For your global health donations, you mostly donated to the Against Malaria Foundation until 2019, then switched to Malaria Consortium until a few years ago, and now donate to GiveWell All Grants Fund. What was the reasoning behind these changes? Do you think it makes any counterfactual difference at the end of the day, given the size of GiveWell’s discretionary budget? I expect GiveWell to fund AMF and MC until marginal donations meet the cost-effectiveness bar anyway.
Asking because my friends and relatives aren’t interested in animal welfare or EA Meta, and I don’t know if I should advise them to give to AMF (more warm fuzzies, easier sell) or GW All Grants Fund (maybe more impact)
Don’t read too much into those changes! I think I thought of which one to donate to as having a relatively small effect, since as you say others are looking to send their money wherever has the most remaining room for more funding. But we switched from AMF to MC after GiveWell’s 2019 giving season recommendations said “We think that Malaria Consortium’s seasonal malaria chemoprevention program can use funding most effectively in the near term.” Switching from there GiveWell’s funds was downstream from deciding that since we trusted GiveWell’s judgement here we should just let them allocate the money directly.
For your global health donations, you mostly donated to the Against Malaria Foundation until 2019, then switched to Malaria Consortium until a few years ago, and now donate to GiveWell All Grants Fund. What was the reasoning behind these changes? Do you think it makes any counterfactual difference at the end of the day, given the size of GiveWell’s discretionary budget? I expect GiveWell to fund AMF and MC until marginal donations meet the cost-effectiveness bar anyway.
Asking because my friends and relatives aren’t interested in animal welfare or EA Meta, and I don’t know if I should advise them to give to AMF (more warm fuzzies, easier sell) or GW All Grants Fund (maybe more impact)
Don’t read too much into those changes! I think I thought of which one to donate to as having a relatively small effect, since as you say others are looking to send their money wherever has the most remaining room for more funding. But we switched from AMF to MC after GiveWell’s 2019 giving season recommendations said “We think that Malaria Consortium’s seasonal malaria chemoprevention program can use funding most effectively in the near term.” Switching from there GiveWell’s funds was downstream from deciding that since we trusted GiveWell’s judgement here we should just let them allocate the money directly.