The Nonlinear Library EA - Meet the candidates in the Forum's Donation Election (2023) by Lizka
Nov 29, 2023
21:46
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: Meet the candidates in the Forum's Donation Election (2023), published by Lizka on November 29, 2023 on The Effective Altruism Forum.
This post collects some information about the
candidates in the Donation Election, with an emphasis on what
marginal donations to the candidates would accomplish. It also includes some information about other projects .
Please let me know if you spot mistakes or you'd like to add more context.[1] If your project isn't on this list, please feel free to write about it in the comments.
Consider also:
Donating to the Donation Election Fund
or to individual
projects
Discussing which of these donation opportunities are most cost-effective and how we should vote in the
Donation Election (voting opens on Friday!)
Candidates in the Donation Election
Cross-cause & meta (6)
These projects work across different cause areas, or help
build effective altruism.
Logo
Basics
More info
Charity Entrepreneurship: Incubated Charities Fund
Topics wiki page
Fundraiser
What extra donations would buy
Donations to this Fund will be granted directly to Charity Entrepreneurship's
incubated charities. Charity Entrepreneurship's
focus areas include health and development policy, mental health, family planning, and animal advocacy, and EA meta.
Arguments or evidence for cost-effectiveness
A post from March:
After launch. How are CE charities progressing? (these charities had raised $22.5M by that point from their own funders,
including GiveWell, Open Philanthropy, Founders Pledge, ACE).
More on their track record here.
EAIF:
Effective Altruism Infrastructure Fund (EA Funds)
Topics wiki page
Fundraiser
What extra donations would buy
The EAIF seems to have around $1.5M right now, so marginal donations to the EAIF would go towards grants like expenses for a student magazine covering issues like biosecurity and factory farming for non-EA audiences ($9,000), a shared workspace for the EA community in a major European city, and
more. (Open Philanthropy will
match donations to the EAIF.)
Arguments or evidence for cost-effectiveness
An argument for giving to the EAIF/LTFF is made
here.
The EAIF has
received funding from Open Philanthropy.
You can
see their public grants here, and some recent
grant recommendations and reasoning here.
GWWC:
Giving What We Can
Topics wiki page
Fundraiser
What extra donations would buy
Baseline funding would put them on stable financial footing for 2024 to support their operations, to support more donations and donation pledges. Fundraising for their expansion budget would allow them to grow (e.g. reach more potential donors), conduct and share more research, support the wider/international effective giving ecosystem, and
more.
Arguments or evidence for cost-effectiveness
GWWC's
summary of their impact. They estimate that each dollar invested in GWWC generated $30 in donations for effective charities.
GWWC
has been funded by Open Philanthropy.
Giving What We Can (Charity Elections)
Fundraiser
What extra donations would buy
Operations of the programme (0.5 FTE salary and a bit extra for promotions and outreach, to set up charity elections at schools) and improving measurement of impact (from
here).
Arguments or evidence for cost-effectiveness
See
this project brief for evidence of impact from EA Market Testing team and more.
Rethink Priorities
Topics wiki page
Fundraiser
What extra donations would buy
RP seeks to raise funding to continue publishing research on the Forum, run the EA survey, pursue creative projects like the
moral weights work (and other innovative work, which has
historically been supported by individual donors), run other promising research projects, spend less time fundraising in the next year, and
more.
Arguments or evidence for cost-effectiveness
Here is their review of 2023; in 2023 they worked on ~160
research pieces, ...
This post collects some information about the
candidates in the Donation Election, with an emphasis on what
marginal donations to the candidates would accomplish. It also includes some information about other projects .
Please let me know if you spot mistakes or you'd like to add more context.[1] If your project isn't on this list, please feel free to write about it in the comments.
Consider also:
Donating to the Donation Election Fund
or to individual
projects
Discussing which of these donation opportunities are most cost-effective and how we should vote in the
Donation Election (voting opens on Friday!)
Candidates in the Donation Election
Cross-cause & meta (6)
These projects work across different cause areas, or help
build effective altruism.
Logo
Basics
More info
Charity Entrepreneurship: Incubated Charities Fund
Topics wiki page
Fundraiser
What extra donations would buy
Donations to this Fund will be granted directly to Charity Entrepreneurship's
incubated charities. Charity Entrepreneurship's
focus areas include health and development policy, mental health, family planning, and animal advocacy, and EA meta.
Arguments or evidence for cost-effectiveness
A post from March:
After launch. How are CE charities progressing? (these charities had raised $22.5M by that point from their own funders,
including GiveWell, Open Philanthropy, Founders Pledge, ACE).
More on their track record here.
EAIF:
Effective Altruism Infrastructure Fund (EA Funds)
Topics wiki page
Fundraiser
What extra donations would buy
The EAIF seems to have around $1.5M right now, so marginal donations to the EAIF would go towards grants like expenses for a student magazine covering issues like biosecurity and factory farming for non-EA audiences ($9,000), a shared workspace for the EA community in a major European city, and
more. (Open Philanthropy will
match donations to the EAIF.)
Arguments or evidence for cost-effectiveness
An argument for giving to the EAIF/LTFF is made
here.
The EAIF has
received funding from Open Philanthropy.
You can
see their public grants here, and some recent
grant recommendations and reasoning here.
GWWC:
Giving What We Can
Topics wiki page
Fundraiser
What extra donations would buy
Baseline funding would put them on stable financial footing for 2024 to support their operations, to support more donations and donation pledges. Fundraising for their expansion budget would allow them to grow (e.g. reach more potential donors), conduct and share more research, support the wider/international effective giving ecosystem, and
more.
Arguments or evidence for cost-effectiveness
GWWC's
summary of their impact. They estimate that each dollar invested in GWWC generated $30 in donations for effective charities.
GWWC
has been funded by Open Philanthropy.
Giving What We Can (Charity Elections)
Fundraiser
What extra donations would buy
Operations of the programme (0.5 FTE salary and a bit extra for promotions and outreach, to set up charity elections at schools) and improving measurement of impact (from
here).
Arguments or evidence for cost-effectiveness
See
this project brief for evidence of impact from EA Market Testing team and more.
Rethink Priorities
Topics wiki page
Fundraiser
What extra donations would buy
RP seeks to raise funding to continue publishing research on the Forum, run the EA survey, pursue creative projects like the
moral weights work (and other innovative work, which has
historically been supported by individual donors), run other promising research projects, spend less time fundraising in the next year, and
more.
Arguments or evidence for cost-effectiveness
Here is their review of 2023; in 2023 they worked on ~160
research pieces, ...