Alfredo, thanks for your supportive comments! I’m glad you and a number of other EAs recognize the importance of convincing a wider, non-EA audience of giving effectively :-)
Indeed, InIn is still in the earlier phase and learning very actively, but I hope we never stop learning even as we settle on a more concrete path of activities. There’s so much good to be done to help improve the world and convey the message of effective giving broadly, but there’s many ways to get there, and we constantly try to seek the best path that balances maximum upsides and lowest downsides.
Yeah, it’s hard to measure the exact impact of vast media coverage and the large amount of content. We can only use case studies so far to see the impact in dollars moved—such as the comment linked above. Another example is what I heard from a prominent EA recently about her showing my Huffington Post to her mom, and her mom—not an EA—donating to the Effective Altruism Foundation as a result.
We do plan to test interventions more rigorously as we are able to get the funding and resources necessary to run studies.
I agree that funding InIn at this stage requires a small leap of faith. It requires a venture capitalist mentality—there’s higher risks but higher rewards as well. Every dollar given at the earlier stage makes a bigger impact than one at a later stage in the ability of InIn to improve the world sooner. Moreover, since we are at the early stage of our fundraising, every dollar makes a bigger impact. Additionally, the challenge grant makes it an especially good time to give right now.
Alfredo, thanks for your supportive comments! I’m glad you and a number of other EAs recognize the importance of convincing a wider, non-EA audience of giving effectively :-)
Indeed, InIn is still in the earlier phase and learning very actively, but I hope we never stop learning even as we settle on a more concrete path of activities. There’s so much good to be done to help improve the world and convey the message of effective giving broadly, but there’s many ways to get there, and we constantly try to seek the best path that balances maximum upsides and lowest downsides.
Yeah, it’s hard to measure the exact impact of vast media coverage and the large amount of content. We can only use case studies so far to see the impact in dollars moved—such as the comment linked above. Another example is what I heard from a prominent EA recently about her showing my Huffington Post to her mom, and her mom—not an EA—donating to the Effective Altruism Foundation as a result.
We do plan to test interventions more rigorously as we are able to get the funding and resources necessary to run studies.
I agree that funding InIn at this stage requires a small leap of faith. It requires a venture capitalist mentality—there’s higher risks but higher rewards as well. Every dollar given at the earlier stage makes a bigger impact than one at a later stage in the ability of InIn to improve the world sooner. Moreover, since we are at the early stage of our fundraising, every dollar makes a bigger impact. Additionally, the challenge grant makes it an especially good time to give right now.
Look forward to future collaborations as well!