The Effective Giving/EA Marketing project was going fairly strong, making some progress and also some limitations. But I wouldn’t take the ~shutdown/pause as strong evidence against this approach. I’d diagnose it as:
1. Some disruption from changes in emphasis/agenda at a few points in the project, driven by the changing priorities in EA at the time, first towards “growing EA rather than fundraising” (Let’s stop saying ‘funding overhang’, etc.) and then somewhat back in the other direction after the collapse of FTX
2. I got a grant and encouragement to pursue Unjournal.org full time, so I put this on hold, and no one stepped up to take it on in its current form
3. Some aspects may be partially covered by other initiatives such as @Lucas Moore ’s work bringing together EA giving/fundraising orgs at Giving What We Can and marketing initiatives like @Good Impressions—some of these are discussed and listed within that resource
Some notes/takes:
The Effective Giving/EA Marketing project was going fairly strong, making some progress and also some limitations. But I wouldn’t take the ~shutdown/pause as strong evidence against this approach. I’d diagnose it as:
1. Some disruption from changes in emphasis/agenda at a few points in the project, driven by the changing priorities in EA at the time, first towards “growing EA rather than fundraising” (Let’s stop saying ‘funding overhang’, etc.) and then somewhat back in the other direction after the collapse of FTX
2. I got a grant and encouragement to pursue Unjournal.org full time, so I put this on hold, and no one stepped up to take it on in its current form
3. Some aspects may be partially covered by other initiatives such as @Lucas Moore ’s work bringing together EA giving/fundraising orgs at Giving What We Can and marketing initiatives like @Good Impressions—some of these are discussed and listed within that resource
(Let’s have a chat—I will dm.)