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In this episode of "Magic in the Room," hosts Hannah Bratterud, Chris Province, and Luke Freeman delve into the complexities of leadership, particularly when dealing with personal and professional challenges that aren't covered by standard policies. They discuss the importance of embracing a holistic community approach in workplaces, where personal and work lives intersect, and the difficulties leaders face when unexpected events, such as illness or loss, occur. The conversation is deeply personal, as Chris shares the story of his late friend Doug, highlighting the impact of personal relationships on professional environments. The discussion highlights the need for strategic planning that includes contingencies for unexpected disruptions and the importance of vulnerability and open communication in building trust within teams.

Welcome to a new season of Magic In The Room! In this episode, hosts Hannah Bratterud, Chris Province, and Luke Freeman reflect on the evolution of their podcast as they enter this new season. They discuss the concept of seasons in both personal and professional contexts, emphasizing the importance of recognizing transitions and growth. The team shares insights from their recent strategic planning session, highlighting the theme of "Year of the Snake," which symbolizes shedding old layers and embracing renewal. They also reflect on the challenges and successes of 2024, noting rapid growth and the need to address structural weaknesses. Looking ahead to 2025, they focus on themes of agility, purpose-driven leadership, and building capacity in various aspects of life and business.

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...

Elizabethton and Carter County, TN Outdoors and Tourism Highlights is the third episode in our series to promote Northeast Tennessee as a tourism destination. It is produced in collaboration with Visit Johnson City and regional partners hosting the OWAA's inaugural Field Fest event.We have the pleasure of journeying into the heart of Northeast Tennessee with Luke Freeman, the tourism director for the scenic region of Elizabethton and Carter County, TN. In this episode, we're peeling back the layers of the great outdoors in northeast Tennessee. This area has seen a surge in nature-based travel since the world began seeking refuge in Mother Nature's arms. With attractions like the Appalachian Trail, Watauga Lake, and the Tweetsie Trail, it's no wonder that Carter County is a magnet for thru-hikers, families, and adventurers alike.TOPICS WE DISCUSSED

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: GWWC is spinning out of EV, published by Luke Freeman on December 13, 2023 on The Effective Altruism Forum. Giving What We Can (GWWC) is embarking on an exciting new chapter: after years of support, we will be spinning out of the Effective Ventures Foundation UK and US (collectively referred to as " EV"), our parent charities in the US and UK respectively, to become an independent organisation. Rest assured that our core mission, commitments, and focus on effective giving remain unchanged. We believe this transition will allow us to better serve our community and to achieve our mission more effectively. Below, you'll find all the details you need, including what is changing, what isn't, and how you can get involved. A heartfelt thanks First and foremost, we owe a very big thank you to the team at EV. Their support over the years has helped us to grow and have a meaningful impact in the world. We could not be more grateful for their support. A big thank you also to our members and donors who have supported us along the way. In particular I'd like to thank the many of you who we've consulted throughout the process of arriving at this decision and working on a plan. Why spin out? When GWWC was founded in 2009, it was among the first in a small constellation of initiatives aimed at fostering what would soon be called "effective altruism." In 2011, following the establishment of 80,000 Hours, both organisations came together to form the Centre for Effective Altruism (which is now EV to disambiguate from the project called Centre for Effective Altruism, which is also housed within EV). A lot has changed in the intervening years, both within GWWC and within EV. Today, EV is home to more than 10 different initiatives and is focused on a broad range of issues. As for GWWC, we have developed ambitious plans for our future and are committed to focusing more than ever on our core mission: to make effective and significant giving a cultural norm. We've been considering this option for quite some time and have come to the conclusion that the best way to achieve our mission is to be an independent organisation. Being independent will allow us to: Align our organisational structure and governance more closely with our mission. Better manage our own legal and reputational risks. Have greater clarity and transparency of our inner workings and governance to the outside world. Have greater control over our operational costs. We believe that these changes will enable us to serve our community better and to contribute more effectively to growing effective giving. The details For most of you, very little will change. There will be a multi-stage transition period (most of which we estimate will be completed over the next 12 months) and any relevant changes will be communicated in a timely and transparent manner. Here's what to expect: What's changing We have registered Giving What We Can USA Inc. as a 501(c)(3) charity in the US, and have started the process of registering charities in the UK and Canada. There will be a transfer of GWWC-specific intellectual property, contracts, services, and data (e.g. brand, databases, website, files) to the new entities (exact structure to be determined) and a transition of the donation platform across to the new entities. Our supported programs (e.g. charitable projects and grantmaking funds) will need to be onboarded as programs with our new entities before any switch over dates (TBC) in each country. We are recruiting new governance and advisory boards for the new entities. We're also pursuing affiliate arrangements to continue to expand effective-giving support into new countries (e.g. our collaboration with EA Australia to launch GWWC Australia). This will include adapting our approach to local tax situations, cultural contexts, languages, and curre...

Giving What We Can (GWWC) is embarking on an exciting new chapter: after years of support, we will be spinning out of the Effective Ventures Foundation UK and US (collectively referred to as “EV”), our parent charities in the US and UK respectively, to become an independent organisation. Rest assured that our core mission, commitments, and focus on effective giving remain unchanged. We believe this transition will allow us to better serve our community and to achieve our mission more effectively. Below, you'll find all the details you need, including what is changing, what isn't, and how you can get involved. A heartfelt thanks First and foremost, we owe a very big thank you to the team at EV. Their support over the years has helped us to grow and have a meaningful impact in the world. We could not be more grateful for their support. A big thank [...] ---Outline:(00:41) A heartfelt thanks(01:08) Why spin out?(02:36) The details(02:55) Whats changing(04:03) Whats not changing(04:51) How you can help(05:09) Have more questions?--- First published: December 13th, 2023 Source: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/ngoqSAbcdYhhNgBza/gwwc-is-spinning-out-of-ev --- 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: 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: Join GWWC's governance or advisory boards, published by Luke Freeman on November 28, 2023 on The Effective Altruism Forum. Giving What We Can (GWWC) is seeking dedicated individuals to join our governance and advisory boards across our current projects as well as multiple newly formed or soon-to-be-formed entities in different countries. * Apply now * About the roles Our governance and advisory boards will collectively shape GWWC's strategic direction, ensuring that our organisation is robust and that our activities are effectively bringing us closer to achieving our mission. Our goal is to build a diverse, mission-aligned, and strategic-thinking governance structure that can drive us forward. Across the governance and advisory boards we aim to ensure robust coverage across several domains: strategic guidance, risk management, fundraising, legal compliance, financial stewardship, advocacy, organisational health, and grantmaking. We are seeking individuals who can leverage their unique skills and experiences to contribute in a significant way to these collective responsibilities. These roles would be part of a global team, working remotely with a commitment of approximately five hours per month. Although this position is unpaid, your contributions will significantly shape our approach to philanthropy and our impact on the world's most pressing problems. Governance boards These boards bear the legal responsibilities under the laws applicable to GWWC in their respective geographies and will participate in oversight of the international collaboration. Their duties include areas such as strategic planning, local risk management, legal compliance, financial stewardship, and executive management. Some governance board members will sit on more than one board depending on the jurisdiction and the structure of the relationship between the entities. Advisory boards Operating across our various entities, the advisory boards provide insights, recommendations, and strategic advice to the governance boards and the GWWC team. For example, a Risk and Legal Advisory Board would work in tandem with relevant governance board members and staff members from each legal entity and incorporate volunteers with specific expertise in risk and legal matters. Similarly, a Marketing and Growth Advisory Board would provide advice to the international collaboration and to specific geographies. Being a part of an advisory board also provides an opportunity for members to demonstrate their fit for potential future roles in the governance boards. About Giving What We Can GWWC is on a mission to create a world in which giving effectively and significantly is a cultural norm. We believe that charitable donations can do an astonishing amount of good. However, because the effectiveness of different charities varies wildly, it is important that we donate to the most effective charities if we want to have a significant impact. We are focused on increasing the number of donors who prioritise effectiveness, and helping them to maximise their charitable impact throughout their lives. We are best known for the Giving What We Can Pledge, where 8,598 people have pledged to give over 10% of their lifetime income to high-impact charities. To date, our pledgers - representing over 100 countries - have donated an estimated $333 million USD to high-impact charities, and have committed nearly $3 billion more via their lifetime pledges. The GWWC team is hard-working and mission-focused, with a culture of open and honest feedback. We also like to think of ourselves as a particularly friendly and optimistic bunch. In all our work, we strive to take a positive and collaborative attitude, be transparent in our communication and decision-making, and adopt a scout mindset to guide us towards doing the most good we can do, incl...

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: How we approach charity staff pay and benefits at Giving What We Can, published by Luke Freeman on November 16, 2023 on The Effective Altruism Forum. As an international charity with a talented global team, one challenging decision we face is how to pay our team members and provide benefits ("remuneration"). We grapple with several key questions: What's ethical? What's fair? What's expected? What would funders approve of? How do we attract and retain high-quality talent while maintaining a focus on our own cost-effectiveness? These questions become even more challenging within the nonprofit sector, where perspectives on pay are incredibly varied. Yet, it's crucial we discuss this openly, as staff remuneration often represents one of the most significant expenditures for an organisation. Our ethos In line with our mission to create a culture of effective and significant giving, we believe it's a reasonable expectation that our team members earn a salary that would enable them to comfortably donate 10% of their income, should they choose to. Working at GWWC should not necessitate undue financial sacrifice, nor should it be primarily motivated by financial gain. Rather, we seek to attract individuals who are both highly skilled and deeply committed to effective giving. If someone's primary motivation leans toward earning potential, we would wholeheartedly encourage them to explore 'earning-to-give' opportunities instead. How our pay calculator works So, how does this ethos translate into actual numbers? We have built a calculator that incorporates the following: We use a salary band system where our second band (e.g. a junior associate-level role) starts with base salary which is pegged to the average income in Oxford. With each promotion to a new level (within or between bands) the base pay increases by 10%. Depending on the person's location, we adjust 50% of the base salary by relative cost-of-living as a starting point, and make ~annual adjustments to account for factors like inflation and location-based cost-of-living changes. We adjust upwards for experience (500 GBP per pre-GWWC relevance-adjusted FTE year and 1,000 per year at GWWC) with a cap of 10,000 GBP. We have a scaling "competitive skills bonus" for a few roles (e.g., software engineering) that are typically very highly compensated by current markets and therefore difficult to hire for in our context. We recalculate each staff member's remuneration annually and after any significant change in their role or location. It's not perfect, but we feel it's a good start that strikes a balance between vastly different potential approaches. We hope that by sharing it and receiving critiques, we can continue to make adjustments in consultation with our team and our funders. Results The pay calculator tends to result in salaries that are higher than at most non-profits but below what a similar role would pay at a for-profit, and often well below what someone with high earning potential could make if they were choosing a career with an eye to earning as much as possible. It also gives lower increases with seniority than are common in the for-profit world resulting in a lower pay ratio from the highest paid to lowest paid employees. The financial sacrifice/incentive for working at GWWC does vary depending on your location, but we strive to make it reasonable and to find a good balance. Benefits Benefits are another critical aspect of our remuneration package. It can be challenging to harmonise benefits like retirement contributions, healthcare, childcare, training, parental leave, and office equipment across different locations, but we make a concerted effort to offer balanced packages for staff. Offer letter In our offer letter we share with the prospective team member their salary calculation and outline the benefit...

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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: Decision-making and decentralisation in EA, published by William MacAskill on June 26, 2023 on The Effective Altruism Forum. This post is a slightly belated contribution to the Strategy Fortnight. It represents my personal takes only; I'm not speaking on behalf of any organisation I'm involved with. For some context on how I'm now thinking about talking in public, I've made a shortform post here. Thanks to the many people who provided comments on a draft of this post. Intro and Overview How does decision-making in EA work? How should it work? In particular: to what extent is decision-making in EA centralised, and to what extent should it be centralised? These are the questions I'm going to address in this post. In what follows, I'll use “EA” to refer to the actual set of people, practices and institutions in the EA movement, rather than EA as an idea. My broad view is that EA as a whole is currently in the worst of both worlds with respect to centralisation. We get the downsides of appearing (to some) like a single entity without the benefits of tight coordination and clear decision-making structures that centralised entities have. It's hard to know whether the right response to this is to become more centralised or less. In this post, I'm mainly hoping just to start a discussion of this issue, as it's one that impacts a wide number of decisions in EA. At a high level, though, I currently think that the balance of considerations tends to push in favour of decentralisation relative to where we are now. But centralisation isn't a single spectrum, and we can break it down into sub-components. I'll talk about this in more depth later in the post, but here are some ways in which I think EA should become more decentralised: Perception: At the very least, wider perception should reflect reality on how (de)centralised EA is. That means: Core organisations and people should communicate clearly (and repeatedly) about their roles and what they do and do not take ownership for. (I agree with Joey Savoie's post, which he wrote independently of this one.) We should, insofar as we can, cultivate a diversity of EA-associated public figures. [Maybe] The EA Forum could be renamed. (Note that many decisions relating to CEA will wait until it has a new executive director). [Maybe] CEA could be renamed. (This is suggested by Kaleem here.) Funding: It's hard to fix, but it would be great to have a greater diversity of funding sources. That means: Recruiting more large donors. Some significant donor or donors start a regranters program. More people pursue earning to give, or donate more (though I expect this “diversity of funding” consideration to have already been baked-in to most people's decision-making on this). Luke Freeman has a moving essay about the continued need for funding here. Decision-making: Some projects that are currently housed within EV could spin out and become their own legal entities. The various different projects within EV have each been thinking through whether it makes sense for them to spin out. I expect around half of the projects will ultimately spin out over the coming year or two, which seems positive from my perspective. [Maybe] CEA could partly dissolve into sub-projects. Culture: We could try to go further to emphasise that there are many conclusions that one could come to on the grounds of EA values and principles, and celebrate cases where people pursue heterodox paths (as long as their actions are clearly non-harmful). Here are some ways in which I think EA could, ideally, become more centralised (though these ideas crucially depend on someone taking them on and making them happen): Information flow: Someone could create a guide to what EA is, in practice: all the different projects, and the roles they fill, and how they relate to one another. Someone c...

This post is a slightly belated contribution to the Strategy Fortnight. It represents my personal takes only; I'm not speaking on behalf of any organisation I'm involved with. For some context on how I'm now thinking about talking in public, I've made a shortform post here [link]. Thanks to the many people who provided comments on a draft of this post.  Intro and OverviewHow does decision-making in EA work? How should it work?  In particular: to what extent is decision-making in EA centralised, and to what extent should it be centralised? These are the questions I'm going to address in this post. In what follows, I'll use “EA” to refer to the actual set of people, practices and institutions in the EA movement, rather than EA as an idea.My broad view is that EA as a whole is currently in the worst of both worlds with respect to centralisation. We get the downsides of appearing (to some) like a single entity without the benefits of tight coordination and clear decision-making structures that centralised entities have.It's hard to know whether the right response to this is to become more centralised or less. In this post, I'm mainly hoping just to start a discussion of this issue, as it's one that impacts a wide number of decisions in EA. [1] At a high level, though, I currently think that the balance of considerations tends to push in favour of decentralisation relative to where we are now. But centralisation isn't a single spectrum, and we can break it down into sub-components.  I'll talk about this in more depth later in the post, but here are some ways in which I think EA should become more decentralised:Perception: At the very least, wider perception should reflect reality on how (de)centralised EA is. That means:Core organisations and people should communicate clearly (and repeatedly) about their roles and what they do and do not take ownership for. (I agree with Joey Savoie's post, which he wrote independently of this one.)We should, insofar as we can, cultivate a diversity of EA-associated public figures.[Maybe] The EA Forum could be renamed. (Note that many decisions relating to CEA will wait until it has a new executive director).[Maybe] CEA could be renamed. (This is suggested by Kaleem here.)Funding: It's hard to fix, but it would be great to have a greater diversity of funding sources. That means:Recruiting more large donors.Some significant donor or donors start a regranters program.More people pursue earning to give, or donate more (though I expect this “diversity of funding” consideration to have already been baked-in to most people's decision-making on this). Luke Freeman has a moving essay about the continued need for funding here.Decision-making: Some projects that are currently housed within EV could spin out and become their own legal entities. The various different projects within EV have each been thinking through whether it makes sense for them to spin out. I expect around half of the projects will ultimately spin out over the coming year or two, which seems positive from my perspective.[Maybe] CEA could partly dissolve into sub-projects.Culture:We could [...]--- First published: June 26th, 2023 Source: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/DdSszj5NXk45MhQoq/decision-making-and-decentralisation-in-ea --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO. Share feedback on this narration.

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 can all help solve funding constraints. What stops us?, published by Luke Freeman on June 19, 2023 on The Effective Altruism Forum. This post is a personal reflection that follows my journey to effective altruism, my experiences within it, the concerns I've developed along the way and my hopes for addressing them. It culminates in my views on funding constraints — the role we can all play in solving them and a key question I have for you all: What stops us? (Please let me know in the comments). My journey While this starts with a reflection on my personal journey, I suspect it might feel familiar, it might strike a chord, at times it might rhyme with yours. I was about eight years old when I was first confronted with the tragic reality that an overwhelming number of children my age were suffering and dying from preventable diseases and unjust economic conditions. It broke my heart. I knew that I had done nothing to deserve my incredibly privileged position of being born healthy to a loving, stable, middle-income family in Australia (a country with one of the highest standards of living). Throughout my early years, I took many opportunities to do what I could to right this wrong. In school, that meant participating in fundraisers and advocacy. As a young professional, that meant living frugally but still giving a relatively meagre amount to help others. When I got my first stable job, I decided it was time to give 10% to help others... But when I calculated that that would be $5,000, this commitment began to feel like a pretty big deal. I wasn't going to back down, but I wanted to be more confident that it'd actually result in something good. I felt a responsibility to donate wisely. Some Googling quickly led me to discover Giving What We Can, GiveWell, and Julia Wise's blog Giving Gladly. From this first introduction to what would soon be known as the effective altruism (EA) community, I found the information I needed to help guide me, and the inspiration I needed to help me follow through. I also took several opportunities to pursue a more impact-oriented career, and even tried getting involved in politics. These attempts had varying success, but that was okay: I had one constant opportunity to help others by giving. Around this time, the EA community started expanding their lines of reasoning beyond effective giving advice to other areas like careers and advocacy. I was thrilled to see this. We all have an opportunity to use various resources to make a dent in the world's problems, and the same community that had made good progress on philanthropy seemed to me well-positioned to make progress on other fronts too. By 2016, effective altruism was well and truly “a thing” and I discovered that there was an EA group and conference near me. So, I ventured out to actually meet some of these "effective altruism" people in person. It hit me: I'd finally found "my people." These were people who actually cared enough to put their money where their mouths were, to use the best tools they could find to make the biggest possible difference, and to advocate for others to join them. None of these things were easy, but these people really owned the stakes and did the work. I admired the integrity and true altruism that I found. It motivated me to do better. How I saw effective altruism change As time went on, however, I noticed some changes that concerned me. The EA community's expanded focus started to feel less like a "yes, and" message — supporting both effective giving and pursuing other effective paths to impact — and more like a "no, instead" message: giving began to feel a bit passé within the community. Above: My response to the shift away from effective giving It started slow, but the change became overwhelming: 2015: 80,000 Hours started to advocate to focus on talent...

This post is a personal reflection that follows my journey to effective altruism, my experiences within it, the concerns I've developed along the way and my hopes for addressing them. It culminates in my views on funding constraints — the role we can all play in solving them and a key question I have for you all: What stops us?My journeyWhile this starts with a reflection on my personal journey, I suspect it might feel familiar, it might strike a chord, at times it might rhyme with yours.I was about eight years old when I was first confronted with the tragic reality that an overwhelming number of children my age were suffering and dying from preventable diseases and unjust economic conditions.It broke my heart. I knew that I had done nothing to deserve my incredibly privileged position of being born healthy to a loving, stable, middle-income family in Australia (a country with one of the highest standards of living).Throughout my early years, I took many opportunities to do what I could to right this wrong. In school, that meant participating in fundraisers and advocacy. As a young professional, that meant living frugally but still giving a relatively meagre amount to help others. When I got my first stable job, I decided it was time to give 10% to help others... But when I calculated that that would be $5,000, this commitment began to feel like a pretty big deal. I wasn't going to back down, but I wanted to be more confident that it'd actually result in something good. I felt a responsibility to donate wisely.Some Googling quickly led me to discover Giving What We Can, GiveWell, and Julia Wise's blog Giving Gladly. From this first introduction to what would soon be known as the effective altruism (EA) community, I found the information I needed to help guide me, and the inspiration I needed to help me follow through.I also took several opportunities to pursue a more impact-oriented career, and even tried getting involved in politics. These attempts had varying success, but that was okay: I had one constant opportunity to help others by giving.Around this time, the EA community started expanding their lines of reasoning beyond effective giving advice to other areas like careers and advocacy. I was thrilled to see this. We all have an opportunity to use various resources to make a dent in the world's problems, and the same community that had made good progress on philanthropy seemed to me well-positioned to make progress on other fronts too.By 2016, effective altruism was well and truly “a thing” and I discovered that there was an EA group and conference near me. So, I ventured out to actually meet some of these "effective altruism" people in person.It hit me: I'd finally found "my people."These were people who actually cared enough to put their money where their mouths were, to use the best tools they could find to make the biggest possible difference, and to advocate for others to join them. None of these things were easy, but these [...]--- First published: June 18th, 2023 Source: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/WMdEJjLAHmdwyA5Wm/we-can-all-help-solve-funding-constraints-what-stops-us --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO. Share feedback on this narration.

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: AMA: Luke Freeman, ED of Giving What We Can (GWWC), published by Luke Freeman on June 13, 2023 on The Effective Altruism Forum. I'm Luke Freeman, and I currently serve as the executive director of Giving What We Can (GWWC). You're welcome to ask me anything! I'll start answering questions on Thursday June 15th. Logistics/practical instructions: Please post your questions as comments on this post. The earlier you share your questions, the easier it will be for me to get to them. Please upvote questions you'd most like answered. I'll start answering questions on June 15th. Questions posted after that are less likely to get answers. I'm excited about this, but can't commit to answering all the questions. If you want to share many questions, consider sharing and/or upvoting which ones you're particularly interested in. (This is an “AMA” — you can explore others here.) Some context: I've been leading the team at Giving What We Can since 2020. I've been giving based on EA principles myself since about 2011 (pledger at both GWWC and Founders Pledge) and actively engaged with the EA community since 2016. GWWC is a community of effective givers who are on a mission to create a culture where giving effectively and significantly is a norm. GWWC hosts several giving pledges (best known for The Pledge to give 10% of lifetime earnings to effective charities), hosts a multi-country cause-diverse donation platform, provides advice on effective giving, and hosts popular tools and resources such as the How Rich Am I calculator, Giving Games and Charity Elections. GWWC does work to help support the broader effective giving community (e.g. information sharing, coordination and incubation of projects, research projects like evaluating the evaluators). GWWC helped to found the EA community and what is now called Effective Ventures Foundation (formerly Centre for Effective Altruism). I can speak about my experience running a project housed within EV. Read more about GWWC's direction and strategy I've advocated for “big tent” effective altruism. I feel that EA could learn a lot from other sectors and could benefit from engaging more deeply with them. I feel strongly that effective giving should be a key part of effective altruism and likely has a broader appeal and accessibility. Prior to GWWC I worked predominantly in tech entrepreneurship and marketing (across private and public sectors) with a focus on growth. Outside of Giving What We Can I've been in leadership positions in Effective Altruism Australia, EAGxAustralia (organised two conferences) Good Ancestors Project & Good Ancestors Policy, Global Shapers Community (Sydney chapter), EA Sydney, Heart for the Homeless, Australian Skeptics, and advised or volunteered with various other social-impact focused projects. My academic background is in media and communications (did my thesis on political communication focusing on deliberative democracy and voting reform). Other than these things I'd be happy to talk about: Managing or working in a remote international team (based outside of EA hub cities) based in Australia. My experience going from employee #1 to larger teams (multiple times in different contexts). My experience volunteering and/or managing volunteers My experience in for-purpose entrepreneurship. Challenges and strategies for mental/physical health and wellbeing (e.g. recovering from and mitigating burnout, managing EA/non-EA life, starting a family etc). My experiences coming from a non-typical academic background for EA leadership (e.g. not a major in philosophy, economics, or science). My views on EA topics/cruxes. Dropping out of school at age 15 and pursuing non-traditional career paths Anything else that takes your fancy based on GWWC's work, my post history, my LinkedIn or personal website. Thanks for listening. To hel...

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 is effective altruism? How could it be improved?, published by MichaelPlant on May 5, 2023 on The Effective Altruism Forum. The EA community has been convulsing since FTX. There's been lots of discontent, but almost no public discussion between community leaders, and little in the way of a constructive suggestions for what could change. In this post, I offer a reconceptualisation of what the EA community is and then use that to sketch some ideas for how to do good better together. I'm writing this purely in my personal capacity as a long-term member of the effective altruism community. I drafted this at the start of 2023, in large part to help me process my own thoughts. The ideas here are still, by my lights, dissatisfyingly underdeveloped. But I'm posting it now, in its current state and with minimal changes, because it's suddenly relevant to topical discussions about how to run the Effective Ventures Foundation and the Centre for Effective Altruism and I don't know if I would ever make time to polish it. [I'm grateful to Ben West, Chana Messinger, Luke Freeman, Jack Lewars, Nathan Young, Peter Brietbart, Sam Bernecker, and Will Troy for their comments on this. All errors are theirs mine] Summary We can think of effective altruists as participants in a market for maximum impact activities. It's much like a local farmers' market, except people are buying and selling goods and services for how best to help others. Just like people in a market, EAs don't all share the same goal - a marketplace isn't an army. Rather, people have different goals, based on their different accounts of what matters. The participants can agree, however, that they all want there to be a marketplace to allow them to meet and trade; this market is useful because people want different things. Presumably, the EA market should function as a free, competitive market. This means lots of choice and debate among the participants. It requires the market administrators to operate a level playing-field. Currently, the EA community doesn't quite operate like this. The market administrators - CEA, its staff and trustees - are also major market participants, i.e. promoting particular ideas and running key organisations. And the market is dominated by one big buyer (i.e. it's a ‘monopsony'). I suggest some possible reforms: CEA to have its trustees elected by the community; it should strive to be impartial rather than take a stand on the priorities. I don't claim this will solve all the issues, but it should help. I'm sure there are other implications of the market model I've not thought of. These reforms seem sensible even without any of EA's recent scandals. I do, however, explain how they would likely have helped lessened these scandals too. I've tried to resist getting into the minutiae of “how would EA be run if modelled on a free market?” and I would encourage readers also to resist this. I want people to focus on the basic idea and the most obvious implications, not get stuck on the details. I'm not very confident in the below. It's an odd mix of ideas from philosophy, politics, and economics. I wrote it up in the hope others can develop the ideas and I can stop ruminating on the “what should FTX mean for EA?” question. What is EA? A market for maximum-impact altruistic activities What is effective altruism? It's described by the website effectivealtruism.org as a "research field and practical community that aims to find the best ways to help others, and put them into practice". That's all well and good, but it's not very informative if we want to understand the behaviour of individuals in the community and the functioning of the community as a whole. An alternative approach is to think of effective altruists, the people themselves, in economic terms. In this case, we might characterise the effe...

What a pleasant surprise to have Luke come in and do this amazing show all with his Son in toe. Luke Freeman is a principal at Purpose & Performance Group, a performance development agency that transforms business by helping leaders clarify and operationalize purpose. Before consulting, Luke spent over a decade doing leadership development, strategy, and culture work at non-profits. Luke has a master's degree in Organizational Dynamics from the University of Oklahoma. He and his partner have three sons and live in Tulsa, OK. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/marquess-dennis/support

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 Cause Area: Portrait Welfare (+introducing SPEWS), published by Luke Freeman on March 31, 2023 on The Effective Altruism Forum. "The question is not, Can they reason?, nor Can they talk? but, Can they (I mean, hypothetically speaking, perhaps, just a smidgen, in theory) suffer" ~ Jeremy Bentham Introduction The effective altruism community has consistently pushed the frontiers of knowledge and moral progress, demonstrating a willingness to challenge conventional norms and take even the most unconventional ideas seriously. Our concern for global poverty is often considered "weird" as we highlight the importance of valuing individuals' well-being equally, regardless of geographical boundaries. In contrast, broader society tends to focus more on helping people within our own countries, inadvertently giving less consideration to those further afield. From animal welfare to long-term existential risks, our community is full of people who have expanded their moral circles even further to include the suffering of non-human animals and future generations. Now, avant-garde effective altruists are exploring the outer limits of moral concern, delving into areas such as insect welfare and digital minds. As we celebrate these accomplishments, we remain committed to broadening our understanding and seeking out new cause areas that may have a significant, overlooked impact. Imagine a future where we have made substantial strides in addressing these critical issues, and you find yourself sipping tea in a room adorned with stunning portraits. As you revel in this moment of tranquillity, a thought experiment crosses your mind: What if the portraits themselves deserve our moral consideration? And while we were busy tackling other pressing matters, could we have been inadvertently overlooking yet another human atrocity? Today, we invite you to entertain this intriguing and unconventional idea as we introduce the new cause area of Portrait Welfare. While initially sceptical, our research has led us to be surprisingly confident in the potential of this cause to be the much-awaited “Cause X.” To demonstrate our convictions we have registered our predictions on Manifold Markets, and at current market rates, a rational actor placing a modest bet of the median US salary could stand to win an impressive sum of over $12 trillion USD (in 2023 dollars) by market close. As we embark on this journey into uncharted territory, we encourage you to keep an open mind and dive into this fascinating new area of concern. Together, we can continue to push the boundaries of our impact and make the world a better place for all sentient beings – even those that exist within the confines of a frame. And if you're not on board with this yet, just remember, every time you hang a portrait on your wall or snap a selfie, there may be a possibility that you're contributing to a system of injustice and suffering. However, we understand that not everyone can see the bigger picture, and we won't judge you too harshly if you've done all you can to understand this possibility but still cannot accept it. After all, we are all on our own journey towards a more ethical and compassionate world. The Moral Case for Portrait Welfare While the notion of portrait welfare may initially seem far-fetched, there are moral reasons to consider this cause area. If it turns out that portraits possess a form of consciousness, it would be our ethical responsibility to address their welfare. In line with the principles of effective altruism, we ought to explore all possibilities that could lead to a reduction in suffering, even if they are unconventional. Expanding the circle of compassion: The effective altruism movement aims to reduce suffering for all sentient beings, regardless of species or other differences. By considering portrait...

How do we give with the most impact? We talk effective altruism with Rebecca Herbst, Luke Freeman, and Sebastien Aguilar. What's more important...giving time or money? Giving to what you are passionate about or to what will help the most lives? We tackle some of these complicated issues in today's episode. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode, Luke Freeman interviews Sean Mayberry, the CEO of StrongMinds, a non-profit organization that provides group talk therapy to people in low-income countries to improve mental health. Sean shares his background, including his journey from working as a diplomat to founding StrongMinds, and his experiences with depression. He also explains the importance of mental health and the problem of depression across Africa, where over 66 million women suffer from depression but only 15% have access to care. Since 2013, they've treated nearly 175,000 women in Uganda and Zambia. Sean highlights the impact of depression on families, the need for effective interventions, StrongMinds plans for growth and more.   CHAPTERS: 00:00 - Introduction to Sean and his journey to founds StrongMinds 03:48 - Why focus on depression? 07:57 - The scale of mental illness in low and middle income countries (LMICs) 10:12 - What causes depression in LMICs? 12:25 - StrongMinds treatment model and how it works 15:16 - The diagnostic scale PHQ-9 18:15 - How do you remove bias from measurement? 20:10 - The indirect benefits of treating depression 21:58 - Why has StrongMinds focused on treating women? 23:35 - Comparisons to cash transfers by Happier Lives Institute 25:50 - How Sean's experience in HIV/AIDS informs StrongMinds program delivery 27:48 - Why is mental health still overlooked? 30:06 - Scaling funding and reaching more donors 31:42 - The biggest challenges implementing effective mental health interventions globally 33:17 - Lessons learned in adapting to different demographics 34:50 - How is the team structured 36:25 - Why is group talk therapy rate in places like Australia and the US? 40:33 - What are Sean's proudest moments with StrongMinds? 42:30 - Elevator pitch and closing comments   CREDITS: Production: Grace Adams Video editor: Marco Shimabukuro Interviewer: Luke Freeman Guest: Sean Mayberry

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 are the best charities to donate to in 2022?, published by Luke Freeman on December 26, 2022 on The Effective Altruism Forum. This is a linkpost for GWWC's latest giving recommendations... and also a reminder to donate or pledge before the end of 2022! When you care about making a difference in the world, it's natural to ask: "Where can my donations do the most good?" The great news is that your donations can have an astonishing impact. But to maximise your impact you need to donate effectively. This is especially important given the best charities are often 10 times better than a typical charity within the same area and hundreds of times better than poorly performing charities. The worst charities can even do harm. That means if you donated $100 to the best charity, you could be doing even more good than someone who donates $1,000 to a typical charity, or $10,000 to a poorly performing one. How to donate effectively The point of charity is to help others. Donating effectively means that you're taking steps to make sure you're helping others the most for every dollar you give.We think the best way to do this is to: Identify a promising cause to support. The most promising causes are generally: Large in scale: they significantly impact many lives Neglected: they still need more funding and support Tractable: there are clear and practical ways of making progress Choose an excellent fund or charity working on the cause. Indicators of worthwhile organisations include: reliance on evidence, cost-effectiveness, transparency, room for more funding, and a strong track record. We generally recommend giving to expert-managed funds over charities, because they can allocate your donation where and when it is needed most. Pick an efficient way to donate. Try getting your donation matched by your employer or set up a recurring donation. In practice, choosing a cause and evaluating funds and charities can take a lot of time and effort, and many donors aren't able to work it into their busy schedules. To help you get started, we've put together a list of trustworthy, cost-effective funds and charities working on some of the most pressing causes. Our effective giving recommendations These recommendations are listed roughly in order of convenience and suitability for most donors. The right giving opportunity for you will depend on your particular values and worldview. Donate to expert-managed funds For most people, we recommend donating through an expert-led fund that is focused on effectiveness. Funds are both convenient and highly effective. They allow donors to pool their money so that they can support outstanding giving opportunities that are evaluated by expert grantmakers and trusted charity evaluators. This approach is similar to using an investment fund instead of trying to pick which individual stocks will be the best investments. The fund distributes your donation among multiple grantees with the goal of maximising your overall impact. Read more about the advantages of funds. Donors from the US, UK, and the Netherlands can make tax-deductible donations to the following funds using the Giving What We Can donation platform. For other countries, you can read our tax deductibility guide by country — but we still think these funds are likely to be your best option, even if they're not tax deductible. Here are our top-rated funds grouped by cause area. Learn more about how we choose which charities and funds to recommend. Top-rated funds improving human wellbeing These funds generally give to organisations taking evidence-based approaches to improve and save lives of people currently alive. Donors who value their donations going to organisations either with a strong track-record or a promising and testable new approach to help people in the current generation can maximise the...

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: Update on GWWC donation platform, published by Luke Freeman on December 26, 2022 on The Effective Altruism Forum. We've recently received inquiries about funds donated through the donation platform hosted by Giving What We Can (GWWC), in light of the FTX bankruptcy. Both of the legal entities involved with GWWC (Effective Ventures Foundation and Centre for Effective Altruism USA) are financially solvent. These entities have funding sources outside of the FTX Foundation and other FTX-related entities/individuals. The GWWC related entities would be solvent even without the funds received from the FTX-related entities. Accordingly, our plan is to continue to accept and regrant donations. I apologise for any delays in addressing concerns about the FTX crisis. Coordinating across multiple entities and time zones is challenging, but we are committed to transparency and keeping our donors as informed as we can. As everyone can appreciate, this is an evolving situation, and we're taking all necessary advice and making sure that we comply with all our legal duties. Part of this means that we cannot give as many details as we would like, however much we would like to. Thank you to all for your support and to everyone for all their hard work and dedication in responding to this incredibly difficult time. I am especially appreciative to all the donors who've stepped and will help us continue to broaden the base of donors given the funding shortfall experienced by many high-impact charities, nonprofits, and charitable funds. If anyone has any questions please don't hesitate to ask – that's what I'm here for. All my best,Luke In a comment here or by email. Although please bear in mind that it might take time to coordinate a response. Thanks for listening. To help us out with The Nonlinear Library or to learn more, please visit nonlinear.org.

Meaningful connections are a vital driver of Team Member engagement. Furthermore, meaningful connections are those that are deemed significant and include mutual respect, trust, interest, positive regard and making the other person feel valued. The key to growing these relationships involves building on elements of honesty and finding commonalities to help create that lasting foundation. In this episode, hosts Stephanie Leger and Michele Kline are joined by guest Luke Freeman from Purpose and Performance Group becomes essential to the conversation. Leadership is a choice; leading our teams with purpose should always be top of mind. Follow us on #YouTube #Spotify #GooglePodcasts #ApplePodcasts #iTunes #AmazonAlexa #Chrome #Audible and many others. Connect with our guest Luke Freeman https://www.linkedin.com/in/odlukefreeman/ Website https://www.purposeandperformancegroup.com/ Connect with the hosts on LinkedIn Michèle Kline https://www.linkedin.com/in/michelekline/ Stephanie Leger https://www.linkedin.com/in/sleger/ Hosts Company Links Michèle Kline https://www.klinehospitality.com/ Stephanie Leger https://www.firstratehospitality.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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: Cost-effectiveness of operations management in high-impact organisations, published by Vasco Grilo on November 27, 2022 on The Effective Altruism Forum. Summary Following up on the challenge to quantify the impact of 80,000 hours' top career paths introduced by Nuño Sempere, I have estimated the cost-effectiveness of operations management in high-impact organisations (OM), which arguably include 80,000 Hours' top-recommended organisations. The results for the mean cost-effectiveness of various metrics in bp/G$ in terms of existential risk reduction are summarised in the table below for my preferred method. I present all results with 3 digits, but I think their resilience is such that they only represent order of magnitude estimates (i.e. they may well be wrong by a factor of 10^0.5 = 3). Mean cost-effectiveness (bp/G$) of.Global health and developmentLongtermism and catastrophic risk preventionAnimal welfareEffective altruism infrastructureThe effective altruism communityOperations management in high-impact organisations Method 3 with truncation 0.431 3.95 1.62 3.20 1.55 7.01 Acknowledgements Thanks to Abraham Rowe, Dan Hendrycks, Luke Freeman, Matt Lerner, Nuño Sempere, Sawyer Bernath, Stien van der Ploeg, and Tamay Besiroglu. Methods I estimated the cost-effectiveness from the product between: The cost-effectiveness of the high-impact organisations, which I assumed equal to that of the effective altruism community. The multiplier of OM, which I defined as the ratio between the cost-effectiveness of OM and the high-impact organisations. This method assumes the cost-effectiveness distribution of the high-impact organisations is represented by the one theorised for the effective altruism community in the next section. Moreover, the cost-effectiveness estimates are only accurate to the extent that future opportunities are as valuable as recent ones. The calculations are in this Colab. Cost-effectiveness of the effective altruism community I calculated the cost-effectiveness of the effective altruism community from the mean cost-effectiveness weighted by cumulative spending between 1 January 2020 and 15 August 2022 of 4 cause areas: Global health and development. Longtermism and catastrophic risk prevention. Animal welfare. Effective altruism infrastructure. These are the areas for which Tyler Maule collected data here (see EA Forum post here). I adjusted the 2020 and 2021 values for inflation using the calculator from in2013dollars. I computed the cost-effectiveness of each area using 3 methods. All rely on distributions which are either truncated to the 99 % confidence interval (CI) or not truncated, in order to understand the effect of outliers. The parameters of the pre-truncation distributions, which are the final distributions for the non-truncation cases, are provided below. Method 1 I defined the cost-effectiveness of longtermism and catastrophic risk prevention as a truncated lognormal distribution with pre-truncation 5th and 95th percentiles equal to 1 and 10 bp/G$ in terms of existential risk reduction. These are the lower and upper bounds proposed here by Linchuan Zhang. I assumed the ratio between the cost-effectiveness of i) longtermism and catastrophic risk prevention and ii) global health and development to be a truncated lognormal distribution with pre-truncation 5th and 95th percentiles equal to 10 and 100. These are the lower and upper bounds guessed here by Benjamin Todd for the ratio between the cost-effectiveness of the Long-Term Future Fund (LTFF) and Global Health and Development Fund (search for “10-100x more cost-effective”). I considered the ratio between the cost-effectiveness of i) animal welfare and ii) global health and development to be a truncated lognormal distribution with pre-truncation 5th and 95th percentiles equal to 270 μ and 211....

In today's conversation, I am joined by Luke Freeman, who is the executive director of Giving What We Can, an organization dedicated to creating a culture where people are inspired to give to the world's most effective charities. Giving What We Can was one of the first organizations in the world focused on effective altruism: the project of using evidence and reason to figure out how to best help others, and taking action on that basis. I specifically asked Luke to be on the show today to discuss behavioral science concepts and how they line up with nonprofits. Sometimes, concepts perform exactly as they would in a traditional customer/company relationship when there is money being exchanged…but in other cases, research has found this isn't the case. When people are volunteering or donating some tactics that would show you are grateful or appreciative of a customer (like giving a gift) may backfire and feel…off. Knowing this is a time of year when people who work in nonprofits or volunteer on boards are gearing up for year-end asks or doing strategic planning for next year and people may be thinking of their annual donations, it seemed like the perfect time for this episode to help everyone be more effective with their support of others now and into the future. Show Notes: [00:45] In today's conversation, I am joined by Luke Freeman, who is the executive director of Giving What We Can. [03:08] Luke shares his background and the work that he does. His background is in marketing and he has recently moved to the nonprofit sector. [05:14] When Giving What We Can was looking for an executive director, it was a perfect opportunity to do work that was really important to him.  [06:18] Typically, when people are giving to charity they are giving to something right in front of them or things that they have had some experience with.  [07:39] When people think about charity effectiveness generally the two things that they think of are overheads or administrative costs and impact.  [09:48] The first bar is trying to get people to look outside of themselves and try to improve the lives of others. Once you are there then you narrow in on where you can make the most impact.  [12:27] We can take time to think about what we care about, whose life/lives we are looking to impact, and what is going to be the best use of money to help.   [13:16] We often look at neglectivness because popular problems are often getting a lot of resources already. A lot of stuff is neglected because it fits in the prevention space. [14:44] People are often willing to give right away out of pity or guilt, but that isn't sustainable giving.   [16:32] Sometimes behavioral science concepts that work in traditional buying relationships don't necessarily go the same way when looking at nonprofits and charities.  [18:45] Donors want to feel confident in their donations. Showing other humans giving and why they give is also quite motivating.  [22:29] If your company gets the right story it can really work for the company in terms of their own sales as well. People prefer that there be a logical story that is told of why that charity makes sense for the company they are partnering with.  [24:55] With any brand messaging when you can be specific and narrow the story down or follow the story of someone it has a bigger impact. [27:33] Donation matching is also popular but there isn't a lot of strong evidence of its effect.   [28:52] Recurring donations make more sense for many donors and are much more sustainable.   [30:30] The door in the face technique and artificial surveillance cues don't tend to be as effective with donations. Explanation about context from Melina and why this might be happening – don't generalize results!  [33:25] Recognizing volunteer contributions and having a more human connection can be very helpful for keeping and increasing volunteers. Volunteering strategies are going to be very specific to the organization's context.  [35:00] Some volunteer opportunities are also donor nurturing programs in disguise (in a good way). It showcases the work that the charity does and even if they cost more to run, they are worth it because they create new donors.  [37:51] Don't give people reasons not to do the thing you want them to do. Also, after the fact appreciate it.   [39:10] If you do nothing else this month, what does Luke recommend? You really need to get in the head of your user and in this case that is a donor. Your existing donor base is the biggest asset you have.  [40:15] People really care that they are able to help others and they want their money to go as far as possible. A game of “hot or not” with Luke's rapid-fire tips. [43:41] Melina shares her closing thoughts.  [43:51] I love the idea of being more thoughtful before supporting the most popular organization you might see or hear about the most. Thanks for listening. Don't forget to subscribe on Apple Podcasts or Android. If you like what you heard, please leave a review on iTunes and share what you liked about the show.  I hope you love everything recommended via The Brainy Business! Everything was independently reviewed and selected by me, Melina Palmer. So you know, as an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. That means if you decide to shop from the links on this page (via Amazon or others), The Brainy Business may collect a share of sales or other compensation. Let's connect: Melina@TheBrainyBusiness.com The Brainy Business® on Facebook The Brainy Business on Twitter The Brainy Business on Instagram The Brainy Business on LinkedIn Melina on LinkedIn The Brainy Business on Youtube Join the BE Thoughtful Revolution – our free behavioral economics community, and keep the conversation going! Learn and support The Brainy Business: Check out and get your copies of Melina's Books.  Get the Books Mentioned on (or related to) this Episode: The Speed of Trust, by Stephen M.R. Covey Influence, by Robert Cialdini Predictably Irrational, by Dan Ariely You Have More Influence Than You Think, by Vanessa Bohns How Minds Change, by David McRaney Connect with Luke:  Giving What We Can Website Luke on LinkedIn Luke on Twitter Giving What We Can on Twitter Top Recommended Next Episode: Reciprocity: The Amazing Power of Giving (episode 238) Already Heard That One? Try These:  What is Value? (episode 234) Precommitment (episode 120) Availability Bias (episode 15) Framing (episode 16) Time Discounting (episode 51) Biases Toward Novelty and Stories (episode 54) Reciprocity (episode 23) Loss Aversion (episode 9) Social Proof (episode 87) The Speed and Economics of Trust, an Interview with Stephen M.R. 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Luke Freeman/Wizard Creations Luke Freeman (a.k.a. "TheSwagFather") describes himself as a marketer, hustler, philanthropist, and serial entrepreneur. Luke is the Founder & President of Fort Lauderdale-based Wizard Creations, a brand-merchandising solutions company that has been named by ASI's Counselor Magazine as one of Top 25 fastest growing Promotional Products distributors and "Best Places to Work" […] The post Episode 14 – The “SwagFather” Luke Freeman appeared first on Business RadioX ®.

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're still (extremely) funding constrained (but don't let fear of getting funding stop you trying)., published by Luke Freeman on September 16, 2022 on The Effective Altruism Forum. Lots has been written about this so I wrote a poem instead. I lead the team at Giving What We Can, views are my own. Poem Years ago we were struck by big problems: they were so extremely funding constrained. One-by-one we saw a big impact: by making them less extremely funding constrained. We didn't wait for permission, we gave from our own pockets first. It became our mission to put others first. Our spendthrift community dug into the data. We made money go further, we made things go better. Each dollar paid dividends, each DALY gained a good end. Progress felt slow, but was needed, we know. Constraints were consistent, opportunity cost felt: "Should I pledger further? Should I become a researcher?" A driven community with compassion so big: we found more neglected problems, solvable, and big. We said "more research needed", traded money for time: found researchers, founders and then funders aligned. Some problems found funders more quickly than founders, yet others found moneypits so desperate to fill. Give trillions in cash or keep coal in the ground? What about the backlash if our decisions aren't sound? As we made progress we hit the mainstream. Among the first questions: "Why's my cause unseen?" We're resource constrained, I wish it weren't such: "Yes, we want to help everyone, but we only have so much!" Our work's still so small in the scheme of the world. Still, let's be more ambitious: let's build a dreamworld. We need many folks to be stoaked by our mission. We need many funders, founders, and passion. Experimentation is something we now know we can try: don't let fear of funding be why you don't apply. But for the foreseeable future your dollars still count: for every life that you help we mustn't discount. Our mission 'aint over, we're at the start of our road. We need your help: let's make some inroads. So give what you can and get others involved. Let's keep working together to get these problems solved. Postscript It can be quite difficult to ‘feel' the fact that all of these things are true at the same time: We have increased available funding by an order of magnitude over the past decade and increased the rate at which that funding is being deployed We don't want lack of funds to be the reason that people don't do important and ambitious things; and yet Yet in most cases we are still extremely funding constrained I find it painful (and counter-productive) to see these messages floating around: EA has “too much money” EA has “more money than it knows what to do with” There is “such a glut of money in EA right now” EA has a “funding overhang” Donations aren't needed, or they don't count Pursuing a high-impact careers is mutually exclusive with donating (although there are tradeoffs) If you don't get funded it means your project is not worthwhile (in some cases it could be just below a bar) If you miss out on a job when “there's plenty of money” it means there's nothing for you (some organisations are still very funding constrained and may have happily hired you if they were less funding constrained) Whereas I think the better (more truthful and constructive narratives) are: We have a more decent shot at having a significant impact We have more resources which helps us: Double down on things we have good evidence for Justifiably spending more on research and experimentation Become more diverse (e.g. doesn't require someone to have enough personal resources to take big risks, we can fund people to attend a conference/retreat they couldn't otherwise afford etc) and therefore find more excellent people to participate in this grand project. The situation is nuanced: The funding...

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 altruism's billionaires aren't taxed enough. But they're trying., published by Luke Freeman on August 24, 2022 on The Effective Altruism Forum. Dylan Matthews just posted a Vox article "If you're such an effective altruist, how come you're so rich?" which addresses critics of effective altruism's billionaires. My TL;DR A lot of recent criticism of EA seems to come from the fact that it has a couple of billionaires now as supporters These billionaires however are some of the biggest donors to US candidates that would increase taxes on them Open support for raising taxes, e.g. Moskovitz tweeted the other day: "I'm for raising taxes and help elect Dems to do it" The broader EA community skews heavily left-of-center (typically supportive of higher taxes and social welfare) Effective altruism was founded explicitly on voluntary redistribution of income from people in high-income countries to low-income countries (e.g. Giving What We Can) and most of the communities founders give a significant portion of their incomes Given that the billionaires do exist, what else would you rather they spend money on? That's just my TL;DR – feel free to put in your own summaries, comments and critiques below. Thanks for listening. To help us out with The Nonlinear Library or to learn more, please visit nonlinear.org.

The Championship kicked off last weekend with Luton playing out a 0-0 draw with Birmingham City at Kenilworth Road. Hear the lads discuss the first game in more detail and also how much Luke Freeman impressed them during his debut.

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: EA is becoming increasingly inaccessible, at the worst possible time, published by Ann Garth on July 22, 2022 on The Effective Altruism Forum. Many thanks to Jonah Goldberg for conversations which helped me think through the arguments in this essay. Thanks also to Bruce Tsai, Miranda Zhang, David Manheim, and Joseph Lemien for their feedback on an earlier draft. Summary An influx of interest in EA makes accessibility really important right now Lots of new people have recently been introduced to EA / will be introduced to EA soon These people differ systematically from current EAs and are more likely to be “casual EAs” I think we should try to recruit these people There are two problems that make it hard to recruit casual EAs Problem 1: EA is (practically) inaccessible, especially for casual EAs Doing direct work is difficult and risky for most people Earning to give, at least as it's commonly understood, is also difficult and risky Problem 2: EA is becoming (perceptually) inaccessible as a focus on longtermism takes over Longtermism is becoming the face of EA This is bad because longtermism is weird and confusing for non-EAs; neartermist causes are a much better “on-ramp” to EA To help solve both of these problems, we should help casual EAs increase their impact in a way that's an “easier lift” than current EA consensus advice A few notes On language: In this post I will use longtermism and existential risk pretty much interchangeably. Logically, of course, they are distinct: longtermism is a philosophical position that leads many people to focus on the cause area(s) of existential risk. However, in practice most longtermists seem to be highly (often exclusively) focused on existential risks. As a result, I believe that for many people — especially people new to EA or not very involved in EA, which is the group I'm focusing on here — these terms are essentially viewed as synonymous.I will also consider AI risk to be a subsection of existential risk. I believe this to be the majority view among EAs, though not everyone thinks it is correct. On the structure of this post: The two problems I outline below are separate. You may think only one of them is a problem, or that one is much more of a problem than the other. I'm writing about them together because I think they're related, and because I think there are solutions (outlined at the end of this post) that would help address both of them. On other work: This post was influenced by many other EA thinkers, and I have tried to link to their work throughout. I should also note that Luke Freeman wrote a post earlier this year which covers similar ground as this post, though my idea for this post developed independently from his work. An influx of interest in EA makes accessibility really important right now Lots of people are getting introduced to EA who weren't before, and more people are going to be introduced to EA soon EA is becoming more prominent, as a Google Trends search for “effective altruism” shows pretty clearly. EA is also making strides into the intellectual mainstream. The New York Times wrote about EA in a 2021 holiday giving guide. Vox's Future Perfect (an EA-focused vertical in a major news outlet) started in 2018 and is bringing EA to the mainstream. Heck, even Andrew Yang is into EA! I (and others) also think there will be a lot more people learning about EA soon, for numerous reasons. Sam Bankman-Fried and FTX have been all over the news recently, including in articles focused on EA. The number of EA local groups has grown hugely and continues to grow (from 2017-2019, there were 30 new EA groups founded per year). The huge influx of funding from FTX means that in the coming years more EA grants will be made, more EA orgs will come into existence, and presumably more people will thus learn about EA. Wha...

Welcome to another podcast-takeover episode of the Financial Independence podcast! This time, Mathias from the Financial Independence Europe podcast takes over the show to talk to Luke Freeman (from Giving What We Can) and Rebecca Herbst (from Yield and Spread) about Effective Altruism! Highlights What is Effective Altruism How to give efficiently and effectively Benefits of joining the effective altruism community How giving is evolving Differences between the US and Europe with regards to philanthropy How to give to charity while pursuing FI Show Links Financial Independence Europe - https://financial-independence.eu/ Yield and Spread - http://yieldandspread.com Give What We Can - https://www.givingwhatwecan.org Give Well - https://www.givewell.org Original Show Link - https://financial-independence.eu/uncategorized/episode-147-how-to-give-effectively-luke-freeman-and-rebecca-herbst/

What are the factors that encourage charitable giving and how should people decide where to focus their efforts? Effective altruism is a social movement and research initiative with unique (and controversial) responses to these questions. In this episode of Impact Audio, you'll hear Luke Freeman, Executive Director of Giving What We Can, discussing the guiding principles behind his organization. Luke also talks about motivational psychology, CSR, impact measurement, the pandemic, and criticisms of effective altruism. Listen in to learn about:• What actually motivates people to give back • How businesses can support employee giving and lead by example• Giving What We Can's process for choosing charities and measuring impact • The movement's responses to trust-based philanthropy and criticism about causality• How US philanthropy sets itself apart from global giving We hope you enjoy the conversation.

Leaders navigate change every day.  Changes within business markets, human resource and team management are inevitable.  That's why we reached out to the Purpose & Performance Group and asked them to join us at our TribalHub Regional events and talk to tribal leaders across the nation about how to boost access to knowledge, decision making and new opportunities by strengthening network of connections. In this podcast, Michelle Bouschor of TribalHub and Luke Freeman of Purpose & Performance Group sat down following the Midwest Regional Event that took place at the Oneida Nation in Green Bay, and discussed finding purpose that fits personal and professional life goals. For more information on the Purpose & Performance Group see links below. Luke Freeman: https://www.linkedin.com/in/odlukefreeman/ PPG on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/purpose-and-performance-group/ PPG on FB: https://www.facebook.com/purposeelevatesperformance/ PPG Web: https://www.purposeandperformancegroup.com/

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: On being ambitious and celebrating failures, published by Luke Freeman on May 26, 2022 on The Effective Altruism Forum. TL;DR: It's not enough to say we should celebrate failures: we need to learn from them. We can prevent a lot of unnecessary failures, and at the very least, we can fail more gracefully. I have some ideas and would appreciate yours too. Epistemic status: I'm confident in my main claim that it's important for the effective altruism community to have a culture that supports graceful (or 'successful') failures, but that we're at risk of falling short of such a culture. I aim to highlight other claims I'm less sure about. I'm much more sure about the problem existing than how we can solve it (as those solutions often involve lots of difficult tradeoffs) but my goal here is to start this conversation about preventing unnecessary failure and what ‘successful' failure looks like (so we have the kind of failures that are worth celebrating). In Will MacAskill's recent post on effective altruism and the current funding situation, he mentions that while there is increased funding available for experimentation, if it's too available, it "could mean we lose incentives towards excellence": If it's too easy to get funding, then a mediocre project could just keep limping on, rather than improving itself; or a substandard project could continue, even though it would be better if it shut down and the people involved worked elsewhere....That said, this is something that I think donors are generally keeping in mind; many seed grants won't be renewed, and if a project doesn't seem like a good use of the people running it, then it's not likely to get funded. He then highlights No Lean Season as a standout example of how we should celebrate our failures — in this case, when an organisation decides to cease operations of a programme they no longer think is effective. This “celebrating failures” notion is a celebration of both the audacity to try and the humility to learn and change course. It's a great ideal. I wholeheartedly support it. However, I fear that without taking meaningful steps towards it we'll fall far short of this ideal, resulting in people burning out, increased reputational risks for the community, and ultimately, significantly reduced impact. I think that effective altruism can learn a lot from private sector entrepreneurship, which often takes a high-risk, high-reward approach to achieving great successes. However, we should also learn from its failures, and not just blindly emulate it. For one thing, private sector entrepreneurship can be a very toxic environment (which is partly why I left). For another, we need to be mindful of how our projects are likely to be very different to the private sector. But there's huge upside if we succeed: I'm deeply excited for more ambition and entrepreneurship within the effective altruism community. So in light of this, here are a few things that have been on my mind that can hopefully help us fail more gracefully, fail less grotesquely... or even better, fail less (while still achieving more). 1. Remember, not everyone is an entrepreneur (and we shouldn't expect them to be) I've spent most of my career working in early-stage startups and co-founded a startup myself. From that experience, I've come to think that entrepreneurship is not a good fit for most people. It can be incredibly stressful to operate with a shoestring budget on very short funding cycles with not a lot of money in the bank — and not just for the leaders, but for the whole organisation. It can be tough to capture talent. Asking someone to leave their comfortable job to come and work for much less in an organisation that might evaporate is a hard sell. Even if you find people willing to do this, they're not necessarily the best people for the jobs. T...

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: EA Funds donation platform is moving to Giving What We Can, published by Luke Freeman on May 23, 2022 on The Effective Altruism Forum. Since late 2021 Effective Altruism Funds (EA Funds) and Giving What We Can (GWWC) have been going through a restructure. EA Funds has moved towards focussing primarily on grantmaking and GWWC has taken over the management of the donation platform. In April 2022 we soft-launched a rebranded GWWC donation portal. Over the coming months the donation specific functionality of funds.effectivealtruism.org will be retired and redirected to GWWC's version of the donation platform (the pages related to the four EA Funds and grantmaking will continue on funds.effectivealtruism.org and the homepage will become more grantee focused). A new GWWC website is currently under development which will include a fully integrated donation experience (as well as improving our pledge dashboard and signup process). As well as the donation platform, GWWC will continue to support the donor lottery, EffectiveCrypto.org and any of the other formerly EA Funds activities relating to fundraising while maintaining our existing work promoting effective giving (e.g. pledge, community, guides, talks, marketing campaigns and research). EA Funds will continue to manage the grantmaking activities of their four Funds and will at some point post an update about their plans moving forward and this includes some of the reasoning for this restructure decision. GWWC has also recently posted an update about our strategy which is very relevant to this decision. We will be consulting with donors, stakeholders and the broader community about the future of the donation platform and how we can best support effective giving within the community. Please don't hesitate to get in touch with any feedback, suggestions, requests, or concerns. We look forward to this next chapter and are excited to continue our mission to create a world where giving effectively and significantly is a cultural norm! 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: "Big tent" effective altruism is very important (particularly right now), published by Luke Freeman on May 20, 2022 on The Effective Altruism Forum. This August, when Will MacAskill launches What We Owe The Future, we will see a spike of interest in longtermism and effective altruism more broadly. People will form their first impressions – these will be hard to shake. After hearing of these ideas for the first time, they will be wondering things like: Who are these people? (Can I trust them? Are they like me? Do they have an ulterior agenda?) What can I do (literally right now and also might it might my decisions over time)? What does this all mean for me and my life? If we're lucky, they'll investigate these questions. The answers they get matter (and so does their experience finding those answers). I get the sense that effective altruism is at a crossroads right now. We can either become a movement of people who appear dedicated to a particular set of conclusions about the world, or we can become a movement of people that appear united by a shared commitment to using reason and evidence to do the most good we can. In the former case, I expect to become a much smaller group, easier to coordinate our focus, but it's also a group that's more easily dismissed. People might see us as a bunch of nerds who have read too many philosophy papers and who are out of touch with the real world. In the latter case, I'd expect to become a much bigger group. I'll admit that it's also a group that's harder to organise (people are coming at the problem from different angles and with varying levels of knowledge). However, if we are to have the impact we want: I'd bet on the latter option. I don't believe we can – nor should – simply tinker on the margins forever nor try to act as a "shadowy cabal". As we grow, we will start pushing for bigger and more significant changes, and people will notice. We've already seen this with the increased media coverage of things like political campaigns and prominent people that are seen to be EA-adjacent. A lot of these first impressions we won't be able to control. But we can try to spread good memes about EA (inspiring and accurate ones), and we do have some level of control about what happens when people show up at our "shop fronts" (e.g. prominent organisations, local and university groups, conferences etc.). I recently had a pretty disheartening exchange where I heard from a new GWWC member who'd started to help run a local group felt "discouraged and embarrassed" at an EAGx conference. They left feeling like they weren't earning enough to be "earning to give" and that they didn't belong in the community if they're not doing direct work (or don't have an immediate plan to drop everything and change). They said this "poisoned" their interest in EA. Experiences like this aren't always easy to prevent, but it's worth trying. We are aware that we are one of the "shop fronts" at Giving What We Can. So we're currently thinking about how we represent worldview diversity within effective giving and what options we present to first-time donors. Some examples: We're focusing on providing easily legible options (e.g. larger organisations with an understandable mission and strong track record instead of more speculative small grants that foundations better make) and easier decisions (e.g. "I want to help people now" or "I want to help future generations"). We're also cautious about how we talk about The Giving What We Can Pledge to ensure that it's framed as an invitation for those who want it and not an admonition of those for whom it's not the right fit. We're working to ensure that people who first come across EA via effective giving can find their way to the actions that best fit them (e.g. by introducing them to the broader EA community). We often cros...

Today Mathias talks with Luke and Rebecca about donating and philanthropy. Luke works for the organisation Giving What we Can” and Rebecca is already retired from her corporate career at WeWork and other companies. She is now teaching people part time about  personal finance at Yield and Spread.Interestingly Rebecca is now giving what she earns in her side business to people in need. Today we want to find out why. Once you achieve a certain wealth, people often experience a strong desire to help others in need. Of course many of you are also giving before hitting that milestone right in your accumulation phase. Especially these days where millions are fleeing from war even in middle Europe. Something we really could not imagine some time ago.We already talked with Sebastian in episode 36 about effective altruism and want to extend the topic even further. So today: You'll learn about the motivation behind giving, how to screen for most effective projects, the history and evolution of philanthropy and how Europe and the US are different in here.Don't forget to apply for the FI Europe Retreat starting may where you can meet 25 ambitious and relaxed FI Europeans at the pool in the middle of the Spanish mountains.We talk aboutMotivation behind givingHistory of philanthropy in US and EU How Giving What We Can worksHow Rebacca has retired and donates

Giving now vs giving later?On this episode of the How To Money podcast, Kate Campbell chats to Luke Freeman who is the Head of Giving What We Can at The Centre for Effective Altruism.Luke introduces us to the ideas behind giving effectively, how much it actually costs to save a life, some critical problems we are facing and the organisations working towards solving them, and how to give more in line with your values.FREE BOOK: https://bit.ly/howtomoneygwwcShow Notes: howtomoney.online/how-to-money-podcastHTM Website: howtomoney.onlineHTM Instagram: @HowToMoneyAUSPlease send any questions, feedback, or episode suggestions through to us at howtomoneyaus@gmail.com and if you enjoyed the episode we'd be thrilled if you left us a review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. Just a reminder that everything we cover in this podcast is financial education only, we are not giving you any advice. If you do want advice please seek out a qualified and competent professional, and do some research. Remember it's your money - take control!Episode Recorded: 15/02/2022

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: Lessons and results from workplace giving talks, published by Jack Lewars on March 10, 2022 on The Effective Altruism Forum. This is the third in a series of posts about effective giving in 2022, from One for the World and Giving What We Can. You can read part 1 on why we should promote effective giving here, and part 2 on longtermist donation opportunities here. Thanks to Luke Freeman for his help with the draft. It also follows two previous articles on ‘How we promoted EA at a large tech company'. Tl;dr One for the World has now conducted ~50 corporate talks on effective giving since October 2020. These have raised nearly $600k in one-off donations to GiveWell charities; and $131k in recurring donations. The expected value of the latter is ~$400k over 5 years. This is still a small dataset but there are some signals about what makes a corporate talk effective at raising donations. There are now several organisations with the materials, skills and experience to deliver effective corporate talks - most notably One for the World, High Impact Professionals, Giving What We Can and the EA and Consulting Network. Jona Glade is also running point on workplace outreach at CEA. We believe that this is a neglected source of donations, both small and major, which can help to diversify EA funding positively; but also potentially a source of talent, power and technical expertise. Call to action CTA: Fill out this form if you'd like support in promoting effective giving at your workplace! This can include: Requesting an expert speaker Getting trained to deliver effective giving talks yourself Getting ready-made materials such as presentations, graphics and advertising copy Getting a checkout page/site set up for your company Results ~50 talks feels enough to start tentatively forming lessons on what works best. The results of these talks are as follows. Disclaimers: Corporate giving platforms are extremely slow to disburse and report, so numbers are often revised. However, these are very unlikely to change significantly, and if they do they are most likely to improve, as we have been sceptical in putting them together. Money listed here is ‘real', i.e. it has moved through One for the World's bank account or been demonstrated with donation receipts. Tracking donations and pledges inspired by Giving What We Can is much harder than tracking those processed by One for the World, so it is likely that we are undercounting pledges and donations not made via One for the World. Recurring and one-off donations include matching from host companies but not from outside sources such as Double Up Drive (so $1200/year from Microsoft is most probably $600 from the donor and $600 from the company). These figures only reflect talks delivered by One for the World or One for World & Giving What We Can (indicated by an asterisk), not other EA Groups/organisations. Companies are based in a variety of locations - mainly the US, but also the UK, Canada, Australia and in Europe. US talks produce the most money, reflecting historical giving trends. All figures are USD. Company# of talksRecurring donations (annual value)Average annual run rate per talkOne-off donationsNotesBridgewater+$28,400 from Double Up DriveAdobe MicrosoftIncludes $412k from a single donorFuturice Bain BJSS Mott Macdonald Plaid Miller HullSome, but not yet reported SimpliSafe Blackrock Google Accenture DSGMBH FacebookSingle recurring donor; includes $20k matchFacebookDonations are from a Giving What We Can pledgeBridgespanHarder to track donations/pledges inspired by GWWCBigCommerceHarder to track donations/pledges inspired by GWWCEconicHarder to track donations/pledges inspired by GWWCFlatiron HealthHarder to track donations/pledges inspired by GWWC; includes $25,750 matchQualcommHarder to track donations/pledges inspired by GWWCTot...

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 your EA group should promote effective giving (and how), published by Jack Lewars on February 17, 2022 on The Effective Altruism Forum. This is the first in a series of posts about effective giving in 2022, from One for the World and Giving What We Can. Many thanks to Luke Freeman, Pablo Melchor, Chloë Cudaback, Adam Binks, Devon Fritz, Michael Townsend, Julia Wise and Ella Matza for their feedback on the draft. TL;DR We believe that giving is an important aspect of effective altruism. However, we feel that giving is becoming less prominent in the community and, in particular, that it has been de-prioritised by a lot of EA groups. We believe that it's a tremendous lost opportunity, if groups are not leveraging giving or pledging to increase recruitment and engagement; and we think it's tactically and philosophically wise to promote effective giving in every EA group. This post argues that we should revitalise our commitment to giving as a movement. If you want help with this, there are several organisations perfectly placed to support you, including Giving What We Can, One for the World, national regranting organisations and High Impact Professionals. CTA: Fill out this form if you'd like support in promoting effective giving at your group! This can include: Requesting an expert speaker Getting trained to deliver effective giving talks yourself Getting ready-made materials such as presentations, graphics and advertising copy Building a session about giving into your EA fellowship Getting a checkout page set up for your group (for immediate or for future donations) See the bottom of this post for more detail on taking action. Why has giving become less prominent in EA? Giving has become a less prominent part of EA culture for a variety of reasons: There is now more money available to effective altruism projects than ever before, which can make donors feel that their contributions may not make a difference. The importance attached by EAs to the risk of artificial intelligence and other existential risks has grown. These cause areas do not have the same number of clearly effective giving opportunities as, for example, global health; and they often prioritise other types of action such as career choice over giving, because longtermism is relatively well-funded (although arguably far from overfunded - see below) and is instead considered talent-constrained. The community has in general become more focussed on career advice and career choice than in previous years. More people now hear about EA for the first time via 80,000 Hours than any other organisation, and half of all EA survey respondents said 80,000 Hours was the most important factor that led them to getting involved in EA. By comparison, only 5.5% of respondents first heard about EA via a giving organisation, so giving is drawing fewer new people to the community. It can therefore be seen as less important for community building and may have fewer advocates within the EA community in comparison to other types of action. The community has deprioritised the notion of “Earning to Give”, partly in reaction to negative outside perceptions of this approach to impact and partly because money now seems less important than talent on the margin, and this has affected how giving is perceived in general (even though Earning to Give and giving in general are vastly different things). Thought leaders such as Toby Ord and Will MacAskill, who used to promote giving heavily, have also started to talk about other types of impact, such as working to reduce existential risk, and so people have become less influenced towards giving (although Toby and Will personally remain extremely committed to effective giving - see below). Tactical reasons to make giving an integral part of every EA group We believe that giving and pledging sh...

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The season of giving upon us — but what are the best, and most impactful, ways to bestow your generosity? Jonathan Bastian talks with professor Roland Geyer about the best types of sustainable and environmentally friendly holiday gifts, and with Luke Freeman, director of charitable community “Giving What We Can,” about the most effective ways of giving.  

Have you ever wondered how far your donations to charities really go? I know it feels good to donate and we should all consider giving away part of our wealth considering we Aussies are some of the wealthiest people on the planet, but I'm not sure many of us really go over with a fine-tooth and comb how the money is spent and how many people are affected with every dollar.Today I'm speaking with Luke Freeman, a former tech and marketing professional who had a desire to positively affect the lives of the less fortunate in the world. Luke is the Chairperson and a Board Member of Effective Altruism Australia and Executive Director of Giving What We Can, which are both charitable organisations designed to help the less fortunate.The attributes of effective altruism share a lot of similarities with the FIRE movement. It's all about using evidence and reason to figure out how to benefit others as much as possible, and taking action on that basis. Some of the topics we discuss in this episode:Who is Luke Freeman and how did he become interested in giving back to others? (03:05)What is Effective Altruism Australia (EAA) and how did it start? (07:33)Is EAA a not-for-profit organisation and how does it actually work? (10:04)What are the tax advantages of donating through EAA? (14:58)What metrics does EAA use when assessing how effective time and money are used in charitable organisations? (16:39)Is corruption in charitable organisations a real issue or is it overblown by the critics? (22:56)What are some of the biggest problems in the world that EAA is targeting? (27:25)LinksWebsite - Effective Altruism AustraliaWebsite - Giving What We CanLinkedIn post - Eating Less Than $2 / Daywww.aussiefirebug.com/podcast

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: CEA Mid-year update (2020), published by MaxDalton on the AI Alignment Forum. Write a Review This is a linkpost for/ We'd like to share an update on our recent progress. In a previous post, we set out five goals for 2020: Developing our strategy: We're on track, with more work needed on metrics and data. Narrowing our scope by considering spinning off EA Funds and Giving What We Can: We're slightly ahead of expectations; we hired leaders and set an initial strategic direction for each project. Expanding group and community health support: We're somewhat behind expectations. Improving online discussion: We're somewhat ahead of expectations. We learned a lot about how to run virtual events, and EA Forum engagement has grown significantly. Streamlining internal collaboration and processes: We're on track or ahead of expectations on finances, customer relationship management (CRM), and culture. We're behind on hiring and the Oxford office move. Overall, I think we're making good progress toward our goals for the year. Specific progress: We hired Jonas Vollmer to lead EA Funds, and Luke Freeman to lead Giving What We Can. Jonas and Luke are experienced EAs with executive experience and excellent skillsets for the roles. We plan to investigate spinning off both organisations from CEA in the next year or so, although we will continue to support them both operationally. We hired Catherine Low as a contractor to improve support for groups, and she's had 60+ calls with organisers who gave the calls an NPS of 70+, which is excellent. We've also updated 16 resources for local groups, including an improved introductory fellowship curriculum template, discussion group guides, and advice on how to host virtual events in light of COVID-19 restrictions. Further progress here is a major focus. We renewed several Community Building Grants and made three new grants to EA Brown, EA NYC, and EA MIT. Events collaborated with EAGx organisers from around the world to create EAGx Virtual. With over 1,400 attendees, it was the largest EA event ever held. Virtual events are unlikely to be as valuable as in-person events, but now that we've developed the capacity to hold virtual events, we will likely continue to do so (in addition to holding live events), since they are less expensive and more accessible. Our key Forum metric (views of good posts) has doubled so far this year, meaning that more good content is being posted to the Forum and more people are reading that content. We also introduced highly-demanded features like tags, and some core introductory content. We've focused our community health work on mentorship and networking for underrepresented EA groups, and developing long-term plans to further improve diversity, equity, and belonging in the community. I also feel that we've fixed a lot of internal issues over the last 18 months and that we continue to gradually improve. We have 13 months of runway. Staff performance, morale, and retention appear to be solid and improving. We've improved our accounting systems, grantmaking records, and HR compliance/onboarding, and invested our reserves to protect against inflation. Program updates Groups We're in the early stages of improving our support for groups. This is a major focus at the moment. Groups support We are working to improve the introductory EA fellowship template with Community Building Grant recipients Huw Thomas, James Aung, and Alex Holness-Tofts. Introductory EA fellowships are eight-week reading and discussion groups run on university campuses. We estimate that approximately 400 students participated in an intro fellowship last year. We brought on Catherine Low, who had been an extraordinarily active volunteer supporter of EA groups, as a contractor to improve our support of groups. Catherine has had 60+ calls with group 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: Announcing EA Hub 2.0 , published by Michal_Trzesimiech, Richenda on the Effective Altruism Forum. We're happy to announce that the new EA Hub has launched. Our vision is to enable and inspire collaboration between EAs by making it easier for people to network, and work together on promising initiatives. Connecting ideas with talent, resources and support is one of the biggest bottlenecks of high potential individuals and a cause of promising ideas not reaching fruition. By synchronising and showcasing projects, individuals, and groups, initiatives can build traction more effectively. The platform also links to other resources and platforms in the EA space, including the Effective Altruism Forum. Over the last year, we've redesigned and rebuilt the Hub from scratch, with the help of dedicated and talented volunteers. In this release, we restore and improve most of the functionality from the original EA Hub. It includes: The ability to search for people (in the near future also based on cause area, skillset, job status, organisational affiliation, and availability for volunteer roles or speaking engagements). The capability to join or register a local group, to contact a group, to ‘claim' a group, and to report a group inactive. The map of EAs, highlighting EA groups and personal profiles. The map now distinguishes between active and inactive groups. Customisable personal profiles. Future Features In the coming months, we will be building a feature for coordinating EA projects, and a cross-platform search functionality. We anticipate the ‘Projects' feature will offer an inventory of EA projects of all sizes, the option to express interest in an initiative, and enable project leads to signal opportunities for funding, volunteering, paid work, or partnership. Projects will be integrated into the map of EAs, and users will be able to display project roles on their profiles. Our cross-platform search functionality will draw together results from relevant sources of information we use as a community. Doing this will consolidate existing resources, lower the navigation cost for users and multiply the impact of our collective work. As the product matures, we will take our cue from users when fine-tuning our functionality and future features. The Hub will also serve to collate data on groups and movement trends year round, allowing records to be more seamlessly maintained. This should benefit group organisers, enabling them to track group metrics more easily. EA Survey data will also be integrated into the platform—we hope to offer data visualisations that will enable individuals and organisations outside of Rethink Charity to review and utilise longitudinal community research more easily. In keeping with our ethos, we want to collaborate with other EA projects as much as possible. The Hub presently connects with the EA Forum, EA Work Club, PriorityWiki, EA Donation Swap and Effective Thesis. We expect to expand this list in the future, and we are very open to integrating relevant projects where mutually desirable. Acknowledgements Originally created by .impact in 2014, the new EA Hub has been delivered by LEAN, a project of Rethink Charity. As with the original website, EA Hub 2.0 has been created on a relatively small budget thanks to our generous donors and the efforts of our talented staff and volunteers: Taymon Beal Sebastian Becker Alexander Herwix Richenda Herzig Marcin Kowrygo Manoj Nathwani Michal Trzesimiech Nadia Williams We'd also like to acknowledge the input of David Moss, Luke Freeman, Ozzie Gooen, Peter Hurford, Sarah Spikes, Katie Glass, David Furlong, and the Rethink Charity team. If you're as keen as we are to see the Hub reach its potential, the project has considerable room for funding, and we also welcome volunteers with software engineering experience. ...

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 & EA Funds now operate independently of CEA, published by MaxDalton, Jonas Vollmer, lukefreeman on the Effective Altruism Forum. This is a linkpost for/ In 2020, the Centre for Effective Altruism hired Luke Freeman to run Giving What We Can (GWWC), and Jonas Vollmer to lead EA Funds. We think that they have both made strong progress in the past year. For instance, Luke revamped GWWC's website and saw the number of new pledges triple compared to the same period in 2019. Meanwhile Jonas improved EA Funds' capacity to make more effective grants and addressed some issues affecting donor satisfaction.[1] In addition to the above, we closed EA Grants, redirecting applicants to EA Funds. As planned, both EA Funds and GWWC now operate independently of my supervision as Executive Director of CEA, while continuing to receive operational support from CEA and oversight from our board. This is similar to 80,000 Hours' position relative to CEA: they make decisions independently and have their own leadership, but CEA provides operational support and they are legally part of the same entity. We are delighted that these projects now have the freedom to grow independently, while CEA is able to focus on nurturing the community's discussion spaces. Our 2020 plans As mentioned in our public plans for 2020: In 2019, Giving What We Can members logged over $20m in donations to the charities that they believe to be most effective, and 528 people took a 10% lifetime pledge, bringing the year-end total to 4,454 members. EA Funds facilitated grantmaking of $8.5m through the four main funds, as well as $3.4m to other effective charities. I think that both of these programs are important for EA because: They direct a significant amount of money to effective charities. They provide an opportunity for individuals to take important, concrete actions based on EA principles. However, these projects have a fairly different focus from CEA's other projects (which focus on community engagement rather than charitable donations), and we think that with more focus and staff time they could achieve more. We'd like to move towards a state where these projects have the latitude and resources to accomplish more, and where CEA can focus on a narrower range of projects. Over the last few months, I've been working with trustees and staff to plan for the future of these projects, using surveys of users and members to inform our thinking. We'll initially search for someone who can lead an independent Giving What We Can [...] If we find a leader for Giving What We Can, we'll help to onboard and advise them, and we will continue to provide operational support to both EA Funds and Giving What We Can for the foreseeable future. Once we've completed our hiring round for the Giving What We Can director, we will consider focusing more on plans for hiring an executive for and/or spinning out EA Funds. Giving What We Can Giving What We Can (GWWC) aims to create a culture where people are inspired to give more, and to give more effectively. This year: We hired Luke Freeman to run the program. In Luke's first three months, the rate of new pledges tripled compared with the same period last year; we also reached 5,000 members. Website content is now more accurate, cause neutral, and compelling. 2020 Cost: $61,000 FTEs: 1.0 (from Q3 2020) 2021 Budget: $246,000[2] Hiring Luke Freeman We hired Luke Freeman in July 2020. We have been impressed with his results, as well as with the energy, nuance, and experience he brings to the role. In October, he passed probation and began to report to CEA's board, thus spinning GWWC out of core CEA. Growth From January to October, we: Reached over 5,000 total members 623 new pledges (increased by 77% over the same period in the previous year) with an estimated value of $45.5M[3]...

Summary Welcome to the Startup Junkie's podcast!   For this holiday season, we are rebroadcasting an episode that was an absolute joy to record. Our regular host, Jeff Amerine, was joined by the former executive director of Startup Junkie Foundation, Haley Allgood. They had the opportunity to sit and chat with Luke and Natalie of Freckled Hen Farmhouse, a shop that began as a social media account and transformed into a retail store. Through featuring products during an at-home renovation, Luke and Natalie started what would be a fantastic functional and sustainable home goods and gifts store on College Avenue in Northwest Arkansas. You will want to visit this store as Christmas is quickly approaching!    Thanks for tuning in!      Shownotes (1:40) Introducing Natalie and Luke Freeman (2:10) From Farmers to Freckled Hen Farmhouse Shop (6:06) Curating the Merchandise (5:14) Utilitarianism and Beauty (9:20) Credibility of Suppliers (10:59) The Next Five Years (14:48) Financing Without Savings (18:25) Physical Location Vs. Online Store Growth (23:06) How to Invest Your Time Well as an Entrepreneur (26:14) Wrap Up     Links Jeff Amerine Haley Allgood Luke Freeman and Natalie Freeman Freckled Hen Farmhouse     Quotes "It's really grown into something that's more than a gift store, it's a one-stop shop for people buying meaningful gifts for people they love, and also a place for people to find items that inspire them to live a well-lived meaningful life." (8:45) - Luke Freeman    "I feel like maybe my end goal is not necessarily a retail store, but it's always been building community." (12:47) - Natalie Freeman    "We rented a cabin for a weekend and sat down and hammered out the business plan. We disconnected, no wifi. It was just us pencil and paper writing out this inspiration, this idea that had come to us." (15:39) - Luke Freeman   "[On creating an online business first.] So just knowing that we're only going to grow as our customer requests, I just think it's a better business decision for us." (20:53) - Natalie Freeman   startupjunkie.org wlj.com

Luke Freeman, the Executive Director of Giving What We Can, is this episode's guest.  Giving What We Can was founded by Oxford philosophers Toby Ord and William MacAskill to inspire donations to the world's most effective organizations.  It was one of the first groups focused on Effective Altruism, which is a movement and philosophy that advocates for using evidence and reason to determine how to make the greatest impact when giving one's time or money.  During this episode, Luke and Brooke discuss how Giving What You Can has already inspired thousands of people to pledge to donate 10% of their lifetime income to the most effective nonprofits, and perhaps you too will be moved to take one of its pledges.  (0:20). https://www.givingwhatwecan.org

Luke Freeman is the Executive Director of Giving What We Can, a community of people seeking to maximise their charitable impact. Luke is interviewed by Josh Ross, the CEO of Humanitix, a ticketing platform that is set up as a charity so it can turn its profits into good. This episode covers how Luke discovered effective giving and effective altruism, common objections to charity, giving and happiness, and some great examples of charities doing good.   Full transcript and show notes: https://givingwhatwecan.org/post/2021/09/podcast-luke-freeman-with-josh-ross   Chapters 00:00 - Introduction 01:30 - Origins of an altruist 04:30 - Objections to charity 08:45 - Our opportunity to help others 11:08 - Addressing moral demandingness 13:03 - Giving effectively 15:16 - Differences in impact 17:50 - Discovering what we value 20:08 - Costs of improving animal welfare 21:40 - Upcoming plans for Giving What We Can 22:50 - National differences in generosity 25:40 - Money and happiness 28:45 - Conclusion

Professor Jeffrey Sachs is the Director of the Center for Sustainable Development at Columbia University, President of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network, and author of many bestselling books. In this episode, we talk about The need to reform the international financial system; The role of mitigating global catastrophic risk in sustainable development; The importance of expert advice and political leadership. You can read much more about the topics we cover in this episode in our accompanying write-up: hearthisidea.com/episodes/sachs. There you'll find links to all the videos and articles Sachs mentions, plus further reading. If you enjoyed this episode, you might also like some of our other interviews: Eva Vivalt on evidence-based policy; Armond Cohen on climate change; Luke Freeman on Giving What We Can. If you have any feedback or suggestions for future guests, feel free to get in touch through our website. Consider leaving us a review wherever you're listening to this. And if you want to support the show more directly and help us keep hosting these episodes online, consider leaving a tip. Thanks for listening!

We have an amazing opportunity to significantly improve the world with the resources we have, if we use them effectively. Giving What We Can is a community of people committed to giving more, and giving more effectively. Luke Freeman manages Giving What We Can. He is also an active volunteer with various social impact focused … How to make a difference by pledging to give more, and more effectively | Luke Freeman Read More »

Demand for digital marketing services is rising and promotional products distributors are in a unique position to capitalize on it. How? By starting to offer such services to clients. In this podcast adapted from an ASI Education webinar and hosted by ASI Media Digital News Director Christopher Ruvo, Luke Freeman and Seth Rand, founders of digital marketing firm Wizard Digital, reveal how you can do just that. They’re in a prime position to offer such insights, as Freeman is the founder of multimillion-dollar promo distributorship Wizard Creations (asi/362568) and Rand is a digital marketing expert and successful entrepreneur whose achievements include helping more than 1,200 clients manage well north of $50 million in Google Advertising spend.

How can we do the most good with the money we donate? In this episode, we chat with Luke Freeman, the Executive Director of Giving What We Can, an organization that supports a community of “effective givers” aiming to create a culture where people are inspired to give more, and give more effectively. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Luke Freeman is the Executive Director of Giving What We Can. Before this, he was a entrepreneur and marketing specialist, including co-founding Positly. In this episode we discuss: [00:01:52] Background: History of EA [00:04:02] Luke's story: Discovering EA [00:09:30] Foreign Aid: Myths and valid critiques [00:14:58] Evidence: RCTs and the ITN framework [00:20:12] News: "Man bites dog" [00:26:35] GWWC: Taking the pledge [00:43:43] Donations: Risk and hidden zeros [00:46:41] GWWC: Common misconceptions [00:51:34] Entrepreneurship: Positly and WEIRD science [00:54:31] Tech: Market for Donations [01:05:46] Final questions: Change in mind and book recommendations You can read much more on these topics in our accompanying write-up: https://hearthisidea.com/episodes/luke If you have any feedback or suggestions for future guests, please get in touch through our website. Please also consider leaving us a review wherever you're listening to this. If you want to support the show more directly and help us keep hosting these episodes online, consider leaving a tip at https://www.tips.pinecast.com/jar/hear-this-idea. Thanks for listening!

Just as there are no two recipes that contain the exact same ingredients or measurements, there are no two success stories exactly the same. Recipe For Success features entrepreneurs, visionary leaders and innovators of all ages who will share their ingredients that make them successful – personally and professionally. Let's get cooking! Luke Freeman a.k.a. “The Wizard, aka "The SwagFather," describes himself as a Marketer, Hustler, Philanthropist, and Serial Entrepreneur. He is the Founder & President of Fort Lauderdale-based Wizard Creations, a brand-merchandising solutions company that has been named by ASI's Counselor Magazine as one of Top 25 fastest growing Promotional Products distributors and "Best Places to Work" for many years. Wizard Creations likes to push the boundaries as it relates to traditional marketing in the promotional products industry. From wrapped vehicles to billboard campaigns and reality TV, the “SwagFather” always makes sure his brands are front-and-center. For a millennial-run company, their client lists read like a "who's who of blue-chip brands," creating products for well-known brands such as Coca-Cola, Ford Motor Company, and Carnival Cruise Lines, just to name a few. Luke attributes his company’s success to "Living by the Golden Rule" and a willingness to take risks. In addition to Wizard Creations, Luke is also the Co-Founder of Wizard Digital Marketing with his partner Seth Rand. Wizard Digitial specializes in web development, SEO, Ad Content and delivering an amazing ROI on their clients digital marketing. Mr. Freeman also serves as an investor/partner in four other companies outside of the marketing industry, all of which are profitable endeavors. Luke was honored by the South Florida Business Journal as a 40 under 40 honoree. He is also a member of the Entrepreneur Organization, Leadership Broward Class 34 graduate, serves on six non-profit Boards, and supports dozens of other organizations throughout the South Florida region. He and his wife Mara currently reside in Parkland, FL with their two children and two rescue dogs. Check out Wizard Creations at https://www.wizardcreations.com/. For more information about Junior Achievement of South Florida, visit https://www.jasouthflorida.org. Follow us on social media: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jasouthflorida LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/junior-achievement-of-south-florida/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jasouthflorida Twitter: https://twitter.com/JASouthFlorida

Ben is joined this week by former frequent contributor to BladesPod, the one and only Jay aka Blades Analytic, to talk transfers and answer your questions. Discussing the state of the transfer market, new faces that would immediately fit our team, breakthrough prospects, the Luke Freeman loan, and if you had to clone one United player ten times to make an XI, who would be the best player to choose? Thanks to Jay, thanks to you for listening, and UTB!

Along with Oxford Baseball Head Coach Chris Baughman, we celebrate the 11 Class of 2020 Seniors who have left a lasting impact on the program. The seniors include Aubrey Bishop, Jacob Rousseau, Kurre Luber, Sam Bianco, Clayton Daniels, Alex Patterson, Carson Gentry, Luke Freeman, Owen Bruce, Jackson Roy, and Eli Wicker.Support the show (https://cash.app/$playsfair234)

Ben and Andrew discuss United's progress to the quarter-finals of the FA Cup after Billy Sharp yet again comes to the rescue to defeat Reading. We pick out some standout performers, including Ben Osborn and Luke Freeman, and also look ahead to the home tie with Arsenal. Finally, a preview of Saturday's Premier League game with Norwich City. Thanks for listening, and UTB!

In this podcast NCAT horticulture specialists Luke Freeman and Guy Ames discuss the joys and trials of growing grapes in the humid Southeast.The conversation touches on organic grape production; diseases and pests; trellising and pruning grapes; organic grape management; and cultivars of table grapes, wine grapes, and muscadines suited for organic production.Luke and Guy both work as horticulture specialists with NCAT's ATTRA sustainable agriculture program out of NCAT's Southeast Regional Office in Fayetteville, Arkansas.Luke shares research findings from the University of Arkansas high tunnel grape project, led by Dr. Elena Garcia, and Guy shares his personal experience growing grapes and muscadines on his home farm.For more information on this topic, you can contact Luke Freeman and Guy Ames directly via email at lukef@ncat.org and guya@ncat.org.Related ATTRA Resources:High Tunnel Grapes Video SeriesHigh Tunnel Grapes: EstablishmentHigh Tunnel Fruit and Grape Production for Eastern GrowersHigh Tunnel Winter Growing Using Heat Recovery VentilationSoils and Sites for Organic Orchards and VineyardsTipsheet: Transitioning to Organic Management of OrchardsGreenhouse IPM: Sustainable Aphid ControlGreenhouse IPM: Sustainable Thrips ControlGreenhouse IPM: Sustainable Whitefly ControlGrapes: Organic ProductionPlease call ATTRA with any and all of your sustainable agriculture questions at 1-800-346-9140 or e-mail us at askanag@ncat.org. Our two dozen specialists can help you with a vast array of topics, everything from farm planning to pest management, from produce to livestock, and soils to aquaculture.You can get in touch with NCAT/ATTRA specialists and find our other extensive, and free, sustainable-agriculture publications, webinars, videos, and other resources at NCAT/ATTRA's website.You also can stay in touch with NCAT at its Facebook page.Keep up with NCAT/ATTRA's SIFT farm at its website.Also check out NCAT's Regional Offices' websites and Facebook Pages!Southwest Regional Office: Website / FacebookWestern Regional Office: Website / FacebookRocky Mountain West Regional Office: FacebookGulf States Regional Office: Website / FacebookSoutheast Regional Office: Website / FacebookNortheast Regional Office:

In this podcast NCAT horticulture specialists Luke Freeman and Guy Ames discuss the joys and trials of growing grapes in the humid Southeast.The conversation touches on organic grape production; diseases and pests; trellising and pruning grapes; organic grape management; and cultivars of table grapes, wine grapes, and muscadines suited for organic production.Luke and Guy both work as horticulture specialists with NCAT's ATTRA sustainable agriculture program out of NCAT's Southeast Regional Office in Fayetteville, Arkansas.Luke shares research findings from the University of Arkansas high tunnel grape project, led by Dr. Elena Garcia, and Guy shares his personal experience growing grapes and muscadines on his home farm.For more information on this topic, you can contact Luke Freeman and Guy Ames directly via email at lukef@ncat.org and guya@ncat.org. Related ATTRA Resources: High Tunnel Grapes Video Series High Tunnel Grapes: Establishment High Tunnel Fruit and Grape Production for Eastern Growers High Tunnel Winter Growing Using Heat Recovery Ventilation Soils and Sites for Organic Orchards and Vineyards Tipsheet: Transitioning to Organic Management of Orchards Greenhouse IPM: Sustainable Aphid Control Greenhouse IPM: Sustainable Thrips Control Greenhouse IPM: Sustainable Whitefly Control Grapes: Organic Production Please call ATTRA with any and all of your sustainable agriculture questions at 1-800-346-9140 or e-mail us at askanag@ncat.org. Our two dozen specialists can help you with a vast array of topics, everything from farm planning to pest management, from produce to livestock, and soils to aquaculture. You can get in touch with NCAT/ATTRA specialists and find our other extensive, and free, sustainable-agriculture publications, webinars, videos, and other resources at NCAT/ATTRA's website. You also can stay in touch with NCAT at its Facebook page. Keep up with NCAT/ATTRA's SIFT farm at its website. Also check out NCAT's Regional Offices' websites and Facebook Pages! Southwest Regional Office: Website / Facebook Western Regional Office: Website / Facebook Rocky Mountain West Regional Office: Facebook Gulf States Regional Office: Website / Facebook Southeast Regional Office: Website / Facebook Northeast Regional Office: Website / Facebook

Have you ever wondered to yourself: How the the hell did I end up in this situation? I asked myself this question once. I was changing my clothes in the bathroom of a filthy Fuck My Life laundromat in Chicago. It was a terrible situation. But I learned an important lesson. I’ll tell you about it in this week’s episode. Image from: A Bar at the Foiles-Bergére, Edouard Manet New Weekly Newsletter: Love Mondays Start off each week with a dose of inspiration to help you make it as a creative. Sign up at: kadavy.net/mondays Listener Showcase This week, we’re featuring Luke Freeman of positly.com. Positly.com is a platform for recruiting and managing research participants. Sign up to be featured at kadavy.net/showcase About Your Host, David Kadavy David Kadavy is the author of The Heart to Start and Design for Hackers. Through the Love Your Work podcast and his Love Mondays newsletter, David explores what it takes to make it as a creative. Follow David on: Twitter Instagram Facebook YouTube Subscribe to Love Your Work Apple Podcasts Overcast Spotify Stitcher RSS Email Facebook Messenger Support the show on Patreon Put your money where your mind is. Patreon lets you support independent creators like me. Support now on Patreon »     Show notes: http://kadavy.net/blog/posts/problems-worth-having-podcast/

Andrew of Roy's View From returns to join Ben in discussing the latest Sheffield United news, including the record signing of Luke Freeman (05:10) and the return of Phil Jagielka (12:05). Next, our Top 5 Phil Jagielka moments (19:25), Chris Wilder's new contract (45:10) and a few thoughts on Ravel Morrison and Joel Lynch (52:40). Cheers for listening and UTB!

Luke Freeman / Wizard Creations Luke Freeman aka “TheSwagFather,” describes himself as a Marketer, Hustler, Philanthropist and Serial Entrepreneur.  He is the Founder & President of Ft. Lauderdale, FL based Wizard Creations and Wizard Digital Marketing. Mr. Freeman is also a partner in four other companies outside of the Marketing Industry.  Year after year, Wizard Creations has been […]

In this episode we discuss the exciting things are going on at Wizard Creations, Luke's Key Pillars, and much more!!!

Following the departure of manager Steve McClaren earlier in the week, QPR midfielder Luke Freeman joins The Loftcast to talk about how the dressing room will need to respond as we head into the pointy end of the season. The panel also looks back at the frustrating loss to Bolton last week as well as ahead to this Saturday's trip to Norwich City.

After wins against Ipswich and Sheffield Wednesday can QPR complete their hattrick on Friday night against Aston Villa? Andy Sinton and The Loftcast team take a look back at the last two matches whilst Luke Freeman, midweek goalscorer, joins the show also.

On today’s episode Mark Graham (commonsku) and Danny Rosin (Brand Fuel) welcome Luke Freeman to the podcast. Luke is the President of Fort Lauderdale based distributor Wizard Creations. Luke played an instrumental role in rallying his community in the aftermath of the tragic school shooting in Parkland, Florida. Luke brought his community together to raise funds for the victims of the tragedy as well as to raise awareness on how to make schools safer everywhere. The promotional products industry plays a role in national crises, often in supplying products to help those impacted by the tragedy. In other cases, we see products emerge in response to crises as is the case with the clear backpacks that were distributed to students at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School after the shooting. We wanted to discuss what it means for us in the industry when it comes to products that are deemed controversial. How do we handle discussions when clients ask for these products? What do we do if we as distributors have a moral objection to the product or the client’s industry? We wanted to delve into these questions on the podcast today as our industry is very diverse in terms of the products we produce and the people that purchase them.

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The 'King of the Assists' Luke Freeman joins us on this weeks podcast as we look back on QPR's win at Birmingham City and ahead of Bristol City this weekend.

David Fraser is joined by regulars Paul Finney and Chris Mendes along with GetWestLondon's Phil Spencer. The lads are also joined on the phone by midfielder Luke Freeman (eventually) who talked about Saturday's performance and the current feeling in the squad. In a bumper podcast, the boys also covered the Grenfell game, transfer window signings and how on earth Clint Hill qualifies to play in an under 23 game. This weeks podcast is kindly sponsored by The English Cake Lady, find her on www.englishcakelady.com or https://www.facebook.com/englishcakelady Find us online at http://www.qprpod.co.uk on twitter @QPRPod and facebook https://www.facebook.com/qprpod

QPR midfielder Luke Freeman joins Andy Sinton and the team to preview the start of the new season ahead of Saturday's match with Reading.

National Center for Appropriate Technology specialist Luke Freeman hold a conversation about blackberries with Dr. John Clark of the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville.

National Center for Appropriate Technology specialist Luke Freeman hold a conversation about blackberries with Dr. John Clark of the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville.

QPR legend Dave Thomas spoke to The Loftcast on his emotional return to Loftus Road last Friday night and we also hear from Luke Freeman ahead of his return to Bristol City's Ashton Gate.

Midfield maestro Luke Freeman joins The Loftcast team to discuss his start to life at Loftus Road and Saturday's outstanding 5-1 win against Rotherham United.

All of Europe is watching the Greek elections. Chris Morris says they could have a profound effect on the Euro and on the future of the European Union. The child stone breakers of Madagascar. They toil all day every day. It earns them just a few coins. And, as Luke Freeman finds out, there's no question of them ever going to school. He was one of Cuba's revolutionary heroes. The funeral of boxer Teofilo Stevenson has just taken place in Havana. Sarah Rainsford was there and later talked to some of the Cuban athletes trying to emulate his Olympic success at this year's Games in London. Jackie Bird has been to Korea with some of the Britons who fought in the war there sixty years ago. It's a conflict which few in Britain commemmorate. But there, the soldiers were applauded and thanked. Fuchsia Dunlop dons her dancing shoes and heads out into Shanghai to get a glimpse of what this Chinese city must have been like during the glittering, decadent pre-war years.