Since targeting Ultra High Net Worth Individuals seems to be a more effective strategy than broad donations (reference), to what extent do you think it is feasible to attract more such individuals to effective giving? What strategies are you particularly excited about researching and testing more extensively to do so?
I am very optimistic about promising things being done in this area. I think being able to talk genuinely about multiple cause areas and being less directly pitchy on one worldview/​NGO is a huge advantage a lot of EAs have. We are running a round on improving philanthropy and I would guess ideas we recommend there will be UHNW leaning. I wrote about a couple to do with dessert events and dragons den. Other things that are high on my list right now include grantmaker and philanthropic advisor training (a bit like our grantmaking training program), funder networks (like FAF but for other cause areas), more cross-cutting quizzes/​tools (like GWWC’s how rich are you tool). We are putting pretty active research into this over the next 6 months so I think I will have a better answer then, but on net, I think it’s quite feasible there will be like 6 ideas we would be excited to see a full charity on—maybe 3 on HNWs.
Since targeting Ultra High Net Worth Individuals seems to be a more effective strategy than broad donations (reference), to what extent do you think it is feasible to attract more such individuals to effective giving? What strategies are you particularly excited about researching and testing more extensively to do so?
I am very optimistic about promising things being done in this area. I think being able to talk genuinely about multiple cause areas and being less directly pitchy on one worldview/​NGO is a huge advantage a lot of EAs have. We are running a round on improving philanthropy and I would guess ideas we recommend there will be UHNW leaning. I wrote about a couple to do with dessert events and dragons den. Other things that are high on my list right now include grantmaker and philanthropic advisor training (a bit like our grantmaking training program), funder networks (like FAF but for other cause areas), more cross-cutting quizzes/​tools (like GWWC’s how rich are you tool). We are putting pretty active research into this over the next 6 months so I think I will have a better answer then, but on net, I think it’s quite feasible there will be like 6 ideas we would be excited to see a full charity on—maybe 3 on HNWs.