This is an absolutely staggering challenge—anyone who has ever run even a half marathon will know how long that feels, and this is tens of them back to back!
I also know as a former colleague how much effort Emma puts into training, getting up at 5am every day so she can be at her desk ready to go for 9am.
This may not be the type of fundraising EA usually does but a pledge of even $1 per mile could help to crowd in new donors who wouldn’t give on a recurring basis to New Incentives. I really encourage promoting this campaign as HIA trials campaign fundraising through sport as a way to widen the base of effective donors.
I’d be curious to hear your or Emma’s case for why it’s notably higher impact for a forum reader to donate via the campaign rather than to New Incentives directly (if they’re inclined to make the donation at all)
Nice question, I think there can be a higher impact for a few reasons. First I assume that if they donate directly it will be silent and have no multiplicative effect.
When people see donations flowing in on social media it can encourage others to donate
This is the kind of thing that’s easy to help friends donate to “Hey, my friend is doing this massive run to help kids get vaccinated in Nigeria, do you think you could chip in a few dollars
This might help raise awareness generally of NGOs like New Incentive which I’m fairly sure almost no of your non EA friends have heard of.
Of course none of these might happen as well, but I think its likely to tilt towards higher impact ;).
This is an absolutely staggering challenge—anyone who has ever run even a half marathon will know how long that feels, and this is tens of them back to back!
I also know as a former colleague how much effort Emma puts into training, getting up at 5am every day so she can be at her desk ready to go for 9am.
This may not be the type of fundraising EA usually does but a pledge of even $1 per mile could help to crowd in new donors who wouldn’t give on a recurring basis to New Incentives. I really encourage promoting this campaign as HIA trials campaign fundraising through sport as a way to widen the base of effective donors.
I’d be curious to hear your or Emma’s case for why it’s notably higher impact for a forum reader to donate via the campaign rather than to New Incentives directly (if they’re inclined to make the donation at all)
Nice question, I think there can be a higher impact for a few reasons. First I assume that if they donate directly it will be silent and have no multiplicative effect.
When people see donations flowing in on social media it can encourage others to donate
This is the kind of thing that’s easy to help friends donate to “Hey, my friend is doing this massive run to help kids get vaccinated in Nigeria, do you think you could chip in a few dollars
This might help raise awareness generally of NGOs like New Incentive which I’m fairly sure almost no of your non EA friends have heard of.
Of course none of these might happen as well, but I think its likely to tilt towards higher impact ;).
Yes, exactly! #2 was a big reason I thought to start this fundraiser. :)