For donation decisions last year, especially for corporate campaigns for animal welfare, ACE, Founders Pledge, Rethink Priorities, Charity Entrepreneurship and Open Phil. I wrote up my donation plan last year here (which I ended up following pretty closely).
For career decisions, all of the above and also Humane League Labs. I’m currently an animal welfare research intern at Charity Entrepreneurship, I’m working on an econ project for them, I applied for positions/internships at some of the other orgs, and am studying econometrics. I think I’m most interested in doing research similar to HLL (and this and this), i.e. rigorous intervention research. I discussed my plans a bit here, too.
I also think Rethink Priorities’ research on sentience and moral weight is important, I hope to see more research in this direction, and their sentience research was a factor in my donating to them last year. I take invertebrate welfare more seriously now and I’m slightly more careful with them when I encounter them in my daily life, but this hasn’t really affected any other important decisions yet. Seeing this research, CRS’s and GPI’s has also gotten me thinking more about doing a PhD in philosophy (or economics), although I’d rather start working at an EA org instead, and I’m still pretty set on more applied econ/stats animal welfare research for now.
If you’re interested in funding research like Charity Entrepreneurship has done, besides them, also consider their incubated charities. I think Animal Ask Institute will do research similar to Rethink Priorities’ and Charity Entrepreneurship’s animal welfare research.
When I asked, I was told you can also earmark donations to THL for Humane League Labs, but only donations over USD $15K. Maybe you can pool with others.
For donation decisions last year, especially for corporate campaigns for animal welfare, ACE, Founders Pledge, Rethink Priorities, Charity Entrepreneurship and Open Phil. I wrote up my donation plan last year here (which I ended up following pretty closely).
For career decisions, all of the above and also Humane League Labs. I’m currently an animal welfare research intern at Charity Entrepreneurship, I’m working on an econ project for them, I applied for positions/internships at some of the other orgs, and am studying econometrics. I think I’m most interested in doing research similar to HLL (and this and this), i.e. rigorous intervention research. I discussed my plans a bit here, too.
I also think Rethink Priorities’ research on sentience and moral weight is important, I hope to see more research in this direction, and their sentience research was a factor in my donating to them last year. I take invertebrate welfare more seriously now and I’m slightly more careful with them when I encounter them in my daily life, but this hasn’t really affected any other important decisions yet. Seeing this research, CRS’s and GPI’s has also gotten me thinking more about doing a PhD in philosophy (or economics), although I’d rather start working at an EA org instead, and I’m still pretty set on more applied econ/stats animal welfare research for now.
If you’re interested in funding research like Charity Entrepreneurship has done, besides them, also consider their incubated charities. I think Animal Ask Institute will do research similar to Rethink Priorities’ and Charity Entrepreneurship’s animal welfare research.
When I asked, I was told you can also earmark donations to THL for Humane League Labs, but only donations over USD $15K. Maybe you can pool with others.