Adam Steinberg

How you can help right now to in­tro­duce ideas of effec­tive giv­ing to young people

• Adam Steinberg 17 Apr 2024 9:54 UTC

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  in reply to: André Kirschner’s comment on: How you can help right now to in­tro­duce ideas of effec­tive giv­ing to young people

  Hi, @André Kirschner. We are able to run the program in Germany, though it has not yet been translated into German. If you have thoughts about schools that might be interested, I might be able to dive into my contacts and find localization resources.

• Adam Steinberg 30 Dec 2023 8:25 UTC

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  on: Mike, Mouse, Moth, Machine

  I enjoyed your piece (and adore the title—so atypical for the Forum; perhaps we need more like it). It makes me think about AI alignment and the question, “Can AI ever be truly in line with our values if it cannot feel empathy?” Which could be argued to translate to, ”..if it cannot suffer?”

• Adam Steinberg 7 Apr 2023 14:12 UTC

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  in reply to: Timothy Chan’s comment on: New Cause Area: Por­trait Welfare (+in­tro­duc­ing SPEWS)

  I was thinking more of how we submit fruit of all varieties to the ordeal of extremely gruelling (they must sit still for hours or days at a time) and potentially humiliating still lifes.

• Adam Steinberg 7 Apr 2023 7:24 UTC

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  on: New Cause Area: Por­trait Welfare (+in­tro­duc­ing SPEWS)

  What about fruit? HAVE FRUIT NOT RIGHTS?

  

• Adam Steinberg 14 Feb 2023 9:56 UTC

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  on: A Study of EA Orgs’ So­cial Media

  Would love to see a similar analysis for LinkedIn, for example. There are a decent list of groups, from 80K to GWWC, Founders Pledge to the project I work with, GWWC Charity Elections, that aim to target people as professionals, or in specific professions or professional contexts. It would be instructive to see what success EA has had engaging audiences through that platform, and how.

CTA: Help GWWC Char­ity Elec­tions up­scale by con­nect­ing us to le­gal coun­sel in new regions

• Adam Steinberg 31 Dec 2022 13:24 UTC

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  in reply to: justaperson’s comment on: A case for tar­geted in­tro­duc­tions to effec­tive giv­ing for spe­cific (work­place) audiences

  Great points! I appreciate your concern about the original ideas being aimed too much at the job title and not enough at the individual, and your thoughts on downside risks are also well taken. I like where you take these ideas from a marketing standpoint, as well.
  
  I have been encouraged by recent developments like the appointment of a head of communications at CEA, and hope ideas like those in my entry above—and improvements upon them, much as you have offered—will be considered increasingly in the coming months.

• Adam Steinberg 27 Nov 2022 18:16 UTC

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  in reply to: Sanjay’s comment on: An EA sto­ry­book for kids

  Stories are powerful things. I know it is just anecdotal, but I would wager The Lorax and possibly other books (The Giving Tree comes to mind in this moment) boosted my interest in environmental protection. Though it may be I was already tending in that direction as a child and they just fit my sensibilities. I mean, I was also reading Konrad Lorenz pretty young...

• Adam Steinberg 18 Nov 2022 14:20 UTC

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  in reply to: Guy Raveh’s comment on: Call to Ac­tion: Help your high school gain spon­sor­ship to run a char­ity election

  Guy, do let me know if there is anything else I can answer to help you decide whether to recommend the program to your school. Thanks! -Adam-

• Adam Steinberg 4 Oct 2022 13:43 UTC

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  in reply to: Guy Raveh’s comment on: Call to Ac­tion: Help your high school gain spon­sor­ship to run a char­ity election

  Greg G., our project lead, sent me this information: Last year, a high school with limited English skills ran the event. Here is a testimonial from the teacher. (She requested sponsorship to run another charity election this year. )

  ”It had been a fulfilling experience for my students, they have not only learned about not charities but also got a chance to practice their language skills which is incredible! What a great accomplishment!”

  While we have not started a process of localization for the program, it is a goal to start in the next year. In the meantime, however, it seems the program shows some success with English language learners.

Call to Ac­tion: Help your high school gain spon­sor­ship to run a char­ity election

• Adam Steinberg 4 Sep 2022 14:38 UTC

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  on: Who wants to be hired? (May-Septem­ber 2022)

  • Location: Currently Manila, Philippines, and thus primarily looking for remote work.

  • Remote: Yes.

  • Willing to relocate: Prefer remote, but right pull-factors and who knows!

  • Skills: Highly versatile and creative communicator (over 10 years of experience) with a drive towards clear and effective messaging honed on professional, fundraising, marketing, creative, educational, and technical texts for diverse audiences in many media.

  I’ve returned to the communications and development spaces after over a decade teaching English Language and Literature in international schools (Germany, Wales). Boasting a diverse background in publishing, media, and the arts developed in prior years, my strengths span writing/​copywriting, editing, digital storytelling, marketing/​PR, and project coordination, with special skills in teaching/​training and relationship development. My mission: to use these skills, collaborating with passionate others, to explain, explore, and inspire solutions to today’s problems and improve lives. I am working remotely, at least temporarily, from Southeast Asia.

  • Presentation, planning, training, and interpersonal skills developed as project manager and as dedicated international educator for 15 years.

  • Current PT role initiating, cultivating and stewarding relationships with major donors worldwide, but with a special focus on Oceania and Asia; collaborate on engagement, solicitation, and stewardship strategies and prospect research.

  • Communications lead for Charity Elections (PT), a program supported by Giving What We Can, helping launch/​upscale a small nonprofit project in schools. Involved in operations, outreach, promotions, writing of everything from grants to social media posts to curricula around effective giving.

  • Experience as marketing copywriter/​creative at industrial agency. Conceiving and writing social media and other promotional campaigns, websites, storylines, etc. for high tech B2B, from cybersecurity to the sustainable energy grid.

  • Seeking a role in communications, such as marketing or outreach that achieves my mission above.

  • Résumé/​CV/​LinkedIn: https://​​www.linkedin.com/​​in/​​adam-steinberg1/​​ or visit adamedit.com for colorful gathering of writing/​editing samples. DM or email me for an updated CV.

  • Email: adamantic@gmail.com

  • Notes:

    • I currently work half-time for The Life You Can Save and a few hours weekly for Charity Elections. I am seeking a role of or approaching 20 hours per week.

    • I am open to all causes and in many ways prefer multifaceted roles. (If I had to choose pet areas, they might include climate change, preservation of the oceans, and species/​ecosystem protection.

    • I dove into EA in 2019 and while I do not claim to be an expert, I have a good grasp of all key concepts.

  • Available from and until: now and forever.

Ap­ply to run a 2022-23 char­ity election

• Adam Steinberg 20 Feb 2022 19:08 UTC

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  in reply to: JulianHazell’s comment on: Why you should con­tribute to Giv­ing What We Can as a writer or con­tent cre­ator (op­por­tu­ni­ties in­side!)

  Thanks, Julian! It’s now posted—see link above.

• Adam Steinberg 20 Feb 2022 19:07 UTC

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  in reply to: PeterSlattery’s comment on: Why you should con­tribute to Giv­ing What We Can as a writer or con­tent cre­ator (op­por­tu­ni­ties in­side!)

  Thanks again for your initial thoughts.

  The post is now posted—here: https://​​forum.effectivealtruism.org/​​posts/​​nJP2iLJZxjF8z8frw/​​a-case-for-targeted-introductions-to-effective-giving-for

A case for tar­geted in­tro­duc­tions to effec­tive giv­ing for spe­cific (work­place) audiences

• Adam Steinberg 5 Feb 2022 22:04 UTC

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  on: Why you should con­tribute to Giv­ing What We Can as a writer or con­tent cre­ator (op­por­tu­ni­ties in­side!)

  TARGETED INTRODUCTIONS TO EA FOR SPECIFIC AUDIENCES
  

  ADDENDUM: The above post about “Targeted Introductions” has been moved to get its own feedback, to this location: https://​​forum.effectivealtruism.org/​​posts/​​nJP2iLJZxjF8z8frw/​​a-case-for-targeted-introductions-to-effective-giving-for

  I would suggest that if this of interest to you, you link to and read that updated version.

  TL;DR—Slightly verbose :-) rationale for conducting a defined outreach effort, comprised of a series of articles targeted to and tailored for very specific audiences outside EA to orient them to effective giving.

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  Here’s a concept relevant to this post as it offers one possible direction for EA writing.

  It is not unlikely something like this is already in the works somewhere in EA that I don’t know about, and if so, I am sure the community will not let me remain uninformed.

  (I was recommended to make this a full-on post rather than a reply, but I’d like to see what sort of feedback it gets here first.)

  As marketers know, a specific target audience is easier to reach than a very broad one. You can choose a channel that already targets that audience with a message tailored to reader and context (e.g., a magazine about knitting reaches knitters particularly and quite efficiently). Plus, you might benefit from the medium itself if its ideas are trusted by and shared widely between people in that target population.

  Meanwhile, there is much discussion, as EA increasingly meets the world, about how to disseminate information about the movement clearly, delicately—after all, you are asking people to examine their values—and in manageable doses. First impressions are oh-so important. You can see discussions about this around the forums. Examples include this Forum post, this podcast on this set of guidelines, portions of this Forum post—e.g., about the dangers of a “low-fidelity [first] exposure” with EA—and this video providing a teacher’s views on risks and solutions around external movement building.

  So alongside any efforts to write content for a broad distribution, one might visualize a specific project to turn out a series of highly focused introductions to EA targeted towards specific audiences outside EA, written by or at least in the voice of an “insider,” and pitched to relevant publications.

  The example that sparked this idea was an intro to EA written specifically for product managers by Clement Kao, speaking the language of its audience, making connections between their approaches and EA’s that would, one hopes, make Kao’s fellow product managers feel 1) well understood and 2) positively inclined towards EA.

  This targeted outreach could be addressed to any community: Unitarian Universalists; sci-fi fans; AARP members, eSport gamers; you name it. But certainly EA has been looking to establish more momentum in reaching people in the workplace, and there are widely distributed publications within just about any professional community. As an example, consider how many developers’ eyeballs meet mass-distribution magazines like CODE or .NET.

  Such a project could start by targeting the broadest and potentially most EA-aligned audiences—for our Market Testing team to identify, of course—and aim to be published in top specialized media for those groups. While containing a central common set of well crafted ideas and terminology, articles would differ in addressing the particular concerns of people in that target group, highlighting ways EA fits their world view and how its tenets can help them improve their work or their lives.

  For authentic insider voices, we might do well to mine the multitalented ranks of EA for writers to author articles on areas in which they have experience.

  Can anyone see a downside risk here? I haven’t so far, and it seems to me that, with careful attention to leading readers to further engagement with EA, such an effort might also cultivate a growing crop of EA groups in the workplace (or among any targeted groups).

  A broader question is whether EA outreach would benefit from a far-reaching, coordinated program (perhaps with some elements like the above) to ensure a consistent, vetted message using consistent EA language—or continue to be accomplished as it is now, not badly, but ad hoc by various organizations within the community. Also, whether one particular organization, such as GWWC, would be the logical hub for such an undertaking.

  (Thanks: David Reinstein for feedback on my early draft and Sunnie Huang for extra encouragement.)

• Adam Steinberg 26 Jan 2022 18:44 UTC

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  in reply to: Aaron Gertler’s comment on: The Effec­tive Altru­ism Handbook

  Aaron, has a .pdf of the new edition been made available? Thanks!

• Adam Steinberg 16 Dec 2021 16:19 UTC

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  in reply to: Ozzie Gooen’s comment on: Flimsy Pet The­o­ries, Enor­mous Initiatives

  That reminds me of a charity I was faux-promoting to friends in high school: Bookmarks for the Poor.