I agree with your statement that “The message of the post is that specific impact investments can pass a high effectiveness bar”
But when you say >>I think the message of this post isn’t that compatible with general claims like “investing is doing good, but donating is doing more good”.<< I think I must have been misled by the decision matrix. To me it suggested this comparison between investment and donation, while not being able to resolve a difference between the columns “Pass & Invest to Give”, “Pass & Give now” (and a hypothetical column “Pass & Invest to keep the money for yourself”, with presumably all zero rows), which would all result in zero total portfolio return (differences between these three options would become visible if the consumer wallet would be included and the “Pass & Invest to Give” would create impact through giving, like the “Pass & Give now” column does).
Anyway, I now understand that this comparison between investing and donating was never the message of the post, so all good.
I agree with your statement that “The message of the post is that specific impact investments can pass a high effectiveness bar”
But when you say >>I think the message of this post isn’t that compatible with general claims like “investing is doing good, but donating is doing more good”.<< I think I must have been misled by the decision matrix. To me it suggested this comparison between investment and donation, while not being able to resolve a difference between the columns “Pass & Invest to Give”, “Pass & Give now” (and a hypothetical column “Pass & Invest to keep the money for yourself”, with presumably all zero rows), which would all result in zero total portfolio return (differences between these three options would become visible if the consumer wallet would be included and the “Pass & Invest to Give” would create impact through giving, like the “Pass & Give now” column does).
Anyway, I now understand that this comparison between investing and donating was never the message of the post, so all good.