I can see a bunch of EA orgs (and others) have used these folks:
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In the UK at least, they are especially desperate for donors who are male and/or from an ethnic minority background
https://www.anthonynolan.org/help-save-a-life/join-stem-cell-register
Some others here: https://tomweinresearch.me/job-boards/
I encourage people to check out the EA art and fiction tag, in particular these posts:
Seconding Strong Female Protagonist, and noting that it is also available as a printed graphic novel for those who prefer to read offline
Oh for sure, and I gladly donated.
I just didn’t want this to turn into a whole conversation about effectiveness, but rather the power of stories
Someone accidentally donated $15,000 instead of $150 to their neighbour’s charity in Bangladesh. Before they could get a refund they were inundated with pictures and videos from the grateful recipients.
In addition to then donating $1,500 rather than the $150 as originally planned, they also told the story of their blunder on reddit, which went viral and caused ~3000 people to donate ~$100,000
Warm fuzzies galore
Looking forward to this!
While I do like spacing things out, 1 month between posts seems like a long time to me
Thanks for sharing! This is exactly the kind of thing I’d love to see more of on the forum
You mentioned starting ADHD meds? I’d be very interested in reading about the process leading up to that, if you feel like sharing
Do you have a view on using LLMs as therapists as suggested here?
The “poorly identified fiat” did tickle me
Thanks for the summary!
You mention that ~9% of Trial Pledgers have gone on to take the GWWC Pledge, do you know what the other 91% did (eg. extend their trial, stop entirely, commit to a smaller pledge like OFTW)?
Amazing work! And great write-up
This is potentially very exciting idea! Some thoughts:
How does this compare to running a fundraiser for an effective charity (for example via GWWC like this one)
Or possibly running 3 fundraisers simultaneously to get people thinking about comparing charities
You are kind of imposing a burden on people, like if I were to receive this coupon, I’d have a deadline to go and do some stuff, which I might not end up doing, and then feel guilty about
I wonder about the privacy angle, I guess people’s choices here are known to the organiser?
The viral effect is interesting but how will it be measured?
I’d be interested in seeing your comments David!
Further resources and discussion at this post How and why to turn everything into audio
That link to the The Harvard Grant longitudinal study is dead, and isn’t on archive.org, but this is the study’s homepage, an Atlantic piece ($), and a TED talk, by the director of the study
Very interesting question!
I don’t have that much to add, it seems like you’ve got a pretty good handle on the different options available. Though a couple of things:
That DAF post you linked to is a bit out of date (I keep meaning to write an updated version!), since the CAF DAF now charges 1.2-1.5% on balances up to £100,000 (and less above that), with a minimum balance of £10,000-£25,000, so is a more viable option even if you aren’t a mega-donor
ISAs are still a ridiculous vehicle, you can put £20,000 in per year, and be exempt from capital gains, stamp duty, dividend tax etc forever on that money (today is the last day of the tax year so fill your ISA today for this year’s allowance!). Though you do contribute from your post-tax income.
It was a pleasure! I especially liked the supplementary spreadsheets though I didn’t get round to including them in my list
Since this post argues for expanding our moral circle and advocates for non-human welfare, I choose The Humane League.
Thanks for your donation!
You might want to reach out to the author of this post to see if they got anywhere with their research
I can only echo what I said on that post, Energise Africa lets you invest in bonds, it used to be just for solar panels but they’ve expanded recently to other things like electric forklifts
You can invest via your ISA too
The platform itself I think is stable and reliable, though the companies themselves do occasionally go under—I think rising interest rates over the past couple of years hit some of these companies hard. When I have time later I’ll go through my portfolio and share the performance of my investments