Hey, first time I was not the first one to post on this thread after publishing it! I guess it’s a sign that the Accomplishments Open Thread project is gaining ground, so I’d count that as an accomplishment :-)
Another thing I’ve been really glad about this month was the EA-themed article I published in TIME in response to a breaking news story. That article in a major public venue not only resulted in shifting the Overton window a bit toward effective giving, but also resulted in some positive coverage of Effective Altruism in the Chronicle of Philanthropy, a venue not known at all for its friendliness to EA. Moreover, the piece in TIME got a whole bunch of people to visit the sites of EA meta-charities such as The Life You Can Save (42), GiveWell (24), and Animal Charity Evaluators (50), and effective charities such as GiveDirectly and Against Malaria Foundation (numbers coming soon).
Speaking of these numbers, this month Intentional Insights established collaborations with them and a couple of others to get numbers from them of people who visited their websites from articles we placed in broad media venues. This will be a good way for Intentional Insights to measure its impact, since our goal is to direct attention toward effective giving opportunities.
In addition to getting that article published as part movement-building work, I also did some capacity-building work by writing a guide for EA participants to use in channeling breaking news stories for the sake of the EA movement. We were later contacted by Animal Charity Evaluators to provide coaching for them in using this guide in getting their content published in newspapers. As part of that conversation and later exchanges, we agreed to help them with marketing and outreach questions and projects. Had a similar conversation with GiveWell about marketing and outreach, although not about publication in newspapers.
Making further progress on the Secular Giving Games project on which we are collaborating with The Life You Can Save and the Local Effective Altruist Network. The International Humanist Ethical Union expressed interest, which opens up the possibility of spreading Giving Games to secular organizations around the globe.
Also made some progress on the Marketing Resource Bank project with the Local Effective Altruist Network, which is meant to provide resources on marketing to EA participants and effective charity staff.
Separately from InIn stuff, I want to give a shout-out to Boris Yakubchik, who made this video back in 2011, long before InIn was around. I think it exemplifies the kind of thing that we as EA participants can do well – share about what motivates us to give in an engaging fashion. If you haven’t see it, check it out, and consider sharing it with others.
Hey, first time I was not the first one to post on this thread after publishing it! I guess it’s a sign that the Accomplishments Open Thread project is gaining ground, so I’d count that as an accomplishment :-)
Another thing I’ve been really glad about this month was the EA-themed article I published in TIME in response to a breaking news story. That article in a major public venue not only resulted in shifting the Overton window a bit toward effective giving, but also resulted in some positive coverage of Effective Altruism in the Chronicle of Philanthropy, a venue not known at all for its friendliness to EA. Moreover, the piece in TIME got a whole bunch of people to visit the sites of EA meta-charities such as The Life You Can Save (42), GiveWell (24), and Animal Charity Evaluators (50), and effective charities such as GiveDirectly and Against Malaria Foundation (numbers coming soon).
Speaking of these numbers, this month Intentional Insights established collaborations with them and a couple of others to get numbers from them of people who visited their websites from articles we placed in broad media venues. This will be a good way for Intentional Insights to measure its impact, since our goal is to direct attention toward effective giving opportunities.
In addition to getting that article published as part movement-building work, I also did some capacity-building work by writing a guide for EA participants to use in channeling breaking news stories for the sake of the EA movement. We were later contacted by Animal Charity Evaluators to provide coaching for them in using this guide in getting their content published in newspapers. As part of that conversation and later exchanges, we agreed to help them with marketing and outreach questions and projects. Had a similar conversation with GiveWell about marketing and outreach, although not about publication in newspapers.
Making further progress on the Secular Giving Games project on which we are collaborating with The Life You Can Save and the Local Effective Altruist Network. The International Humanist Ethical Union expressed interest, which opens up the possibility of spreading Giving Games to secular organizations around the globe.
Also made some progress on the Marketing Resource Bank project with the Local Effective Altruist Network, which is meant to provide resources on marketing to EA participants and effective charity staff.
Separately from InIn stuff, I want to give a shout-out to Boris Yakubchik, who made this video back in 2011, long before InIn was around. I think it exemplifies the kind of thing that we as EA participants can do well – share about what motivates us to give in an engaging fashion. If you haven’t see it, check it out, and consider sharing it with others.
Congrats on the TIME article!
What are the numbers in parentheses? The number of people who clicked the links from the article?
Thank you! Yup, the numbers of people who clicked on the links to EA orgs from the article—should have made that more clear :-)