Sentience politics donations received

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Basic donee information

ItemValue
Country Switzerland
Facebook page SentienceDeutsch
Websitehttps://sentience-politics.org/de/
Donate pagehttps://sentience-politics.org/de/unterstuetzen/massentierhaltung/
Donors list pagehttps://sentience-politics.org/de/unterstuetzen/massentierhaltung/
Twitter usernamesentienceinfo
Wikipedia pagehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentience_Politics
Org Watch pagehttps://orgwatch.issarice.com/?organization=Sentience+Politics

Donee donation statistics

Cause areaCountMedianMeanMinimum10th percentile 20th percentile 30th percentile 40th percentile 50th percentile 60th percentile 70th percentile 80th percentile 90th percentile Maximum
Overall 3 4,000 14,708 124 124 124 124 4,000 4,000 4,000 40,000 40,000 40,000 40,000
Animal welfare 3 4,000 14,708 124 124 124 124 4,000 4,000 4,000 40,000 40,000 40,000 40,000

Donation amounts by donor and year for donee Sentience politics

Donor Total 2016
Jason Ketola (filter this donee) 40,000.00 40,000.00
Tyler John (filter this donee) 4,000.00 4,000.00
Vincent Söderberg (filter this donee) 123.56 123.56
Total 44,123.56 44,123.56

Full list of documents in reverse chronological order (4 documents)

Title (URL linked)Publication dateAuthorPublisherAffected donorsAffected doneesAffected influencersDocument scopeCause areaNotes
Effective Altruism Foundation: Plans for 2020 (GW, IR)2019-12-23Jonas Vollmer Effective Altruism FoundationOpen Philanthropy Effective Altruism Foundation Raising for Effective Giving Wild-Animal Suffering Research Utility Farm Wild Animal Initiative Sentience politics Donee periodic updateEffective altruism/movement growth/s-risk reductionThe document includes the 2019 review and plans for 2020 of the Effective Altruism Foundation (EAD). Key highlights: EAD plans to change its name in 2020 as a rebranding effort to highlight its focus on s-risk reduction, rather than the effective altruism; as part of this, the Foundational Research Institute brand will also be deprecated. Wild-Animal Suffering Research and Utility Farm merged to form Wild Animal Initiative, which is now completely separate from EAF. Raising for Effective Giving and Sentience Politics continue to be housed under EAF. The post also describes communication guidelines developed along with Nick Beckstead of the Open Philanthropy Project (that also made a $1 million grant to EAF). The guidelines "recommend highlighting beliefs and priorities that are important to the s-risk-oriented community" and "recommend communicating in a more nuanced manner about pessimistic views of the long-term future by considering highlighting moral cooperation and uncertainty, focusing more on practical questions if possible, and anticipating potential misunderstandings and misrepresentations." The post also says the guidelines will soon be made public, and that it was a mistake to not announce the guidelines earlier; doing so might have addressed https://www.simonknutsson.com/problems-in-effective-altruism-and-existential-risk-and-what-to-do-about-them/ and related concerns
Where are you donating this year and why – in 2019? Open thread for discussion. (GW, IR)2019-12-11weeatquince Effective Altruism Forumweeatquince Michael St. Jules Happier Lives Institute Effective Altruism Funds: Infrastructure Fund Let's Fund Rethink Priorities Against Malaria Foundation Effective Altruism Funds: Animal Welfare Fund Animal Charity Evaluators Recommended Charity Fund Charity Entrepreneurship RC Forward Sentience Politics Periodic donation list documentationGlobal health and development|Animal welfareIn this open thread, donors describe where they plan to donate in 2019. The thread has donation descriptions by weeatquince (the post author) as well as Michael St. Jules.
Reducing Wild Animal Suffering Ecosystem & Directory (GW, IR)2018-10-31Evan Gaensbauer Effective Altruism Forum Effective Altruism Foundation Wild-Animal Suffering Research Animal Ethics Utility Farm Rethink Priorities The Hedonistic Imperative The Abolitionist Project Qualia Research Institute Sentience Politics Sentience Institute Animal Charity Evaluators Review of current state of cause areaAnimal welfare/wild animal welfareThe post covers the current state of the ecosystem of efforts to reduce wild-animal suffiering. It includes a diagram depicting the relations between organizations mentioned in the post
Where the ACE Staff Members are Giving in 2016 and Why2016-12-23Leah Edgerton Animal Charity EvaluatorsAllison Smith Jacy Reese Toni Adleberg Gina Stuessy Kieran Grieg Eric Herboso Erika Alonso Animal Charity Evaluators Animal Equality Vegan Outreach Act Asia Faunalytics Farm Animal Rights Movement Sentience Politics Direct Action Everywhere The Humane League The Good Food Institute Collectively Free Planned Parenthood Future of Life Institute Future of Humanity Institute GiveDirectly Machine Intelligence Research Institute The Humane Society of the United States Farm Sanctuary StrongMinds Periodic donation list documentationAnimal welfare|AI safety|Global catastrophic risksAnimal Charity Evaluators (ACE) staff describe where they donated or plan to donate in 2016. Donation amounts are not disclosed, likely by policy

Full list of donations in reverse chronological order (3 donations)

Graph of top 10 donors (for donations with known year of donation) by amount, showing the timeframe of donations

Graph of donations and their timeframes
DonorAmount (current USD)Amount rank (out of 3)Donation dateCause areaURLInfluencerNotes
Tyler John4,000.0022016Animal welfarehttps://github.com/peterhurford/ea-data/-- Currency info: donation given as 4,000.00 USD (conversion done on 2017-08-05 via Fixer.io).
Vincent Söderberg123.5632016Animal welfarehttps://github.com/peterhurford/ea-data/-- Currency info: donation given as 1,000.00 SEK (conversion done on 2017-08-05 via Fixer.io).
Jason Ketola40,000.0012016Animal welfarehttps://github.com/peterhurford/ea-data/-- Currency info: donation given as 40,000.00 USD (conversion done on 2017-08-05 via Fixer.io).