My question: Have there been any projects or any organized efforts to tap into the early retirement (or similar financial blog/podcast/influencer) community as small/medium funders of effective charities?
Background:
Mr. Money Mustache (MMM) is a popular financial blog focused on early retirement. In October 2016 he published “Notes on Giving Away my First $100,000[1]”, $55K of which went to GiveWell. This post includes a link to Peter Singer’s TED talk about EA.
In 2017 he posted again “How to Give Money (and Get Happiness) More Easily[2]”, which included giving $70K to GiveWell and there is a photo of some of the GiveWell staff which suggests some coordination and possibly efforts to publicize GiveWell as a giving option. There’s also a link to TheLifeYouCanSave.org
Subsequently, I could not find any references on the blog to effective altruism, Givewell, or anything similar. This seems like a golden opportunity for coordination 7-8 years ago, though probably less of an opportunity with MMM now[3]. So my question:
Have there been any projects or any organized efforts to tap into the early retirement (or similar financial blog/podcast/influencer) community as small/medium funders of effective charities?
Thanks.
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Here’s a few other misc. threads on this subject over the years.
https://www.abandonedcubicle.com/charitable-giving/
https://forum.mrmoneymustache.com/ask-a-mustachian/fire-effective-altruism/
Yield & Spread from Rebecca Herbst is the closet thing to this I know of. Not sure if she’s tried anything else with the FIRE community.