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Good things & im­pact stories

TagLast edit: Apr 29, 2024, 11:02 AM by Toby Tremlett🔹

Good things & impact stories” is for posts that discuss achievements or updates that seem impactful and exciting.

A broad range of posts could fall under this tag. For example:

For posts that are more focused on intermediate metrics/​results (e.g. engagement or other data relevant for an organization’s strategy), consider using the organization updates tag.

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EA’s suc­cess no one cares about

Jakub StencelJun 24, 2023, 2:29 PM
392 points
13 comments9 min readEA link

I’m grate­ful for you

Sarah ChengNov 28, 2024, 4:36 PM
146 points
3 comments1 min readEA link

What I’m cel­e­brat­ing from EA and ad­ja­cent work in 2024

Emma Richter🔸Dec 31, 2024, 9:12 PM
126 points
2 comments3 min readEA link

An­nounc­ing a $6,000,000 en­dow­ment for NYU Mind, Ethics, and Policy

Sofia_FogelMay 31, 2024, 10:45 PM
134 points
5 comments1 min readEA link

“Cool Things Our GHW Gran­tees Have Done in 2023” — Open Philanthropy

LizkaMay 8, 2024, 1:47 PM
45 points
1 comment6 min readEA link
(www.openphilanthropy.org)

A year of wins for farmed animals

Vasco Grilo🔸Dec 24, 2023, 12:18 PM
172 points
5 comments3 min readEA link
(farmanimalwelfare.substack.com)

Seven Philan­thropic Wins: The Sto­ries That In­spired Open Phil’s Offices

Open PhilanthropyJul 2, 2024, 8:03 PM
89 points
2 comments3 min readEA link
(www.openphilanthropy.org)

I dou­bled the world record cy­cling with­out hands for AMF

Vincent van der HolstJun 11, 2024, 8:57 AM
340 points
11 comments5 min readEA link

Good things that hap­pened in EA this year

Shakeel HashimDec 29, 2022, 1:53 PM
281 points
13 comments3 min readEA link

EA Wins 2023

Shakeel HashimDec 31, 2023, 2:07 PM
357 points
9 comments3 min readEA link

A short com­par­i­son of start­ing an effec­tive giv­ing or­ga­ni­za­tion vs. found­ing a di­rect de­liv­ery charity

Joey🔸Jan 11, 2024, 6:29 PM
109 points
8 comments4 min readEA link

[Question] Cel­e­brat­ing 2021: What are your favourite wins & good news for EA, the world and your­self?

Luke FreemanDec 14, 2021, 3:56 AM
19 points
9 comments1 min readEA link

EAF’s bal­lot ini­ti­a­tive dou­bled Zurich’s de­vel­op­ment aid

Jonas VJan 13, 2020, 11:32 AM
309 points
23 comments12 min readEA link

After launch. How are CE char­i­ties pro­gress­ing?

Ula ZarosaMar 6, 2023, 12:34 PM
266 points
13 comments6 min readEA link

We Did It! - Vic­tory for Oc­to­pus in Wash­ing­ton State

Tessa @ ALIMar 15, 2024, 2:28 PM
212 points
3 comments3 min readEA link

Ma­jor UN re­port dis­cusses ex­is­ten­tial risk and fu­ture gen­er­a­tions (sum­mary)

finmSep 17, 2021, 3:51 PM
320 points
5 comments12 min readEA link

Some ob­ser­va­tions from an EA-ad­ja­cent (?) char­i­ta­ble effort

patio11Dec 9, 2022, 8:13 PM
436 points
8 comments7 min readEA link

In Con­tinued Defense Of Effec­tive Altru­ism — Scott Alexander

PabloNov 29, 2023, 10:37 AM
163 points
30 comments1 min readEA link
(www.astralcodexten.com)

Open Philan­thropy: Our Progress in 2023 and Plans for 2024

Alexander_BergerMar 27, 2024, 5:03 PM
139 points
24 comments2 min readEA link
(www.openphilanthropy.org)

89%of cage-free egg com­mit­ments with dead­lines of 2023 or ear­lier have been fulfilled

ASuchyMay 24, 2024, 3:30 PM
137 points
2 comments1 min readEA link
(openwingalliance.org)

World’s first ma­jor law for ar­tifi­cial in­tel­li­gence gets fi­nal EU green light

Dane ValerieMay 24, 2024, 2:57 PM
3 points
1 comment2 min readEA link
(www.cnbc.com)

Aus­tralian poli­ti­cian posts about shrimp welfare

Henry Howard🔸Jan 4, 2025, 8:24 AM
39 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

2023: high­lights from the year, from the EA Newsletter

LizkaJan 5, 2024, 9:57 PM
68 points
2 comments33 min readEA link

[Question] Let’s cel­e­brate some wins

Nathan YoungOct 31, 2023, 10:43 AM
37 points
12 comments1 min readEA link

Vi­talik Bu­terin just donated $54M (in ETH) to GiveWell

IanDavidMossMay 14, 2021, 1:30 AM
72 points
7 comments1 min readEA link

Dean Kar­lan is now Chief Economist of USAID

Henry Howard🔸Jan 24, 2023, 9:19 AM
222 points
9 comments1 min readEA link

500 Million, But Not A Sin­gle One More

jaiMay 25, 2020, 4:31 PM
614 points
29 comments3 min readEA link
(laneless.substack.com)

Good news on cli­mate change

John G. HalsteadOct 28, 2021, 2:04 PM
236 points
34 comments12 min readEA link

Cel­e­bra­tions and grat­i­tude thread

LizkaSep 2, 2022, 4:25 PM
145 points
44 comments1 min readEA link

Bill Gates’ 400 mil­lion dol­lar bet—First Tu­ber­cu­lo­sis Vac­cine in 100 years?

NickLaingJul 2, 2023, 1:12 PM
126 points
17 comments2 min readEA link

GWWC Pledge fea­tured in new book from Head of TED, Chris Anderson

Giving What We CanJan 25, 2024, 9:33 PM
156 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Good news that matters

Michelle_HutchinsonAug 27, 2018, 5:38 AM
23 points
4 comments3 min readEA link

First FDA Cul­tured Meat Safety Ap­proval

Ben_West🔸Nov 19, 2022, 12:09 AM
131 points
1 comment1 min readEA link
(techcrunch.com)

Juan B. Gar­cía Martínez on tack­ling many causes at once and his jour­ney into EA

Amber DawnJun 30, 2023, 1:48 PM
92 points
3 comments8 min readEA link
(contemplatonist.substack.com)

Dengue rates drop 77-95% af­ter re­lease of bac­te­ria-in­fected mosquitoes in Colombia

SiebeRozendalNov 7, 2023, 10:39 AM
96 points
9 comments1 min readEA link
(archive.ph)

An up­date and per­sonal re­flec­tions about AidGrade

EvaDec 26, 2023, 3:57 PM
104 points
3 comments1 min readEA link

Mr Beast is now offi­cially en­gaged in effec­tive giv­ing!

Dave Cortright 🔸Jun 16, 2024, 12:29 PM
91 points
29 comments1 min readEA link
(www.youtube.com)

Why Cer­tify? Aquatic Life In­sti­tute’s Im­pact Im­ple­men­ta­tion Via Seafood Certification

Tessa @ ALINov 7, 2023, 3:04 AM
51 points
2 comments5 min readEA link

Alexan­dria Beck: How the Open Wing Alli­ance is driv­ing progress worldwide

EA GlobalJul 7, 2020, 2:32 PM
13 points
0 comments12 min readEA link
(www.youtube.com)

The Over­ton Win­dow widens: Ex­am­ples of AI risk in the media

AkashMar 23, 2023, 5:10 PM
112 points
11 comments1 min readEA link

Alvea’s Story, Wins, and Challenges [Unoffi­cial]

kyle_fishNov 1, 2023, 12:43 PM
202 points
16 comments9 min readEA link

[Question] Who are the most well known cred­ible peo­ple who en­dorse EA?

CliffordDec 27, 2021, 6:57 PM
14 points
7 comments1 min readEA link

Linkpost: Big Wins for Farm An­i­mals This Decade

JamesÖz 🔸Jan 11, 2023, 5:30 PM
71 points
4 comments4 min readEA link
(us14.campaign-archive.com)

EU poli­cy­mak­ers reach an agree­ment on the AI Act

tlevinDec 15, 2023, 6:03 AM
109 points
13 comments1 min readEA link

Bryan Ca­plan on EA groups

Aaron Gertler 🔸Jan 10, 2022, 8:31 PM
163 points
12 comments2 min readEA link
(www.econlib.org)

An­i­mal Welfare Fund: Pay­out recom­men­da­tions from April to Oc­to­ber 2024

KarolinaSarek🔸Nov 27, 2024, 11:43 AM
60 points
1 comment7 min readEA link

Malaria vac­cine R21 is pre-qualified

JoshuaBlakeDec 22, 2023, 8:49 AM
59 points
3 comments1 min readEA link

How Plat­inum Helps Draw At­ten­tion to Ja­pan’s Role in Global Health Funding

Open PhilanthropyAug 27, 2024, 3:25 AM
91 points
1 comment3 min readEA link
(www.openphilanthropy.org)

Over 350,000 lay­ing hens com­mit­ted to cage-free hous­ing in Ghana

Daniel AbilibaSep 13, 2023, 7:24 PM
69 points
3 comments1 min readEA link
(www.animalwelfareleague.org)

Many groups met­rics have grown by 100% to 400% in the past year

Uni Groups TeamNov 3, 2021, 7:48 AM
77 points
5 comments5 min readEA link

The most suc­cess­ful EA pod­cast of all time: Sam Har­ris and Will MacAskill (2020)

Aaron Gertler 🔸Jul 3, 2021, 9:47 PM
168 points
19 comments4 min readEA link

Let’s Fund: Im­pact of our $1M crowd­funded grant to the Cen­ter for Clean En­ergy Innovation

Hauke HillebrandtApr 4, 2024, 12:11 PM
44 points
6 comments9 min readEA link
(lets-fund.org)

Why GiveWell funded the rol­lout of the malaria vaccine

GiveWellMay 12, 2023, 7:11 PM
107 points
4 comments4 min readEA link
(blog.givewell.org)

EA is good, actually

Amy LabenzNov 28, 2023, 3:59 PM
272 points
15 comments4 min readEA link

Ghana has ap­proved the use of a malaria vac­cine with >70% efficacy

Henry Howard🔸Apr 19, 2023, 1:51 PM
191 points
14 comments1 min readEA link

Seven things that sur­prised us in our first year work­ing in policy—Lead Ex­po­sure Elimi­na­tion Pro­ject

JackMay 14, 2021, 9:40 AM
244 points
8 comments7 min readEA link

Ini­tial thoughts on malaria vac­cine approval

GiveWellOct 8, 2021, 11:51 PM
43 points
3 comments2 min readEA link
(blog.givewell.org)

Effec­tive al­tru­ists are already in­sti­tu­tion­al­ists and are do­ing far more than un­work­able longter­mism—A re­sponse to “On the Differ­ences be­tween Eco­mod­ernism and Effec­tive Altru­ism”

jackvaFeb 21, 2023, 6:08 PM
78 points
3 comments12 min readEA link

An­nounc­ing the Lead Ex­po­sure Ac­tion Fund

Alexander_BergerSep 23, 2024, 7:04 PM
265 points
7 comments4 min readEA link
(www.openphilanthropy.org)

Pre­limi­nary Anal­y­sis of In­ter­ven­tion to Re­duce Lead Ex­po­sure from Adulter­ated Turmeric in Bangladesh Shows Cost Benefit of About US$1 per DALY

Kate PorterfieldAug 29, 2023, 7:32 AM
230 points
10 comments6 min readEA link

A $10k retroac­tive grant for VaccinateCA

AustinJul 26, 2023, 7:43 PM
62 points
0 comments6 min readEA link
(manifund.org)

An­i­mal Welfare Fund: Pay­out recom­men­da­tions from May 2022 to March 2024

LinchJun 26, 2024, 1:33 PM
134 points
11 comments24 min readEA link

A ma­jor up­date in our as­sess­ment of wa­ter qual­ity interventions

GiveWellApr 26, 2022, 12:09 AM
83 points
5 comments8 min readEA link
(blog.givewell.org)

An­i­mal Welfare is now en­shrined in the Bel­gian Constitution

Bob JacobsMay 3, 2024, 10:26 PM
95 points
9 comments10 min readEA link

Ten Big Wins for Farm An­i­mals in 2021

EA Forum ArchivesDec 25, 2021, 3:39 AM
51 points
0 comments4 min readEA link
(mailchi.mp)

[Question] What is the best press out there on Effec­tive Altru­ism?

CliffordDec 29, 2021, 3:32 PM
11 points
3 comments1 min readEA link

Feed­back wanted: EA-al­igned news cu­ra­tion service

OdinMB 🔸Jun 10, 2024, 2:06 AM
12 points
7 comments3 min readEA link

[Question] Whose trans­parency can we cel­e­brate?

leillustrations🔸Oct 12, 2024, 3:35 AM
87 points
9 comments1 min readEA link

How my com­pas­sion for an­i­mals up­dated my views on cap­i­tal punishment

Aditi BasuJan 24, 2025, 6:42 AM
24 points
1 comment3 min readEA link

How Effec­tive Altru­ists In­fluenced Vi­talik Bu­terin to donate $1 Billion in Crypto Meme Coins

EAHistorianJan 5, 2025, 7:55 AM
64 points
4 comments2 min readEA link

Cage-free Wins in Africa in 2024

Daniel AbilibaJan 8, 2025, 1:56 PM
68 points
13 comments3 min readEA link

A se­lec­tion of les­sons from Se­bas­tian Lodemann

ClaireBNov 11, 2024, 9:33 PM
82 points
2 comments7 min readEA link

High Im­pact Pro­fes­sion­als’ Im­pact in 2024

High Impact ProfessionalsJan 17, 2025, 3:02 AM
22 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Ten big wins in 2024 for farmed animals

LewisBollardDec 18, 2024, 5:51 PM
161 points
9 comments4 min readEA link
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