Currently Head of Business Operations at 80,000 Hours. Previously managed Gi Effektivt, an effective fundraising platform run by EA Norway. Before that, I was Assistant Executive Director at EA Norway. I co-founded EA NTNU while studying, which was the first EA group in Norway.
\\ Interested in operations and finance controlling. Also fundraising, philanthropic advising, community building, and project management. My current plan is to continue working in meta EA.
\\ I have a masters engineering degree at NTNU, Trondheim, Norway in industrial economics and technology management. My engineering field is computer science, with a focus on artificial intelligence and operations research.
Jørgen Ljønes🔸
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Great with all the tips for a successful birthday fundraiser! But I’ve got a couple of questions that I would like to see your thoughts on.
I) People you meet on a regular basis, like your best friends of nearest family, do you include them on the email list? Isn’t it like texting people while you talk to them? A bit weird and too formal?
II) I imagine you want to do this again next year, but could you send the same email again? Do you think people will think differently about the email and you contacting them with a fundraising call every year?
I’m thinking of giving “Giving games” for Christmas this year.
Family and friends gets a envelope with two cards. A nice Christmas card saying they now have x NOK to give on a charity of their choosing. Then it presents some interesting recommendations and encourage them to look more into them if they want to. When they have decided they have to write it down on an accompanying empty (but postaged) card addressed to me and when I get the card after Christmas I will donate the money.
Have somebody else though of something similar? Do you have any ideas that could make it more interesting or better in any way?
We are planning to do a survey of a representative selection of students at NTNU, our university in Trondheim, Norway. There are about 23 000 students across a few campuses. We want to measure the students’:
… basic knowledge of global development, aid and health (like Hans Rosling’s usual questions)
… current willingness and habits of giving (How much? To what? Why?)
… estimates of what they will give in the future, that is after graduating
And of course background information.
We think we may use this survey for multiple ends. Our initial motivation was to find a way to measure our own impact at the university. And we still think, in some sense, we could measure our impact over time. Another use of the results would be the media opportunity when we present the disaggregated results, e.g. how altruistic are the engineering students compared to the medical students. We think the student press would love these kind of results and give us a lot of free media coverage. Lastly we have thought about these results could be interesting to other institutions in Norway, primarily in the aid sector. Our university is the largest technological university in Norway with many of the most attractive fields of study and thus many businesses and institutions are interested in the students.
It this is a success we want to expand to the universities in Oslo and Bergen. This will also give us a better control group, more solid results, maybe national media coverage and a better chance to reach out to people.
I would love to get some answers to the following questions: Do you have any experience from similar projects? Are there any specific questions or other topics we should consider including in the survey? Maybe you have other ideas of how we could leverage the results?
Yes, are hoping to have him over spring of 2015. The plan is to book the student hall (about 800 seats) at the weekly mass meetings. His excellent videos online is quite known at the university, so I think we will have good chances of a high turn up!
Hi! I’m Jørgen (or George for English speakers who find the ø difficult) and I study industrial engineering at the Norwegian University for Technology and Natural Sciences (NTNU) in Trondheim, Norway.
About 9 months ago I gathered a few classmates and we founded [Effektiv Altruisme NTNU] (www.facebook.no/ea.ntnu) as the first EA organisation in Norway. In just these few months we have had great success in building the organisation, networking and planning our [launch event] (www.facebook.com/events/1464757957116665) this Thursday. We have already third most likes on Facebook of the international focused idealistic student groups in Trondheim and we are expecting 150 people at the event next week.
We have a lot of plans and good ideas for events and projects in Trondheim and Norway, including a talk from Hans Rosling, lobbying towards Norwegian politicians and people and organisations with influence and a university wide charity survey to map knowledge and attitudes towards giving effecivly. The last one is essential to measure our own influence on students over time.
Besides EA and ethics, I consider my self a part of the skeptic movement (witch we already are finding supporters from) and I just love bordgames!
In order to be eligible for tax deduction you mean? No, they have to be registered inside the EEA, though.
EDIT: Ah, you meant for sending in videos. I don’t know actually. Will try to find an answer.
EDIT again: Yes, the charities have to be “nationwide” and they are stating that they want to promote “ideal organisations and the voluntary work in our country”. This is from the larges commercial TV station, but I think the same goes for the smaller media channels as well.