Setting up the Google Ads Grant
A good reminder how much software is free for nonprofits: https://kindful.com/blog/free-nonprofit-software/
Would love to hear what other software you use/recommend!
Pat Myron 🔸
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Here’s a list of non-animal welfare concerns about animal farming: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/rpBYejrhk7HQB6gJj/crispr-for-happier-farm-animals?commentId=hvCQ9kBvutrnkFm9h
In America, dining services influence far more meals than vegans’ personal consumption
Aramark, Compass Group, etc. each serve billions of meals annually, and even the largest individual correctional facilities, hospital campuses, school districts, public universities, baseball stadiums, etc. each serve millions of meals annually to largely captive audiences
Private subreddit / FB group could be cheaper/easier (although perhaps less private/aesthetic)
https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/ is a great American nonprofit resource:
New Incentives in particular seems poised to spend much more after large ~Givewell cash grants
Ranked cost-effective public health interventions:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7142580/ (high income-country policies: food, tobacco, alcohol, etc.)
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5552255/ (LMIC policies: medicine, condoms, food, etc.)
Diet advice since food policy tops both lists:
https://cidev.uky.edu/kentuckyhealthnews/2022/02/14/a-healthier-diet-could-add-years-to-your-life-study-says-more-than-a-decade-in-your-20s-and-eight-or-nine-years-even-at-age-60/
Most people view farm animals as serving a purpose, whereas animal cruelty is criticized more when more unnecessary. That’s why moral progress is made in fashion, poaching, and animal-fighting sports and why veganism should focus more on food waste and traditions like egg tosses and egg decorating: https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/22890292/food-waste-meat-dairy-eggs-milk-animal-welfare Omnivores can respect farm animal sacrifices more, which is a useful mindset shift
@Peter Wildeford @Matt_Lerner interested in similar. This in-depth analysis’ was a bit strict in my opinion looking at file-level criteria:
https://www.metabase.com/blog/bus-factor
These massive projects were mostly maintained by 1 person last I checked a year ago:
https://github.com/curl/curl/graphs/contributors
https://github.com/vuejs/vue/graphs/contributors
https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap/graphs/contributors
https://github.com/laravel/laravel/graphs/contributors
https://github.com/pallets/flask/graphs/contributors
https://github.com/expressjs/express/graphs/contributors
https://github.com/redis/redis/graphs/contributors
https://github.com/tiangolo/fastapi/graphs/contributors
https://github.com/lodash/lodash/graphs/contributors
https://github.com/psf/requests/graphs/contributors
https://github.com/babel/babel/graphs/contributors
https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/graphs/contributors (seemingly improved since)
https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep/graphs/contributors
https://github.com/FFmpeg/FFmpeg/graphs/contributors
https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/graphs/contributors
https://github.com/evanw/esbuild/graphs/contributors
I’d love to be able to maintain more polished current data
or Governor candidates in states like North Carolina
I don’t mean most members would be interested, but I think they’d at least listen to the pitch. Just thinking similar/tangential existing organized groups seem underutilized when growing new groups
Existing secular/humanist/freethought/agnostic/atheist/Unitarian Universalist/vegan/service clubs (rotary, lions, etc)/etc groups seem more diverse age wise and likely sympathetic audiences
Bus routes also seem cheaper, quicker implemented, lower profile politically, and more historically ridden than rail: https://www.researchgate.net/figure/1-US-transit-ridership-by-year_fig1_367860713
Agreed on building on those wildly successful campaigns that each raised tens of millions:[1]
Team Disease: GiveWell
Team Bees: Good Food Institute/Clean Air Task Force/Giving Green/Founders Pledge
Giving What We Can 10% pledges by year
Hypothetically they could work at GiveWell?
Bloomberg/Thomson Reuters/etc generate more revenue than most newspapers providing market data (with seemingly better incentives): https://www.investopedia.com/articles/investing/052815/financial-news-comparison-bloomberg-vs-reuters.asp
Manifund (aka Manifold for Charity)
To my knowledge, Manifold for Charity grants did not only fund Manifund; Manifold for Charity grants seemingly funded Manifold’s currency donation platform too
Once debating if:
* Manifold for Charity should be excluded
* Survival and Flourishing Fund (SFF) funding is EA
* FTX Future Fund funding is EA
The original comment feels reductive and I’d rather data be linked upfront rather than feeling dragged into revealing data and motte-and-bailey-esque threads
Interpret data semantics as desired. At least I linked data my claims were based on upon, especially considering original claims still seem untrue regardless if SFF is considered EA:
most of our funding comes from venture capital sources
We’ve received some EA funding, but most of our funding comes from venture capital sources
Appreciate Manifold’s quantitative transparency because Manifold’s qualitatively misleading. Public data may be slightly outdated but seeing ~$2.4M EA funding to Manifold for Charity and ~$2.4M EA funding and <$2M in non-EA VC funding to Manifold:
https://www.notion.so/manifoldmarkets/Manifold-Finances-0f9a14a16afe4375b67e21471ce456b0#d13406b6b26a43178d09609135aa38c6
Grants are funding, and Manifold seems mostly EA-funded, even excluding Manifold for Charity
Agreed on default minimums being too bright. Some free third-party solutions though:
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/quickshade/id931571202
https://lunar.fyi/
https://github.com/MonitorControl/MonitorControl