Thank you for noting this, and I obviously missed it, and have retracted the comment due to you pointing this out and other replies that changed my view.
That said, I think that housing policy is the most obvious place for c(4) donations, given the local political nature of the work, but I’m frustrated that there’s currently so little similar direct work on the national level in the US, for example, in farm animal welfare, in biosecurity and global health, and in AI policy. I think that more political engagement in each area by individual donors small and medium size could be very useful. But as I said in another comment: “I think almost all of the hesitation of recommending [this type of donating] is the FTX fiasco and the impact on almost all of the political work that had been done in EA, which SBF was funding a large portion of—but I think that’s a really bad reason not to pursue this type of work, albeit obviously not doing so with dubious campaign finance ethics, much less stolen customer funds.”
Open New York is a c(4) (as noted in the writeup above).
Thank you for noting this, and I obviously missed it, and have retracted the comment due to you pointing this out and other replies that changed my view.
That said, I think that housing policy is the most obvious place for c(4) donations, given the local political nature of the work, but I’m frustrated that there’s currently so little similar direct work on the national level in the US, for example, in farm animal welfare, in biosecurity and global health, and in AI policy. I think that more political engagement in each area by individual donors small and medium size could be very useful. But as I said in another comment: “I think almost all of the hesitation of recommending [this type of donating] is the FTX fiasco and the impact on almost all of the political work that had been done in EA, which SBF was funding a large portion of—but I think that’s a really bad reason not to pursue this type of work, albeit obviously not doing so with dubious campaign finance ethics, much less stolen customer funds.”