Seconded that it is really fast to sign up for a free $50 gift card and then donate. Note that the process for searching charities is sensitive to spelling! Here are some EA-adjacent charities I was able to find in their system:
Global Priorities Research & EA Meta
Open Philanthropy
Effective Altruism Foundation
Centre for Effective Altruism USA
Rethink Priorities
Future of Life Institute
Quantified Uncertainty Research Institute
The Life You Can Save
Center for Applied Rationality
Center for Election Science
AI Safety & Other X-Risk
Machine Intelligence Research Institute
Ought
Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative
Nuclear Threat Initiative
Clean Air Task Force
Global Health & Development
(If you search for Givewell, you’ll get the wrong charity. You want The Clear Fund, EIN: 20-8625442)
Against Malaria Foundation
END Fund
Helen Keller International
GiveDirectly
StrongMinds
Animal Welfare
Cellular Agriculture Society
Animal Ethics
Animal Charity Evaluators
Wild Animal Initiative
Faunalytics
Some things I tried but couldn’t find:
Charter Cities Institute, Our World in Data, Legal Priorities Project, New Science, various funds and indexes like the specific EA Funds categories.
Center for Human Compatible AI, Redwood Research, Center for Health Security, Global Catastrophic Risk Institute, ALLFED
New Incentives, Iodine Global Network, Family Empowerment Media
If you want to donate to ALLFED, please donate to Players Philanthropy Fund (our fiscal sponsor). I will update here with specific instructions as the donation step is not urgent.
This could be true for other charities under sponsorship.
I also really like the platform this uses, Tisbest. This year I decided to do all my Xmas giving by giving Tisbest cards to folks so they can make donations to places of their choosing. I think it’s a nice way to spread the spirit of giving with folks, and it’s a great chance to talk about EA if anyone asks “what should I donate it to?”.
Cool! Do you have experience using https://www.every.org/gift-cards by chance? Their Charity Gift Cards accomplish the same thing I believe and I’d be interested in hearing which platform you like better. E.g. Does one platform make the Charity Gift Card feel more like a Christmas gift than the other?
If you participated last year, note that on the sign-up page Ray Dalio writes: “I also ask that if you claimed one of these free cards last year, you either let others participate this year or pass this offer along to someone else who hasn’t received one yet.”
I missed this initially because I had participated last year and the page was formatted in the same way, so I assumed I knew what it was all about and just signed up immediately. Hopefully my sharing this offer with lots of new people will make up for that!
It took me 112 seconds start-to-writing-this-comment for what it’s worth. (Update the title accordingly maybe lol? I would’ve been more likely to click if you said ’112s’ than ‘30s’.)
I missed this as well: “I also ask that if you claimed one of these free cards last year, you either let others participate this year or pass this offer along to someone else who hasn’t received one yet.”
I’ve received the gift card but have not redeemed it. If anyone misses out on receiving a gift card this time around and hasn’t received one last year either, send me a message and I’ll give you mine.
Given that the process to spend the $50 doesn’t have to happen right away (unless I’m mistaken), then maybe it should be emphasized that the signing up part only takes 20 seconds or so.
Note that the different “every.org” charity matching scheme that William highlighted two weeks ago is still going! It lets you get over $1000+ of matching funds by making 10 donations of $100 each. See his linked post for details.
They’ve added more money to the matching pool several times—as of now there is still over $62,000 left in the bank.
If you use a referral invite (here is mine), you’ll get a starter $25 donation gift card on top of all the matching funds.
Seconded that it is really fast to sign up for a free $50 gift card and then donate. Note that the process for searching charities is sensitive to spelling! Here are some EA-adjacent charities I was able to find in their system:
Global Priorities Research & EA Meta
Open Philanthropy
Effective Altruism Foundation
Centre for Effective Altruism USA
Rethink Priorities
Future of Life Institute
Quantified Uncertainty Research Institute
The Life You Can Save
Center for Applied Rationality
Center for Election Science
AI Safety & Other X-Risk
Machine Intelligence Research Institute
Ought
Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative
Nuclear Threat Initiative
Clean Air Task Force
Global Health & Development
(If you search for Givewell, you’ll get the wrong charity. You want The Clear Fund, EIN: 20-8625442)
Against Malaria Foundation
END Fund
Helen Keller International
GiveDirectly
StrongMinds
Animal Welfare
Cellular Agriculture Society
Animal Ethics
Animal Charity Evaluators
Wild Animal Initiative
Faunalytics
Some things I tried but couldn’t find:
Charter Cities Institute, Our World in Data, Legal Priorities Project, New Science, various funds and indexes like the specific EA Funds categories.
Center for Human Compatible AI, Redwood Research, Center for Health Security, Global Catastrophic Risk Institute, ALLFED
New Incentives, Iodine Global Network, Family Empowerment Media
If you want to donate to ALLFED, please donate to Players Philanthropy Fund (our fiscal sponsor). I will update here with specific instructions as the donation step is not urgent.
This could be true for other charities under sponsorship.
Done! Thanks!
Worth noting you don’t have to be a US citizen to do this—the $ made me hesitate…
This is awesome—thanks!
You should adjust your estimate, this only took me 1 minute :)
Updated, thanks! :)
I also really like the platform this uses, Tisbest. This year I decided to do all my Xmas giving by giving Tisbest cards to folks so they can make donations to places of their choosing. I think it’s a nice way to spread the spirit of giving with folks, and it’s a great chance to talk about EA if anyone asks “what should I donate it to?”.
Cool! Do you have experience using https://www.every.org/gift-cards by chance? Their Charity Gift Cards accomplish the same thing I believe and I’d be interested in hearing which platform you like better. E.g. Does one platform make the Charity Gift Card feel more like a Christmas gift than the other?
If you participated last year, note that on the sign-up page Ray Dalio writes: “I also ask that if you claimed one of these free cards last year, you either let others participate this year or pass this offer along to someone else who hasn’t received one yet.”
I missed this initially because I had participated last year and the page was formatted in the same way, so I assumed I knew what it was all about and just signed up immediately. Hopefully my sharing this offer with lots of new people will make up for that!
It took me 112 seconds start-to-writing-this-comment for what it’s worth. (Update the title accordingly maybe lol? I would’ve been more likely to click if you said ’112s’ than ‘30s’.)
Some people wanted me to clarify that the “claiming” part of it takes less than a minute. I updated it to a range to hopefully satisfy both.
I missed this as well: “I also ask that if you claimed one of these free cards last year, you either let others participate this year or pass this offer along to someone else who hasn’t received one yet.”
I’ve received the gift card but have not redeemed it. If anyone misses out on receiving a gift card this time around and hasn’t received one last year either, send me a message and I’ll give you mine.
Nice find, and thank you for sharing! I can verify that it worked quickly.
Great post William, thanks!
Given that the process to spend the $50 doesn’t have to happen right away (unless I’m mistaken), then maybe it should be emphasized that the signing up part only takes 20 seconds or so.
Thanks so much!