“Is there power to leverage IWD for Fistula Foundation?”—yeah, I think that leveraging International Women’s day to promote EA-endorsed, women-related charities is an awesome idea.
I think an important first step would be to collect a list of several highly-effective charities that are all on the theme of helping women. Fistula Foundation is one, Family Empowerment Media is another, perhaps Population Services International is a third. And I’m sure there are others out there! Then, with your list of highly-effective women-oriented charities, you could put together some internet posts (to facebook, reddit, this very Forum, etc), containing:
A basic EA pitch (the whole concept of maximizing effectiveness by tracking outcomes, and by giving internationally where a dollar goes a long way) and link to further intro-to-EA resources.
The list of charities you identified—fun to give people multiple options because that gets people thinking about which they like more, and it also makes the post seem more objective/neutral (like Givewell’s trusted recommendations) rather than just trying to market a single charity.
A blurb on what each charity does, where they operate, etc.
I’m also excited about the broader idea that EA could promote targeted/thematic recommendations like this during other special days:
Top climate charities on Earth Day? I’m sure Giving Green and others are already doing this.
Nuclear/AI X-risk causes on Petrov Day (although Petrov Day is a pretty niche holiday), or pandemic prevention donations on the anniversary of the polio vaccine or smallpox eradication?
Progress Studies and prediction market / institutional-reform / approval-voting people could find plenty of holidays too, I’m sure. (Maybe the Fourth of July?) Same goes for the animal welfare wing of effective altruism.
EA already makes a bit of a coordinated marketing push every year on Giving Tuesday: people talk about their personal donations, organizations put out yearly updates, people participate in big charity matching drives, folks talk to their friends and family about the ideas of effective altruism. I think we could score some nice low-hanging fruit by extending this strategy to International Women’s Day and beyond.
Wow. Read through your 2 comments here (and on the other forum post you linked to—where I also just commented). Thank you so much for taking the time to share the insights.
I especially like the idea of a site dedicated to this. There are a couple pages out there that I can find, namely on the IWD website itself, but nothing worth even linking to, in my humble opinion. Def room for something awesome to come along, and give a couple options for. (Maybe there could even be a section for effective giving within the US or developed countries too, although if it did, this should certainly be secondary and not as highlighted.)
It’s not too early for me to consider next year already… and if you (or anyone reading this) is possibly interested in helping a website come together (from site design—to simply being available for a little brainstorm)… let me know here or via DM.
One semi-simple way for a website to occur, would be to just encourage TLYCS—or some other org—to create such a page themselves… with the info (and site design) they already largely have on hand.
“Is there power to leverage IWD for Fistula Foundation?”—yeah, I think that leveraging International Women’s day to promote EA-endorsed, women-related charities is an awesome idea.
I think an important first step would be to collect a list of several highly-effective charities that are all on the theme of helping women. Fistula Foundation is one, Family Empowerment Media is another, perhaps Population Services International is a third. And I’m sure there are others out there! Then, with your list of highly-effective women-oriented charities, you could put together some internet posts (to facebook, reddit, this very Forum, etc), containing:
A basic EA pitch (the whole concept of maximizing effectiveness by tracking outcomes, and by giving internationally where a dollar goes a long way) and link to further intro-to-EA resources.
The list of charities you identified—fun to give people multiple options because that gets people thinking about which they like more, and it also makes the post seem more objective/neutral (like Givewell’s trusted recommendations) rather than just trying to market a single charity.
A blurb on what each charity does, where they operate, etc.
Since International Women’s Day is tomorrow, just slapping together a few reddit posts is probably the best we can do this year. (For more thoughts on this, see this comment of mine on another EA Forum post about putting together a subreddit donation drive for International Women’s Day.) But in future years, we could have a whole The-Life-You-Can-Save-style website devoted to showcasing effective female-empowerment charities. I am picturing something like Giving Green’s EA-inspired recommendations for reducing carbon emissions.
I’m also excited about the broader idea that EA could promote targeted/thematic recommendations like this during other special days:
Top climate charities on Earth Day? I’m sure Giving Green and others are already doing this.
Nuclear/AI X-risk causes on Petrov Day (although Petrov Day is a pretty niche holiday), or pandemic prevention donations on the anniversary of the polio vaccine or smallpox eradication?
Great-power diplomacy stuff on Armistice/Veteran’s Day?
Progress Studies and prediction market / institutional-reform / approval-voting people could find plenty of holidays too, I’m sure. (Maybe the Fourth of July?) Same goes for the animal welfare wing of effective altruism.
EA already makes a bit of a coordinated marketing push every year on Giving Tuesday: people talk about their personal donations, organizations put out yearly updates, people participate in big charity matching drives, folks talk to their friends and family about the ideas of effective altruism. I think we could score some nice low-hanging fruit by extending this strategy to International Women’s Day and beyond.
Wow. Read through your 2 comments here (and on the other forum post you linked to—where I also just commented). Thank you so much for taking the time to share the insights.
I especially like the idea of a site dedicated to this. There are a couple pages out there that I can find, namely on the IWD website itself, but nothing worth even linking to, in my humble opinion. Def room for something awesome to come along, and give a couple options for. (Maybe there could even be a section for effective giving within the US or developed countries too, although if it did, this should certainly be secondary and not as highlighted.)
It’s not too early for me to consider next year already… and if you (or anyone reading this) is possibly interested in helping a website come together (from site design—to simply being available for a little brainstorm)… let me know here or via DM.
One semi-simple way for a website to occur, would be to just encourage TLYCS—or some other org—to create such a page themselves… with the info (and site design) they already largely have on hand.