In past years I’ve donated mainly to the Donor Lottery or EA Funds. However, I want to avoid donating through CEA right now until I have more confidence in their financial & legal stability post-FTX. Even absent that, I no longer want to donate to EA Funds because I object to their lack of transparency about what they do with donors’ money.
This makes my job harder! I have to actually think about how to do the most good with my donation, according to my values. (Even more so because this year is by far my biggest pledge donation to date.)
In the end, I decided to go “back to basics” and donate to Animal Charity Evaluators’ Recommended Charity Fund. I’ve had disagreements with ACE in the past, but it seems pretty clear to me that their current slate of Top Charities are all really excellent organisations, and the last few grant reports from the fund all seem quite exciting to me.
I’m very uncertain about this donation, since I generally donate to more longtermist causes, but for various reasons feel like this is the right way (or at least a defensibly good way) to go. (And if I am going to donate to more neartermist/GHW causes, I’m reasonably confident that animal welfare continues to be both more pressing and much more neglected than global human health.)
In past years I’ve donated mainly to the Donor Lottery or EA Funds. However, I want to avoid donating through CEA right now until I have more confidence in their financial & legal stability post-FTX. Even absent that, I no longer want to donate to EA Funds because I object to their lack of transparency about what they do with donors’ money.
This makes my job harder! I have to actually think about how to do the most good with my donation, according to my values. (Even more so because this year is by far my biggest pledge donation to date.)
In the end, I decided to go “back to basics” and donate to Animal Charity Evaluators’ Recommended Charity Fund. I’ve had disagreements with ACE in the past, but it seems pretty clear to me that their current slate of Top Charities are all really excellent organisations, and the last few grant reports from the fund all seem quite exciting to me.
I’m very uncertain about this donation, since I generally donate to more longtermist causes, but for various reasons feel like this is the right way (or at least a defensibly good way) to go. (And if I am going to donate to more neartermist/GHW causes, I’m reasonably confident that animal welfare continues to be both more pressing and much more neglected than global human health.)