EA transparency update: Sep 13 - Mar 14
I have collated reports published by EA organizations from 13 September 2013 to 12 March 2014. I commend all of these organizations on their transparency and quote Holden Karnofsky:
I believe that nonprofits sometimes mimic for-profits in ways that don’t make sense given their missions… They keep information confidential rather than publishing it as a public good. And they exaggerate successes and downplay shortcomings, while being more honest would help the rest of the world learn and thus ultimately promote their mission (if not their organization).
This post begins with some highlights from the activities of EA organizations and concludes with a list of links to their reports.
Highlights
Meta Effective Altruism
80,000 Hours has pivoted toward performing case-studies on a smaller number of effective altruists
The Center for Applied Rationality has delivered workshops more frequently
Fundraising
Effective Fundraising has rebranded to the Greatest Good Foundation, and has stopped grant-writing in order to diversify its operations, including fundraising from high net-worth individuals
Giving What We Can has concluded that it is effectively generating donations
The Life You Can Save has has generated more funding since Peter Singer’s TED talk
Charity Evaluation
Animal Charity Evaluators have rebranded and are evaluating the impact of leafleting, humane education and US animal organizations
Givewell is moving more money, cooperating with GoodVentures, and diversifying its research through GiveWell Labs
GCR Research
The Centre for the Study of Existential Risk has attained funding, launched, delivered some lectures and done some media
The Future of Humanity Institute has done significant media, hosted and attended conferences, liaised with government and started the Global Priorities Project with the Centre for Applied Altruism
The Global Catastrophic Risk Institute has published, presented and held an online lecture series
The Machine Intelligence Research Institute has published a lot of research and interviews, delivered presentations and held workshops
Reports
Meta-charities
80,000 Hours
Center for Applied Rationality
Fundraising
Greatest Good Foundation
Giving What We Can
The Life You Can Save
Evaluators
Animal Charity Evaluators
Newsletter Subscription Page (note—I cannot find its contents online)
GiveWell
2013 Progress on GiveWell’s traditional (“top charities”) work
Monthly Highlights (note—I cannot find its contents online)
Global Catastrophic Risk Research
Centre for the Study of Existential Risk
Future of Humanity Institute
Global Catastrophic Risks Institute
Machine Intelligence Research Institute
Methodology
I have included all reviews, newsletters and global assessments that I could easily find online but I probably missed some. Please Please contact me to have them included.
Crossposted from Ryan Carey’s blog
Cool, thanks for the update.