Agreed, doing it through organisations is probably better. Brian, how about putting people who fill in the spreadsheet in touch with the relevant organisations? Right now that’d be GBS for Switzerland and the countries listed at http://effectivealtruismhub.com/actions/donating/europe plus Charity Science for Canada—plus any other organisations that are willing to participate.
Looks like Jonas entered GBS into the Google Doc. Would you like to add Charity Science for Canada to it?
I think the people besides me in the GDoc already have their charity of choice tax-deductible and only added themselves as possible trading partners.
My impression is that trading through organizations only works for a restricted set of charities? It possible in theory to create an org that can donate to any charity in a set of countries? I guess that’s what TIDES, Charities Aid Foundation, etc. do, but there’s overhead to set that up. If so, there’s still value in trading among individuals.
Yes, it’s restricted for us and GBS has a restricted list named on their site. And yes, it’d be a lot of overhead to register a whole new charity just for this. I have been setting up an EA donation routing mechanism in the US which might be able to do this though.
Agreed, doing it through organisations is probably better. Brian, how about putting people who fill in the spreadsheet in touch with the relevant organisations? Right now that’d be GBS for Switzerland and the countries listed at http://effectivealtruismhub.com/actions/donating/europe plus Charity Science for Canada—plus any other organisations that are willing to participate.
Looks like Jonas entered GBS into the Google Doc. Would you like to add Charity Science for Canada to it?
I think the people besides me in the GDoc already have their charity of choice tax-deductible and only added themselves as possible trading partners.
My impression is that trading through organizations only works for a restricted set of charities? It possible in theory to create an org that can donate to any charity in a set of countries? I guess that’s what TIDES, Charities Aid Foundation, etc. do, but there’s overhead to set that up. If so, there’s still value in trading among individuals.
Done.
Yes, it’s restricted for us and GBS has a restricted list named on their site. And yes, it’d be a lot of overhead to register a whole new charity just for this. I have been setting up an EA donation routing mechanism in the US which might be able to do this though.