So in my case, you are preaching to the choir. However, there had been some pushback on this view, which I hope others present in the comments below (if not, I’ll try to ‘steel-man’ it).
By the way, one additional point that I frequently make on the above is that, in addition to the importance of charitable giving itself
Drivers and barriers to effective giving are also drivers/barriers to effective pro-social personal, professional and political choices.
So (learning how to) promoting effective charitable-giving-related ideas to ‘the masses’ will also help (learn how to convince people) to vote for effective government policies.
In addition to the work I link above, there are obviously other groups and initiatives ‘in this space’. You are not alone, even though the thrust of most efforts within ‘core EA’ seems to have moved to ‘making more highly-engaged EAs’ and getting the smartest people to pursue longtermist-relevant career paths.
E.g., see the work of (some of which is discussed in the above links) …
GiveWell, Giving What We Can, One for The World, The Life You Can Save
I’m very interested in this. Some of what we’re doing at bit.ly/eamtt gets at this, as well as some of the ‘research and agenda’ I try to synthesize at “Increasing effective giving (& action): The puzzle, what we (need to) know”. (See also earlier/related work at innovationsinfundraising.org .)
… Whew, end of self-promo.
So in my case, you are preaching to the choir. However, there had been some pushback on this view, which I hope others present in the comments below (if not, I’ll try to ‘steel-man’ it).
By the way, one additional point that I frequently make on the above is that, in addition to the importance of charitable giving itself
So (learning how to) promoting effective charitable-giving-related ideas to ‘the masses’ will also help (learn how to convince people) to vote for effective government policies.
In addition to the work I link above, there are obviously other groups and initiatives ‘in this space’. You are not alone, even though the thrust of most efforts within ‘core EA’ seems to have moved to ‘making more highly-engaged EAs’ and getting the smartest people to pursue longtermist-relevant career paths.
E.g., see the work of (some of which is discussed in the above links) …
GiveWell, Giving What We Can, One for The World, The Life You Can Save
(Spinoffs) Charity Elections, Giving Games
Workplace advocacy, [High Impact Professionals] (https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/M2KrWyG2X8iQaHGJv/introducing-high-impact-professionals)
Groups: EA for Christians (and Muslims, Jews, etc)
Giving Multiplier
EA Pulse