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Rebecca Herbst

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Passionate about effective giving and financial literacy. Early retiree (a la the FIRE movement). Member of Giving What We Can. Board Member for Effective Altruism Salt Lake City. Ex-commercial real estate cities researcher and economist. Outdoor enthusiast. Creator of Yield & Spread. We teach working adults how to manage and invest their money. All profits after operating costs go tot effective charities. Learn more at yieldandspread.org

Char­i­ta­ble tax de­duc­tions: why most ad­vice is a miss (and what ac­tu­ally mat­ters)

Rebecca Herbst22 Jan 2026 21:33 UTC
14 points
2 comments4 min readEA link

Why I donate: re­flec­tions from an “early re­tiree”

Rebecca Herbst9 Dec 2025 17:28 UTC
48 points
0 comments3 min readEA link

[Question] List of match­ing op­por­tu­ni­ties?

Rebecca Herbst30 Nov 2025 19:09 UTC
14 points
6 comments1 min readEA link

Scared to Pledge? 5 fi­nan­cial steps for con­fi­dent giving

Rebecca Herbst25 Nov 2025 23:23 UTC
40 points
0 comments6 min readEA link

[Question] Thoughts on great­non­prof­its.org?

Rebecca Herbst24 Sep 2025 18:50 UTC
10 points
4 comments1 min readEA link

Feed­back re­quested: Fi­nan­cial In­de­pen­dence Pur­pose Plan­ner tool

Rebecca Herbst11 Mar 2025 19:44 UTC
40 points
2 comments4 min readEA link

Re­becca Herbst’s Quick takes

Rebecca Herbst22 May 2024 14:18 UTC
4 points
2 commentsEA link

[Question] Is cor­nu­copia.org a solid re­source for guid­ing the con­sump­tion of an­i­mal prod­ucts?

Rebecca Herbst10 Apr 2024 21:10 UTC
12 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

Fi­nan­cial guidance for US-based donors

Rebecca Herbst9 Oct 2023 23:57 UTC
39 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

Fi­nance For Good: Ses­sion #2 Fi­nan­cial In­de­pen­dence for Altruists

Sasha Berezhnoi 🔸24 May 2023 17:32 UTC
13 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

Fi­nance For Good: Ses­sion #1 Money Psy­chol­ogy For Do Gooders

Sasha Berezhnoi 🔸24 May 2023 17:26 UTC
9 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Per­sonal Fi­nance Coach­ing for EAs: Call for Ap­pli­cants

Rebecca Herbst22 Mar 2023 23:22 UTC
32 points
1 comment3 min readEA link

Per­sonal Fi­nance for EA Soft­ware Eng­ineers with Re­becca Herbst of Yield & Spread

NicoleJaneway 🔸7 Feb 2023 23:27 UTC
5 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

FIRE & EA: Seek­ing feed­back on “Fi-lan­thropy” Calculator

Rebecca Herbst30 Jan 2023 20:20 UTC
125 points
21 comments4 min readEA link