Varsha Venugopal

It's also, even though we try to do some kind of persona mapping up front, we realize when we go through this interview process,

We ourselves change our minds on what we prioritize and how much and how much weightage to give it.

So I think we are investing more time than we would like because we see this as a learning process and an experimentation.

But because we are also carefully codifying some of our reflections and lessons, hopefully the next iteration will be much faster.

Maybe.

Yeah, for both programs.

And in fact, for any nonprofit in India, one needs to have close relationships with the government.

In our case, we recently hired program managers, one for Maharashtra and one for Bihar.

And one of their primary roles is maintaining that relationship with the government and also looking out for additional opportunities where we could support them, which helps us in the longer run, but also finding additional avenues where we can grow our immunization programs faster.

I would also encourage you to sign up for our newsletter.

We hope to send out fairly soon.

We are also planning to publish our pilot results and a few additional research papers that we've been working on.

I think having a clear sense of your own values and also your risk tolerance would help you make a decision on whether Suvita broadly fits in that category.

At the moment, we do think we could be somewhere in the top GiveWell charity range.

We are funded by individual EA funders, as well as Founders Pledge, which has done its own cost-effectiveness analysis.

And I believe they think we are about four times GiveDirectly in terms of cost-effectiveness range.

So I had most experience on applied research at the World Bank and then the Soros Foundation, that's the NRGI.

It was more recently at Options, which is a subsidiary of Mary Stokes International, that I was doing much more work on operations.

So looking at hiring, where is our money going?

What are our margins?