Effective Altruism Outreach needs your donations this Christmas!

EA Outreach Fundraising Campaign Page

Effective Altruism Outreach is a project within the Centre for Effective Altruism to grow and strengthen the effective altruism movement.

As part of these efforts, we will be coordinating the launches of two books on effective altruism in 2015: one by William MacAskill, published by Penguin in the US and Guardian Faber in the UK; and another by Peter Singer, published by Yale University Press. Our aim is to use this opportunity to make effective altruism high-profile enough that in the future hosts of media discussions of philanthropy, charity, and generally doing good in the world feel it necessary to include an ‘effective altruism perspective’.

In addition to our book launches and media work, we will be running EA Global, a reimagining of last year’s EA Summit, but with three inter-connected conferences held simultaneously across three continents. We will be launching EffectiveAltruism.org, an introductory site for people new to the concept of EA. In addition, we plan to run an EA Fellows’ Programme and essay competition in collaboration with 80,000 Hours, and we are currently setting up EA Ventures—a VC-style fund for EA non-profits and for-profit start-ups.

We are currently due to run out of funding next month and so we are currently requesting donations. A full project plan of our 2015 activities, including our progress to date, is available here. It also details our budget for the coming year and our funding needs. We are hoping to raise £139,000, and already have an expression of interest to fund approximately half of this. Thus we are looking to raise at least an additional £62,500.

If you have any questions, or if you are interested in donating, please don’t hesitate to get in touch with me at niel.bowerman@centreforeffectivealtruism.org. You can find out more information, donate, and see an updated indication of how much we have raised on our campaign page.