One marginal activity which we could do more of with more staff (and indeed we will be doing more of in the future) is individual outreach—writing to people who have shown some interest in effective giving but aren’t gwwc members, seeing if we can answer any questions or concerns they have, as well as learning more about how people typically hear about gwwc, what kinds of things act as attractors and barriers.
That’s very interesting, do you think you may have time to publish some of what you learn, and how “counterfactual” the 9 new members you found through it were?
We do try to publish updates on how particular activities are going, but I don’t want to speak to how fine grained an analysis of this particular activity we’ll publish soon. As I say, I’m currently working on a more overall update of our activities. One document you mind find useful, which brings together quite a lot of what we’ve learned about the best ways to do individual outreach is this guide to talking about GWWC and effective giving. (Thanks very much to Alison Woodman for putting that together!)
Thank you to Alison, that is useful. Should I throw out particular questions about your individual outreach efforts here, or wait for the update? Where I would I find updates on your activities? Do they all go into the overall update you mention, or do they get published individually throughout the year on some web page or blog?
Probably waiting until the update would be better, because that way the questions and answers are collected into one space.
We publish updates on our blog and here. Our main reviews and plans are published on an ongoing basis on this page. Our most recent prospectus had a lot about our plans etc, and we answered more detailed questions about our impact evaluations on this post. We also have this doc in which we tried to estimate the value of individual outreach, but note that it was intended for internal use, so is rather rough around the edges. (The data it uses is from a year or so ago, rather than being the most recent round.)
Okay, will do, that makes a good deal of sense. Based on that page it looks like information on projects goes into one overall retrospective analysis but say if I’m wrong.
That’s very interesting, do you think you may have time to publish some of what you learn, and how “counterfactual” the 9 new members you found through it were?
We do try to publish updates on how particular activities are going, but I don’t want to speak to how fine grained an analysis of this particular activity we’ll publish soon. As I say, I’m currently working on a more overall update of our activities. One document you mind find useful, which brings together quite a lot of what we’ve learned about the best ways to do individual outreach is this guide to talking about GWWC and effective giving. (Thanks very much to Alison Woodman for putting that together!)
Thank you to Alison, that is useful. Should I throw out particular questions about your individual outreach efforts here, or wait for the update? Where I would I find updates on your activities? Do they all go into the overall update you mention, or do they get published individually throughout the year on some web page or blog?
Probably waiting until the update would be better, because that way the questions and answers are collected into one space. We publish updates on our blog and here. Our main reviews and plans are published on an ongoing basis on this page. Our most recent prospectus had a lot about our plans etc, and we answered more detailed questions about our impact evaluations on this post. We also have this doc in which we tried to estimate the value of individual outreach, but note that it was intended for internal use, so is rather rough around the edges. (The data it uses is from a year or so ago, rather than being the most recent round.)
Okay, will do, that makes a good deal of sense. Based on that page it looks like information on projects goes into one overall retrospective analysis but say if I’m wrong.