Thanks AGB (and Rasool below),
I’m looking into this. Again, it seems our language here hasn’t been clear enough and I want to make sure I’m as clear as possible when I respond.
OllieBase
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Update here: we’re supporting an EA Summit in Abuja, Nigeria on 6–7 September :)
https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/8eWysFRNK9biZnECY/announcing-the-ea-nigeria-summit
Thanks for your comment AGB, and sorry I didn’t give enough detail initially. I’ve checked with relevant people internally, and our thoughts are below.
HMRC uses “Gift Aid” (in both the form and their Adjusted Net Income page) to mean that the donation was eligible for Gift Aid in the charity’s hands. We don’t have to claim Gift Aid for the donation to be eligible (and HMRC does not expect donors to confirm this).
If you donated £400 for EAG London and you’re filling out the self-assessment tax return, you would add £400 to boxes 5 and 6 of the Charitable Giving section (as a “one off” donation, because EAG London is not a regular monthly donation). The level of tax relief you receive will depend on your own income levels through the year, and this isn’t something we can comment on.
We aren’t currently planning on claiming Gift Aid on the donations to EAG London to reduce administrative overhead, but we might possibly revisit that in future years. We will take another look at our website language, as we’ve had a few people ask about Gift Aid, and so we may not have been clear enough that our decision on whether or not to claim Gift Aid does not actually impact an individual donor’s tax filing position.
Hi Lovkush, Ollie from the CEA events team here.
We are not claiming Gift Aid on the donations which relate to EAG London this year.
However, this is separate from your own personal tax reliefs, which you can claim on your donations in your personal tax return (and which does not depend on whether Effective Ventures, our parent organisation, claims Gift Aid).
Jumping in here: this event is intended as a test for whether an EAGx in Brazil might make sense in future. EAGx events are usually larger, and CEA are more involved in supporting the teams, so we decided to distinguish this from an EAGx by using a different name for this event.
(I approved the grant from CEA for this event).
I signed up, thanks for sharing!
Seems reasonable :)
I’d probably bet against this happening FWIW. Maybe a Manifold market?
Also, 100+ comments on the forum might not mean it’s necessarily “heated”—a back and forth between two commenters can quickly increase the tally on any subject so that part might also need specifying further.
Congratulations to the EA Project For Awesome 2024 team, who managed to raise over $100k for AMF, GiveDirectly and ProVeg International by submitting promotional/informational videos to the project.
There’s been an effort to raise money for effective charities via Project For Awesome since 2017, and it seems like a really productive effort every time. Thanks to all involved!
One habit to make that second piece of advice stick even more that I often recommend: introduce people to other people as soon as you think of it (i.e. pause the conversation and send them an email address or list of names or open a thread between the two people).
I often pause 1:1s to find links or send someone a message because I’m prone to forgetting to do follow-up actions unless I immediately do it (or write it down).
Maybe let the forum team know here (Toby’s comment above) :)
Maybe let the forum know here (Toby’s comment above) :)
That Notion link doesn’t work for me FYI :) But this one did (from their website)
As someone guilty of this—sorry! This is a good reminder.
Sorry about this. It takes time to go back and forth internally with the team to write posts like this, to get them cleared and checked by various people but I think it’s fair criticism that we ought to have gotten our act together sooner!
Thanks, I enjoyed these pieces! Really clear and well-structured.
Apply to help run EAGxIndia or EAGxBerkeley!
Congratulations! I thought this was an awesome event :)
The CEA events team is hiring for several roles, all of which can be either remote or Oxford-based:
Project Manager (Apply by April 8th): You’ll collaborate with experts and provide end-to-end event support to make events happen that could be valuable for making progress in their fields, and which might not happen otherwise.
Events Associate (Apply by April 8th): You’ll support the planning and execution of our events and play a key role in enhancing their impact.
Events Generalist (expression of interest): Join our team and support our expanding portfolio of events through work on admissions, content, event design, production, or volunteer management.
I’m grateful you shared this since it’s probably interesting to the community, but flagging I’m a little nervous about the EA Forum filling up with cross-posts from X. I think that would make it less interesting and unique.