I think some of these numbers are way off, or at the very least misleading. For example, in your sources you use the budget for Effective Ventures to estimate the budget of CEA, but Effective Ventures includes ~10 public projects https://ev.org/organisations/ (and some less public ones like Wytham Abbey https://www.wythamabbey.org/ that they don’t mention on the website)
I think it’s pretty bad to publish unreliable numbers about organizations without checking with them first
Thank you for pointing that out—I had also linked to an EV report for the UK. I removed that link as it could indeed be misleading, and only left the link referencing only the CEA budget.
I only linked to the information I could find publicly, I am unsure why organisations would share additional budgets for me to include in a forum post that they are not publishing themselves. I am sure I might have missed stuff though, so if you know of additional public information—or have insider information you can share—please let me know!
I only linked to the information I could find publicly, I am unsure why organisations would share additional budgets for me to include in a forum post that they are not publishing themselves.
Many orgs did this for me; I think the answer is they want to be helpful over email but they are too busy to publish things themselves.
I think some of these numbers are way off, or at the very least misleading. For example, in your sources you use the budget for Effective Ventures to estimate the budget of CEA, but Effective Ventures includes ~10 public projects https://ev.org/organisations/ (and some less public ones like Wytham Abbey https://www.wythamabbey.org/ that they don’t mention on the website)
I think it’s pretty bad to publish unreliable numbers about organizations without checking with them first
Edit: the post has been edited to remove references to Effective Ventures, but still uses as a source for the $30M claim https://time.com/6204627/effective-altruism-longtermism-william-macaskill-interview/, which is from when CEA was still the name of the umbrella org of all the projects
CEA has now confirmed that Miri was correct to understand their budget—not EVF’s budget—as around $30m.
Thank you for pointing that out—I had also linked to an EV report for the UK. I removed that link as it could indeed be misleading, and only left the link referencing only the CEA budget.
I only linked to the information I could find publicly, I am unsure why organisations would share additional budgets for me to include in a forum post that they are not publishing themselves.
I am sure I might have missed stuff though, so if you know of additional public information—or have insider information you can share—please let me know!
Many orgs did this for me; I think the answer is they want to be helpful over email but they are too busy to publish things themselves.