I’m 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.
Gina_Stuessy
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I’m Gina, a software & applications engineer in Madison, WI. I’m 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!
Looking forward to it!
Correction: The meetup is starting at 10:30 am.
(Typo: “Except results by the end of the month”—should be “expect”, right?)
Meetup : Effective Alruism Madison (2nd meetup)
Meetup : EA Madison: Giving Games
For Amazon Smile, there are extensions to have it set up a redirect so that whenever you type in “Amazon.com″ it goes to ”smile.amazon.com″. 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 “shop for charity” link like the ones you have for Charity Science?
“I think it would have been smart to do the week before my fundraiser and the week after.”—Do you mean the week before & after your birthday?
Great job! I’m going to encourage Ben to do this for his birthday in February (and then I’ll 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 that’s something just for the end of this year?
I read through all the steps but haven’t actually done more than step 1 yet (will do step 2 after Christmas when I’m 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. It’s 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 I’ll do, but I imagine it’ll be hard to not do that in the mix of the activism-related emailing and planning that I’m currently doing, and to set that aside to a specific time.
Maybe my mistake was that my goal isn’t something I’m not doing currently, since it’s an “I want to do more of this” type thing.
Suggestions?
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.
Typo in Local Groups section? Showing 2 different numbers for TLYCS.
“78 through The Life You Can Save, 41 through 80,000 Hours, and 38 through The Life You Can Save”
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?
Meetup : Effective Altruism Madison: Documentary + Dinner
Meetup : Global Poverty Discussion & Prep for “Experience Poverty” Fundraiser
Meetup : Potluck & Discussion
Wasn’t one of your suggestions to find small/unskilled work for EA volunteers to do, to see if they’re ready for a bigger task? I think it’d defeat the purpose of getting EAs involved in a small way to just hire virtual assistants for unskilled work.
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?