It’s perhaps not very “EA” of me to say, but having lost a loved one to tobacco—this specific cause is more personal to me than most. I squeezed in a last-minute donation for y’all.
Returning to a more analytical frame of mind, one of the things I like about your org’s value proposition for EAs right now is this: I could see your org drawing significant non-EA financial support in the future. This is also evidenced by having obtained over $16K in non-EA funds already. I really like new charity startups that have the potential to draw significantly on non-EA funds as they expand, such that the expansion isn’t funded by monies that would have counterfactually gone to AMF, et al.
Hatred can be a powerful variant on warm fuzzies, and I think a decent number of people hate Big Tobacco. That would be hard to market around, but I think it is worth keeping in mind. Or, more positively: for people in my shoes, the possibility of preventing others from suffering the same fate as their loved ones could be a significant motivation. Cf. the pattern of people donating to disease-specific charities for diseases that they or their loved ones have/had.
It’s perhaps not very “EA” of me to say, but having lost a loved one to tobacco—this specific cause is more personal to me than most. I squeezed in a last-minute donation for y’all.
Returning to a more analytical frame of mind, one of the things I like about your org’s value proposition for EAs right now is this: I could see your org drawing significant non-EA financial support in the future. This is also evidenced by having obtained over $16K in non-EA funds already. I really like new charity startups that have the potential to draw significantly on non-EA funds as they expand, such that the expansion isn’t funded by monies that would have counterfactually gone to AMF, et al.
Hatred can be a powerful variant on warm fuzzies, and I think a decent number of people hate Big Tobacco. That would be hard to market around, but I think it is worth keeping in mind. Or, more positively: for people in my shoes, the possibility of preventing others from suffering the same fate as their loved ones could be a significant motivation. Cf. the pattern of people donating to disease-specific charities for diseases that they or their loved ones have/had.