EA Meta for 7 years!
COO of Ambitious Impact (previously Charity Entrepreneurship).
Co-Founder of High Impact Professionals. We enable working professionals to maximize their positive impact by supporting them in donating their time, skills and resources effectively.
Ex-CTO and MD of Germany for Founders Pledge. Big on promoting Effective Giving.
Originally from New York, living in Berlin.
I was going to say the same thing. I found the majority of the advice to be good, but don’t agree with pirating things to save money.
It is back on the page, as well as here: https://founderspledge.com/research/Cause%20Report%20-%20Climate%20Change.pdf
Sorry about that.
Thanks for sharing! I am really excited for this and think it will be a large net positive for EA.
I think there are two big benefits of donating monthly and automatically as opposed to on Giving Tuesday:
1) you can’t forget to do it.
2) you don’t see a big amount pile up during the year and then on Giving Tuesday think “am I really going to give that much away??”
Of course if you know you won’t fall prey to either of these scenarios then it makes more sense to do as you describe.
Were you able to get good feedback as to why you weren’t hired?
Hi! I work for Founders Pledge and was thinking the same thing—great thought Mappy!
I’m gonna PM you Simon.
I just wanted to say thanks—I find these overviews super useful and I come across a lot of great content I wouldn’t otherwise have seen. Cheers!
Relatedly, could you explain a case where the 20 minute rule failed to produce a good outcome?
Would you elaborate on what you mean?
Thanks for this! The video doesn’t have the Google Doc linked in it—where can I find that?
Thanks Aaron—I really enjoy these updates and wouldn’t be able to get the information otherwise. Well done!
Great work, Pablo! I think we need more projects like this so glad to see another one.
On that topic, do you or anyone else know of other such national level projects, aside from Effektiv Spenden (where I do some work) in Germany and RC Forward in Canada? Although I imagine there are many nuances of each country’s bureaucracy, it could make sense to template out the operational aspects that likely don’t differ from country to country.
Another with this bit:
We are thinking of Ayuda Efectiva as a startup, and are trying to build it up with the lowest possible fixed costs. This may mean our progress is slower, but also that keeping the organization running will not be a constant worry that distracts us from our actual goals.
What kind of fixed costs are we talking about, if you don’t mind sharing? If they were too low, I’d be a bit concerned that it could hamper your multiplier. How are you approaching fundraising?
Again, great work!
Nice to hear from you and thanks for the feedback Stephen.
You raise some good points and I definitely plan to beef up the document as things progress, especially with regard to the language around career changes as that will often be the biggest lever for impact as you correctly state.
Thanks for making this!
I’d like to understand the suffering involved in egg production of free-range hens where the male chicks aren’t killed.
What assumptions does “cage free” make here?
Hi there!
A quick thought about your quandary: I have been very puzzled by this throughout my time as an EA as well and my best model for people who 1) intellectually understand EA but 2) don’t act on it is that they are mostly signalling, which is super cheap to do. Taking real action (e.g. donating your hard earned money that you could have used on yourself) is much more costly.
Experience has also born the following out for me: For people who don’t intellectually (I’d go so far as to say intuitively) get EA, I think there is (almost) no hope of getting them on board. It seems deeply dispositional to me. This lends itself to a strategy that tries to uncover existing EAs who have never heard of it rather than converting those who have but show resistance.
Just my two cents!
Excited about this organization and to see the good work you three will do!
In which way do you believe that pragmatism undermines social justice? Couldn’t it be that a pragmatic approach increases social justice, if it is shown to be the most effective?