GWWC’s membership has steadily grown in the recent years, so it’s not that GWWC isn’t getting more people to give significantly and effectively! I think this highlights broader questions about what the focus of the current effective altruism community is, and what it should be.
GWWC team members have advocated for a “big tent” effective altruism where everyone who wants to do good effectively should feel that they can be a part of the community—but anecdotally we hear sometimes that people who are primarily interested in giving don’t feel like the broader effective altruism community is the right place for them. (So this might be why there is a decreasing trend seen in the survey)
I’d like to see that trend reverse, and GWWC continues to push for an inclusive EA community, where a spectrum of involvement is respected and celebrated but we can’t do it all ourselves! We’re only one part of the community, and I think it would take an increased focus on the “big tent” approach from other key organisations to help this be corrected.
GWWC team members have advocated for a “big tent” effective altruism where everyone who wants to do good effectively should feel that they can be a part of the community—but anecdotally we hear sometimes that people who are primarily interested in giving don’t feel like the broader effective altruism community is the right place for them
Thanks for the comment. I would add that we also found signs related to this in our recent survey on responses to the FTX crisis (e.g. that there was divergence between more longtermist and more neartermist members of the community, with the latter less satisfied and more concerned in various ways).
We’ll be discussing these issues in more detail in our forthcoming post about community satisfaction, retention and mental health.
GWWC’s membership has steadily grown in the recent years, so it’s not that GWWC isn’t getting more people to give significantly and effectively! I think this highlights broader questions about what the focus of the current effective altruism community is, and what it should be.
GWWC team members have advocated for a “big tent” effective altruism where everyone who wants to do good effectively should feel that they can be a part of the community—but anecdotally we hear sometimes that people who are primarily interested in giving don’t feel like the broader effective altruism community is the right place for them. (So this might be why there is a decreasing trend seen in the survey)
I’d like to see that trend reverse, and GWWC continues to push for an inclusive EA community, where a spectrum of involvement is respected and celebrated but we can’t do it all ourselves! We’re only one part of the community, and I think it would take an increased focus on the “big tent” approach from other key organisations to help this be corrected.
Thanks for the comment. I would add that we also found signs related to this in our recent survey on responses to the FTX crisis (e.g. that there was divergence between more longtermist and more neartermist members of the community, with the latter less satisfied and more concerned in various ways).
We’ll be discussing these issues in more detail in our forthcoming post about community satisfaction, retention and mental health.