Donation matching would just create confusion and reduce the total amount of donations if you had to first coordinate with someone else in the comments section. So if you want “matching”, you definitely need a big donor promising to match all the money raised from small donors. But I wouldn’t try to do “matching” anyways—EAs aren’t big fans of donation matching since the “doubled” funds are rarely a “true counterfactual match”.
I think a more promising idea would be to have a multi-subreddit competition, like how r/neoliberal participates in a yearly giving competition with some other subreddits to fundraise for Against Malaria Foundation. You should ask people to donate through a special link so that everyone can see how much money has been donated so far by different subreddits—hopefully the r/neoliberal AMF drive is easy to replicate with other charities: https://www.reddit.com/r/neoliberal/comments/k2cacg/rneoliberal_fights_malaria_fall_2020_edition/
I think your idea of expanding subreddit donation drives to feminist groups on International Women’s Day is a great one! I agree that including a quick pitch about EA (to explain the logic behind choosing the particular organizations) would be helpful to people.
If you’re interested in EA-endorsed charities with a feminist / women’s health side, I would definitely recommend you check out Family Empowerment Media: https://www.familyempowermentmedia.org/
Per their site, FEM “uses radio to provide women [in Nigeria where FEM operates] with important information about modern forms of contraception. In many countries, radio is the most widely trusted and consumed form of media. Studies indicate that in areas where contraceptives are available, intensive radio campaigns can be one of the most
cost-effective ways to help families realize their family planning intentions.”
I expanded on these ideas a bit more in the comments to another recent post about leveraging International Women’s Day. You and gogreatergood might want to work together to create some posts promoting EA-endorsed, women-empowering charities!
Donation matching would just create confusion and reduce the total amount of donations if you had to first coordinate with someone else in the comments section. So if you want “matching”, you definitely need a big donor promising to match all the money raised from small donors. But I wouldn’t try to do “matching” anyways—EAs aren’t big fans of donation matching since the “doubled” funds are rarely a “true counterfactual match”.
I think a more promising idea would be to have a multi-subreddit competition, like how r/neoliberal participates in a yearly giving competition with some other subreddits to fundraise for Against Malaria Foundation. You should ask people to donate through a special link so that everyone can see how much money has been donated so far by different subreddits—hopefully the r/neoliberal AMF drive is easy to replicate with other charities: https://www.reddit.com/r/neoliberal/comments/k2cacg/rneoliberal_fights_malaria_fall_2020_edition/
I think your idea of expanding subreddit donation drives to feminist groups on International Women’s Day is a great one! I agree that including a quick pitch about EA (to explain the logic behind choosing the particular organizations) would be helpful to people.
If you’re interested in EA-endorsed charities with a feminist / women’s health side, I would definitely recommend you check out Family Empowerment Media: https://www.familyempowermentmedia.org/
Per their site, FEM “uses radio to provide women [in Nigeria where FEM operates] with important information about modern forms of contraception. In many countries, radio is the most widely trusted and consumed form of media. Studies indicate that in areas where contraceptives are available, intensive radio campaigns can be one of the most cost-effective ways to help families realize their family planning intentions.”
This is all fantastic info, Jackson. Thank you very much! I have a lot to think about now and might add more to this response later.
I expanded on these ideas a bit more in the comments to another recent post about leveraging International Women’s Day. You and gogreatergood might want to work together to create some posts promoting EA-endorsed, women-empowering charities!