Observed arrival · 2026-10-27
Charitology treats charity as a system to be studied
An open project maps how charitable giving moves from donors through signals and channels to outcomes—and asks where that system fails to learn.
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- Donors and charity workers examining how giving is directed
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- The diagnosis names 15 conditions, including “Overhead Myth,” “Parked Money,” and a “Missing Feedback Loop.”
Field notes
The homepage arranges giving into five stages—givers, signals, channels, work, and outcomes—and pins 15 named conditions onto that flow. A separate scale runs from immediate relief toward source-level work; the site says this describes where work acts, not whether it is good. It also says claims are labeled established, documented, debated, or hypothesis.
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