I work as a Communication Specialist at Rethink Priorities and as a Fund Manager at EA Animal Welfare Fund. Before joining RP I worked at Charity Entrepreneurship as a Senior Recruitment & Digital Media Manager (6 years). I have a PhD in Philosophy, I specialize in the moral status of animals and published a book on the topic in Polish. My professional experience includes working as a Project Manager and PR & Marketing Manager for startup projects affiliated with Michał Kiciński, a Polish millionaire/investor who co-founded CD Projekt, creators of The Witcher games. My work included building a Pay What You Want eBooks portal and opening a trendy vegan restaurant in central Warsaw. I have also worked as a Communications Manager for ProVeg International in Poland. For over 25 years, I have been a vegan and dedicated animal activist.
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Looks amazing. Thank you so much!
After careful consideration, we added one more idea to the list above: An organization that aims to reduce stock-outs of contraceptives and other essential medicines by improving the way they are delivered and managed within public health facilities. To learn more please check the longer description above.
You can start this intervention through our July-August 2023 Incubation Program as well. The deadline for applications is March 12, 2023, and you can apply here: https://bit.ly/IP2023Apply
It would be amazing if you keep on working on farmed animals. Your work on it so far was extremely helpful and partially lead to the creation of some cost-effective charities. The field is also extremely talent-constrained, and I want to cry whenever I hear “I was into animals but now I want to work on AI” at EA conferences. I know you can still change your mind but just want to say, that counterfactually it seems to me that you are much more needed on the farmed animals side than you will ever be on the x-risk reduction.
Hey, I wonder if there is a way to make this post, or posts like this, easier to read in the future. My friend suggested Chat GPT3, and it worked quite well, helping me understand what is written here. I wonder if maybe in future publications you can trial it out, and then do a little summary for people that don’t work with scientific studies/ statistics/ whatever it is, that makes it hard to understand with a quick read. It’s not a criticism, it’s just a suggestion, but I think from now on I will use chat GPT3 as a helpful tool :)
Thank you so much for the curation! I have added the information about using the same form (https://bit.ly/IP2023Apply) to apply for the February-March 2024 Incubation Program.
We give the possibility to apply early because there is a significant number of applicants who are cause-neutral (they focus more on the high-impact career path than on a specific intervention). There are also applicants that know they want to focus on a specific cause area, but they trust the CE research team to pick the best intervention in that cause area.
Maybe important to add that there will be also a second round of applications for the February-March 2024 program, and it will start on July 10, 2023, and end on September 30, 2023.
Hi Miguel, I forgot to remove this idea from the form (it’s now updated). It’s an idea from our “maybe” list that we’re still considering but we have not made a final decision on it yet (hence it’s not on the list above).
@Lizka I want to suggest this post for curation and definitely putting it back on the Front Page :) I think someone by mistake tagged it as “Community” while it is extremely valuable content that should be at the Front Page.
The animal movement would tremendously benefit from M&E consultations or even a separate organization that will help create M&E plans and give people the know-how to do it in-house.
I scrolled the comments to write exactly the same comment as Judith :) Basically wanted to ask authors to take e.g. plant-based campaign (e.g. replacing meat meals with vegan meals in canteens or something more difficult even) and show how one can go about it. So sort of step-by-step M&E guide. That would be super valuable I think.
Another appreciation goes to @James Ozden for basically everything he posts in the EA forum. I highly appreciate his work for animals and his participation in numerous discussions here.
I am upvoting because I am observing Andrew Skowron’s and fellow activist investigators’ work for years now, and they are extremely dedicated, super hard-working, and created a lot of press coverage for animals through their work! This is not yet well-measured work, but I think at some point EA will come up with better systems of measuring impact for animals, and this kind of work might play a big role in e.g. policy changes (fur-free campaigns that are heavily based on video footage).
Yep, I can appreciate the span of 22 years of veganism, and now live in London, where I can go to any random pub and get vegan options. There is also an amazing plant-based boom happening in my country—Poland, so I am joining this gratefulness! :)
I am super grateful to @OllieBase for EAGxes. I participated in 3 events last year: Prague, Berlin, and Rotterdam, and they were all really great! All of them were very welcoming, the people I met were great, and the events were run smoothly. As a person working specifically in outreach, I highly appreciate how helpful Ollie has been to our team, and how his kind attitude translates to other organizers. Grateful also to them, for all their hard work and making participation effortless for us. Big hugs!!!
I am joining you with appreciation for Shrimp Welfare Project. I work for CE so I am biased but I am also an animal activist for 22 years now, and I think it’s incredible how quickly this charity moved from concept to potential impact. Just signing an agreement that will make them reach 125 million animals per year is incredible: https://www.shrimpwelfareproject.org/post/mou-with-mer-seafood
They have further collaborations in progress. It will be probably the first organization ever to impact billions of animals in a short time span (the org was just launched in September 2021 :)
As usual, I recommend checking our participants video about their experience in the program:
Would love to see the draft calculations from point 4 as well.
I was pretty sure this was written by Brain Tomasik, until he was mentioned in the text :)
Very mindblowing piece, thanks to the author!
Great idea!
Great post, I will also be looking into Michael St Jules comments. Would love to see response from Animal Ask who I think did some thinking on the topic.
Do you plan to suspend or evaluate other campaigns, where the impact is not clear-cut (e.g. Jasna Strona Mocy, maybe others)? Can this be interpreted as Anima moving into an even more effectiveness-focused direction?
Are you assuming that the insect industry will grow rapidly and that your organization has chosen to work exclusively with the industry/governments/policymakers to ensure the highest possible animal welfare standards? I’m curious to know if you have researched alternative intervention strategies before deciding on this particular approach. Is it safe to assume that this trend is inevitable, and that it’s impossible to halt the industry’s growth by launching campaigns targeting people’s aversion to insects as a food source (or similar)? So have you explored methods to stop this practice altogether, or are you from the get-go primarily focused on animal welfare?