster-specific charity recommendations.

Gift Giving

Make a card for a donation given in someone’s name, with what the gift does, a personal message and the reasons you chose it. No amount required.

Scope: Creates a printable or downloadable card. The actual donation happens through the charity.

Impact Measurement Toolkit

Build a theory of change from the problem and its source to outcomes and indicators, with feedback from the people served, a comparison plan and a stop rule. Keep several drafts and export them as Markdown or JSON.

Scope: Build a theory of change from the problem and its source to outcomes and indicators, with feedback from the people served, a comparison plan and a stop rule. Keep several drafts and export them as Markdown or JSON.

Cost-Effectiveness Model Kit

Build a cost-per-outcome model, explain its assumptions and sources, retain immutable versions and check an exported calculation in another browser or with the command-line verifier.

Scope: An open browser model with reproducible simulations and CSV export, rather than a hosted spreadsheet.

Grant Evaluator

Review a proposal on nine dimensions, from source depth to risk of harm, keep unknowns as unknowns, compare your saved proposals side by side and export a review memo.

Scope: Review a proposal on nine dimensions, from source depth to risk of harm, keep unknowns as unknowns, compare your saved proposals side by side and export a review memo.

Due Diligence Checklist

Check an organization against 25 questions on legitimacy, money, results, learning, its place in the system and red flags. Unknowns become questions to ask, and the report downloads as Markdown.

Scope: Check an organization against 25 questions on legitimacy, money, results, learning, its place in the system and red flags. Unknowns become questions to ask, and the report downloads as Markdown.

AI Charitologist

Search Charitology’s published Record with a question, then read matching passages grouped by section and linked to their pages. This version retrieves text rather than generating answers.

Scope: Live as retrieval over the Record. The generative layer is designed and will cite the Record for every sentence.

Current state: Browser retrieval over the Record is available. Conversational AI and provider activation are deferred; no language-model backend is connected.

Public API

Charitology datasets as static JSON with source dates, attribution and reuse terms. Build the Diagnosis, the interventions or the open problems into your own app or donation platform.

Scope: Publishes the Record and data as static JSON. It has no charity ratings.

Forecasting Platform

Predict what will happen in the charity system, put a number on it and get scored when the answer arrives. Forecasts are pull requests, so the record is public and permanent.

Scope: Forecasts are proposed by public pull request; resolved questions are scored with Brier scores.

The Charitology Encyclopedia

A searchable reference work on charity-system concepts, with aliases, source lists, review labels and downloadable reading dossiers.

Scope: 26 searchable concept entries with source lists, review labels and downloadable reading dossiers. Entries remain editorial drafts pending contributor review.

Current state: 26 searchable concept entries with source lists, review labels and downloadable reading dossiers. Entries remain editorial drafts pending contributor review.

Milestone: Fifty entries, each checked by a second contributor.

Global Charity Index

Search dated organization identities, Australian financial filings and an editorial collection of draft depth hypotheses, sources and research dossiers.

Scope: 16 transparent classification records with multi-filter browsing, registry links and research dossiers. Classifications remain draft hypotheses, not charity ratings.

Current state: 1,975,975 IRS identities from the 2026-10-13 extract, searchable locally by name prefix or EIN, plus 16 editorial draft classifications. US registry coverage is not a worldwide census or a charity rating.

Milestone: Five hundred organizations classified by depth, each classification checked by two contributors.

Intervention Database

A searchable intervention reference with evidence and depth filters, cost context, side-by-side recorded fields and source-linked research dossiers.

Scope: 15 sourced intervention records with six filters, side-by-side field comparison and research dossiers. Costs retain their original outcomes and caveats; review remains pending.

Current state: 15 sourced intervention records with six filters, side-by-side field comparison and research dossiers. Costs retain their original outcomes and caveats; review remains pending.

Milestone: Every intervention with a Cochrane or Campbell review is in the database.

Cause Atlas

A map of the cause areas and the problems they touch, from symptoms on the surface to the six sources underneath.

Scope: A working cause browser with linked intervention evidence. Worldwide funding is not estimated.

Current state: A working cause browser with linked intervention evidence. Worldwide funding is not estimated.

Milestone: Each cause area has sourced estimates of scale and current funding.

The Gap Map

Where charitable money goes, and a question for the Depth Census: how much reaches the sources of problems?

Scope: Financial baseline charts and a local depth census with classification coverage, undo and validated backups. No global depth estimate is claimed.

Current state: Financial baseline charts and a local depth census with classification coverage, undo and validated backups. No global depth estimate is claimed.

Milestone: The first published estimate of giving by depth, from the Depth Census.

State of Charity Report

The yearly state of the charity system. Edition 0 sets the baseline: what we know, what we don’t, and what to measure first.

Scope: A complete Edition 0 baseline with financial definitions, project coverage, unknowns and a downloadable report.

Current state: A complete Edition 0 baseline with financial definitions, project coverage, unknowns and a downloadable report.

Milestone: Edition 1, with the first Depth Census estimate.

The Charitology 100

A working nomination and method-review lab for a proposed future list. No named ranking is approved or published.

Scope: A working nomination and method-review lab. No named-charity ranking is approved or published.

Current state: A working nomination and method-review lab. No named-charity ranking is approved or published.

Milestone: Draft method published and red-teamed in public.

Open Problems Progress Report

Where every open problem stands, whether open, partly answered or solved, updated as results come in.

Scope: Where every open problem stands, whether open, partly answered or solved, updated as results come in.

Evidence Library

Browse Charitology's cited sources and build a private, protocol-bound register of reports and screening decisions.

Scope: An automatically assembled bibliography of cited sources, not every relevant study.

Failure Archive

A searchable archive of documented failures and mixed results, with settings, lessons, source lists and downloadable learning dossiers.

Scope: 8 searchable failure and mixed-result cases with lessons, sources and research dossiers. Inclusion does not estimate failure rates or judge the people involved.

Current state: 8 searchable failure and mixed-result cases with lessons, sources and research dossiers. Inclusion does not estimate failure rates or judge the people involved.

Milestone: Ten organizations voluntarily publish a failure here.

Historical Case Studies

A searchable archive of historical successes, failures and mixed results, with places, periods, lessons, source lists and reading dossiers.

Scope: 13 searchable cases with result, place and depth filters, full source lists and reading dossiers. This is a bounded draft collection, not a representative sample.

Current state: 13 searchable cases with result, place and depth filters, full source lists and reading dossiers. This is a bounded draft collection, not a representative sample.

Disagreement Register

A searchable register of positions, cruxes and unresolved questions, with source lists, review labels and downloadable debate dossiers.

Scope: 8 searchable disagreements with positions, cruxes, sources and discussion dossiers. The collection remains editorial and open to correction.

Current state: 8 searchable disagreements with positions, cruxes, sources and discussion dossiers. The collection remains editorial and open to correction.

Country Profiles

Dated national indicators, country comparisons and a research desk for locally accountable profiles.

Scope: 217 country/economy data profiles and a local research desk. Locally coauthored narrative profiles remain a separate milestone.

Current state: 217 country/economy data profiles and a local research desk. Locally coauthored narrative profiles remain a separate milestone.

Milestone: Ten profiles, each co-written with someone who lives there.

Open Datasets

Every Charitology dataset as open JSON, plus the public datasets the field builds on.

Scope: Every Charitology dataset as open JSON, plus the public datasets the field builds on.

Journal of Charitology

Essays and research for the field, reviewed in public. Volume 0 opens with the manifesto.

Scope: Real proposed-method papers and a manuscript desk. Independent peer review is not completed.

Current state: Real proposed-method papers and a manuscript desk. Independent peer review is not completed.

Milestone: Volume 1, with at least five peer-reviewed papers, including one reporting a null result.

Giving Traditions Library

A searchable library of giving traditions, with practices, interpretive limits, source lists, review labels and reading dossiers.

Scope: 8 searchable traditions with practice, origin, lens, sources and reading dossiers. These draft sketches cannot represent a whole living tradition.

Current state: 8 searchable traditions with practice, origin, lens, sources and reading dossiers. These draft sketches cannot represent a whole living tradition.

Principles of Charitology

The field’s open textbook, written chapter by chapter in public.

Scope: The complete ten-chapter textbook, full reading and print edition, download, search and private reading notebooks.

Current state: The complete ten-chapter textbook, full reading and print edition, download, search and private reading notebooks.

The Lexicon

The vocabulary of the field, defined in plain language.

Scope: A searchable glossary with cross-references, definition study mode and CSV export.

Current state: A searchable glossary with cross-references, definition study mode and CSV export.

Myth-Busting Series

A searchable collection of beliefs about giving, their editorial verdicts, source lists, review status and downloadable discussion dossiers.

Scope: 8 searchable belief analyses with verdict and condition filters, sources and discussion dossiers. Verdicts describe claims; contributor review remains pending.

Current state: 8 searchable belief analyses with verdict and condition filters, sources and discussion dossiers. Verdicts describe claims; contributor review remains pending.

Methodology Handbook

Exactly how Charitology labels evidence, classifies depth, reviews pages and handles corrections.

Scope: A public handbook for evidence, depth, review and corrections. No charity rating method has been approved.

Podcast and Newsletter

Six narrated textbook episodes with transcripts and a podcast feed, plus The Charitology Letter online, by RSS and through confirmed email signup.

Scope: Six actual MP3 episodes, transcripts and podcast RSS; a published letter and dedicated RSS. Email delivery is not configured.

Current state: Six actual MP3 episodes, transcripts and podcast RSS; a published letter, dedicated RSS and email signup with explicit confirmation and unsubscribe controls. No promised schedule or guest interview series.

Milestone: A first season of six episodes, one per group of conditions in the Diagnosis.