Effective giving spotlight—classic posts

Lizka
6 Nov 2023 19:04 UTC

It’s Effective Giving Spotlight week!

See new posts related to Giving Season here, and explore the Giving Portal for more.

This sequence shares some classic posts about effective giving (please feel free to suggest others!).

Four claims about the role of effec­tive giv­ing in the EA community

Sjir Hoeijmakers23 Jun 2023 7:09 UTC
190 points
40 comments5 min readEA link

Donor strate­gies for sep­a­rat­ing “how much” from “where” to donate

vipulnaik16 Sep 2019 0:54 UTC
36 points
2 comments7 min readEA link

Giv­ing now vs. later: a summary

Julia_Wise23 Jul 2013 4:00 UTC
43 points
7 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] Where are you donat­ing this year, and why? (Open thread)

Lizka23 Nov 2022 12:26 UTC
151 points
81 comments1 min readEA link

Why I view effec­tive giv­ing as com­ple­men­tary to di­rect work

JulianHazell31 Jul 2022 19:57 UTC
172 points
9 comments5 min readEA link

Risk-neu­tral donors should plan to make bets at the mar­gin at least as well as giga-donors in expectation

CarlShulman31 Dec 2016 2:19 UTC
64 points
9 comments20 min readEA link

Why Char­i­ties Usu­ally Don’t Differ Astro­nom­i­cally in Ex­pected Cost-Effectiveness

Brian_Tomasik16 Sep 2017 10:40 UTC
94 points
6 comments28 min readEA link
(reducing-suffering.org)

Effi­cient char­ity: do unto oth­ers...

Scott Alexander3 Sep 2013 4:40 UTC
77 points
13 comments6 min readEA link