Fund a post for an EA to offer charity consultancy to charities to become more efficient in their particular mission.
The EA approach is quite transportable, and in demonstrating its effectiveness in tackling a wide variety of charity problems it allows real engagement with a broad mainstream charity population—charities are very set in their ways and new thinking is exactly what many charities need, as well as it would provide a receptive forum to the EA concepts and top charities—very powerful communication via tell, show and do
Just so everyone knows, I thought about this same idea before, and I asked Holden Karnofsky at the 2014 effective altruism summit if he thought Givewell would ever go into consultancy. HIs opinion was that it’s not something they would try for a long time, and which isn’t part of their core mission as an evaluator.
I would probably suggest it ran out of Oxford as a separate project, as you can pick up the Halo effect. It wouldn’t sit well in a charity evaluator. Sits better alongside 80,000 hours—how do I make the most difference with my life—how do we make the most difference with our charity?
Fund a post for an EA to offer charity consultancy to charities to become more efficient in their particular mission.
The EA approach is quite transportable, and in demonstrating its effectiveness in tackling a wide variety of charity problems it allows real engagement with a broad mainstream charity population—charities are very set in their ways and new thinking is exactly what many charities need, as well as it would provide a receptive forum to the EA concepts and top charities—very powerful communication via tell, show and do
Just so everyone knows, I thought about this same idea before, and I asked Holden Karnofsky at the 2014 effective altruism summit if he thought Givewell would ever go into consultancy. HIs opinion was that it’s not something they would try for a long time, and which isn’t part of their core mission as an evaluator.
I would probably suggest it ran out of Oxford as a separate project, as you can pick up the Halo effect. It wouldn’t sit well in a charity evaluator. Sits better alongside 80,000 hours—how do I make the most difference with my life—how do we make the most difference with our charity?