Michelle can give a more detailed answer, but some combination of:
More contact with existing members (now 700 of them) to i) keep them giving for many years ii) encourage them to give more than 10% where practical iii) move more of their donations to our recommended charities.
Hire a Research Director who would spend most of their time absorbing and communicating the evidence for our and GiveWell’s recommended charities in order to i) drive up membership through talks, media, etc ii) drive more of our members’ donations to our top recommended charities.
We are currently recruiting new members for under £500 each on average. The marginal cost is going to be higher, but my qualitative impression given the methods we are using is that it won’t be that much higher.
Hire a Research Director who would spend most of their time absorbing and communicating the evidence for our and GiveWell’s recommended charities in order to i) drive up membership through talks, media, etc ii) drive more of our members’ donations to our top recommended charities.
The research director would not actually be directing research into which charity was best?
They would be making these decisions but would mostly be relying on primary data collected by others. GiveWell is producing so much information these days that this seems a better way to contribute.
This could be different if we hired someone who was better suited to doing charity evaluations from scratch themselves.
Michelle can give a more detailed answer, but some combination of:
More contact with existing members (now 700 of them) to i) keep them giving for many years ii) encourage them to give more than 10% where practical iii) move more of their donations to our recommended charities.
Hire a Research Director who would spend most of their time absorbing and communicating the evidence for our and GiveWell’s recommended charities in order to i) drive up membership through talks, media, etc ii) drive more of our members’ donations to our top recommended charities.
I describe some of this here: http://effective-altruism.com/r/main/ea/bq/ideas_for_new_experimental_ea_projects_you_could/
We are currently recruiting new members for under £500 each on average. The marginal cost is going to be higher, but my qualitative impression given the methods we are using is that it won’t be that much higher.
The research director would not actually be directing research into which charity was best?
They would be making these decisions but would mostly be relying on primary data collected by others. GiveWell is producing so much information these days that this seems a better way to contribute.
This could be different if we hired someone who was better suited to doing charity evaluations from scratch themselves.