This is such a well-thought post, thank you Sophie! It actually came up as I was looking for other people who might have considered exactly this in the past; that religious institutions have a great deal of resources to bring to the table when it comes to doing good. I know that Molly Burhans, for example, through the founding of her NGO Goodlands, has been pushing for the Catholic Church to understand the value of its lands assets in working towards climate change mitigation.
We don’t even have to consider anything like the Church or any other similar religious organization donating some of their excess resources to EA charities: why not create a consulting organization that applies EA management practices in the stewarding of those resources? I could tentatively imagine more than one bishop, rabbi, abbot, imam or administrator of religious resources being willing to hear how they can make the most good with what they have, through evidence-based allocation of those resources towards high-impact interventions.
This is such a well-thought post, thank you Sophie! It actually came up as I was looking for other people who might have considered exactly this in the past; that religious institutions have a great deal of resources to bring to the table when it comes to doing good. I know that Molly Burhans, for example, through the founding of her NGO Goodlands, has been pushing for the Catholic Church to understand the value of its lands assets in working towards climate change mitigation.
We don’t even have to consider anything like the Church or any other similar religious organization donating some of their excess resources to EA charities: why not create a consulting organization that applies EA management practices in the stewarding of those resources? I could tentatively imagine more than one bishop, rabbi, abbot, imam or administrator of religious resources being willing to hear how they can make the most good with what they have, through evidence-based allocation of those resources towards high-impact interventions.