The Nonlinear Library EA - Participate in the Donation Election and the first weekly theme (starting 7 November) by Lizka
Nov 2, 2023
14:14
Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Participate in the Donation Election and the first weekly theme (starting 7 November), published by Lizka on November 2, 2023 on The Effective Altruism Forum.
TLDR
: Participate in the Donation Election, start writing posts for "Effective giving spotlight" week (starting this Tuesday!), and more.
There are many ways to participate:
Get involved in Giving Season events
Donate to the Donation Election Fund
to encourage discussion and participation (we're partially matching donations
)
Add candidates to the Election
Pre-vote
[1]
to register your interest (pre-votes are anonymous, but we'll know how many people pre-voted for a given candidate in the Election)
Share your experience donating, fundraising, earning to give, or more
or your uncertainties or considerations about where we should donate and how we should fundraise
Fundraise for your project
Explain how your project would use extra funding (particularly for Marginal Funding Week
), share impact analyses or retrospectives,
invite Forum users to ask you questions
, and see if your project should be listed as a candidate
in the Election
Explore
The
Giving portal
Writing about effective giving
Follow the
Donation Election
(This post is an update to our
earlier announcement
about Giving Season on the Forum.)
Giving Season & weekly discussion themes
Start preparing for discussion themes on the EA Forum:
Theme and dates
Description
Effective Giving Spotlight
(7-14 November) - starting this Tuesday!
How can we grow the amount of funding going to effective projects aimed at improving the world? We'll feature people's experiences with donating, fundraising, earning to give, etc.
See more details below.
Marginal Funding Week
(14-21 November)
How would your project use extra funding?
To decide whether donating to a given project or organization is cost-effective, it's really useful to know how marginal funding would get used. We'll invite EA organizations and projects to describe how they would use extra donations - a bit like
this post about LTFF
or otherwise share more about what they do.
We might also try to collect a summary of the key information in one post at the end of the week.
Donation Debate Week
(21-28 November)
Where should we donate (and what should we vote for in the Donation Election)?
Discuss which interventions and projects are most
cost-effective
and how they should vote (and donate!). I'm hoping to see estimates (including rough "back of the envelope calculations"
BOTECs
) and productive disagreement or identification of what the
cruxes
that drive different conclusions are.
We'll also probably feature some classic writing on the topic, some relevant
AMAs
, and more.
First weekly theme: Effective Giving Spotlight (November 7-14)
A lot of promising projects are funding-constrained
[2]
they'd get more done if they had more funding. "Effective Giving Spotlight" week will feature content on how we can grow the amount of funding going to effective projects aimed at improving the world. ef
Consider participating!
You can write posts (or
link-posts
, including things like reviews of classic writing on the topic), comment on others' posts, or share the event. You might want to write about:
Your experience donating, fundraising, earning to give, etc. - lessons, things you've changed your mind on,
postmortems
Thoughts on who should consider
earning to give
Uncertainties you have about where to donate
What effective projects would be particularly useful
… or anything else related to effective giving.
If you're not sure if something would be useful or relevant, please feel free to reach out to me or to the Forum team. We'll post smaller announcements with more details about the other themes.
Participate in the Donation Election
In December, Forum users
[1]
will vote on how the
Donation Election Fund
should be allocate...
TLDR
: Participate in the Donation Election, start writing posts for "Effective giving spotlight" week (starting this Tuesday!), and more.
There are many ways to participate:
Get involved in Giving Season events
Donate to the Donation Election Fund
to encourage discussion and participation (we're partially matching donations
)
Add candidates to the Election
Pre-vote
[1]
to register your interest (pre-votes are anonymous, but we'll know how many people pre-voted for a given candidate in the Election)
Share your experience donating, fundraising, earning to give, or more
or your uncertainties or considerations about where we should donate and how we should fundraise
Fundraise for your project
Explain how your project would use extra funding (particularly for Marginal Funding Week
), share impact analyses or retrospectives,
invite Forum users to ask you questions
, and see if your project should be listed as a candidate
in the Election
Explore
The
Giving portal
Writing about effective giving
Follow the
Donation Election
(This post is an update to our
earlier announcement
about Giving Season on the Forum.)
Giving Season & weekly discussion themes
Start preparing for discussion themes on the EA Forum:
Theme and dates
Description
Effective Giving Spotlight
(7-14 November) - starting this Tuesday!
How can we grow the amount of funding going to effective projects aimed at improving the world? We'll feature people's experiences with donating, fundraising, earning to give, etc.
See more details below.
Marginal Funding Week
(14-21 November)
How would your project use extra funding?
To decide whether donating to a given project or organization is cost-effective, it's really useful to know how marginal funding would get used. We'll invite EA organizations and projects to describe how they would use extra donations - a bit like
this post about LTFF
or otherwise share more about what they do.
We might also try to collect a summary of the key information in one post at the end of the week.
Donation Debate Week
(21-28 November)
Where should we donate (and what should we vote for in the Donation Election)?
Discuss which interventions and projects are most
cost-effective
and how they should vote (and donate!). I'm hoping to see estimates (including rough "back of the envelope calculations"
BOTECs
) and productive disagreement or identification of what the
cruxes
that drive different conclusions are.
We'll also probably feature some classic writing on the topic, some relevant
AMAs
, and more.
First weekly theme: Effective Giving Spotlight (November 7-14)
A lot of promising projects are funding-constrained
[2]
they'd get more done if they had more funding. "Effective Giving Spotlight" week will feature content on how we can grow the amount of funding going to effective projects aimed at improving the world. ef
Consider participating!
You can write posts (or
link-posts
, including things like reviews of classic writing on the topic), comment on others' posts, or share the event. You might want to write about:
Your experience donating, fundraising, earning to give, etc. - lessons, things you've changed your mind on,
postmortems
Thoughts on who should consider
earning to give
Uncertainties you have about where to donate
What effective projects would be particularly useful
… or anything else related to effective giving.
If you're not sure if something would be useful or relevant, please feel free to reach out to me or to the Forum team. We'll post smaller announcements with more details about the other themes.
Participate in the Donation Election
In December, Forum users
[1]
will vote on how the
Donation Election Fund
should be allocate...