I’m a grant writer and fundraiser by trade, but in the past I haven’t provided services to any charities that were affiliated with EA or met GiveWell’s effectiveness standards. They’re mostly the typical single-cause, single-location organizations run by people who really mean well but are running on emotion or “faith” alone. These are good people who just aren’t used to using an effective lens, even using much more conventional program evaluation methods.
There’s only so much I can do as an independent worker in this field, but I do like the idea of selecting those 98th percentile orgs you mentioned and am intrigued by the approach of applying a small amount of EA money to them (epistemic status: uncertain, ~40%).
My concern would be that such organizations would only be tangentially aligned with EA values, and so essentially EA Infrastructure would be funding organizations with very different values, which I don’t think matches EA’s core vision.
Of course, I’m still new to the movement, so I don’t really feel all that comfortable speaking definitively about this.
I’m a grant writer and fundraiser by trade, but in the past I haven’t provided services to any charities that were affiliated with EA or met GiveWell’s effectiveness standards. They’re mostly the typical single-cause, single-location organizations run by people who really mean well but are running on emotion or “faith” alone. These are good people who just aren’t used to using an effective lens, even using much more conventional program evaluation methods.
There’s only so much I can do as an independent worker in this field, but I do like the idea of selecting those 98th percentile orgs you mentioned and am intrigued by the approach of applying a small amount of EA money to them (epistemic status: uncertain, ~40%).
My concern would be that such organizations would only be tangentially aligned with EA values, and so essentially EA Infrastructure would be funding organizations with very different values, which I don’t think matches EA’s core vision.
Of course, I’m still new to the movement, so I don’t really feel all that comfortable speaking definitively about this.