Show HN - We just built a site that saves lives

Re:Show HN - We just built a site that saves lives by chaseadam17 on Thursday August 23, 2012 @05:27PM (#4424952)

I really like that you brought up third-party verification. We think that's the most efficient and responsible way to scale our due-diligence process. Currently, in addition to being verified by us, all of our partners have been verified by multiple third parties (Partners in Health, Givewell, CNN, ABC, HBO, etc.) and they are all 501(c)(3) organizations which means that they are also overseen by the US Gov.

I agree that learning from other charities is the best way to evolve. Kiva has a pretty awesome due diligence process that we would like to pick and choose elements from as we grow: http://www.kiva.org/about/risk/kiva-role

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Re:Show HN - We just built a site that saves lives by anamax on Friday August 24, 2012 @10:10AM (#4427616)

> they are all 501(c)(3) organizations which means that they are also overseen by the US Gov.

The US govt does not do significant oversight of 501(c)(3) organizations. They don't care at all about effectiveness.

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Re:Show HN - We just built a site that saves lives by egiva on Thursday August 23, 2012 @06:38PM (#4425249)

Like Kiva, it would be good to also list the "sponsor" (read: 501(c)(3) name) on the patient's profile/donation page. If that sponsor name also included a link to a basic sponsor profile page showing further sponsor information, that would be a step in the transparency direction for me. I'm hesitant to donate until I see which charity is sponsoring the person who needs treatment.

EDIT: I dug through the pages and found a link to a Google Spreadsheet doc with basic information regarding the sponsor for each patient. This is one area I would definitely improve into a sponsor link on each patient's donations page. But all-in-all, great stuff!!

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Re:Show HN - We just built a site that saves lives by chaseadam17 on Thursday August 23, 2012 @10:11PM (#4425884)

Thanks! The Google Doc could definitely use some improvement, but for now it seems to do the job.

Did you get a chance to click on the Medical Partner link on the patient profiles? It opens a lightbox with some info on the partner.

But we'd love to have more robust pages with tons of awesome info (map, financials, photos, data, etc.) for each Medical Partner. We just need to raise the money to pay for the quality dev time we need!

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Re:Show HN - We just built a site that saves lives by cbr on Thursday August 23, 2012 @09:47PM (#4425817)

Can you tell me more about the GiveWell verification?

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Re:Show HN - We just built a site that saves lives by chaseadam17 on Friday August 24, 2012 @01:50AM (#4426405)

GiveWell selected our first Medical Partner, Nyaya Health, as being in the top 1% of all non-profits with regard to transparency and accountability. http://blog.nyayahealth.org/2011/12/10/nyayahealth1/

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