Congrats Michael and Sjir. I love to see meta-orgs take self-evaluation seriously :)
My main open question from having read the summary (and briefly glanced at the full report) is how the picture would look if you split by approximate cause area rather than effective/noneffective. Both in the sense of which cause areas you would guess your donors would have given to otherwise, and which cause areas your pledgers would have given to. It would be interesting to see eg a separate giving multiplier for animal welfare/global development/longtermist donations.
You can see in the donations by cause area a breakdown of the causes pledge and non-pledge donors give to. This could potentially inform a multiplier for the particular cause areas. I don’t think we considered doing this, and am not sure it’s something we’ll do in future, but we’d be happy to see others’ do this using the information we provide.
Unfortunately, we don’t have a strong sense in how we influenced which causes donors gave to; the only thing that comes to mind is our question: “Please list your best guess of up to three organisations you likely would *not* have donated to if Giving What We Can, or its donation platform, did not exist (i.e. donations where you think GWWC has affected your decision)” the results of which you can find on page 19 of our survey documentation here. Only an extremely small sample of non-pledge donors responded to the question, though. Getting a better sense of our influence here, as well as generally analysing trends in which cause areas our donors give to, is something we’d like to explore in our future impact evaluations.
Congrats Michael and Sjir. I love to see meta-orgs take self-evaluation seriously :)
My main open question from having read the summary (and briefly glanced at the full report) is how the picture would look if you split by approximate cause area rather than effective/noneffective. Both in the sense of which cause areas you would guess your donors would have given to otherwise, and which cause areas your pledgers would have given to. It would be interesting to see eg a separate giving multiplier for animal welfare/global development/longtermist donations.
Is that something you thought about?
Thanks :)!
You can see in the donations by cause area a breakdown of the causes pledge and non-pledge donors give to. This could potentially inform a multiplier for the particular cause areas. I don’t think we considered doing this, and am not sure it’s something we’ll do in future, but we’d be happy to see others’ do this using the information we provide.
Unfortunately, we don’t have a strong sense in how we influenced which causes donors gave to; the only thing that comes to mind is our question: “Please list your best guess of up to three organisations you likely would *not* have donated to if Giving What We Can, or its donation platform, did not exist (i.e. donations where you think GWWC has affected your decision)” the results of which you can find on page 19 of our survey documentation here. Only an extremely small sample of non-pledge donors responded to the question, though. Getting a better sense of our influence here, as well as generally analysing trends in which cause areas our donors give to, is something we’d like to explore in our future impact evaluations.