Caroline Fiennes

@carolinefiennes

Director, Giving Evidence: enabling charitable giving based on sound evidence. Cambridge Visiting Fellow. "Charmingly disruptive": Nobel laureate Richard Thaler

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Joined April 2010
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  1. Pinned Tweet
    6 Sep 2019

    Dear medical profession, When you realise that somebody is dying, please tell them that clearly. I know it must be god-awful thing to say, but, oddly, it's a massive gift. That was my family's experience. Me, in the :

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  2. 5 hours ago

    Our rating of UK foundations launches *tomorrow*! Do join: 2PM GMT. It's unprecedented, to rate fdns without their permission or influence. We assessed 100 UK fdns on their practices on diversity, accountability & transparency:

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  3. 10 hours ago

    Private Eye, which has long had a mole in the palace, says that the Queen is pretty ill: much more so than the palace is letting on. It also says that "in good spirits" means body failing.

    🔴 Palace sources have been at pains to stress that the sovereign is not ill and is “as committed to her duties of state as ever”
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  4. 23 hours ago

    Astonishing 👏👏👏

    A new video from
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  5. Mar 20

    That is, happy new year to Iranian & Afghan people. A very good time to celebrate newness - rather than January when everything feels dead!

    Happy Equinox, northerners!
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  6. Mar 20

    Do other countries send their head of state's grandchildren on fully-paid jolly trips with no political or economic purpose?

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  7. Mar 20

    Happy Equinox, northerners!

    Four daffodils with pale yellow petals and bright yellow centres against a green, grassy background
    Light pink magnolia flowers contrasted against a blue sky
    Small pink blossom flowers with a glasshouse and pond out of focus in the background
    A large patch of small blue flowers growing in the green grass
    Today is the Northern Hemisphere's , which means that spring has officially sprung 🌱 We love seeing the Gardens come to life with colour, scents and spectacular blooms at this time of year! What's your favourite spring bloom? 🌸
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  8. Retweeted
    Mar 18

    In medical school we were taught that the cardinal signs of a heart attack for everyone was chest pain radiating to the arm or jaw, sweating, feeling like there's an elephant on the chest, and a sense of impending doom. Except that's not what women experience at all. 1/

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  9. Mar 19

    *and have done for >30 years. I honestly don't think I've ever heard one of its mainstream programmes presented by a person of colour (except the rather ghetto-ised ones about 'world music'or Black music).

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  10. Mar 19

    I love & listen to it all the time*... but ALL its presenters are white (M-F 7am-10pm; wkd mornings. Don't know what happens outside that.) I wrote to its Controller last yr to complain about that... & got no response(!) So a person of colour presenting is v. welcome!

    This Sunday sits in for to present 's Tune in 9-12 for a selection of music from , , , , , , , and more
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  11. Mar 19

    Russia's new batch of astronauts show up at the Int'l Space Station... apparently wearing Ukrainian colours(!)

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  12. Mar 18

    This week: Best email: a client: "we want to increase our : can you find us more good grantees?" (Yes) Best tweet: random person responding to a search for people in LMICs: "does Switzerland count as a low-income country?" (Er, what??)

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  13. Retweeted
    Mar 17

    Announcement time: the launches TODAY! Together, we can do so much more to make . We are excited to partner with such inspiring locally rooted organizations to get behind their vision for change. Find out more >

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  14. Retweeted
    Mar 17

    Boris Johnson is a patron of a charity partly funded by Putin money

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  15. Retweeted
    Feb 18

    Apply now for our 2022 Summer Research Fellowship Gain hands-on research experience and receive personal mentoring from our research team Details: Full-time | Paid | Remote Dates: 11 July to 25 August (with some flexibility) Deadline: Sunday, 20 March

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  16. Retweeted
    16 Sep 2021

    This year, for my birthday, I decided to take the pledge to donate 10% of my income each year to whichever organisations do the most good. A 🧵on why I'm giving, why I didn't start sooner, and where I'm donating to. 1/13

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  17. Mar 16

    3/ Why, given GW's focus on 'global poverty' ie., sub-Saharan Africa, are all its staff are in the US. How many of them have ever spent >4 months living in Africa. How many of them are fluent in French, given how much of SSA is francophone. What they're doing about l/t outcomes.

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  18. Mar 16

    2/ Why no recs relating to any minority / women's issues. Why their filter is on things that have loads of RCTs, given that RCTs in low-income countries are known to be concentrated in peaceful, anglophone places, ie., don't represent the full gamut of need.

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  19. Mar 16

    What Qs do you have for Give Well? I'm talking to its boss soon. Eg: Why it recommends so few charities. Why its recs barely ever change. What, then, its ~20 staff do all day. Why its recs are all single-intervention direct service delivery orgs. Why no recs related to Covid.

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  20. Mar 16

    Genius idea:

    … Before Dad died, my genius big brother helped him record ‘The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe’. We are now listening to it on long car journeys. Works particularly well as the kids enjoy it without worrying about the tears rolling down the faces of the adults in the front.
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