It’s pretty weird that the charity page has been edited since this comment to hide the board members. I’d like to see reflexive transparency, not reflexive hiding of information.
Hi — this was removed accidentally while updating other text on the page. We’ll put it back ASAP (might take a few days though because of timezones/people being on holiday, and I don’t have access to edit that page).
Thanks for drawing our attention to this and calling us out for it — we definitely appreciate it (and, at the meta-level, I’m very glad we have a community that pushes us on things like this).
It does seem plausible that it was a miscommunication actually, the original was:
Effective Ventures Foundation (formerly named “Centre for Effective Altruism”) is a charitable company limited by guarantee in England and Wales (company number 07962181), and registered as a charity with the Charity Commission of England and Wales (charity number 1149828).
Effective Ventures Foundation is governed by a board of five trustees (Will MacAskill, Nick Beckstead, Tasha McCauley, Owen Cotton-Barratt, and Claire Zabel) (the “Board”). The Board is responsible for overall management and oversight of the charity, and where appropriate it delegates some of its functions to sub-committees and directors within the charity.
The Centre for Effective Altruism USA Inc. is a tax exempt public charity under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. Effective Ventures Foundation is the sole member of the Centre for Effective Altruism USA Inc. This group of entities will be collectively referred to as “Effective Ventures” (“EV”). The EV group may expand in future to include more non-profit and philanthropic organisations.
(crossed out is the intentionally removed bit) And the new is
Effective Ventures Foundation (formerly named “Centre for Effective Altruism”) is a charitable company limited by guarantee in England and Wales (company number 07962181), and registered as a charity with the Charity Commission of England and Wales (charity number 1149828).
The Centre for Effective Altruism USA Inc. is a tax exempt public charity under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. This group of entities will be collectively referred to as “Effective Ventures” (“EV”). The EV group may expand in future to include more non-profit and philanthropic organisations.
I’d guess someone handed someone who was rushing and not paying attention the task of removing the sentence about Effective Ventures in the middle of the last paragraph, and it got misunderstood as removing both that and the middle paragraph. Delegation is pretty failure prone.
I’m also quite keen to assume good faith, and would prefer that central EA nodes didn’t feel like they have to focus undue effort and brain-cycles on watching their backs, and were free to optimize more important things.
It’s pretty weird that the charity page has been edited since this comment to hide the board members. I’d like to see reflexive transparency, not reflexive hiding of information.
https://ev.org/charity/
https://web.archive.org/web/20221221123432/https://ev.org/charity/
Hi — this was removed accidentally while updating other text on the page. We’ll put it back ASAP (might take a few days though because of timezones/people being on holiday, and I don’t have access to edit that page).
Thanks for drawing our attention to this and calling us out for it — we definitely appreciate it (and, at the meta-level, I’m very glad we have a community that pushes us on things like this).
Removed accidentally? I don’t know much about web dev, but how do you accidentally edit a website and accidentally delete a specific paragraph?
It does seem plausible that it was a miscommunication actually, the original was:
(crossed out is the intentionally removed bit) And the new is
I’d guess someone handed someone who was rushing and not paying attention the task of removing the sentence about Effective Ventures in the middle of the last paragraph, and it got misunderstood as removing both that and the middle paragraph. Delegation is pretty failure prone.
I’m also quite keen to assume good faith, and would prefer that central EA nodes didn’t feel like they have to focus undue effort and brain-cycles on watching their backs, and were free to optimize more important things.
Still seems to be at https://ev.org/ops/about/ but that’s a weirder place for it