Podcasts about Giving What We Can

I wanted to share a small but important challenge I've encountered as a student engaging with Effective Altruism from a lower-income country (Nigeria), and invite thoughts or suggestions from the community. Recently, I tried to make a one-time donation to one of the EA-aligned charities listed on the Giving What We Can platform. However, I discovered that I could not donate an amount less than $5. While this might seem like a minor limit for many, for someone like me — a student without a steady income or job, $5 is a significant amount. To provide some context: According to Numbeo, the average monthly income of a Nigerian worker is around $130–$150, and students often rely on even less — sometimes just $20–$50 per month for all expenses. For many students here, having $5 "lying around" isn't common at all; it could represent a week's worth of meals [...] --- First published: April 28th, 2025 Source: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/YoN3sKfkr5ruW47Cg/reflections-on-the-usd5-minimum-donation-barrier-on-the --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO. ---Images from the article:Apple Podcasts and Spotify do not show images in the episode description. Try Pocket Casts, or another podcast app.

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Introduction The Giving What We Can research team is excited to share the results of our 2024 round of evaluations of charity evaluators and grantmakers! In this round, we completed three evaluations that will inform our donation recommendations for the 2024 giving season. As with our 2023 round, there are substantial limitations to these evaluations, but we nevertheless think that they are a significant improvement to a landscape in which there were no independent evaluations of evaluators' work. In this post, we share the key takeaways from each of our 2024 evaluations and link to the full reports. We also include an update explaining our decision to remove The Humane League from our list of recommended programs. Our website has now been updated to reflect the new fund and charity recommendations that came out of these evaluations. Please also see our website for more context on [...] ---Outline:(00:14) Introduction(01:16) Key takeaways from each of our 2024 evaluations(01:39) Global health and wellbeing(01:44) Founders Pledge Global Health and Development Fund (FP GHDF)(04:07) Animal welfare(04:11) Animal Charity Evaluators' Movement Grants (ACE MG)(06:08) Animal Charity Evaluators' Charity Evaluation Program(08:33) Additional recommendation updates(08:37) The Humane League's corporate campaigns program(11:26) ConclusionThe original text contained 2 footnotes which were omitted from this narration. --- First published: November 27th, 2024 Source: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/NhpAHDQq6iWhk7SEs/gwwc-s-2024-evaluations-of-evaluators-1 --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.

Introduction The Giving What We Can research team is excited to share the results of our 2024 round of evaluations of charity evaluators and grantmakers! In this round, we completed three evaluations that will inform our donation recommendations for the 2024 giving season. As with our 2023 round, there are substantial limitations to these evaluations, but we nevertheless think that they are a significant improvement to a landscape in which there were no independent evaluations of evaluators' work. In this post, we share the key takeaways from each of our 2024 evaluations and link to the full reports. We also include an update explaining our decision to remove The Humane League from our list of recommended programs. Our website has now been updated to reflect the new fund and charity recommendations that came out of these evaluations. Please also see our website for more context on [...] ---Outline:(00:10) Introduction(01:13) Key takeaways from each of our 2024 evaluations(01:36) Global health and wellbeing(01:41) Founders Pledge Global Health and Development Fund (FP GHDF)(04:07) Animal welfare(04:10) Animal Charity Evaluators' Movement Grants (ACE MG)(06:08) Animal Charity Evaluators' Charity Evaluation Program(08:35) Additional recommendation updates(08:39) The Humane League's corporate campaigns program(11:29) ConclusionThe original text contained 2 footnotes which were omitted from this narration. --- First published: November 27th, 2024 Source: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/NhpAHDQq6iWhk7SEs/gwwc-s-2024-evaluations-of-evaluators-1 --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.

This is a link post. Dear Giving What We Can community, We are writing to share exciting news: on Tuesday the 11th of November, the boards unanimously voted to appoint Sjir Hoeijmakers as the new global CEO of Giving What We Can. Sjir was appointed after a rigorous recruitment process. The search committee received applicants from a wide pool, ultimately interviewing five final-stage candidates. Sjir excelled in each stage of the process, showing remarkable character, competence, and humility throughout. He has a strong understanding of the effective giving community and has already excelled in temporary roles as Acting and Interim CEO this year. The committee also received feedback from a large number of stakeholders, including the boards, the GWWC team, funders, and partners. Throughout this process, it became clear that Sjir will be a highly capable leader for the organization and help guide GWWC and the team to reach their [...] --- First published: November 15th, 2024 Source: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/KXycun5WuzKDv6vGL/announcing-sjir-hoeijmakers-as-the-new-ceo-of-giving-what-we Linkpost URL:https://www.givingwhatwecan.org/en-US/blog/announcing-sjir-hoeijmakers-as-the-new-ceo-of-giving-what-we-can --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.

This is a link post. Dear Giving What We Can community, We are writing to share exciting news: on Tuesday the 11th of November, the boards unanimously voted to appoint Sjir Hoeijmakers as the new global CEO of Giving What We Can. Sjir was appointed after a rigorous recruitment process. The search committee received applicants from a wide pool, ultimately interviewing five final-stage candidates. Sjir excelled in each stage of the process, showing remarkable character, competence, and humility throughout. He has a strong understanding of the effective giving community and has already excelled in temporary roles as Acting and Interim CEO this year. The committee also received feedback from a large number of stakeholders, including the boards, the GWWC team, funders, and partners. Throughout this process, it became clear that Sjir will be a highly capable leader for the organization and help guide GWWC and the team to reach their [...] --- First published: November 15th, 2024 Source: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/KXycun5WuzKDv6vGL/announcing-sjir-hoeijmakers-as-the-new-ceo-of-giving-what-we --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.

This post is written in my personal capacity, but is based on insights that I've gained through my work as Effective Giving Global Coordinator and Incubator at Giving What We Can since I took on the role in June 2023. Tl;dr In my view the average reader of the EA Forum should be giving more to meta-charities like effective giving (EG) organisations. EG organisations play a crucial role in directing funds to highly impactful charities, but many are facing significant funding constraints and/or a lack of diversified funding. Supporting these meta-charities can have a multiplier effect on your donations, potentially leading to extraordinary growth in effective giving. Consider allocating a portion of your donation budget to EG organisations this giving season. Introduction When I first heard about EA from a TED talk by Peter Singer in 2017, I was inspired by the idea that we could carefully use evidence [...] ---Outline:(00:21) Tl;dr(00:57) Introduction(02:56) Why EG orgs are funding constrained(05:28) Why should you donate to EG organisations?(05:38) The multiplier effect(07:01) Positive indirect impact(07:43) Potential for significant growth(08:35) Addressing future funding constraints(09:08) The impact of additional funding(10:28) Why you might not want to donate to EG organisations(11:29) Where to give?(11:48) Giving What We Can(14:49) Effektiv Spenden(16:42) Founders Pledge(18:28) Ge Effektivt(20:09) Giving Multiplier(21:49) The Life You Can Save(22:46) Other established EG organisations(25:22) New EG organisations(28:55) Call to Action--- First published: November 8th, 2024 Source: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/fMcpbGRWBtq3QBEyA/why-you-should-allocate-more-of-your-donation-budget-to-1 --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.

Summary The written word dominates EA discourse but visuals have a unique power in communicating ideas that seems quite underleveraged in this community. As a designer and communicator in the space, I wanted to share some of the presentations and visualizations I've created over the years in hopes that they might be helpful to others. My goal isn't to present these visuals as "ready-to-use" resources—for various reasons they're not ready (see disclaimers)—but rather as references that hopefully inspire others to create and invest in visual forms of communication. Effective Giving 101 (2023) In 2023, when I was director of design at Giving What We Can, we were invited to give a talk at Microsoft about effective giving. We normally don't dive so deep into the research that undergirds our recommendations but—given the highly-educated, highly-analytical audience at Microsoft—I thought it could be compelling to actually get into the weeds and [...] ---Outline:(00:16) Summary(00:50) Effective Giving 101 (2023)(01:53) Full deck: Doing Good Better (Microsoft 2023)(02:00) GiveWell's 2020 analysis of AMF(02:58) Slides: GiveWell's 2020 analysis of AMF(03:15) Global income illustration(04:53) Slides: The Global Income Distribution(05:09) Prioritization in GCR (2024)(05:56) Parfit's 99% extinction hypothetical(06:56) Slides: Parfit's 99% v 100%(07:13) Mapping the GCR landscape(08:54) Slides: Visualizing: The GCR Landscape(09:13) Bonus: Effective Giving Strategy Frameworks(10:20) Vision to Vectors(10:23) Slides: Vision to Vectors(10:39) The Pledger Journey(10:42) Slides: The Pledger JourneyThe original text contained 8 images which were described by AI. --- First published: October 31st, 2024 Source: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/GuFxEPcn7rzz4pDhw/visualizing-ea-ideas --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO. ---Images from the article:Apple Podcasts and Spotify do not show images in the episode description. Try Pocket Casts, or another podcast app.

Julia, Lottie, Trev and Nick discuss effective altruism – donating to organisations that do the greatest good. We cover animals being sidelined in some EA resources and we evaluate the evaluations of the most effective animal charities.  Links: Animal Charity Evaluators: https://animalcharityevaluators.org/blog/recommended-charity-fund-update-july-2024/ Effective Altruism Australia: https://effectivealtruism.org.au/best-charities/ The Life You Can Save: https://www.thelifeyoucansave.org.au/ Give Well - https://www.givewell.org/ Giving What We Can - https://www.givingwhatwecan.org/ The Good It Promises, the Harm It Does – Critical Essays on Effective Altruism: https://academic.oup.com/book/45591 Plant The Land: https://www.planttheland.org/ Food Empowerment Project: https://foodispower.org/ A previous Freedom of Species show ‘Zane McNeill on animal rights advocacy and addressing anti-carceral veganism' covered relevant themes of corporate/foundation funding of non-profits: https://www.3cr.org.au/freedomofspecies/episode/zane-mcneill-animal-rights-advocacy-and-addressing-anti-carceral-veganism Nick's blog post summarising his PhD research on the financial aspects of social movements: https://faunalytics.org/little-effort-paradigm-asking-people-less-sustainably/  Music: Animal liberation by Los Fastidios: https://www.losfastidios.net/ Under the Garden by No Use For A Name: https://open.spotify.com/track/3H4YgNUdGSKFBCWnJYhwMP?si=8b0dc3b39c454b5a Invasion by Chumbawamba: https://open.spotify.com/track/4MkmrBfnm96reUnT0nJtnr?si=4e5f3f6909f44b80 How To Get Your Band On TV by Chumbawamba: https://open.spotify.com/track/28krH5U2ijrNVffWSuVIzY?si=9a7b9f0b5225485d 

Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Five Years of Animal Advocacy Careers: Our Journey to impact, Lessons Learned, and What's Next, published by lauren mee on September 19, 2024 on The Effective Altruism Forum. This post is mostly about our key learnings, impact made and future plans Thanks to my team for their help in both creating this post and unwavering commitment to driving forward AAC's ambitious plans for animals, in particular Ana Barreiro, Nayan and Engin for their contributions and feedback on this post. TL;DR: For five years, Animal Advocacy Careers (AAC) has tried to direct passionate professionals towards high-impact opportunities that have the potential to help animals the most. We've filled 105 roles in leading animal advocacy organisations, supported over 150 organisations with recruitment, and launched 3 core programs our online course, job board, and career advising service. At the same time, we built a community of 27,500+ supporters across social media, Slack, and email. Our efforts also led to 12 10% Pledges and 11 Trial Pledges at Giving What We Can. We cautiously estimate adding $2.5 million worth of counterfactual impact from these donations and placements at a spend of $950,000 We conducted four talent surveys, which, along with our own independent research, continue to form the foundation of our career advising and strategy. Addressing the talent bottlenecks in the effective animal advocacy movement has proven to be far more complex than we first expected. Beyond the initial challenges, we've encountered a range of issues that directly impact our theory of change and our ability to drive meaningful impact - such as the scarcity of job postings and difficulties in the hiring process. In response, we've broadened our focus beyond just non-profit roles to better address these challenges and open up more opportunities for talented individuals to contribute to the movement. Explore more about how AAC is transforming animal advocacy careers and find out more about our exciting plans for the future. (Note: If you would like the full details of the programmes we have stopped, started, scaled and pivoted and a full programme evaluation our latest 2023/4 update is here) Overview This piece highlights Animal Advocacy Careers' accomplishments, mistakes, and changes since its establishment in 2019. We discuss AAC's future plans as well as potential constraints to our impact. Our vision is to have an animal advocacy movement of international talent density with mission-aligned advocates in critical positions in society, accelerating freedom for animals. Background AAC was founded in July 2019 through Charity Entrepreneurship's incubation program. Its goal is to accelerate the impact of existing organisations by solving their major talent bottlenecks, attracting top talent to the movement, matching them to the most impactful opportunities and empowering professionals to make a real impact. To effectively match top talent with the most impactful opportunities, AAC first had to conduct research to gain a deeper understanding of the movement's challenges and overall talent landscape. We needed to identify the market size, determine which skills and roles were most in demand and hardest to fill, and uncover the root causes behind these talent bottlenecks. This research forms the foundation of our work, allowing us to address the movement's needs in a more informed and strategic way. In addition to conducting research, AAC launched several experimental programs aimed at addressing talent bottlenecks . These programs included management and leadership training, an online course, a job board, career advising, fundraising work placements, headhunting and recruitment efforts, organisational recruitment training, a candidate database, and effective giving for animals. Through trialing these programmes...

This is a link post. It's a rare privilege to lead an organisation that embodies the very ideals that shaped your life. I've been fortunate to have been given that opportunity for the last four years. My journey with Giving What We Can began long before I became its CEO. Like many members, I started as a curious onlooker, lurking for many years after first googling something along the lines of “what's the best charity?” and slowly being drawn to the idea of effective giving. I vividly remember the day I first hovered over the ‘donate' button on the Against Malaria Foundation's website after getting my first raise. My heart was racing, wondering if a decent chunk of my small paycheck would truly make a difference… only to go back and read a report on malaria “just one more time.” Finally, I found the courage to act. I started giving [...] --- First published: September 10th, 2024 Source: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/RkWWpYCnBgYHtisem/stepping-down-from-gwwc-so-long-and-thanks-for-all-the --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.

Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Stepping down from GWWC: So long, and thanks for all the shrimp, published by Luke Freeman on September 10, 2024 on The Effective Altruism Forum. It's a rare privilege to lead an organisation that embodies the very ideals that shaped your life. I've been fortunate to have been given that opportunity for the last four years. My journey with Giving What We Can began long before I became its CEO. Like many members, I started as a curious onlooker, lurking for many years after first googling something along the lines of "what's the best charity?" and slowly being drawn to the idea of effective giving. I vividly remember the day I first hovered over the 'donate' button on the Against Malaria Foundation's website after getting my first raise. My heart was racing, wondering if a decent chunk of my small paycheck would truly make a difference… only to go back and read a report on malaria "just one more time." Finally, I found the courage to act. I started giving more effectively and significantly, and a few years later, (after seeing so many others do so before me) I got serious and took the 10% Pledge. It started to feel like I was making good on some promises I'd made to myself back when I was a kid and first struck by the injustices of the world, our collective inaction, and our inability to stop such extreme levels of preventable suffering. Fast forward to 2020, and just as a global pandemic was tearing through the world, I found myself stepping in to lead the team at Giving What We Can. To say I was humbled would be an understatement. Here I was, entrusted with leading an organisation that had inspired my own giving journey. It was a responsibility I didn't take lightly. Over the past four years, I've had the immense honour of working alongside an incredible team and a passionate community of givers. I've been incredibly lucky to get to contribute to a variety of causes I care about, simply by driving more funding to all of them in the form of inspiring pledges and donations to high-impact causes. Together, we've achieved things that that wide-eyed kid donating pennies from his paper route (aka my younger self) could scarcely have imagined, for instance: We've roughly doubled the number of 10% Pledges; Revitalised our community, website, brand, and research; Integrated and improved the donation platform; Pulled off fantastic partnerships and campaigns; Built an exceptional team, with strong retention and a positive work culture, which operates effectively even in my absence (demonstrated recently when I was on parental leave); Spun out of our fiscal sponsor (EV) and established GWWC as an independent multi-entity organisation with a global presence. But as proud as I am of what we've accomplished together and as much as I have loved leading the team at GWWC, I've come to a crossroads. The past 18 months have been challenging, both for GWWC and for me personally. We've navigated significant changes and overcome substantial obstacles. While I'm incredibly proud of how we've handled these challenges, I've found my reserves depleting. Life has thrown a lot my way recently - from deeply painful personal losses to the joyous arrival of our first child. These experiences have led me to reassess my priorities and recognise the need for a change. And so, after careful consideration, I have made the difficult decision to step down as CEO of Giving What We Can. The timing aligns with the completion of our spin-out from Effective Ventures, a major project that has set GWWC up for its next phase of growth. I felt that the decision in front of me was to either redouble my efforts for another 3-5 years or to pass the baton. After careful consideration, I believe it's the right time for new leadership to bring fresh energy and perspectives to drive the organisation forward. I'll be sta...

Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Giving What We Can is now its own legal entity!, published by Alana HF on September 3, 2024 on The Effective Altruism Forum. On August 31st, Giving What We Can (GWWC) completed the "spin-out" we announced in December. As a result, we are no longer a legal project of the Effective Ventures Foundation UK and US (collectively referred to as "EV"), and have instead set up our own independent charitable entities in both the US and the UK, with Canada coming soon! We're super excited to take this important step as an organisation. While our core mission, commitments, and focus on effective giving remain unchanged, we've already begun to feel some of the benefits of being fully in charge of our own operations, including: Aligning our organisational structure and governance more closely with our mission Facilitating greater internal clarity and transparency around our core processes Having greater control over our operational costs Processing donations made via bank transfer, DAF, stock, or crypto more quickly than before Of course, we owe a very big thank you to the team at EV for its incredible support over the years, which has helped us grow into the organisation we are today, and has prepared us to embark on this new chapter. As we continue to move our ambitious plans forward, we're focused more than ever on our core mission: to make effective and significant giving a cultural norm. Check out the details of our new entities (UK) (US) (Canada - awaiting charitable status), along with our updated privacy policy! Thanks for listening. To help us out with The Nonlinear Library or to learn more, please visit nonlinear.org

What sorts of decisions are we making without even realizing we're making them? Are people aware of their own values? Do they know how those values rank relative to each other? What are all the various parties, interests, and values that have to be addressed and balanced when making decisions in a healthcare context? What does it mean to "play-test" yourself? What are the best strategies for giving feedback? How much energy is required to make various kinds of decisions? How can we practice and get better at decision-making? What is "tabletop exercising"? What are the most effective ways to bring other people into the decision-making process? What are some aspects of games that ought to be put to good use in non-game contexts? Why are educational games usually neither fun nor educational? How can game design features be used in ways that avoid turning metrics into targets? How can we make better decisions about how to divvy up our time?Dr. Dan Epstein is a practicing medical doctor and academic PhD focusing on decision-making and game design. Dan is the director of The Long Game Project, which helps businesses and leaders improve strategy and decision-making with games and tabletop exercises. Dan is also an ambassador for Giving What We Can, a community of people who pledge to donate a portion of their income to effective causes; and he's a member of High Impact Athletes, a community of current and past athletes who do the same. Follow him on Twitter at @drdanepstein, email him at email@longgameproject.org, connect with him on LinkedIn, or learn more about his work at longgameproject.org.Further reading:The Long Game Project newsletterThe Long Game Project YouTube channelFoundations of Tabletop Exercising: Design Exercises for Real Impact — a free course taught by DanStaffSpencer Greenberg — Host / DirectorJosh Castle — ProducerRyan Kessler — Audio EngineerUri Bram — FactotumWeAmplify — TranscriptionistsMusicBroke for FreeJosh WoodwardLee RosevereQuiet Music for Tiny Robotswowamusiczapsplat.comAffiliatesClearer ThinkingGuidedTrackMind EasePositlyUpLift[Read more]

Introduction In May 2024, Ambitious Impact (AIM) ran a program to incubate new effective giving initiatives (EGIs) in partnership with Giving What We Can. In short, EGIs focus on raising awareness and funneling public and philanthropic donations to the most cost-effective charities worldwide. In the last few years, several Effective Giving Initiatives, such as Doneer Effectief, Effektiv Spenden, and Giving What We Can, have moved millions in funding to the best charities globally. The success of these and other similar organizations suggests that further initiatives in this space could be highly beneficial, given that many highly effective charities are bottlenecked by access to funding. This article introduces five new effective giving initiatives incubated through the program we ran earlier this year in their own words. It summarizes their country of operation, near-term plans, targets, and any room for additional seed funding.[1] Organization Summaries Ellis Impact Co-founders [...] ---Outline:(00:05) Introduction(01:06) Organization Summaries(01:09) Ellis Impact(01:38) Background (why is this a promising country/angle for an EGI?)(02:47) Near-term plans(03:21) Targets (reach/giving multiplier/etc.)(03:45) Room for more funding(04:58) Benefficienza(05:25) Background (why is this a promising country/angle for an EGI?)(06:07) Near-term plans(06:47) Targets (reach/giving multiplier/etc.)(07:02) Room for more funding(07:44) Mieux Donner(08:11) Background(09:57) Near-term plans(11:26) Targets(11:56) Room for more funding(12:43) Effectief Geven(13:14) Background(14:06) Near-term plans(14:56) Targets(15:12) Room for more funding(15:41) Impactful Giving(16:06) Background (why is this a promising country/angle for an EGI?)(17:43) Near-term plans(18:40) Targets (reach/giving multiplier/etc.)(19:08) Room for more fundingThe original text contained 1 footnote which was omitted from this narration. --- First published: August 13th, 2024 Source: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/qq4KtwJHtCTLPqdy6/presenting-five-new-effective-giving-initiatives --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.

Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Presenting five new effective giving initiatives, published by CE on August 13, 2024 on The Effective Altruism Forum. Introduction In May 2024, Ambitious Impact (AIM) ran a program to incubate new effective giving initiatives (EGIs) in partnership with Giving What We Can. In short, EGIs focus on raising awareness and funneling public and philanthropic donations to the most cost-effective charities worldwide. In the last few years, several Effective Giving Initiatives, such as Doneer Effectief, Effektiv Spenden, and Giving What We Can, have moved millions in funding to the best charities globally. The success of these and other similar organizations suggests that further initiatives in this space could be highly beneficial, given that many highly effective charities are bottlenecked by access to funding. This article introduces five new effective giving initiatives incubated through the program we ran earlier this year in their own words. It summarizes their country of operation, near-term plans, targets, and any room for additional seed funding.[1] Organization Summaries Ellis Impact Co-founders: Fernando Martin-Gullans, Helene Kortschak Country of operation: United States (New York City) Website: www.ellisimpact.org Email address: fernando@ellisimpact.org, helene@ellisimpact.org Seed grant: $84,000 Background (why is this a promising country/angle for an EGI?) While Americans are the global leaders in total charitable giving, with over $450 billion donated annually, they currently give less than 0.5% of it to the most effective charities. Ellis Impact aims to expand effective giving by focusing on high-net-worth individuals (HNWIs) in New York City. Why HNWIs? Charitable donations are overwhelmingly heavy-tailed. For example, less than 5% of donors account for 40% of donations at existing EGIs such as Giving What We Can and Effektiv Spenden. Why New York City? Home to the largest number of millionaires (>350,000) and a GDP of $1.2 trillion, NYC has the highest wealth concentration in the world and is more economically powerful than many countries with existing EGIs (e.g., Netherlands, Sweden, Norway). It also has the highest charitable giving in the US, totaling $20 billion per year in itemized donations. Near-term plans Our first six months will focus on expanding our local network of prospective donors by attending events (e.g., networking events, conferences, galas) and tapping into existing and under-explored communities in NYC (e.g. EA Finance). We plan to further engage prospective donors through 1-1 advising and hosting our first lean, in-person events to raise awareness around effective giving, bring together like-minded individuals, and introduce them to cause area experts. Targets (reach/giving multiplier/etc.) Our minimum goal for our first nine months is to counterfactually raise our seed funding amount in public donations (>$84,000). Our ambitious goal is to raise three times as many counterfactual donations as we received in seed funding (i.e., $252,000). Room for more funding In late July, we raised $84,000 from the Seed Funding Network, allowing us to run for nine months. We would require an additional $20,000 to extend our runway to 12 months, decreasing the risk of having to shut down before we can demonstrate good results since, according to the experience of other HNW donor advisors, donor relationships potentially take longer than nine months to cultivate. Any funding on top of that would be used for hosting and attending additional and higher-quality events to meet and engage prospective donors. If you are interested in supporting our efforts in other ways, we are currently: Looking for warm introductions to prospective donors in NYC as well as super connectors and ambassadors for future warm introductions. If you know someone you think we shou...

Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: New video from Ali Abdaal (5.74m YT subscribers): Why I'm giving 10% of my income to charity (forever), published by Giving What We Can on August 9, 2024 on The Effective Altruism Forum. This new video from Ali Abdaal (which we did not sponsor in any way) covers his decision to take the 10% Pledge back in 2019, and why he decide that his business should take the Company Pledge to give 10% of profits in 2024. Ali covers some of the core arguments for effective giving, as well as his own reaction and thought process when deciding to pledge. Thanks for listening. To help us out with The Nonlinear Library or to learn more, please visit nonlinear.org

Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Introducing Mieux Donner: A new effective giving initiative in France, published by Jennifer Stretton on July 24, 2024 on The Effective Altruism Forum. TL;DR Announcing the launch of Mieux Donner - a fundraising organisation focused on informing and inspiring individuals in France and French speaking Switzerland to donate effectively, directing their contributions towards charities with the greatest impact. Who are we? Mieux Donner was co-founded by Jennifer Stretton and Romain Barbe. We completed AIM's effective giving charity incubator program in July 2024. Key objectives for year one Charity registration and launch our effective giving platform (Done) Our ambitious goal: Securing €1,000,000 in donations from at least 300 donors Our minimal goal: Raise more in counterfactual donations than we raised in seed funding We have been given funding of $95,000 to get the project started. We would like to raise at least this in counterfactual donations in year one Ideally, we would like to achieve a giving multiplier of at least two by raising $180,000 in year one Launch a pilot project of the 10% Pledge and aim for 20 pledgers Confirm our most effective audiences and outreach tactics to enable cost-effective scale-up in Y2-3 Why launch a new effective giving initiative? Effective charities have significant room to absorb more funding. Effective charities are reliant on the donations of a few large donors. Effective Giving Initiatives, such as Giving What We Can and Effektiv Spenden, have raised over $500 million collectively and established a proven strategy for engaging donors. Leveraging their best practices and insights, Mieux Donner hopes to achieve high rates of growth. Why France? French people have the lowest English proficiency in Northern Europe. This limits their access to EA and effective giving ideas. Compared to other major European countries, France raises more money from private donors. By reaching out to a broad audience, these donors will be exposed to effective giving for the first time. France has the third-highest number of millionaires in the world. We have first mover advantage for SEO optimisation Why French speaking Switzerland? There is huge donation potential to be unlocked in Switzerland. In year one, Effektiv Spenden raised just €350K in Germany compared to €1.2M in Switzerland. In 2021 48% of Effektiv Spenden's donations came from Switzerland. Effektiv Spenden are partnering with us to target French speakers in Switzerland ( 22% of Swiss population). They have provided us with their donation platform to enable tax deductible donations to all of our recommended charities for Swiss Tax Residents. Geneva has the second highest concentration of millionaires in the world and one of our founders, Jennifer, is based just one hour from Geneva. Isn't there already an Effective Giving Initiative in France? There is one other effective giving initiative in France called Don Efficace and we are working collaboratively with them. The reason that AIM decided to research and launch another effective giving initiative in France is because: Don Efficace aims to increase the tax-deductible portfolio of effective charities and is a research focused organisation. Their strategy to increase donations to effective charities is to find effective charities within France that qualify for tax deduction*. They plan to help effective EU/EEA charities obtain fiscal agreements so that they can also become tax deductible in France. Mieux Donner is an outreach focused organisation. Our strategy to increase donations to effective charities is to market the most effective charities, regardless of their tax deductibility status in France. As Don Efficace's research finds more effective charities within France, we expect that we will recommend them if they are on par with the eff...

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Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: We've renamed the Giving What We Can Pledge, published by Alana HF on July 1, 2024 on The Effective Altruism Forum. The Giving What We Can Pledge is now the 10% Pledge! We cover the why (along with our near-term plans and how you can help!) below. TL;DR: The name change will help us grow awareness of the pledge by reducing brand confusion and facilitating partnerships. We see it as an important part of reaching our goal of 10,000 pledgers by the end of 2024. You can help by adding the orange diamond emoji to your social profiles if you've taken the 10% Pledge! (or a small blue diamond emoji if you've taken the Trial Pledge) as described below. Full post: For the better part of a year, Giving What We Can has been thinking more deliberately about how our brand choices could accelerate or hinder progress towards our mission of making giving effectively and significantly a cultural norm. One topic that has consistently surfaced is the name of our primary pledge. While we think the "Giving What We Can Pledge" accurately captures the spirit we want to cultivate and the message we want to portray - that many people can afford to give more significantly - we've also identified some issues. We've noticed people referring to the Giving What We Can Pledge by all sorts of names (the income pledge, the lifetime pledge, the pledge, the giving all we can pledge, and the give what you can pledge, to name just a few) which leads to confusion and reduces "stickiness." On that note, we've noticed people confusing the Giving What We Can Pledge with other similarly named pledges (like the Giving Pledge for billionaires, for example). We've also realised that having our organisation name in the title of the pledge can make it difficult for other organisations to easily promote it. Above: An internal slide from our name-change deliberations We considered several alternate names, had many healthy debates within our team, and surveyed over 30 key stakeholders from across the world and the effective giving ecosystem. The result? We are delighted to announce that the Giving What We Can Pledge is now the 10% Pledge! What will this help us achieve? As we announced at EAG London, we're aiming to reach 10,000 active 10% pledgers in 2024 and we have ambitions to grow to 100,000 and eventually, to 1 million pledgers and beyond. To achieve these ambitious goals, we need a name and a brand that can achieve saturation. We think the 10% Pledge could get us there because: It's short It's easy to say, remember, and understand It can be hosted by partner organisations (more on this below!) It has the potential for "stickiness" and increasing awareness, especially with the addition of the orange diamond symbol! Above: 1. Benefits of renaming to the 10% Pledge 2. Our vision of the diamond logo at work How can you help? If you've taken the 10% Pledge (formerly known as the Giving What We Can Pledge), we'd be grateful if you could add the "small orange diamond" emoji to your name on your social media accounts. (If you've taken the Trial Pledge, you can instead add a small blue diamond emoji.) We're hoping that seeing several 's across social media will cause people to be curious about what this signifies and lead them to learn more. It would be ideal to also add a statement like "10% Pledge #XXXX with @GivingWhatWeCan" or "I've taken The @10percentpledge) to give to effective charities" to your bio so those who do want to learn more can easily find out about it! (Note: You can look up your pledge number on our updated members page) And if you want to help the diamond emoji be even more visible for launch week, consider posting with the phrase "I've taken the #10PercentPledge because..." It would be exciting to see social media light up with these types of posts! More broadly, whether or not you've taken a pled...

Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: What "Effective Altruism" Means to Me, published by Richard Y Chappell on June 14, 2024 on The Effective Altruism Forum. I previously included a link to this as part of my trilogy on anti-philanthropic misdirection, but a commenter asked me to post the full text here for the automated audio conversion. Apologies to anyone who has already read it. As I wrote in 'Why Not Effective Altruism?', I find the extreme hostility towards effective altruism from some quarters to be rather baffling. Group evaluations can be vexing: perhaps what the critics have in mind when they hate on EA has little or no overlap with what I have in mind when I support it? It's hard to know without getting into details, which the critics rarely do. So here are some concrete claims that I think are true and important. If you disagree with any of them, I'd be curious to hear which ones, and why! What I think: 1. It's good and virtuous to be beneficent and want to help others, for example by taking the Giving What We Can 10% pledge. 2. It's good and virtuous to want to help others effectively: to help more rather than less with one's efforts. 3. We have the potential to do a lot of good in the face of severe global problems (including global poverty, factory-farmed animal welfare, and protecting against global catastrophic risks such as future pandemics). 4. In all these areas, it is worth making deliberate, informed efforts to act effectively. Better targeting our efforts may make even more of a difference than the initial decision to help at all. 5. In all these areas, we can find interventions that we can reasonably be confident are very positive in expectation. (One can never be so confident of actual outcomes in any given instance, but being robustly positive in prospect is what's decision-relevant.) 6. Beneficent efforts can be expected to prove (much) more effective if guided by careful, in-depth empirical research. Quantitative tools and evidence, used wisely, can help us to do more good. 7. So it's good and virtuous to use quantitatively tools and evidence wisely. 8. GiveWell does incredibly careful, in-depth empirical research evaluating promising-seeming global charities, using quantitative tools and evidence wisely. 9. So it's good and virtuous to be guided by GiveWell (or comparably high-quality evaluators) rather than less-effective alternatives like choosing charities based on locality, personal passion, or gut feelings. 10. There's no good reason to think that GiveWell's top charities are net harmful.[1] 11. But even if you're the world's most extreme aid skeptic, it's clearly good and virtuous to voluntary redistribute your own wealth to some of the world's poorest people via GiveDirectly. (And again: more good and virtuous than typical alternatives.) 12. Many are repelled by how "hands-off" effective philanthropy is compared to (e.g.) local volunteering. But it's good and virtuous to care more about saving and improving lives than about being hands on. To prioritize the latter over the former would be morally self-indulgent. 13. Hits-based giving is a good idea. A portfolio of long shots can collectively be likely to do more good than putting all your resources into lower-expected-value "sure things". In such cases, this is worth doing. 14. Even if one-off cases, it is often better and more virtuous to accept some risk of inefficacy in exchange for a reasonable shot at proportionately greater positive impact. (But reasonable people can disagree about which trade-offs of this sort are worth it.) 15. The above point encompasses much relating to politics and "systemic change", in addition to longtermist long-shots. It's very possible for well-targeted efforts in these areas to be even better in expectation than traditional philanthropy - just note that this potential impact comes at ...

Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: 5 things you've got wrong about the Giving What We Can Pledge, published by Alana HF on May 15, 2024 on The Effective Altruism Forum. How well do you know the details of the Giving What We Can Pledge? A surprising number of people we've spoken to - including many who know a lot about effective giving - shared some or all of these pledge misconceptions. Misconception #1: If you sign the pledge, you have to donate at least 10% of your income each year. The Giving What We Can Pledge is a public commitment to donate at least 10% of your lifetime income to the organisations that can most effectively use it to improve the lives of others. Giving 10% of your income each year is a good rule of thumb for most people, as it helps them stay on track with their lifetime pledge. However, there are certainly cases where it doesn't make sense to give annually. Provided you continue reporting your income[1] on your personal pledge dashboard, the "Overall Progress" bar will show you where you are with respect to fulfilling your lifetime pledge. This way, you can continue to progress towards your lifetime pledge even if you need to skip a year. While we recommend giving annually for most people, here are two examples of cases where it might make sense to skip, bunch, or otherwise donate on a non-annual basis: Tax benefits: In some cases, donating every few years instead of every year is better from a tax benefit perspective. For example, if you live in the U.S., you often have to donate quite a lot in order to receive tax benefits for a particular year. Thus, some U.S. pledgers "bunch" their donations by saving the amount they would have donated and then donating a much larger sum every 2-3 years. Significant financial commitments: Not all years are equal from a finance perspective. Perhaps you were hit with a bunch of medical expenses this year, or you made a down payment on a house. While many pledgers are able to fulfil these commitments and continue donating, for some, it may make sense to skip a year and then "catch up" over the next few. Provided you remain serious about fulfilling your pledge, and are able to increase your percentage in the next few years to make up for the skip, this is perfectly reasonable and still very much in keeping with your lifetime income pledge! Misconception #2: Only the charities on the Giving What We Can Platform count towards your pledge The Giving What We Can Pledge is a public commitment to donate at least 10% of your lifetime income to the organisations that can most effectively use it to improve the lives of others. This means you can donate to any organisation you'd like, as long as you have good reason to believe it qualifies as a highly-effective organisation. (We do suggest familiarising yourself with the concepts of effective giving, our high-impact causes page, and our charity recommendations and donation platform when deciding where to give, because the effectiveness part of the pledge is a key aspect of its impact.) It's also a more seamless experience to choose from the charities on our platform, because you won't have to do any reporting; you'll merely choose where to donate, set up recurring payments, and then these payments will automatically show up on your pledge dashboard and be counted towards your pledge. That said, you can absolutely donate to an organisation outside of our platform; you'll just need to report it on the pledge dashboard yourself if you want to see your progress. Misconception #3: The pledge is a legal document We've used the word "pledge" to signify a serious commitment. However, this type of pledge is different from "pledge" as defined by the IRS or in a similar legal context. The Giving What We Can pledge is not legally binding. It is, rather, a serious commitment made to yourself and displayed publicly tha...

Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Émile P. Torres's history of dishonesty and harassment, published by anonymous-for-obvious-reasons on May 1, 2024 on The Effective Altruism Forum. This is a cross-post and you can see the original here, written in 2022. I am not the original author, but I thought it was good for more EAs to know about this. I am posting anonymously for obvious reasons, but I am a longstanding EA who is concerned about Torres's effects on our community. An incomplete summary Introduction This post compiles evidence that Émile P. Torres, a philosophy student at Leibniz Universität Hannover in Germany, has a long pattern of concerning behavior, which includes gross distortion and falsification, persistent harassment, and the creation of fake identities. Note: Since Torres has recently claimed that they have been the target of threats from anonymous accounts, I would like to state that I condemn any threatening behavior in the strongest terms possible, and that I have never contacted Torres or posted anything about Torres other than in this Substack or my Twitter account. I have no idea who is behind these accounts. To respect Torres's privacy and identity, I have also omitted their first name from the screenshots and replaced their previous first name with 'Émile'. Table of contents Introduction My story Stalking and harassment Peter Boghossian Helen Pluckrose Demonstrable falsehoods and gross distortions "Forcible" removal "Researcher at CSER" Giving What We Can Brief digression on effective altruism More falsehoods and distortions Hilary Greaves Andreas Mogensen Nick Beckstead Tyler Cowen Olle Häggström Sockpuppetry "Alex Williams" Conclusion My story Before I discuss Torres's behavior, I will provide some background about myself and my association with effective altruism (EA). I hope this information will help readers decide what biases I may have and subject my arguments to the appropriate degree of critical scrutiny. I first heard about EA upon attending Aaron Swartz's memorial in January 2013. One of the speakers at that event was Holden Karnofsky, co-founder of GiveWell, a charity evaluator for which Aaron had volunteered. Karnofsky described Aaron as someone who "believed in trying to maximize the good he accomplished with each minute he had." I resonated with that phrase, and in conversation with some friends after the memorial, I learned that Aaron's approach, and GiveWell's, were examples of what was, at the time, a new movement called "effective altruism." Despite my sympathy for EA, I never got very involved with it, due to a combination of introversion and the sense that I hadn't much to offer. I have donated a small fraction of my income to the Against Malaria Foundation for the last nine years, but I have never taken the Giving What We Can pledge, participated in a local EA group, or volunteered or worked for an EA organization. I decided to write this article after a friend forwarded me one of Torres's critical pieces on longtermism. I knew enough about this movement -- which emerged out of EA -- to quickly identify some falsehoods and misrepresentations in Torres's polemic. So I was surprised to find, when I checked the comments on Twitter, that no one else was pointing out these errors. A few weeks later, I discovered that this was just one of a growing number of articles by Torres that attacked these ideas and their proponents. Since I also noticed several factual inaccuracies in these other publications, I got curious and decided to look into Torres's writings more closely. I began to follow Torres's Twitter presence with interest and to investigate older Twitter feuds that Torres occasionally references. After looking into these and systematically checking the sources Torres cites in support of their various allegations, I found Torres's behavior much more troublin...

This is a cross-post and you can see the original here, written in 2022. I am not the original author, but I thought it was good for more EAs to know about this. I am posting anonymously for obvious reasons, but I am a longstanding EA who is concerned about Torres's effects on our community. An incomplete summary Introduction. This post compiles evidence that Émile P. Torres, a philosophy student at Leibniz Universität Hannover in Germany, has a long pattern of concerning behavior, which includes gross distortion and falsification, persistent harassment, and the creation of fake identities. Note: Since Torres has recently claimed that they have been the target of threats from anonymous accounts, I would like to state that I condemn any threatening behavior in the strongest terms possible, and that I have never contacted Torres or posted anything about Torres other than in this Substack [...] ---Outline:(00:25) An incomplete summary(01:16) Stalking and harassment(01:20) Peter Boghossian(11:48) Helen Pluckrose(19:02) Demonstrable falsehoods and gross distortions(19:07) “Forcible” removal(24:04) “Researcher at CSER”(27:30) Giving What We Can(31:20) Brief Digression on Effective Altruism(33:53) More falsehoods and distortions(33:57) Hilary Greaves(38:25) Andreas Mogensen(41:16) Nick Beckstead(45:29) Tyler Cowen(48:50) Olle Häggström(56:44) Sockpuppetry(57:01) “Alex Williams”(01:03:57) Conclusion--- First published: May 1st, 2024 Source: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/yAHcPNZzx35i25xML/emile-p-torres-s-history-of-dishonesty-and-harassment --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.

Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: How you can help right now to introduce ideas of effective giving to young people, published by Adam Steinberg on April 18, 2024 on The Effective Altruism Forum. tl;dr This opportunity for impact is aimed primarily at parents or those that have another connection to a secondary (or middle) school. You can have a powerful effect by emailing or writing a letter to a teacher you know, or your child's high school, to recommend they run a charity election. This is an opportunity for you to connect dozens or hundreds of young people with key concepts around effective giving and civic participation merely by taking 20 minutes and adapting an email, provided below. A Call to Action Parents and friends of parents: You can help get the ideals of effective giving in front of schools-full of future givers by letting a school know how easy it is to get sponsorship up to $2,000 from Giving What We Can (GWWC) to run a charity election. Towards the end of this post, we provide a message you might adapt and send to a school. Overview It's time to tap more fully into the power of the EA community to spread the word about Charity Elections from Giving What We Can. Students and teachers alike who have participated in a charity election praise the experience as meaningful and memorable. The program is showing notable signs of impact (where it can be measured) and has proven its scalability and readiness to run in more schools and more countries. The basics, for those who have not heard A charity election is an event in "experiential altruism" that empowers high school students as they learn about and experience making a real impact on the world. In the program, adapted from Giving Games for a younger cohort, students choose among three causes selected from the GWWC list of recommended charities to decide which will receive an event sponsorship of up to $2,000 (sponsored by GWWC). Before voting, students research and discuss the charities using a condensed framework designed to empower high school (and possibly middle-school) students to apply principles of effective giving in an age-appropriate manner. Designed to be student-led, a charity election lasts about three class hours and can be run across a set of classes or the whole school. We provide schools with self-contained materials and resources to make it as easy as possible for teachers to support their students. Students who participate engage in meaningful discussions and powerful reflection about altruism as they get first-hand experience at changemaking, expanding their moral circles and helping them develop an understanding of the power of effective philanthropy. The program was created in 2018 with the support of The Life You Can Save and has been incubated by Giving What We Can since 2021. Charity elections have run now in six countries - including several events entirely in Italian - and, since 2018, nearly 11,000 student votes have been cast after the research and discussion process. Schools typically come back year after year to request sponsorship. If you want to learn more, please visit our webpage or reference the additional resources listed in the postscript below the following model letter. If you have any questions, please write to us . What you can do right now You can copy and adapt the letter below to send to a school or a particular teacher who you feel would be intrigued by a program that gives students confidence and a sense of accomplishment as change-makers while cultivating a culture of (effective) giving and fostering positive school climate. If you don't know a parent, a student, or a teacher You can still help spread the word about Charity Elections. If you still have a connection to your own high school, please consider recommending them to the program by adapting the note above. You can make a differenc...

What are the facts around Sam Bankman-Fried and FTX about which all parties agree? What was the nature of Will's relationship with SBF? What things, in retrospect, should've been red flags about Sam or FTX? Was Sam's personality problematic? Did he ever really believe in EA principles? Does he lack empathy? Or was he on the autism spectrum? Was he naive in his application of utilitarianism? Did EA intentionally install SBF as a spokesperson, or did he put himself in that position of his own accord? What lessons should EA leaders learn from this? What steps should be taken to prevent it from happening again? What should EA leadership look like moving forward? What are some of the dangers around AI that are not related to alignment? Should AI become the central (or even the sole) focus of the EA movement?William MacAskill is an associate professor in philosophy at the University of Oxford. At the time of his appointment, he was the youngest associate professor of philosophy in the world. He also cofounded the nonprofits Giving What We Can, the Centre for Effective Altruism, and 80,000 Hours, which together have moved over $300 million to effective charities. He's the author of What We Owe The Future, Doing Good Better, and Moral Uncertainty.Further reading:Episode 133: The FTX catastrophe (with Byrne Hobart, Vipul Naik, Maomao Hu, Marcus Abramovich, and Ozzie Gooen) — Our previous podcast episode about what happened in the FTX disaster"Who is Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF) really, and how could he have done what he did? – three theories and a lot of evidence" — Spencer's essay about SBF's personalityWhy They Do It: Inside the Mind of the White-Collar Criminal by Eugene SoltesStaffSpencer Greenberg — Host / DirectorJosh Castle — ProducerRyan Kessler — Audio EngineerUri Bram — FactotumWeAmplify — TranscriptionistsAlexandria D. — Research and Special Projects AssistantMusicBroke for FreeJosh WoodwardLee RosevereQuiet Music for Tiny Robotswowamusiczapsplat.comAffiliatesClearer ThinkingGuidedTrackMind EasePositlyUpLift[Read more]

Share this episode: https://www.samharris.org/podcasts/making-sense-episodes/361-sam-bankman-fried-effective-altruism Sam Harris speaks with William MacAskill about the implosion of FTX and the effect that it has had on the Effective Altruism movement. They discuss the logic of “earning to give,” the mind of SBF, his philanthropy, the character of the EA community, potential problems with focusing on long-term outcomes, AI risk, the effects of the FTX collapse on Will personally, and other topics. William MacAskill is an associate professor of moral philosophy at Oxford University, and author of Doing Good Better, Moral Uncertainty, and What We Owe The Future. He cofounded the nonprofits 80,000 Hours, Centre for Effective Altruism, and Giving What We Can, and helped to launch the effective altruism movement, which encourages people to use their time and money to support the projects that are most effectively making the world a better place. Website: ​​www.williammacaskill.com Twitter: @willmacaskill Learning how to train your mind is the single greatest investment you can make in life. That’s why Sam Harris created the Waking Up app. From rational mindfulness practice to lessons on some of life’s most important topics, join Sam as he demystifies the practice of meditation and explores the theory behind it.

Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Effective Giving Projects That Have (and Haven't) Been Tried Among Christians, published by JDBauman on March 26, 2024 on The Effective Altruism Forum. TLDR: US Christian giving amounts to hundreds of billions of dollars per year. Much of it is far less effective than it could be. EA for Christians (EACH) is tackling this, but more can be done. Below is a list of projects we have worked on so far related to effective giving. If this excites you, or you'd like to start a new project or incubate a charity improving effectiveness among Christians/Christian orgs, we'd love to partner with or support you. Context: I recently had a chat with someone at Giving What We Can who thought that people may be less keen to start a new project in the effective giving & Christianity space because they assume Effective Altruism for Christians has already tried it. But there's a lot we haven't tried (or things we have tried that we might not be best at). For more context, EACH is a global community of 500+ Christians in EA. I'm the FT director and I work with numerous excellent and committed PT staff. Effective-giving related Projects: In no particular order, here's a short list of most of the effective giving projects we've undertaken over the last 3-5 years (while I've worked here). Some of these have cross-over with careers, EA community building, etc. Projects we're giving proactive attention to (at least 1-2+ staff hours a week) are marked with () Projects we're giving even more attention to (2+ staff hours a week) are marked with (+) 1-on-1s with Christians interested in effective giving (we've done 500+ to-date; most of our 1-on-1s at least touch on effective giving) (+) General EA Christian conferences, retreats, and meetups (+) A conference organizing Christian impact professionals from large Christian development charities (E.g. Compassion, Hope, etc.) () to discuss EA . We did one in 2023. A video on this here. DM me for a report on how this went. () Report about M&E practices at Christian development charities. We have one forthcoming this spring. () Published book about effective altruism and surprising ways to have a large impact with one's life. We have one forthcoming in 2025 (+) A Christian Campaign for (mostly Givewell) effective charities (raised $380,000+) () Talks at churches on effectiveness and radical generosity. Uni internships doing outreach related to radical and effective generosity (We've had 8 interns for this and also a partnership with One-For-The-World) Articles about EA and Christianity, especially effective Christian charity (We've published dozens of blogs (+) A podcast heavily featuring Christians who earn-to-give or work at effective charities. We've done one with 10+ episodes (+) 3+ videos with Christian youtubers about effective altruism (especially effective giving) Social meetups at cities across US coastal cities and London (we've done a couple dozen) (+) Online discussions on EA and Christian themes (we've done 140, about 30 about effective giving topics with an avg. 10 people at each; youtube videos here) () A 5-minute animated video describing effective altruism (and effective giving) from a Christian perspective. See here Academic workshops on effective giving. We've done some on EA themes, with a few talks on generosity. This year we have one on longtermism. () Online talks on effective giving themes. We've done 5-10 () M&E advising from Christian EA development professionals to Christian development charities. We're starting a pro bono offering in spring 2024 () A report on plausibly highest-impact Christian poverty charities. We have done some related work in this report An Intro-course to EA/Effective giving for Christians. See our 4-week Intro course () Career outreach that promotes effective giving as a primary way to have an impactf...

Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Creative video ads significantly increase GWWC's social media engagement and web traffic to pledge page, published by James Odene [User-Friendly] on March 1, 2024 on The Effective Altruism Forum. Overview We recently ran a test to see if utilising creative marketing practices could increase the performance of a brand-led digital campaign, and it did. We are sharing the results to encourage other organisations to consider the quality of their output in areas where this could directly impact engagement, potentially resulting in increased donations and or pledge sign ups in the long-term. We partnered with Giving What We Can and produced a brand awareness video to test the power of creativity - the results prove the worth in investing time in the creative quality of movement marketing overall. Grace Adams, Head of Marketing at GWWC: "We are really happy with the performance of this campaign, and it's given us more confidence to undertake more creative approaches with future campaigns. We're excited to see how the increased awareness will translate into results further down the line." Creative marketing practice refers to content production that employs innovative and imaginative approaches to capture the attention of the target audience and evoke emotional responses, effectively conveying the core message. The aim here was to test a more creative approach comparatively to the existing content across their social media. The quality of the creative concept in an ad is one of the biggest drivers to impact (see Kantar research here), and the results from this campaign indicate that we could see great returns by swapping out low fidelity, simply informative, ration-led content for more distinctive and emotive content. The Campaign You can see a version of the ad here. Objective Increase Giving What We Can brand awareness over Giving Season Target Educated, top 50% earners, median ~30, working professionals with interest in relevant philanthropic topics e.g. climate breakdown Ad Spend $4,899.58 on YouTube & $7,172.41 on Instagram Duration ~8 weeks Channels Videos for Instagram and YouTube. We also created related display ads to direct web traffic back to the GWWC pledge Overall Metrics Reach: 4,554,692 Total Impressions: 7,923,623 CPM: $1.61 Views: 5,357,063 Engagements: 931,100 CPE: US$0.01 Web Traffic: 24,914 new users Pledge Page Visits: 465 From retargeting: 1111 users visited the website for 4 mins or more & 469 users visited for 10 mins or more The Headliners You can see a version of the ad here. 1) 48x more views on Reels, Stories and Feed, than any previous campaign on Instagram. 2) Attributed Instagram profile visits were 249% higher than any other previous campaign. 3) Referrals from Instagram to the GWWC website are typically extremely low (

Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: What roles do GWWC and Founders Pledge play in growing the EA donor pool?, published by BrownHairedEevee on January 29, 2024 on The Effective Altruism Forum. I'm curious about the roles of Giving What We Can and Founders Pledge in driving donations to EA causes. Both organizations play a similar role in persuading people to give money to highly effective causes, but it seems to me that GWWC focuses on getting a large number of average-income people to donate relatively small amounts of money, whereas Founders Pledge focuses on getting a smaller number of entrepreneurs to donate large amounts of money. I think that both types of movement growth are important in different ways. On the one hand, having even a small number of large donors means we have a lot of funding, which allows us to make a great impact. (Even with the collapse of FTX in 2022, there is still a chance that the EA movement could have more billionaire backers by 2027 than it does now.) On the other hand, a large number of donors means there are a large number of individuals engaging in the philosophy and practice of EA, which helps spread the ideas of EA and demonstrate its accessibility. What are your opinions on how GWWC and FP's roles in generating movement growth compare and contrast? Which kind of movement growth is more important for the EA movement right now? Appendix: Relevant statistics GWWC and FP's membership numbers: GWWC has over 9,400 individuals with active pledges as of January 28, 2024[1] Founders Pledge has 1,767 members as of 2022, their latest impact report[2] Amounts pledged: FP: "$1.3 billion pledged to charity from 80 new members"[2] GWWC estimates that $83 million of lifetime value will be generated from the new pledges taken in 2020-2022 (a three year period), or an average of $27 million of lifetime value from new pledges per year.[3] Giving multiplier: GWWC estimates that it generates $30 for every $1 invested in its operations. I couldn't find an estimate of FP's giving multiplier effect, but I think it would be useful for comparison. ^ Our members - GWWC ^ 2022 Impact Report - Founders Pledge ^ 2020-2022 Impact evaluation - GWWC Thanks for listening. To help us out with The Nonlinear Library or to learn more, please visit nonlinear.org

Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: GWWC Pledge featured in new book from Head of TED, Chris Anderson, published by Giving What We Can on January 25, 2024 on The Effective Altruism Forum. Chris Anderson, Head of TED, has just released a new book called Infectious Generosity, which has a whole chapter that encourages readers to take the Giving What We Can Pledge! He has also taken the Giving What We Can Pledge with the new wealth option to give the greater of 10% of income or 2.5% of wealth each year. This inspiring book is a guide to making Infectious Generosity become a global movement to build a hopeful future. Chris offers a playbook for how to embark on our own generous acts and to use the Internet to give them self-replicating, potentially world-changing, impact. Here's a quick excerpt from the book: "The more I've thought about generosity, the impact it can have, and the joy it can bring, the more determined I've become that it be an absolute core part of my identity. Jacqueline's work as a pioneering social entrepreneur has definitely inspired me, and together we're now ready to sign that combination pledge, effectively committing to giving the higher of 10% of our income or 2.5% of our net worth in any given year for the rest of our lives." We are really excited about this opportunity to share the Giving What We Can Pledge with many more people and hope that this book will be successful so we can make our message even more infectious! If you'd like to purchase a copy for yourself or a friend, you can find relevant links here. Thanks for listening. To help us out with The Nonlinear Library or to learn more, please visit nonlinear.org

Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Meta Charity Funders: Summary of Our First Grant Round and Path Forward, published by Joey on January 16, 2024 on The Effective Altruism Forum. We think this post will be relevant for people who want to apply to Meta Charity Funders (MCF) in the future and people who want to better understand the EA Meta funding landscape. The post is written by the organisers of MCF (who are all authors of this post).Some of our members might not agree with everything said. Summary Meta Charity Funders (MCF) is a new funding circle that aims to fund charitable projects working one level removed from direct impact. In our first grant round spanning Aug-Oct 2023, we received 101 applications and ultimately funded 6 projects: Future Forward, Ge Effektivt, Giving What We Can, An anonymous GCR career transition initiative, promoting Peter Singer's work, and UHNW donation advisory. In total, our members gave $686,580 to these projects. We expect our next round to give 20% to 50% more than this amount, as our first round had less donor engagement and funding capacity than we expect in the future. giving multipliers" that help grow the pie of effective donations. Our grant-making process this round MCF was launched at the end of July, 2023 and applications closed a month later, at the end of August. Over two months, our funding circle convened every two weeks to collaboratively decide on funding allocations, with individual members devoting additional time for evaluation between meetings. Our active members, composed of 9 individuals, undertook this project alongside their regular commitments. From the 101 applications received, the main organizers conducted an initial review. This process was aimed at creating a short(er) list of applications for more time-constrained members, by rather quickly determining if proposals were within scope, with a relevant approach and aligned team. This first stage resulted in 38 proposals advancing for further discussion, out of which 20 applicants were interviewed for more detailed insights. As the funding decisions approached in October, it became clear that many in our circle were nearing their annual donation limits or had less time than expected, which affected our final funding capacity. Ultimately, we funded 6 projects with total allocations of $686,580. See more about the grants we made below. While we are generally happy with this first round and very grateful for the many great applications and donors who have joined, we think we have significant room for growth and improvement. Most concretely, we hope and expect to give out more in future rounds; there were fewer active donating members in the circle this first round and several had already made their donations for the year. We also hope and expect to form and communicate a clearer scope of our funding priorities and make final grant decisions sooner within each round. Information for the next round The next round will open in late February, with grants given out in May. The application form will remain open but don't expect your application to be processed before March. We were generally excited about the applications we received for this round and hope that we will get similar applications in the next round as well. If you want to join Meta Charity Funders as a donor, please fill in this form. Note that there is an expected annual donation amount of a minimum $100,000, but you obviously do not have to donate if you do not think there are good enough opportunities, and during the first year you can mainly observe. If you have any questions, please contact us at metacharityfunders@gmail.com. Check out our website to learn more about Meta Charity Funders and stay up-to-date with the new funding round. The most common reasons for rejection By sharing the most common reasons for rejections, we hope...

I'm only 30% sure [Edit Jan 7: 90% sure] that this is actually an inadequacy made by those whose job it is to maximize donations but I've noticed that none of the donations pages of GiveWell, Giving What We Can, Horizon Institute, or METR have this little tab in them that MIRI has (just scroll down after following the link): This little tool comes from doublethedonation.com. I was looking for charities to donate to, and I'm grateful I stumbled upon the MIRI donation page because otherwise I would not have known that Google would literally double my donation. None of the other donation pages except MIRI had this little “does your company do employer matching?” box. WHY. I would wager other tech companies have similar programs, and that a good chunk of EA donations come from employees of those tech companies, and that thousands of dollars a year [...] --- First published: January 5th, 2024 Source: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/fbTE2cBtnxCqemWNp/double-the-donation-ea-inadequacy-found --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.

Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: GiveWell from A to Z, published by GiveWell on January 12, 2024 on The Effective Altruism Forum. Author: Isabel Arjmand, Special Projects Officer To celebrate the end of 2023, we're highlighting a few key things to know about GiveWell - from A to Z. These aren't necessarily the 26 most important parts of our work (e.g., we could include only "transparency" or "top charities" for T) but they do fit the alphabet, and we've linked to other pages where you can learn more. All Grants Fund. Our recommendation for donors who have a high level of trust in GiveWell and are open to programs that might be riskier than our top charities. Bar. We set a cost-effectiveness bar, or threshold, such that we expect to be able to fully fund all the opportunities above that level of cost-effectiveness. This bar isn't a hard limit; we consider qualitative factors in our recommendations, as discussed here. This post also discusses our bar in more detail. Cost-effectiveness. The core question we try to answer in our research is: How much good can you do by giving money to a certain program? This blog post describes how we approach cost-effectiveness estimates and use them in our work. Donors. Unlike a foundation, we don't hold an endowment. Our impact comes from donors choosing to use our recommendations. Effective giving organizations. Organizations like Effektiv Spenden, which fundraise for programs we recommend and provide tax-deductible donation options in a variety of countries. We're grateful to these national effective giving organizations and groups like Giving What We Can that recommend our work. Footnotes.[1] Generalizability. How well evidence generalizes to different settings, including variations in program implementation and the contexts where a program is delivered. Also called "external validity." Health workers and community distributors. The people who deliver many of the programs we support; includes both professional health workers and distributors who receive stipends to deliver programs in their local communities. For example, community distributors go from household to household to provide seasonal malaria chemoprevention to millions of children. Incubating new programs. We partner with the Evidence Action Accelerator and Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI) Incubator to scope, pilot, and scale up promising cost-effective interventions. Judgment calls. We aim to create estimates that represent our true beliefs. Our cost-effectiveness analyses are firmly rooted in evidence but also incorporate adjustments and intuitions that aren't fully captured by scientific findings alone. More in this post. Kangaroo mother care. A program to reduce neonatal mortality among low-birthweight babies through skin-to-skin contact to keep babies warm, breastfeeding instruction, home visits, and more. Leverage. How our funding decisions affect other funders, either by crowding in additional funding ("leverage") or by displacing funds that otherwise would have been used for a given program ("fungibility"). Mistakes. Transparency is core to our work. Read here about mistakes we've made and lessons we've learned. Nigeria. One of the countries where we most often fund work. (Our work is generally concentrated in Africa and South Asia.) New Incentives, one of our top charities, currently works exclusively in northern Nigeria, where low baseline vaccination rates make its work especially valuable. Oral rehydration solution + zinc. A low-cost way to prevent and treat dehydration caused by diarrhea. We've been interested in ORS/zinc for a long time (going back to 2006!), and recently funded the CHAI Incubator to conduct a randomized controlled trial in Bauchi State, Nigeria, studying the extent to which preemptively distributing free ORS/zinc directly to households increases usage by children u...

Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Double the donation: EA inadequacy found?, published by Neil Warren on January 6, 2024 on The Effective Altruism Forum. I'm only 30% sure that this is actually an inadequacy made by those whose job it is to maximize donations but I've noticed that none of the donations pages of GiveWell, Giving What We Can, Horizon Institute, or METR have this little tab in them that MIRI has (just scroll down after following the link): This little tool comes from doublethedonation.com. I was looking for charities to donate to, and I'm grateful I stumbled upon the MIRI donation page because otherwise I would not have known that Google would literally double my donation. None of the other donation pages except MIRI had this little "does your company do employer matching?" box. WHY. I would wager other tech companies have similar programs, and that a good chunk of EA donations come from employees of those tech companies, and that thousands of dollars a year are wasted in missed opportunities here. If this is an inadequacy, it's a pretty obvious and damaging one. I wish to speak to the manager. I did not spend more than ten minutes noticing this, and just wanted to get this out there as fast as possible. There's a chance I'm being stupid. (Perhaps every tech employee is usually briefed on the donation matching) But if anyone out there has an answer for this or if a GiveWell employee is conveniently walking by and says "wait a minute! We could radically improve our UI!", that'd be great. Thanks for listening. To help us out with The Nonlinear Library or to learn more, please visit nonlinear.org

Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Introducing GiveHealth: a giving Pledge for healthcare workers (and a call for volunteers), published by RichArmitage on January 5, 2024 on The Effective Altruism Forum. What GiveHealth is a new EA-inspired effective giving organisation. It is a community of healthcare professionals who have taken a public Pledge to donate at least 1% of their income to the most effective global health charities. Visitors to the website can Learn about effective giving, their relative wealth on the global stage, how healthcare professionals can improve their impact, the activities of GiveWell and the highly effective nature of the charities recommended by GiveWell. Healthcare professionals are invited to take a public Pledge to donate at least 1% of their income to GiveWell's top charities for the rest of their lives. They can use the Pledge Calculator to determine their monthly/annual donations based on their salary and desired donation percentage. Once they have taken the Pledge their name, profession and location will be displayed on the GiveHealth Community Board, and they can learn about the Charities recommended by GiveWell and follow the links to the donation page of their chosen charities. Pledge takers will receive a survey on each anniversary of their Pledge to capture their donation activities over the previous year so GiveHealth can measure the value of donations it is influencing. Anybody can sign up to the GiveHealth monthly newsletter. Healthcare professionals of all disciplines (nurses, physiotherapists, pharmacists, occupational therapists, doctors, etc) and kinds (clinicians, researchers, managers, policy-makers, students, retired professionals, etc) of any level of seniority, from any part of the world, are welcome to sign the GiveHealth Pledge. Why Healthcare professionals are a self-selected group of generally altruistic individuals who both care about improving the health of others and are motivated to do so. There is also a strong sense of community and camaraderie amongst healthcare professionals, while their awareness and understanding of EA and its principles is generally low. Giving What We Can has shown the public Pledge model to be an effective vehicle for generating donations (by fostering commitment, community and culture), which GiveHealth has combined with a lower barrier to entry (at least 1% of income rather than 10%) that we feel is more appropriate for a group less familiar with EA. Pledge takers are still able to sign the Giving What We Can pledge, and their GiveHealth pledge can be included within, rather than in addition to, their GWWC pledge (since both pledges commit the individual to donating to effective charities) - for example, donating 10% of income can satisfy both a 10% GiveHealth Pledge and the 10% GWWC pledge. We hope the existing strong sense of community between healthcare professionals, and the 1% low barrier to entry, can be harnessed to generate Pledge-taking momentum amongst these professionals, while increasing their awareness and understanding of EA. In this manner, GiveHealth could be regarded as the healthcare profession analogue of High Impact Athletes and Raising for Effective Giving, which are EA-inspired communities of effective giving relevant to specific professions (elite athletes and professional poker players, respectively). Where Healthcare professionals from anywhere in the world are welcome and encouraged to take the GiveHealth Pledge. Who The Co-Founders of GiveHealth are three UK-trained doctors - Richard Armitage (GP in UK), Alastair Yeoh (infectious diseases doctor in UK) and George Altman (intern in Australia). How GiveHealth is currently run on an entirely voluntary basis by the three Co-Founders alongside their full-time work as frontline healthcare professionals. No funds were raised from external source...

By some measures, well over half of charities do little or no good. When similar charities are compared, the most effective ones can be up to 100 times more effective than the least. And there's often a big mismatch between where donors direct their support and where the need and potential benefits are greatest. A movement called effective altruism aims to make giving work better by identifying the most effective charities in the world and encouraging donors to support them generously and strategically. There's been a lot of excitement about it, but lately it's also drawn critics of its ethical premises and the behavior of some who call themselves effective altruists. In this episode Spencer explores both the promise challenges of effective altruism, in a fascinating conversation with one of the movement's leaders, Luke Freeman, Executive Director of Giving What We Can.

Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Where are the GWWC team donating in 2023?, published by Luke Freeman on December 20, 2023 on The Effective Altruism Forum. In this post several Giving What We Can team members have volunteered to share their personal giving decisions for 2023. Wondering why it's beneficial to talk about your donations? Check out our blog post, "Should we be private or public about giving to charity?", where we explore the advantages of being open about our philanthropy. We also recommend reading Claire Zabel's insightful piece, "Talk about donations earlier and more", which underscores the importance of discussing charitable giving more frequently and openly. If you enjoy this post, we also encourage you to check out similar posts from teams at other organisations who've shared their personal giving this year too, such as GiveWell and CEA. Finally, we want to hear from you too! We encourage you to join the conversation by sharing your own donation choices in the comments on "Where are you donating this year and why?". This is a wonderful opportunity to learn from each other and to inspire more thoughtful and impactful giving. Now, let's meet some of our team and learn about their giving decisions in 2023! Fabio Kuhn Lead Software Engineer I took the Giving What We Can Pledge in early 2021 and have consistently contributed slightly above 10% of my income to effective charities since then. Similarly as last year, in 2023, the majority of my donations have been directed towards The Humane League (50%) and The Good Food Institute (5%). I continue to be profoundly unsettled by our treatment of other sentient species. Additionally, I am concerned about the potential long-term risk of moral value lock-in resulting from training AI with our current perspectives on animals. This could lead to a substantial increase in animal suffering unless we promptly address this matter. Considering my view on the gravity of the issue and the apparent lack of sufficient funding in the field, I am positive that contributing to this cause is one of the most impactful options for my donations. The majority of my donations are processed through Effektiv Spenden, allowing for tax-deductible donations in Switzerland. Additionally, I made other noteworthy donations this year: 15% to the Effektiv Spenden "Fight Poverty" fund, which is based on the GiveWell "All Grants Fund". 5% to Effektiv Spenden itself, supporting the maintenance and development of the donation platform. A contribution of 100 CHF to the climate fund, as an attempt of moral offsetting for my carbon footprint. Grace Adams Head of Marketing I took a trial pledge in 2021 for 3% of my income and then the Giving What We Can Pledge in 2022 for at least 10% of my income over my lifetime. My donations since learning about effective giving have primarily benefitted global health and wellbeing charities so far but have also supported ACE and some climate-focused charities as part of additional offsetting. I recently gave $1000 AUD to the Lead Exposure Elimination Project after a Giving Game I ran and sponsored in Melbourne. With the remaining donations, I'm likely to split my support between Giving What We Can's operations (as I now think that my donation to GWWC is likely to be a multiplier and create even more donations for highly effective charities - thanks to our impact evaluation) and GiveWell's recommendations via Effective Altruism Australia so I can receive a tax benefit (and therefore donate more). Lucas Moore Effective Giving Global Coordinator and Incubator I took the Giving What We Can Pledge in 2017. Initially, I gave mainly to Against Malaria Foundation, but over time, I started giving to a wider variety of charities and causes as I learnt more about effective giving. In 2022, I gave mostly to GiveDirectly, and so far in 2023, my donations h...

Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Why Effective Giving Incubation - Report, published by CE on December 19, 2023 on The Effective Altruism Forum. TLDR: At Charity Entrepreneurship, in collaboration with Giving What We Can, we have recently launched a new program: Effective Giving Incubation. In this post, we present our scoping report that explains the reasoning behind creating more Effective Giving Initiatives (EGIs). Learn why we think this is a promising intervention, which locations are optimal for launching, and for whom this would be an ideal career fit. Quick reminder: You can apply to the Effective Giving Incubation program by January 14, 2024. The program will run online from April 15 to June 7, 2024, with 2 weeks in person in London. [APPLY NOW] or sign up for the Effective Giving Incubation interactive webinar on January 4, 5 PM Singapore Time/ 6 PM Japan Time/ 3.30 PM India Time/ 10 AM UK Time/ 11 AM Belgium Time. [SIGN UP] CE is excited about launching EGIs in Ireland, Belgium, Italy, India, Singapore, South Korea, Japan, United Arab Emirates, Mexico, the US and France. We would appreciate your help in reaching potential applicants who are interested in working in these countries. Connect us via email at: ula@charityentrepreneurship.com One paragraph summary In 2024 we are running a special edition of the Charity Entrepreneurship Incubation Program in collaboration with Giving What We Can focused on Effective Giving Initiatives (EGI). EGIs are entities that focus on raising awareness and funneling public and philanthropic donations to the most cost-effective charities worldwide. They will be broadly modeled on existing organizations such as Giving What We Can (GWWC), Effektiv Spenden, and others. We have identified some possible high-priority countries where we believe they will be most successful. Depending on the country and what is most impactful, these initiatives could be fully independent or collaborate with existing projects. Disclaimer: It is important to note that EGIs, including those we intend to incubate, are independent from CE and make their own educated choices of which charities to promote and where to donate funds. CE does not require or encourage any specific recommended charities (such as our prior incubated charities) to be supported by EGIs. Background to this research Charity Entrepreneurship's (CE) mission is to cause more effective non-profit organizations to exist worldwide. To accomplish this mission, we connect talented individuals with high-impact intervention opportunities and provide them with training, colleagues, funding opportunities, and ongoing operational support. For this scoping report, CE collaborated with Giving What We Can (GWWC) to better understand the opportunities Effective Giving Initiatives (EGIs) present as a high-impact intervention, what contributes to the success of such organizations, and where they might be best founded. GWWC was one of the first organizations to champion giving to high-impact nonprofits, has an extensive global network of people interested in effective giving, and more than a decade of experience operating an organization focused on promoting effective charities. EGIs are organizations or projects that aim to promote, typically in a specific target country, the idea of donating to cost-effective charities. They mostly engage in a mix of educational and fundraising activities, with the explicit aim of trying to move money to the most cost-effective interventions that aim to tackle the world's most pressing problems. This report builds on the experience of Giving What We Can, in-depth interviews with experts in the field and successful founders of EGIs, as well as quantitative & qualitative analysis of potential target areas. This report follows a somewhat different methodology than our regular research process used to ...

Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: My quick thoughts on donating to EA Funds' Global Health and Development Fund and what it should do, published by Vasco Grilo on December 15, 2023 on The Effective Altruism Forum. I think there is a strong case for donating to EA Funds' Global Health and Development Fund (GHDF) if one wants to support interventions in global health and development without attending to their effects on animals. On the other hand, given this goal, I believe one had better donate to GiveWell's All Grants Fund (AGF) or unrestricted funds (GWUF), or Giving What We Can's (GWWC's) Global Health and Wellbeing Fund (GHWF). In addition, I encourage GHDF to: Let its donors know that donating to GHDF in its current form has a similar effect to donating to AGF (if that is in fact the case). Consider appointing additional fund managers independent from GiveWell. Consider accepting applications. In any case, the goal of this post is mostly about starting a discussion about the future of GHDF rather than providing super informed takes about it. So feel free to share your thoughts or vision below! Case for donating to GiveWell's All Grants Fund or unrestricted funds Donating to AGF or GWUF instead of GHDF seems better if one highly trusts GiveWell's prioritisation: Donating to GHDF in its current form appears to have the same effect as donating to AGF or GWUF: Like AGF and GWUF, GHDF "aims to improve the health or economic empowerment of people around the world as effectively as possible". My understanding is that GHDF makes more uncertain or riskier grants than GiveWell's Top Charities Fund[1] (TCF), but AGF, launched in August 2022, now makes such grants too. AGF funds: GiveWell's top charities. Organisations implementing potentially cost-effective and scalable programs. Established organisations implementing cost-effective programs that GiveWell does not expect to scale. Organisations aiming to influence public health policy. Organisations producing research to aid our grantmaking process. Organizations that raise funds for our recommended charities. GHDF "is managed by Elie Hassenfeld, GiveWell's co-founder [and CEO]". GHDF does not accept applications, and neither does AGF. People in the United Kingdom can support GiveWell's funds and top charities through tax deductible donations via GiveWell UK, which was launched in August 2022 as AGF. Having EA Funds as an additional intermediary seems unnecessary unless it is doing some extra evaluation, which does not appear to be the case. As a side note, I would also say there is a pretty small difference between which one of GiveWell's funds, TCF, AGF or GWUF, one donates to: Due to funging, more donations to TCF will result in AGF granting less money to GiveWell's top charities. GiveWell arguably has tiny room for more funding given Open Philanthropy's support, so donating to GWUF is similar to donating to AGF[2]. However, if you highly trust GiveWell's prioritisation, donating to GWUF is the best option given its greatest flexibility, followed by the AGF and TCF. Yet, donors may prefer donating to TCF to facilitate explanations of their effective giving (e.g. skipping the need to go into expected value or funging). Case for donating to Giving What We Can's Global Health and Wellbeing Fund Donating to GHWF instead of GHDF seems better if one: Welcomes further evaluation of the process behind the recommendations of GiveWell and other evaluators in the global health and wellbeing space (e.g. Happier Lives Institute), trusts GWWC's research team to identify evaluators to rely on, and wants the evaluations to be published, as in GWWC's evaluations of evaluators. These would be my main reasons for donating to GHWF instead of GHDF, which has not produced public evaluations of GiveWell's recommendations. Is open to donating to funds or organisations not suppo...

Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: EV updates: FTX settlement and the future of EV, published by Zachary Robinson on December 13, 2023 on The Effective Altruism Forum. We're announcing two updates today that we believe will strengthen the effective altruism ecosystem. FTX updates First, we're pleased to say that both Effective Ventures UK and Effective Ventures US have agreed to settlements with the FTX bankruptcy estate. As part of these settlements, EV US and EV UK (which I'll collectively refer to as "EV") have between them paid the estate $26,786,503, an amount equal to 100% of the funds the entities received from FTX and the FTX Foundation (which I'll collectively refer to as "FTX") in 2022. All of this money was either originally received from FTX or allocated to pay the settlement with the knowledge and support of their original donor. This means that EV's projects can continue to fundraise with confidence that donations won't be used to cover the cost of this settlement. We strongly condemn fraud and the actions underlying Sam Bankman-Fried's conviction. Also related to FTX, in September we completed an independent investigation about the relationship between FTX and EV. The investigation, commissioned from the law firm Mintz, included dozens of interviews as well as reviews of tens of thousands of messages and documents. Mintz found no evidence that anyone at EV (including employees, leaders of EV-sponsored projects, and trustees) was aware of the criminal fraud of which Sam Bankman-Fried has now been convicted. While we are not publishing any additional details regarding the investigation because doing so could reveal information from people who have not consented to their confidences being publicized and could waive important legal privileges that we do not intend to waive, we recognize that knowledge of criminal activity isn't the only concern. I plan to share other non-privileged information on lessons learned in the aftermath of FTX and encourage others to share their reflections as well. EV also started working on structural improvements shortly after FTX's collapse and continued to do so alongside the investigation. Over the past year, we have implemented structural governance and oversight improvements, including restructuring the way the two EV charities work together, updating and improving key corporate policies and procedures at both charities, increasing the rigor of donor due diligence, and staffing up the in-house legal departments. Nevertheless, good governance and oversight is not a goal that can ever be definitively 'completed', and we'll continue to iterate and improve. We plan to open source those improvements where feasible so the whole EA ecosystem can learn from EV's challenges and benefit from the work we've done. We're pleased to have reached this point and to bring our financial interactions with the FTX bankruptcy to a close. We expect the settlements will permanently resolve matters between EV US + EV UK and the FTX estate, enabling EV, our teams, and our projects to move forward. Future of EV Which brings me to our second announcement: Now that we consider matters with the FTX estate to be resolved, we are planning to take significant steps to decentralize the effective altruism ecosystem by offboarding the projects which currently sit under the Effective Ventures umbrella. This means CEA, 80,000 Hours, Giving What We Can and other EV-sponsored projects will transition to being independent legal entities, with their own leadership, operational staff, and governance structures. We anticipate the details of the offboarding process will vary by project, and we expect the overall process to take some time - likely 1-2 years until all projects have finished. EV served an important purpose in allowing these projects to launch with lower friction, but the events of last ...

Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: GWWC Operational Funding Match 2023, published by Luke Freeman on December 8, 2023 on The Effective Altruism Forum. We are excited to announce a match for donations made towards our operations at Giving What We Can! Starting December 1st, every dollar donated towards GWWC's operations will be matched 1:1 up to US$200,000 until the match has been exhausted, or until January 31st 2024, whichever comes first*. Donate We believe that GWWC is a great funding opportunity for those who believe in effective giving. Our most recent Impact Evaluation suggests that from 2020 to 2022: GWWC generated an additional $62 million in value for highly-effective charities. GWWC had a giving multiplier of 30x, meaning that for each $1 spent on our operations, we generated $30 of value to highly-effective charities on average. Please note that this isn't a claim that your additional dollar will have a 30x multiplier, even though we think it will still add a lot of value. Read more on how to interpret our results. Each new GWWC Pledge generates >$20,000 of value for highly-effective charities that would not have happened without GWWC. Reaching our US$200K goal will fully unlock the matching funds, and with US$400K we will be close to filling our baseline funding for 2024, allowing us to revamp the How Rich Am I? Calculator, continue evaluating evaluators, launch in new markets, improve the donation platform including likely reworking the checkout flow and much more. We strongly recommend you read our case for funding to learn more about our plans, our impact and what your donation could help us achieve. This is a true, counterfactual match, and we will only receive the equivalent amount to what we can raise. Thank you to Meta Charity Funders for generously providing funding for this match. Donate *The following terms and conditions apply: Match will apply in a 1:1 ratio to donated funds. In other words, for every $1 you donate to GWWC's operations, the matching donors will give $1. The match will be applied to eligible donations from December 1st and will apply retroactively The match will end once US$200,000 has been reached, or we reach January 31st 2024, whichever comes first. Once the matched funds have been exhausted, we will update this page. The match will be applied to both one-off and recurring donations that occur during the match period Donors who have funded more than US$250,000 of GWWC's operations since Jan 1 2022 are not eligible for this match - if you'd like to clarify whether you are ineligible, please contact us at community@givingwhatwecan.org Match will apply to the first US$50,000 per donor Donations can be made through givingwhatwecan.org or through other pathways or entities that can receive donations for GWWC's operations (please contact us for other options, or if you're an Australia tax resident) Gift Aid payments will not be included in the match Thanks for listening. To help us out with The Nonlinear Library or to learn more, please visit nonlinear.org

Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: #GivingTuesday: My Giving Story and Some of My Favorite Charities, published by Kyle J. Lucchese on November 29, 2023 on The Effective Altruism Forum. Happy Giving Tuesday! A friend inspired me to share my giving story and some of my favorite charities. I was raised to love all and to give generously with my time, money, and spirit, aspirations I strive to live up to. When I first read The Life You Can Save in 2009, I realized that I could and should be doing more to help others wherever they are. It wasn't until 2011 when I came across GiveWell and Giving What We Can that I really put these ideas into action. I pledged to donate at least 10% of my income to effective charities and was driven to study business in hopes that I could earn to give more (I still don't make "make much" but it is a lot from a global perspective). Though I believe significant systemic reforms are needed to create a more sustainable and equitable world, I continue to donate at least 10% of my income and use my career to support better todays and tomorrows for all beings. Between now and the end of the year, I will allocate my donations as follows: 20% - The Life You Can Save's Helping Women & Girls Fund: This fund is for donors who seek to address the disproportionate burden on women and girls among people living in extreme poverty. Donations to the fund are split evenly between Breakthrough Trust, CEDOVIP, Educate Girls, Fistula Foundation, and Population Services International. 20% - Animal Charity Evaluators' Recommended Charity Fund: This fund supports 11 of the most impactful charities working to reduce animal suffering around the globe. The organizations supported by the fund include: Çiftlik Hayvanlarını Koruma Derneği, Dansk Vegetarisk Forening, Faunalytics, Fish Welfare Initiative, The Good Food Institute, The Humane League, Legal Impact for Chickens, New Roots Institute, Shrimp Welfare Project, Sinergia Animal, and the Wild Animal Initiative. 20% - Spiro: a new charity focused on preventing childhood deaths from Tuberculosis, fundraising for their first year. Donation details on Spiro's website here. Donations are tax-deductible in the US, UK, and the Netherlands. 15% - Giving What We Can's Risks and Resilience Fund: This fund allocates donations to highly effective organizations working to reduce global catastrophic risks. Funds are allocated evenly between the Long-Term Future Fund and the Emerging Challenges Fund. 10% - Founders Pledge's Climate Change Fund: This fund supports highly impactful, evidence-based solutions to the "triple challenge" of carbon emissions, air pollution, and energy poverty. Recent past recipients of grants from the Climate Change Fund include: Carbon180, Clean Air Task Force, TerraPraxis, and UN High Level Climate Champions. 10% - GiveDirectly: GiveDirectly provides unconditional cash transfers using cell phone technology to some of the world's poorest people, as well as refugees, urban youth, and disaster victims. According to more than 300 independent reviews, cash is an effective way to help people living in poverty, yet people living in extreme poverty rarely get to decide how aid money intended to help them gets spent. 5% - Anima International: Anima aims to improve animal welfare standards via corporate outreach and policy change. They also engage in media outreach and institutional vegan outreach to decrease animal product consumption and increase the availability of plant-based options. Other organizations whose work I have supported throughout the year include: American Civil Liberties Union Foundation EA Funds' Animal Welfare Fund, Global Health and Development Fund, Infrastructure Fund, and Long-Term Future Fund FairVote GiveWell's Top Charities Fund, All Grants Fund, and Unrestricted Fund Project on Government Oversight The Life You Can Save...

Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: GWWC's new recommendations and cause area funds, published by Sjir Hoeijmakers on November 27, 2023 on The Effective Altruism Forum. Giving What We Can's new fund and charity recommendations are now online! These recommendations are the result of our recent evaluations of evaluators. Our research team hasn't evaluated all impact-focused evaluators, and evaluators haven't looked into all promising causes and charities, which is why we also host a variety of other promising programs that you can donate to via our donation platform. We're also thrilled to announce the launch of a new donation option: Giving What We Can cause area funds. These funds offer a convenient option for donors who want to be confident they'll be supporting high-impact giving opportunities within a particular cause area and don't want to worry about choosing between top-rated funds or having to manually update their selections as our recommendations change. Global Health and Wellbeing Fund Effective Animal Advocacy Fund Risks and Resilience Fund You can set up a donation to one or more of these funds, and we'll allocate it based on the best available opportunities we know of in a cause area, guided by the evaluators we've evaluated. As the evaluators we work with and their recommendations change, we'll update accordingly, so your donations will always be allocated based on our latest research. Our recommendations Our content and design teams have been working hard to revamp our recommendations page and donation platform, so you can more easily find and donate to the charities and funds that align with your values. We encourage you to check them out, give us feedback, and share with your friends (we've made some sample social media posts you could use/adapt). Global health and wellbeing: GiveWell's Top Charities Fund (Grants to the charities below) GiveWell's All Grants Fund (Supports high-impact opportunities across global health and wellbeing) Malaria Consortium (Seasonal Malaria Chemoprevention Programme) Against Malaria Foundation (Bednets to prevent malaria) New Incentives (Childhood immunisation incentives) Helen Keller International (Vitamin A supplementation) Animal welfare: EA Funds' Animal Welfare Fund (Supports high-impact opportunities to improve animal welfare) The Humane League's corporate campaign work (Corporate campaigns for chicken welfare) Reducing global catastrophic risks: Longview's Emerging Challenges Fund (Previously the "Longtermism Fund" - name change to be reflected on our website tomorrow) (Supports high-impact work on reducing GCRs) EA Funds' Long-Term Future Fund (Supports high-impact work on reducing GCRs) As always, we value your feedback, so if you have any questions or comments, please leave them in the comments section here or under our recent post on our evaluations; participate in our AMA today and tomorrow; and/or get in touch with us! Thanks for listening. To help us out with The Nonlinear Library or to learn more, please visit nonlinear.org

Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: GWWC is funding constrained (and prefers broad-base support), published by Luke Freeman on November 23, 2023 on The Effective Altruism Forum. Giving What We Can is making giving effectively and significantly a cultural norm - and raising a lot of funds for highly effective charities. We're currently seeking funding to continue our work and ensure that we can inspire many more people to give effectively in the future. In 2024, we're hoping to hit 10,000 lifetime pledges. At Giving We We Can, we encourage people to give more and give better. Give more: We encourage people to pledge to give at least 10% of their income until the day they retire. Give better: We provide a donation platform that makes it easy for people to donate to our recommended high-impact charities. Over 8,500 people have taken the Giving What We Can Pledge to donate at least 10% of their income, and have collectively donated over $300 million. By 2030, we want to get to 100,000 pledgers and well over $1 billion of donations. Our ultimate mission is to make donating at least 10%, as effectively as possible, the global norm. We do this in three key ways: Our pledge: which has inspired a movement of donors to give more significantly, more sustainably, & more effectively. Our expertise: which helps donors to give more effectively across a diversity of causes and worldviews. Our donation platform: which makes effective giving easy & accessible for half a billion people on our expanding list of countries (more coming in 2024!). Our audience We believe that many people are in a position to do a lot of good by giving effectively. We aim to change the norms around giving, encouraging people to be more impactful and generous. Our pitch A decade of charity research has revealed something huge: The best charitable interventions often have 100x more impact per dollar than average ones At GWWC, we help donors find those opportunities (leveraging thousands of hours of research) & make them easy to donate to via our donation platform. Our impact From 2020 to 2022, we estimate that we caused $45 million to go to charity. Once we account for the value of new pledge commitments, we estimate we generated $62 million in value. These figures are our best guess of how much we caused to go to highly effective charities - they don't count money that would have been given anyway or money given to charities we aren't sure are effective. The monetary impact of GWWC is best documented in our most recent Impact Evaluation, which suggests that from 2020 to 2022: GWWC generated an additional $62 million in value for highly-effective charities. GWWC had a giving multiplier of 30x, meaning that for each $1 spent on our operations, we generated $30 of value to highly-effective charities on average. Please note that this isn't a claim that your additional dollar will have a 30x multiplier, even though we think it will still add a lot of value. Read more on how to interpret our results. Each new GWWC Pledge generates >$20,000 of value for highly-effective charities that would not have happened without GWWC. This evaluation suggests something we long suspected: If your goal is to get resources into the hands of highly-effective charities, we believe supporting Giving What We Can is a great funding opportunity. The cultural impact of GWWC (although harder to quantify) has also been significant by making the idea of giving 10% effectively more accessible and compelling to a broader audience. "Pledging 10% to effective charities" has become a touchstone of the effective giving community - inspiring TED talks, launching clubs, & drawing curiosity & praise from press around the world. Our plans We believe most of our impact lies in the coming decades, and Giving What We Can has spent the past 3.5 years building a sustainable foundation for...

Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: The passing of Sebastian Lodemann, published by ClaireB on November 23, 2023 on The Effective Altruism Forum. With immense sadness, we want to let the community know about the passing of Sebastian Lodemann, who lost his life on November 9th, 2023, in a completely unexpected and sudden accident. Those who have met him know how humble and kind he was, in addition to being a brilliant and energetic person full of light. Sebastian was deeply altruistic, curious, and took seriously both the challenges facing our world, and its potential. He loved connecting with humans from across the globe and supporting as many people as he could, so there will be a wide international community of people who will keenly feel his absence. Sebastian has been involved with EA since 2016, working on a wide range of projects in AI governance and strategy, pandemic prevention, civilisational resilience and career advising, and taking the Giving What We Can pledge. We extend our deepest sympathies to Sebastian's wife, his children, his parents and the rest of their family during this incredibly difficult time. We stand with them in mourning and in honoring the memory of a wonderful person who was taken from us far too soon. Sebastian's funeral ceremony took place on November 18th. Here are some steps you can take to commemorate Sebastian: You can make a donation to Sebastian's wife and children here (in euros) or here (in USD or in CAD). For other currencies, you can contact us as commemoratesebastian@gmail.com* If you would like to be invited to a virtual gathering in memory of Sebastian, please complete this short form or email commemoratesebastian@gmail.com To share memories of Sebastian for his family and his young children to know who their father was and how he was a force for good in the world in ways they might not otherwise get to learn, you can use this link, or share your thoughts in the comments. Thanks for listening. To help us out with The Nonlinear Library or to learn more, please visit nonlinear.org

Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: GWWC's evaluations of evaluators, published by Sjir Hoeijmakers on November 22, 2023 on The Effective Altruism Forum. The Giving What We Can research team is excited to share the results of our first round of evaluations of charity evaluators and grantmakers! After announcing our plans for a new research direction last year, we have now completed five[1] evaluations that will inform our donation recommendations for this giving season. There are substantial limitations to these evaluations, but we nevertheless think that this is a significant improvement on the status quo, in which there were no independent evaluations of evaluators' work. We plan to continue to evaluate evaluators, extending the list beyond the five we've covered so far, improving our methodology, and regularly renewing our existing evaluations. In this post, we share the key takeaways from each of these evaluations, and link to the full reports. Our website will be updated to reflect the new fund and charity recommendations that came out of these evaluations (alongside many other updates) on Monday, the 27th. We are sharing these reports in advance of our website update so those interested have time to read them and can ask questions before our AMA next Monday and Tuesday. We're also sharing some context about why and how we evaluate evaluators, which will be included in our Monday website update as well. One other exciting (and related) announcement: we'll be launching our new GWWC cause area funds on Monday! These funds (which you'll see referenced in the reports) will make grants based on our latest evaluations of evaluators, advised by the evaluators we end up working with.[2] We are launching them to provide a strong and easy default donation option for donors, and one that will stay up-to-date over time (i.e., donors can set up a recurring donation to these funds knowing that it will always be allocated based on GWWC's latest research). donation platform as well. We look forward to your questions and comments, and in particular to engaging with you in our AMA! (Please note that we may not be able to reply to many comments until then, as we are finalising the website updates and some of us will be on leave.) Global health and wellbeing GiveWell (GW) Based on our evaluation, we've decided to continue to rely on GW's charity recommendations and to ask GW to advise our new GWWC Global Health and Wellbeing Fund. Some takeaways that inform this decision include: GW's overall processes for charity recommendations and grantmaking are generally very strong, reflecting a lot of best practices in finding and funding the most cost-effective opportunities. GW's cost-effectiveness analyses stood up to our quality checks. We thought its work was remarkably evenhanded (we never got the impression that the evaluations were exaggerated), and we generally found only minor issues in the substance of its reasoning, though we did find issues with how well this reasoning was presented and explained. We found it noteworthy how much subjective judgement plays a role in its work, especially with how GW compares different outcomes (like saving and improving lives), and also in some key parameters in its cost-effectiveness analyses supporting deworming. We think reasonable people could come to different conclusions than GW does in some cases, but we think GW's approach is sufficiently well justified overall for our purposes. For more, please see the evaluation report. Happier Lives Institute (HLI) We stopped this evaluation short of finishing it, because we thought the costs of finalising it outweighed the potential benefits at this stage. For more on this decision and on what we did learn about HLI, please see the evaluation report. Animal welfare EA Funds' Animal Welfare Fund (AWF) Based on our evaluation, we've decide...

We are living in a time of incredible technological advances that pose both opportunities and risks to the human species. Andy speaks with futurist William MacAskill about some of the ways humanity could end, from nuclear war to artificial intelligence, and how to take steps now to prevent our own extinction. He explains his approach to living with a long term mindset and the ways in which the future could be a thousand times greater than it is today. Keep up with Andy on Twitter @ASlavitt. Follow William MacAskill on Twitter @willmacaskill. Joining Lemonada Premium is a great way to support our show and get bonus content. Subscribe today at bit.ly/lemonadapremium.    Support the show by checking out our sponsors! CVS Health helps people navigate the healthcare system and their personal healthcare by improving access, lowering costs and being a trusted partner for every meaningful moment of health. At CVS Health, healthier happens together. Learn more at cvshealth.com. Click this link for a list of current sponsors and discount codes for this show and all Lemonada shows: https://lemonadamedia.com/sponsors/    Check out these resources from today's episode:  Order William's book, “What We Owe the Future”: https://whatweowethefuture.com/ Learn about William's organization, Giving What We Can: https://www.givingwhatwecan.org/ Learn about 80,000 Hours, an organization that helps students and graduates find careers that tackle the world's most pressing problems: https://80000hours.org/ Find vaccines, masks, testing, treatments, and other resources in your community: https://www.covid.gov/ Order Andy's book, “Preventable: The Inside Story of How Leadership Failures, Politics, and Selfishness Doomed the U.S. Coronavirus Response”: https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250770165  Stay up to date with us on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram at @LemonadaMedia.  For additional resources, information, and a transcript of the episode, visit lemonadamedia.com/show/inthebubble.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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