This sounds familiar. Are you aware of other similar concepts previously communicated elsewhere? I feel certain I've read something along these lines before. By all means, claim it's original though.

Do you think that rationalism is becoming a religion, or should become one?

This Thanksgiving I am thankful for the 10 minutes and multitude of brain cells I lost due to this post.

I was trying to guess what you meant. Can you just tell me? What was I assuming, and in what way was it false?

While Givewell does recommend one charity that focuses on direct cash transfer not every charity recommended by Givewell does and Givewell analyses Charities in detail, so even if you don't agree with their conclusion reading their analysis of a particular charity can help you evaluate the charity.

It's really hard to measure lasting improvements, which does bias the choice of interventions Givewell considers, but they endorse direct transfers because it has been shown to be more effective at lasting improvements than other things they've considered.

I posted this last week but was too late to get any responses, so I'm reposting:

I want to change which charities I donate to, and am looking for transparent, accountable, secular (or at least non-evangelical) Canadian charities that promote democracy, social reform, infrastructure building, rationality, humanism, education, scientific progress, similar principles. Any suggestions for charities worth investigating, or at least a group/organization/website that can help me find what I'm looking for? In the past I haven't properly researched this sort of thing so I'm short on resources.

So far I've taken a closer look at Oxfam and Doctors Without Borders

(I might remind one of you that disagreement isn't grounds for downvoting all my posts)