I’d be interested in learning your general thought process, though probably you should only answer these after you’ve allocated the entire lottery amount, and only if you feel that it makes sense to answer publicly.
How much time would you say that you invested in determining where to give?
How many advisors did you turn to in order to help think through these decisions? In retrospect, do you think that you took advice from too many different people, not enough, or just the right amount?
Was The Chapter among the first potential causes you thought of?
How many different organizations did you seriously consider? Of these, how many reached the stage where you interviewed them?
The Chapter sounds like an excellent giving opportunity for a gift of this size, since it’s directly paying for a position that they would need to maintain their current level of effectiveness. I’m glad to know that my portion of the donor lottery funds are being used in such a positive manner.
I’m glad to know that my portion of the donor lottery funds are being used in such a positive manner.
I would add, though, that participation doesn’t affect the expected payout to any player’s recommendations (and in the CEA lottery setup, it doesn’t affect the pot size or draw probability). I.e. if other donor lottery players planned to donate their funds to something completely useless, that doesn’t make any difference for you (unless hearing that they had made that donation outside the lottery context would have changed your own charity pick).
I’d be interested in learning your general thought process, though probably you should only answer these after you’ve allocated the entire lottery amount, and only if you feel that it makes sense to answer publicly.
How much time would you say that you invested in determining where to give?
How many advisors did you turn to in order to help think through these decisions? In retrospect, do you think that you took advice from too many different people, not enough, or just the right amount?
Was The Chapter among the first potential causes you thought of?
How many different organizations did you seriously consider? Of these, how many reached the stage where you interviewed them?
The Chapter sounds like an excellent giving opportunity for a gift of this size, since it’s directly paying for a position that they would need to maintain their current level of effectiveness. I’m glad to know that my portion of the donor lottery funds are being used in such a positive manner.
I would add, though, that participation doesn’t affect the expected payout to any player’s recommendations (and in the CEA lottery setup, it doesn’t affect the pot size or draw probability). I.e. if other donor lottery players planned to donate their funds to something completely useless, that doesn’t make any difference for you (unless hearing that they had made that donation outside the lottery context would have changed your own charity pick).