Though I wonder why you suggest that someone should ask these questions to a lot of EA orgs in particular? Did you also mean orgs that aren’t explicitly “EA orgs” but that many EAs see as high-value donation opportunities? And is it possible it’d also be valuable to ask non-EA foundations about their practices and thoughts on this matter, at least as an interesting quite different example?
If people want to ask other charities, that also seems fine! I suppose I was assuming that EA charities probably do more engagement with small donors (in the sense of “answering lots of questions about their work”) than most other charities, and that they might be easier to contact for someone who reads the Forum and sees my post. But I’d guess there would be more value in having a wider sample of organizations.
I also think this’d be useful.
Though I wonder why you suggest that someone should ask these questions to a lot of EA orgs in particular? Did you also mean orgs that aren’t explicitly “EA orgs” but that many EAs see as high-value donation opportunities? And is it possible it’d also be valuable to ask non-EA foundations about their practices and thoughts on this matter, at least as an interesting quite different example?
If people want to ask other charities, that also seems fine! I suppose I was assuming that EA charities probably do more engagement with small donors (in the sense of “answering lots of questions about their work”) than most other charities, and that they might be easier to contact for someone who reads the Forum and sees my post. But I’d guess there would be more value in having a wider sample of organizations.
That all seems to make sense.