Right. I’d be surprised if legacy fundraisers spent much time with people under 60, let alone 40. This isn’t just about generating money in the nearer future, but also that the older contingent will have more attention for their legacy.
Yeh there are a few stats in Charity Science’s shallow review of the area. One study found that 87% of money from bequests came from people who wrote their will in their 70s/80s, and 76% from people writing in their 80s.
Hmm… I’ll gesture back at the “Effective Giving vs Effective Altruism” thing, and say that maybe while EAs qua “identify as part of EA movement and comment on the EA forum and hang out with other EAs” might be under 35, we might be able to find lots of candidate Effective Givers who are part of a totally different demographic.
Yes and in the review Charity Science distinguish between “usual EA channels” which they note, by default, target mostly young people and “GiveWell, the Life You Can Save, and the direct charities” who are not uniformly young.
I agree, should have made the comment more moderate. I just mean to say it seems quite a bit harder to design a major fundraising campaign around EA ideas for 70 year olds.
Right. I’d be surprised if legacy fundraisers spent much time with people under 60, let alone 40. This isn’t just about generating money in the nearer future, but also that the older contingent will have more attention for their legacy.
Yeh there are a few stats in Charity Science’s shallow review of the area. One study found that 87% of money from bequests came from people who wrote their will in their 70s/80s, and 76% from people writing in their 80s.
That’s useful data. Almost all EAs are under 35 though, so it doesn’t help if we want to pursue legacy fundraising.
Hmm… I’ll gesture back at the “Effective Giving vs Effective Altruism” thing, and say that maybe while EAs qua “identify as part of EA movement and comment on the EA forum and hang out with other EAs” might be under 35, we might be able to find lots of candidate Effective Givers who are part of a totally different demographic.
Yes and in the review Charity Science distinguish between “usual EA channels” which they note, by default, target mostly young people and “GiveWell, the Life You Can Save, and the direct charities” who are not uniformly young.
I agree, should have made the comment more moderate. I just mean to say it seems quite a bit harder to design a major fundraising campaign around EA ideas for 70 year olds.
This also reduces the risk that they will later alter their will.