Using the Twitter timestamps for Josh You’s first and fourth donation shared (five minutes apart), it took him less than 2 minutes per donation. This equates to ($200 matched) / (2 minutes) = $6,000 in matching funds moved per hour.
That is probably close to the high end of cost-effectiveness. For others who take their time reading this post and read other things on Every.org’s site, they might spend 20 minutes and only make one $100 donation, which would equate to about $600 moved per hour spent (or $300/hour if they only get a 1:1 match).
I think a lot of people might get enjoyment from participating though, and might participate at times when they wouldn’t be working such that it doesn’t cut into the time they spend doing productive work this week, so thinking of it just in terms of dollars directly moved per hour spent might not make the most sense.
There are also harder to quantify benefits that might be more significant, like increasing the prevalence of EA-aligned nonprofits on Every.org. One obvious benefit of giving publicly in this way is that the President of the Board of Every.org Garret Camp has a net worth of $3.6 billion, and showing him which nonprofits we think use marginal dollars most effectively might help inspire him to learn more about those nonprofits or effective altruism in general, and perhaps donate a lot more to EA-aligned organizations some day.
Using the Twitter timestamps for Josh You’s first and fourth donation shared (five minutes apart), it took him less than 2 minutes per donation. This equates to ($200 matched) / (2 minutes) = $6,000 in matching funds moved per hour.
That is probably close to the high end of cost-effectiveness. For others who take their time reading this post and read other things on Every.org’s site, they might spend 20 minutes and only make one $100 donation, which would equate to about $600 moved per hour spent (or $300/hour if they only get a 1:1 match).
I think a lot of people might get enjoyment from participating though, and might participate at times when they wouldn’t be working such that it doesn’t cut into the time they spend doing productive work this week, so thinking of it just in terms of dollars directly moved per hour spent might not make the most sense.
There are also harder to quantify benefits that might be more significant, like increasing the prevalence of EA-aligned nonprofits on Every.org. One obvious benefit of giving publicly in this way is that the President of the Board of Every.org Garret Camp has a net worth of $3.6 billion, and showing him which nonprofits we think use marginal dollars most effectively might help inspire him to learn more about those nonprofits or effective altruism in general, and perhaps donate a lot more to EA-aligned organizations some day.