Effective Altruists elsewhere: Bronies for Good

Effective altruism is currently a rather small, narrow community—but the goals and virtues of the EA approach are ones that I think have great potential to be spread. I thought I would write a short post to highlight another community that I recently discovered which is working towards EA goals. I don’t know if they are led or run by people familiar with the “main” effective altruism community, but I was pleased and surprised to run across them on twitter and their innovative fundraising efforts. Bronies for Good, is a fandom fundraising group for adult fans of the “My Little Pony” cartoon series. They produce charity fundraising fandom music albums—which to date have raised hundreds of thousands of dollars. They recently moved their mission statement towards working on behalf of the most effective charity and launched a new Album “Seeds of Kindness: Shine Together” raising funds for the Against Malaria Foundation. I thought it was pretty cool to find an entire community working on volunteer fundraising projects for effective altruism that I had never heard of before—So, please check them out if you like that cartoon and if you don’t then hopefully it can still provide some inspiration and interest to the rest of us.