Have you considered starting âfundraising charitiesâ that hire professional fundraisers from the traditional NGO space and apply all the best practices to EA?
I have slightly mixed views on this depending on the method. I in general think that competing in very typical fundraising methods, EA areas will typically underperform. Something like door-to-door or online adsâI expect EA areas (picked based on effectiveness vs appeal to donors) would pretty constantly lose to other NGOs who do a good job. On the other hand, I do think EA can have a pretty strong competitive advantage working on things that are closer to common goods that a single charity might not do itself but makes sense if you care about multiple charities/âcause areas. E.g. when I go to a philanthropy conference it tends to go better than a classic charity as I am pretty comfortable talking about 50 possible charities with other donors instead of 1 which NGOs themselves might focus on. That just gives you more surface area to connect. Similar things like charity evaluators or setting up philanthropic funds I think EA might have an advantage on relative to classic NGOs.
Have you considered starting âfundraising charitiesâ that hire professional fundraisers from the traditional NGO space and apply all the best practices to EA?
I have slightly mixed views on this depending on the method. I in general think that competing in very typical fundraising methods, EA areas will typically underperform. Something like door-to-door or online adsâI expect EA areas (picked based on effectiveness vs appeal to donors) would pretty constantly lose to other NGOs who do a good job. On the other hand, I do think EA can have a pretty strong competitive advantage working on things that are closer to common goods that a single charity might not do itself but makes sense if you care about multiple charities/âcause areas. E.g. when I go to a philanthropy conference it tends to go better than a classic charity as I am pretty comfortable talking about 50 possible charities with other donors instead of 1 which NGOs themselves might focus on. That just gives you more surface area to connect. Similar things like charity evaluators or setting up philanthropic funds I think EA might have an advantage on relative to classic NGOs.