Is EA community building work considered separately, or included in “creating a better future”?
It depends. If such work were funded by the Long-term Future Fund, it would be included in “creating a better future”. If it were funded by Centre for Effective Altruism, or the EA Infrastructure Fund, it would be included in “multiple cause areas”.
I think it would follow from this and your radical uncertainty with regard to non long term interventions that you would want to include these donations as positively impactful.
I accounted for donations going to the area of “creating a better future” which were tagged as “multiple cause areas”. GWWC tagged 11 % going to creating a better future, but I assumed 13.3 % (= 11/(65 + 7 + 11) = “tagged as creating a better future”/(“tagged as improving human welfare” + “tagged as improving animal welfare” + “tagged as creating a better future”)) went to creating a better future. This may not be accurate if the donations going to “multiple cause areas” are disproportionally going to “creating a better future”, so I take the point that it would be better to explicitly analyse where the donations in the bucket of “multiple cause areas” are going to.
Do you know how they tag the cause area of a given donation?
Is EA community building work considered separately, or included in “creating a better future”?
Hi Charles,
Good question! The correspondence is here.
It depends. If such work were funded by the Long-term Future Fund, it would be included in “creating a better future”. If it were funded by Centre for Effective Altruism, or the EA Infrastructure Fund, it would be included in “multiple cause areas”.
I think it would follow from this and your radical uncertainty with regard to non long term interventions that you would want to include these donations as positively impactful.
I accounted for donations going to the area of “creating a better future” which were tagged as “multiple cause areas”. GWWC tagged 11 % going to creating a better future, but I assumed 13.3 % (= 11/(65 + 7 + 11) = “tagged as creating a better future”/(“tagged as improving human welfare” + “tagged as improving animal welfare” + “tagged as creating a better future”)) went to creating a better future. This may not be accurate if the donations going to “multiple cause areas” are disproportionally going to “creating a better future”, so I take the point that it would be better to explicitly analyse where the donations in the bucket of “multiple cause areas” are going to.