Podcasts about Giving What We Can

A SEAT at THE TABLE: Leadership, Innovation & Vision for a New Era

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 5, 2026 62:44

Read the full transcript here. The Clearer Thinking Podcast listener survey is here! If you've ever listened to the Clearer Thinking podcast before, we'd love it if you'd take our listener survey so we can learn about your experience and improve the podcast based on your feedback. Give feedback to help us improve the Clearer Thinking podcast! If you vanished from your job tomorrow, what would change? When is a high paying job more impact than direct service? How do you estimate your counterfactual contribution without fooling yourself? What signals tell you a problem is neglected rather than merely unpopular? Are you optimizing for visible outcomes instead of real outcomes? Which incentives in charities and NGOs quietly distort priorities? Could a simple weighted factor model outperform your gut on big choices? What would make you switch paths even if you feel committed? How do you balance personal fit with moral urgency? Devon Fritz is co-founder of High Impact Professionals and has spent eight years across various roles coaching professionals on maximizing their career impact and advising on strategic philanthropic giving. He most recently served as Chief Operating Officer at Ambitious Impact, leading programs that help philanthropists improve the impact of their grantmaking. Previously, as Managing Director and CTO at Founders Pledge, Devon helped grow the organization's pledge value to over $2 billion. He is a Giving What We Can 10% pledge member and holds degrees in computer science, information technology, and computational linguistics. He serves on multiple nonprofit boards and is author of "How Do You Know?", an illustrated children's book. He lives in Berlin with his partner and two children. Links: Devon's New Book: The High-Impact Professionals Playbook High Impact Professionals Clearer Thinking Imposter Syndrome Test Staff Spencer Greenberg — Host + Director Ryan Kessler — Producer + Technical Lead WeAmplify — Transcriptionists Igor Scaldini — Marketing Consultant Music Broke for Free Josh Woodward Lee Rosevere Quiet Music for Tiny Robots wowamusic zapsplat.com Affiliates Clearer Thinking GuidedTrack Mind Ease Positly UpLift [Read more]

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Evidence-Based Impact: Applying Corporate Rigor to Philanthropy and Beyond

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 4, 2026 24:57

One of the biggest challenges in business is being able to turn one-off projects into repeatable, profitable project management systems.It sounds simple. Lean into process documentation. Gather deep data. Use advanced analytics. But there's more to it if you want to drive efficiency and scale your services.Today we are joined by Claus Geissendoerfer, owner of Amstadd, an IT staffing and systemic business optimization specialist that helps organizations from multinationals to scaling startups shift from chaotic Project Management to highly scalable, repeatable Product Management systems, ensuring efficiency and sustainable growth. Claus is also an ambassador for Giving What We Can - an initiative that applies rigorous, data-driven analysis to identify and support charitable causes that deliver the greatest good per dollar.In this episode of A Seat at The Table, Claus will discuss:How companies can transition from chaotic Project Management to scalable, repeatable Product Management systemsThe key operational metrics leaders must focus on to maximize profit per employee and eliminate wasteHow a partnership-driven model challenges and outperforms traditional corporate hierarchies in the enterprise world.Let's sit down with Claus and find out how we can reduce some of the chaos in our businesses.USEFUL LINKS: Give What We Can website: https://www.givingwhatwecan.org/ Connect with Claus on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/clausggeissen/Visit A Seat at The Table's website at https://seat.fm

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“GWWC's 2025 evaluations of evaluators” by Aidan Whitfield

Simple English News Daily

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 15, 2025 7:25

The Giving What We Can research team is excited to share the results of our 2025 round of evaluations of charity evaluators and grantmakers! In this round, we completed two evaluations that will inform our donation recommendations for the 2025 giving season. As with our previous rounds, there are substantial limitations to these evaluations, but we nevertheless think that they are a significant improvement to a landscape in which there were previously no independent evaluations of evaluators' work. In this post, we share the key takeaways from our two 2025 evaluations and link to the full reports. In our conclusion, we explain our plans for future evaluations. Please also see our website for more context on why and how we evaluate evaluators. We look forward to your questions and comments! (Note: we will respond when we return from leave on the 8th of December) Key takeaways from each of our 2025 evaluations The two evaluators included in our 2025 round of evaluating evaluators were: GiveWell (full report) Happier Lives Institute (full report) GiveWell Based on our evaluation, we have decided to continue including GiveWell's Top Charities, Top Charities Fund and All Grants Fund in GWWC's [...] ---Outline:(01:08) Key takeaways from each of our 2025 evaluations(01:25) GiveWell(03:18) Happier Lives Institute (HLI)(06:29) Conclusion and future plans --- First published: December 1st, 2025 Source: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/sAiHYuuGGT7qvne5P/gwwc-s-2025-evaluations-of-evaluators --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.

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Giving Effectively (with James Rayton)

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 13, 2025 50:00 Transcription Available

Stephen talks to James Rayton of the organization Giving What We Can.Stephen and James talk about what effective altruism is, how it is possible to research and calculate effective giving, the possible problems and limits of effective altruism, how giving is affected by our emotions, how much it costs to save a human life, the cuts in aid across the world in 2025, how much difference we can all make, how and why SEND7 have been giving 10% of its profit to charity, and about whether it is right to talk about money and charity like this, or whether donating to charity is something which is supposed to be done in private and not spoken about.Do you have a question? Stephen will answer it next week.Send a voice note at www.speakpipe.com/send7Or an email to podcast@send7.orgGet access to all of our transcripts, vocabulary lists, worksheets, and world news quizzes by becoming a supporter at send7.org .We give 10% of all of our profit to the charities we speak about in this episode.

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Can you do 100x more good? (with Sjir Hoeijmakers)

How I Learned to Love Shrimp

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 19, 2025 83:29

Read the full transcript here. What does “100x more good” mean relative to your current giving? How can your giving more closely align with your pre-existing values? If cost-effectiveness is the denominator we forget, what changes when dollars per outcome sit front and center? Can independent evaluators fix a charity market that rewards storytelling over outcomes? Greatest need, stronger evidence, cost per result, a wider moral circle, multipliers - how do each of these levers compare in your giving portfolio? How do self, passion, and effectiveness map cleanly onto your intrinsic values? How do you avoid bad compromises? When do risky policy bets beat reliable bed nets? How do you keep prevention's invisible wins from being crowded out by visible cures and photogenic stories? What kind of pledge or trial would actually help you follow through and inspire others without preaching? If the biggest brands need your dollar least, where is it marginally decisive right now? Sjir Hoeijmakers is the CEO of Giving What We Can, the global organization promoting effective giving and the 10% Pledge, which recently reached the 10,000 10% Pledger mark. He has a background in impact evaluation and non-profit entrepreneurship, serving as GWWC's Director of Research immediately prior to becoming their CEO. Sjir is a long-time pledger himself as well, having pledged 20% previously and currently donating ~50% of his income to high-impact charities across various causes. You can find Sjir on LinkedIn, and read more about his work at GWWC and the 10% Pledge on their website. Links: Giving What We Can The 10% Pledge Staff Spencer Greenberg — Host + Director Ryan Kessler — Producer + Technical Lead WeAmplify — Transcriptionists Igor Scaldini — Marketing Consultant Music Broke for Free Josh Woodward Lee Rosevere Quiet Music for Tiny Robots wowamusic zapsplat.com Affiliates Clearer Thinking GuidedTrack Mind Ease Positly UpLift [Read more]

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Vicky Bond on what it's really like to lead in animal advocacy

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 11, 2025 77:33 Transcription Available

Vicky Bond has done lots of impressive stuff in her career – she started working as a vet and later ended up running a 100+ person organisation, The Humane League (THL), which many of you might be familiar with as one of the key organisations campaigning to get chickens out of cages. She is now the CEO of Madre Brava, an international climate campaigning group focused on food. Given Vicky's extensive leadership and management experience, managing teams ranging from 5 to over 110, I wanted to pick her brains about leadership and management in the animal advocacy movement. I would highly recommend it for people who are leading teams of any size or want to learn more about how to do it well!Podcast news:We now have a Substack where we'll soon be sharing summaries and key takeaways from all episodes! We'll also be doing polls where you can vote on the next guests. Sign up here.After our last episode with Sjir from Giving What We Can, we've had some people take a pledge to donate between 5-10% of their income to effective charities – this is incredible! But I said I would give up to £1000, and most of this is still up for grabs. So if you're considering pledging, now is a great time as I'll be donating £50 to Giving What We Can's effective animal advocacy fund for each person who takes the trial pledge of 1% or full 10% pledge, up to a total of £1000. So, if you sign up via the links below, there is a special tracker that will let me know how many people take it, and I'll donate accordingly. The

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“Recommitting to Giving: A Personal Update” by frankieaw

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Play Episode Listen Later Nov 1, 2025 3:59

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“My EA Senescence” by Michael_PJ

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Play Episode Listen Later Oct 21, 2025 5:59

I have some claim to be an “old hand” EA:[1] I was in the room when the creation Giving What We Can was announced (although I vacillated about joining for quite a while) I first went to EA Global in 2015 I worked on a not-very successful EA project for a while But I have not really been much involved in the community since about 2020. The interesting thing about this is that my withdrawal from the community has nothing to do with disagreements, personal conflicts, or FTX. I still pretty much agree with most “orthodox EA” positions, and I think that both the idea of EA and the movement remain straightforwardly good and relevant. Hence why I describe the process as “senescence”: intellectually and philosophically I am still on board and I still donate, I just… don't particularly want to participate beyond that. Boredom I won't sugar-coat [...] ---Outline:(01:00) Boredom(04:05) What do I have to offer?--- First published: October 19th, 2025 Source: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/rJqQGD2z2DaupCbZE/my-ea-senescence --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.

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WORKING TO MAKE THE WORLD A BETTER PLACE with Julia van Boven & Sjir Hoeijmakers

Lives Well Lived

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 16, 2025 52:57

Julia & Sjir are dedicated to making a global impact. Sjir describes how a 2015 TED Talk by Peter on effective altruism inspired his involvement with organisations like Giving What We Can, which promotes effective philanthropy. Julia shares her journey to co-founding the School for Moral Ambition, and aligning her career with her values. Their discussion explores how to balance personal life with meaningful work and how to inspire others toward effective giving.10% Pledge: https://www.givingwhatwecan.org/pledgeTrial Pledge: https://www.givingwhatwecan.org/get-involved/trial-pledgeComparing charities (100x multiplier): https://www.givingwhatwecan.org/charity-comparisonsThe School for Moral Ambition: https://www.moralambition.org/Moral Ambition Community: https://www.moralambition.org/communityProfit for Good: https://www.moralambition.org/profit-for-good Keep up to date with Peter on SubstackKeep up to date with Kasia!Executive Producer: Rachel BarrettThanks to our volunteer researcher Chris van Ryn! And special thanks to Suzi Jamil! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Sjir Hoeijmakers on a small commitment that will help millions of animals

How I Learned to Love Shrimp

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 14, 2025 70:51 Transcription Available

Today we're talking about a topic that's really important to me personally: donating and effective giving. Specifically, why donating 10% of your income to the most effective animal charities might be one of the most important things you can do to improve the world.To dive deep into this topic, I'm so excited to have Sjir Hoeijmakers on the show today. Sjir is the CEO of Giving What We Can (GWWC), the global organisation promoting effective giving and the 10% pledge. Even more impressive than this, he donates around 50% of his income to effective charities, so he really puts his money where his mouth is! In our conversation, we talk about the impact your donation can have, why it also makes sense for people who work full-time in the movement and why the act of pledging really matters. We also talk about another important part of Giving What We Can's work: Their evaluation of regrantors and evaluators, including the Effective Altruism Animal Welfare Fund and Animal Charity Evaluators. If anything we talk about today sparks your interest, I really encourage you to consider taking the trial pledge, where you can pledge to give just 1% of your income to effective charities. It's a great way to test it out and see if it works for you. Personally, taking the pledge is one of the things I'm proudest of. Because of this, I'll be donating £50 to Giving What We Can's effective animal advocacy fund for each person who takes the trial pledge or full 10% pledge, up to a total of £1000. So, if you sign up via the links below, there is a special tracker that will let me know how many people take it, and I'll donate accordingly. Take the

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“A big milestone: 10,000 10% pledgers!” by Giving What We Can

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 14, 2025 1:23

Giving What We Can has reached 10,000

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“Reflections on the $5 Minimum Donation Barrier on the Giving What We Can Platform — A Student Perspective from a Lower-Income Country.” by Habeeb Abdul

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Play Episode Listen Later Apr 29, 2025 2:52

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.

“Reflections on the $5 Minimum Donation Barrier on the Giving What We Can Platform — A Student Perspective from a Lower-Income Country.” by Habeeb Abdul

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Play Episode Listen Later Apr 29, 2025 3:08

“Introducing The Spending What We Must Pledge” by Thomas Kwa

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 1, 2025 5:22

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“Introducing The Spending What We Must Pledge” by Thomas Kwa

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 1, 2025 5:30

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“GWWC's 2024 evaluations of evaluators” by Giving What We Can, Aidan Whitfield

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 28, 2024 12:33

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.

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“GWWC's 2024 evaluations of evaluators” by Giving What We Can, Aidan Whitfield

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 28, 2024 12:37

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.

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“Announcing Sjir Hoeijmakers as the new CEO of Giving What We Can” by Giving What We Can

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Play Episode Listen Later Nov 16, 2024 1:41

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.

[Linkpost] “Announcing Sjir Hoeijmakers as the new CEO of Giving What We Can” by Giving What We Can

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Play Episode Listen Later Nov 16, 2024 1:45

“Why you should allocate more of your donation budget to effective giving organisations” by Luke Moore

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 15, 2024 29:27

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.

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“Visualizing EA ideas” by Alex Savard

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 2, 2024 11:29

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.

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Who To Donate To? Effective Altruism And Animals

Freedom of Species

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 22, 2024

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

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EA - Five Years of Animal Advocacy Careers: Our Journey to impact, Lessons Learned, and What's Next by lauren mee

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Play Episode Listen Later Sep 19, 2024 28:13

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...

“Stepping down from GWWC: So long, and thanks for all the shrimp” by Luke Freeman

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 11, 2024 14:22

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.

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EA - Stepping down from GWWC: So long, and thanks for all the shrimp by Luke Freeman

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 10, 2024 12:22

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...

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EA - Giving What We Can is now its own legal entity! by Alana HF

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 3, 2024 1:40

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

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Decision-making and play-testing (with Dan Epstein)

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 28, 2024 69:56

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]

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“Presenting five new effective giving initiatives” by CE, Ben Williamson

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 15, 2024 20:35

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.

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“Presenting five new effective giving initiatives” by CE, Ben Williamson

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 15, 2024 20:20

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 SummariesEllis Impact Co-founders: Fernando Martin-Gullans, Helene [...] ---Outline:(00:11) Introduction(01:10) Organization Summaries(01:14) Ellis Impact(01:42) Background (why is this a promising country/angle for an EGI?)(02:51) Near-term plans(03:25) Targets (reach/giving multiplier/etc.)(03:48) Room for more funding(05:02) Benefficienza(05:28) Background (why is this a promising country/angle for an EGI?)(06:10) Near-term plans(06:51) Targets (reach/giving multiplier/etc.)(07:05) Room for more funding(07:48) Mieux Donner(08:14) Background(10:00) Near-term plans(11:28) Targets(11:57) Room for more funding(12:44) Effectief Geven(13:16) Background(14:07) Near-term plans(14:57) Targets(15:13) 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(18:39) 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.

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EA - Presenting five new effective giving initiatives by CE

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 13, 2024 16:40

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...

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EA - New video from Ali Abdaal (5.74m YT subscribers): Why I'm giving 10% of my income to charity (forever) by Giving What We Can

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Play Episode Listen Later Aug 9, 2024 0:46

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

EA - Introducing Mieux Donner: A new effective giving initiative in France by Jennifer Stretton

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 24, 2024 5:30

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...

“We've renamed the Giving What We Can Pledge” by Alana HF, Giving What We Can

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Play Episode Listen Later Jul 11, 2024 8:00

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“We've renamed the Giving What We Can Pledge” by Alana HF, Giving What We Can

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Play Episode Listen Later Jul 2, 2024 8:34

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EA - We've renamed the Giving What We Can Pledge by Alana HF

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Play Episode Listen Later Jul 1, 2024 6:03

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...

EA - What "Effective Altruism" Means to Me by Richard Y Chappell

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 14, 2024 13:24

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 ...

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EA - 5 things you've got wrong about the Giving What We Can Pledge by Alana HF

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Play Episode Listen Later May 15, 2024 10:28

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...

EA - Émile P. Torres's history of dishonesty and harassment by anonymous-for-obvious-reasons

Play Episode Listen Later May 1, 2024 38:22

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...

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EA - How you can help right now to introduce ideas of effective giving to young people by Adam Steinberg

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 18, 2024 6:29

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...

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