I started mostly in global health and then included some animal welfare. The vast majority of my donation in the past ~6 years has been EA/EG meta. Especially boring stuff that no one else wants to pay for (e.g. paying for accounting, audit and legal fees for an effective giving or community building organisation) but I find the multiplier mindset satisfying. That’s mostly been EA Australia and Giving What We Can. I’ve also sponsored a lot of giving games and charity elections.
Other than that I have a mix of more direct organisations I support (e.g. GFI, AMF) on a regular(ish) basis. These also make it much easier for me to have entry level discussions about effective giving with people as a donor myself.
As another form of advocacy I quite like giving donations as gifts, thank yous, or follow ups (donating to something on someone’s behalf after having a conversation with them about it).
Finally I’ll often backstop or seed things with personal funds when I have high context (e.g. EAGxAustralia conferences, donor matching campaigns, early stage projects) so that they happen regardless but I hope another donor will step in or a grant will come through.
If I was less high context specific projects and weren’t thinking about advocacy I’d likely just do a combination of funds and Charity Entrepreneurship.
On top of my impact focused giving I also like to support a token amount when friends do a fundraiser (provided it doesn’t seem harmful) to affirm them looking outwards (it makes it easier to chat about charity in general too when I’ve actively supported them) and my wife gives some of her donations to the rescue we got our cats from and volunteered at (discussed between us as a bit of a social contract, special obligation type giving).
Where do you donate to and why?
I started mostly in global health and then included some animal welfare. The vast majority of my donation in the past ~6 years has been EA/EG meta. Especially boring stuff that no one else wants to pay for (e.g. paying for accounting, audit and legal fees for an effective giving or community building organisation) but I find the multiplier mindset satisfying. That’s mostly been EA Australia and Giving What We Can. I’ve also sponsored a lot of giving games and charity elections.
Other than that I have a mix of more direct organisations I support (e.g. GFI, AMF) on a regular(ish) basis. These also make it much easier for me to have entry level discussions about effective giving with people as a donor myself.
As another form of advocacy I quite like giving donations as gifts, thank yous, or follow ups (donating to something on someone’s behalf after having a conversation with them about it).
Finally I’ll often backstop or seed things with personal funds when I have high context (e.g. EAGxAustralia conferences, donor matching campaigns, early stage projects) so that they happen regardless but I hope another donor will step in or a grant will come through.
If I was less high context specific projects and weren’t thinking about advocacy I’d likely just do a combination of funds and Charity Entrepreneurship.
On top of my impact focused giving I also like to support a token amount when friends do a fundraiser (provided it doesn’t seem harmful) to affirm them looking outwards (it makes it easier to chat about charity in general too when I’ve actively supported them) and my wife gives some of her donations to the rescue we got our cats from and volunteered at (discussed between us as a bit of a social contract, special obligation type giving).