Iâm the Finance Director at Animal Charity Evaluators. I co-founded and co-led EA Madison (Wis.) and have been involved in effective altruism since 2013.
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Meetup : Meet up at Mad City VeÂgan Fest
Meetup : Drinks & DisÂcusÂsion on AnÂiÂmal Welfare as an EffecÂtive Cause
Meetup : Potluck & Discussion
Meetup : Global Poverty DisÂcusÂsion & Prep for âExÂpeÂrience Povertyâ Fundraiser
Meetup : EffecÂtive AltruÂism MadiÂson: DocÂuÂmenÂtary + Dinner
Could you update the link to Effective Animal Activism to their new website & name, Animal Charity Evaluators, and their new top charities, The Humane League, Mercy for Animals, and Animal Equality?
Typo in Local Groups section? Showing 2 different numbers for TLYCS.
â78 through The Life You Can Save, 41 through 80,000 Hours, and 38 through The Life You Can Saveâ
I think how it works in the US is that you subtract the amount you donated (up to 50% of your income) from your income, and then the tax you pay is some percentage of that lowered income.
Example (over-simplified):
Income: $80,000 --> Taxes (15%): $12,000
Income: $80,000, Donations: $15,000 --> Taxable income: $65,000
--> Taxes (15% (or maybe you'd fall into a lower tax bracket)): $9,750So in this example, even though you donated $15k, your taxes only went down by $2,250.
I read through all the steps but havenât actually done more than step 1 yet (will do step 2 after Christmas when Iâm back to a more normal week). I foresee getting stuck on Step 3, though. One of my goals was to do more activism things. This could involve tabling at festivals, leafleting, whatever else. Itâs not something that I would do on a regular basis on a free hour each day. If I find a free hour, I could possibly use that time to plan the activism things Iâll do, but I imagine itâll be hard to not do that in the mix of the activism-related emailing and planning that Iâm currently doing, and to set that aside to a specific time.
Maybe my mistake was that my goal isnât something Iâm not doing currently, since itâs an âI want to do more of thisâ type thing.
Suggestions?
Great job! Iâm going to encourage Ben to do this for his birthday in February (and then Iâll try it again in August). Mind if we use your wording for the part about the bed nets? I wonder if Charity Science will always match bday fundraisers or if thatâs something just for the end of this year?
âI think it would have been smart to do the week before my fundraiser and the week after.ââDo you mean the week before & after your birthday?
For Amazon Smile, there are extensions to have it set up a redirect so that whenever you type in âAmazon.comâł it goes to âsmile.amazon.comâł. Is there something similar for this, or do I just have to always remember to use the link I bookmarked?
Is there a way, like in Amazon Smile, to designate the charity it goes to? Can any charity set up a âshop for charityâ link like the ones you have for Charity Science?
Meetup : EA MadiÂson: GivÂing Games
Meetup : EffecÂtive Alruism MadiÂson (2nd meetup)
(Typo: âExcept results by the end of the monthââshould be âexpectâ, right?)
Looking forward to it!
Correction: The meetup is starting at 10:30 am.
Iâm Gina, a software & applications engineer in Madison, WI. Iâm also on the board of directors for a local animal rights & environmental protection group, Alliance for Animals and the Environment. Random fact: I used to do synchronized swimming in high school!
My boyfriend Ben told me that this article is better understood after reading your previous article. Could you include a link to the previous article in the text of this one?
Wasnât one of your suggestions to find small/âunskilled work for EA volunteers to do, to see if theyâre ready for a bigger task? I think itâd defeat the purpose of getting EAs involved in a small way to just hire virtual assistants for unskilled work.