That is a great deontological point for why you might wish to avoid paying your local EA community-builder out of pledge money. (I could counter that I think it is deontologically quite inappropriate that EA’s growth strategy currently expects its local community-builders to do a bunch of free work).
And I understand your hesitancy about counterfactuality. I’m not sure I believe organisations with very high multipliers that brand themselves as fundraising from EAs, because of counterfactuality issues (I think EAs are precisely the kinds of people who might have otherwise given effectively anyway).
A professional fundraising organisation such as One for the World will likely never meet you, and is a slightly safer bet on the deontology part. And because they fundraise from outside of the EA community, there’s not so much of a counterfactuality problem.
That is a great deontological point for why you might wish to avoid paying your local EA community-builder out of pledge money. (I could counter that I think it is deontologically quite inappropriate that EA’s growth strategy currently expects its local community-builders to do a bunch of free work).
And I understand your hesitancy about counterfactuality. I’m not sure I believe organisations with very high multipliers that brand themselves as fundraising from EAs, because of counterfactuality issues (I think EAs are precisely the kinds of people who might have otherwise given effectively anyway).
A professional fundraising organisation such as One for the World will likely never meet you, and is a slightly safer bet on the deontology part. And because they fundraise from outside of the EA community, there’s not so much of a counterfactuality problem.