I don’t have any experience with athletes, though I’d be surprised if they were unusually self-centred compared to other rich people.
Donating a % of winnings above a threshold might be better if income volatility is the worry. That’s the approach Founder’s Pledge and REG both use, which are also very relevant examples. (Note that FP started out with IIRC 2% as their default but now they don’t have a specific percentage and try to suggest the idea of donating much more initially.) I could imagine a pitch like “if you win X big competition, how about giving 30% of that?”
We do know that the EA pitch has worked best on finance, quanty and techy people so far, and it might be hard to extend.
One other thing I’d say is that when we’ve done outreach for GWWC, we’re always letting interested people come to us, rather than going out and pitching to people. I expect if I tried to pitch giving 10% to a randomly selected friend I wouldn’t get far. Instead we’d do something like host a talk about charity, or have a media article, or get introductions to people—so we were always working with a group who have preselected themselves into being pitched.
Though, I think David Golberg has had a lot of success with a more proactive approach at FP among tech entrepreneurs, so it’s possible, though I think even there he’d mostly screen people for interest in charity, or get warm introductions.
Hi Marcus,
I don’t have any experience with athletes, though I’d be surprised if they were unusually self-centred compared to other rich people.
Donating a % of winnings above a threshold might be better if income volatility is the worry. That’s the approach Founder’s Pledge and REG both use, which are also very relevant examples. (Note that FP started out with IIRC 2% as their default but now they don’t have a specific percentage and try to suggest the idea of donating much more initially.) I could imagine a pitch like “if you win X big competition, how about giving 30% of that?”
We do know that the EA pitch has worked best on finance, quanty and techy people so far, and it might be hard to extend.
One other thing I’d say is that when we’ve done outreach for GWWC, we’re always letting interested people come to us, rather than going out and pitching to people. I expect if I tried to pitch giving 10% to a randomly selected friend I wouldn’t get far. Instead we’d do something like host a talk about charity, or have a media article, or get introductions to people—so we were always working with a group who have preselected themselves into being pitched.
Though, I think David Golberg has had a lot of success with a more proactive approach at FP among tech entrepreneurs, so it’s possible, though I think even there he’d mostly screen people for interest in charity, or get warm introductions.