Effective Altruism Foundation: Plans for 2020 (GW, IR) | 2019-12-23 | Jonas Vollmer | Effective Altruism Foundation | Open Philanthropy | Effective Altruism Foundation Raising for Effective Giving Wild-Animal Suffering Research Utility Farm Wild Animal Initiative Sentience politics | | Donee periodic update | Effective altruism/movement growth/s-risk reduction | The 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) | 2019-12-11 | weeatquince | Effective Altruism Forum | weeatquince 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 documentation | Global health and development|Animal welfare | In 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) | 2018-10-31 | Evan 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 area | Animal welfare/wild animal welfare | The 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 Why | 2016-12-23 | Leah Edgerton | Animal Charity Evaluators | Allison 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 documentation | Animal welfare|AI safety|Global catastrophic risks | Animal Charity Evaluators (ACE) staff describe where they donated or plan to donate in 2016. Donation amounts are not disclosed, likely by policy |