What does Giving What We Can spend its time on? I realized that I am unable to answer this question even loosely, which is unusual. The Our Team page (https://www.givingwhatwecan.org/about-us/team/) helps, but parts are still unclear. More generally, I’m not sure what activities GWWC does that cause more GWWC pledges, which is what it bases its impact on.
What percentage of GWWC pledges do you think were caused by GWWC (or CEA as a whole)? I’m particularly interested in measurements that don’t rely on self-reports. So far, I’ve only seen statistics about self-reports by people who took the pledge, which were used to get a 60:1 multiplier.
Hi Rohin, great question! Since Giving What We Can outreach is now managed by the wider Community and Outreach team at CEA it might make sense to speak in terms of our team as a whole.
Based on the figures we have, it seems reasonable that CEA activities were at least partially responsible for something like 70% of new pledges in September. We experimented with a number of new strategies to get additional pledges in September, including optimising our email and social media campaigns and running a Facebook retargeting campaign. We also tried to reduce the amount of time between following up with people who had expressed some interest in the pledge, either at 80,000 Hours workshops, EA Global or through engagement with websites we run (effectivealtruism.org etc).
More specifically, we looked at our Google Analytics to see how members are reaching the join page on the GWWC site. Out of the 106 who joined in September, 15 came from Facebook, both through our posts and through ads we ran. 12 came from the new effectivealtruism.org site, 3 of whom arrived after viewing the cause prioritisation flowchart (originally created by GPP). 11 were directed from emails; these were mostly people we followed up with who had previously started filling out signup forms but hadn’t completed them. 6 were directed from an article on giving and happiness which was written several years ago by a former staff member, Andreas Mogensen, for the GWWC blog. In terms of the wider CEA, 17 came from 80000hours.org, 9 from www.effectivealtruism.com (which is currently the Doing Good Better book website), and 4 from Sam Harris’s podcast where he interviewed Will MacAskill.
What does Giving What We Can spend its time on? I realized that I am unable to answer this question even loosely, which is unusual. The Our Team page (https://www.givingwhatwecan.org/about-us/team/) helps, but parts are still unclear. More generally, I’m not sure what activities GWWC does that cause more GWWC pledges, which is what it bases its impact on.
What percentage of GWWC pledges do you think were caused by GWWC (or CEA as a whole)? I’m particularly interested in measurements that don’t rely on self-reports. So far, I’ve only seen statistics about self-reports by people who took the pledge, which were used to get a 60:1 multiplier.
Hi Rohin, great question! Since Giving What We Can outreach is now managed by the wider Community and Outreach team at CEA it might make sense to speak in terms of our team as a whole.
Based on the figures we have, it seems reasonable that CEA activities were at least partially responsible for something like 70% of new pledges in September. We experimented with a number of new strategies to get additional pledges in September, including optimising our email and social media campaigns and running a Facebook retargeting campaign. We also tried to reduce the amount of time between following up with people who had expressed some interest in the pledge, either at 80,000 Hours workshops, EA Global or through engagement with websites we run (effectivealtruism.org etc).
More specifically, we looked at our Google Analytics to see how members are reaching the join page on the GWWC site. Out of the 106 who joined in September, 15 came from Facebook, both through our posts and through ads we ran. 12 came from the new effectivealtruism.org site, 3 of whom arrived after viewing the cause prioritisation flowchart (originally created by GPP). 11 were directed from emails; these were mostly people we followed up with who had previously started filling out signup forms but hadn’t completed them. 6 were directed from an article on giving and happiness which was written several years ago by a former staff member, Andreas Mogensen, for the GWWC blog. In terms of the wider CEA, 17 came from 80000hours.org, 9 from www.effectivealtruism.com (which is currently the Doing Good Better book website), and 4 from Sam Harris’s podcast where he interviewed Will MacAskill.
Thanks!
Side note, is there an easy way to get push notifications, perhaps through email, when there’s a reply to a comment or post you wrote?
We have adding this as a potential future project for EA forum development. See https://github.com/tog22/eaforum/issues/65
There’s an rss feed [1] and there are rss-to-email services [2]
[1] http://effective-altruism.com/message/inbox.rss
[2] a quick search turns up https://blogtrottr.com/
Thanks!
I just realized: there’s no way that rss feed can work, because it needs to be authenticated with your cookies. Sorry!
Okay, that makes sense. I ran into that issue fairly quickly and thought there might be a workaround but tabled that to look at later.