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Economic agency
GiveDirectly
Sends cash directly to people living in poverty and studies the results.
LIVE ALPHA · LEARNING IN PUBLIC
Good
Bank.
A public experiment in finding work worth noticing.
We’re learning how community judgment, evidence, transparency, and funding need might eventually fit together. Today, Good Bank is for discovery and feedback—not financial transactions.
Explore the queue ↓What alpha means:No donations. No official rankings. No claims of partnership. Expect the model to change.
Direct cash
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Global health
Evidence Action
Designs and scales evidence-based, cost-effective programs addressing poverty.
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Biodiversity
Rainforest Trust
Works with local partners and communities to protect threatened tropical habitat.
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Mental health
StrongMinds
Expands access to community-based depression treatment in under-resourced settings.
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Climate
Clean Air Task Force
Pursues technology and policy pathways toward affordable zero-emissions energy.
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Animal wellbeing
Wild Animal Initiative
Builds the science needed to understand and responsibly improve wild animal welfare.
Your alpha signals stay in this browser. They are not combined with other people’s votes, do not create a recommendation, and do not move money. This first version lets us learn how the experience should explain evidence, values, and disagreement.
What we need to learn
What belongs in a ranking?
Community enthusiasm, evidence quality, urgency, funding gaps, neglected causes, and moral uncertainty should not become one unexplained score.
How do we resist manipulation?
A future shared vote needs membership, moderation, rate limits, audit trails, appeals, and ways to prevent popularity from swallowing substance.
How could money follow safely?
Only after legal, tax, governance, verification, payment, and donor-protection questions have responsible answers.
Read the original Good Bank research brief +
Connecting small donations to big work
People want to help. Many of us just don’t know where to start, or what organizations to support.
Goodbank will help connect the caring instincts of people around the world with organizations doing good work everywhere.
Using a free membership platform and public ranking pages, Goodbank will channel money into the projects people care about most, using the wisdom of the crowd to guide daily donations.
Project brief
Goodbank is exploring a simple way for people to make small, recurring gifts with more confidence. Rather than ranking charities by popularity, a responsible service would make its criteria public, draw on independent evaluators, distinguish strong evidence from informed judgment, disclose conflicts, and let donors choose among different values and cause areas. Lifeco is not currently collecting or directing gifts through Goodbank.
Working principles
- Show the reasoning, evidence quality, uncertainty, fees, and conflicts behind every recommendation.
- Respect donor choice while making impact, room for more funding, and organizational accountability easy to compare.
- Protect donor privacy and avoid turning charitable giving into a popularity contest or engagement game.
Organizations and resources to learn from
These independent links are starting points for research. They are not endorsements, funding recommendations, or claims of partnership.
- GiveWell — deep research into cost-effective global health and development opportunities
- Giving What We Can — guides and research for intentional, effective giving
- The Life You Can Save — donor education and evidence-informed charity recommendations
Near-term milestones
- Publish a draft evaluation rubric and a plain-language conflicts policy.
- Prototype a non-transactional directory using public evaluator data and clearly labeled uncertainty.
- Interview donors, charity evaluators, nonprofits, and privacy specialists before handling any donations.
Current status
Research and relationship-building. Lifeco is not yet operating a field program under this project.
How to help
We welcome charity researchers, nonprofit operators, donor-platform designers, privacy specialists, and people who can test whether the information is genuinely useful to everyday donors. If that is you, contact Lifeco and mention this project.