In 2012 they said that they considered VillageReach a good bet that didn’t pay off. I’m not sure whether they said so online (the thing I’m remembering was at the first Effective Altruism Summit)
pcm’s comment found a blog post saying something consistent. Seems weird that there’s no corresponding asterisk signifying deprecation on their Impact page, or any clear statement of this on the charity page, then.
In 2012 they said that they considered VillageReach a good bet that didn’t pay off. I’m not sure whether they said so online (the thing I’m remembering was at the first Effective Altruism Summit)
pcm’s comment found a blog post saying something consistent. Seems weird that there’s no corresponding asterisk signifying deprecation on their Impact page, or any clear statement of this on the charity page, then.
I guess, but I feel like you’re reading into a lot of this anti-charitably.
I think it is a lot of effort and probably not the best use of effort to be transparent in all the ways you are asking.