Hello and welcome to our October Newsletter!
Our favourite season is almost upon us…Giving Season! We are preparing for our biggest year yet, and we are excited to help more people learn about the incredible impact that effective giving can make.
Join our biggest event this year: Effective Giving Day
The world can be an overwhelming place with all the global challenges we are facing but effective giving gives us the tools to make an outstanding impact, as an individual, but especially as a global community.
Join us for Effective Giving Day this year and discover how you can create up to 100x more impact with your donations. You will hear from experts about how you can find charities that do the most good and get their recommendations on where to donate across a variety of causes.
Effective Giving Day will also feature guests including GWWC co-founder William MacAskill and bestselling author Rutger Bregman who will talk about how effective giving has become an important part of their lives.
If you have questions about charity, giving or high impact causes, we have the experts to answer them! Submit your video question by November 10th and we’ll select some to be answered during the event.
After the event, join us online for a Gathertown event or if you prefer - attend an event in your city (make sure you RSVP to find out about in person events)!
Join Effective Giving Day 2022 on Monday 28th November (29th November for Asia/Pacific) and do more than you thought possible.
RSVP for the event on Facebook
RSVP for the event on the EA Forum
Visit EffectiveGivingDay.org for more information
We want you to participate in this year's Giving Season campaign!
We’re looking for our community to join us in showcasing how empowering it can be to do good through giving effectively. We want to feature community members talking about why they’re motivated to give effectively and how it’s made a difference to their lives!
Just a short 10 to 30 second video recorded on a smartphone would be fantastic. Submit your video here by the 7th of November and be involved in sharing effective giving with the world!
Get us to talk at your workplace or community group!
Many people start thinking about how to give back towards the end of the year. If you’d like us to host a talk or workshop at your workplace or with your community group about effective giving over the coming months, please fill in this form! We are excited to share the ideas of effective giving with new people and have found talks and workshops to be impactful.
We’re excited to continue our mission to create a world where giving effectively and significantly is a cultural norm this Giving Season!
-Grace Adams & the rest of the Giving What We Can team
Attend An Event
Meetups
(Americas/Oceania)
This month we’ll speak with Anam Abdulla, Senior Manager of the Deworm the World Initiative at Evidence Action. Well known in the EA community for its cost-effective impact, Deworm The World delivers mass school-based deworming programs to parts of the world that most need it. Join us for this Q&A session to learn more about Evidence Action and the Deworm The World Initiative.
- 12 Nov at 22:00 UTC (New York: 5:00 pm; San Francisco: 2:00 pm, Sydney: Sun, Nov. 13, 9:00 am, Auckland: Sun, Nov. 13, 11:00 am)
- RSVP on Facebook
- Register
(Europe/Asia)
This month we are joined by Carlita Bevege, the Associate Director, External Relations for Evidence Action. Evidence Action is an organization that scales evidence-based and cost-effective programs, including Dispensers for Safe Water, Deworm the World, as well as running an accelerator program for selecting and assessing “ready-to-scale” interventions. Please join us for this Q&A session to learn more about the work that Evidence Action does and the impact of the programs they run.
- 13 Nov at 09:30 UTC (London: 9:30 am, Munich: 10:30 am, Mumbai: 3:00 pm, Singapore: 5:30 pm)
- RSVP on Facebook
- Register
Open Forum
Our open forum is an event where you can come along with questions about effective giving and/or to meet others interested in effective giving. This event alternates between Europe/Asia and Americas/Oceania each month.
Next Open Forum (Americas/Europe)
- 17 Nov at 19:00 UTC (London: 7:00 pm, Munich: 8:00 pm, New York 2:00 pm, San Francisco: 11:00 am)
- RSVP on Facebook
- Register
Effective Giving Day
- 28 Nov at 19:00 UTC (London: 7:00 pm, Munich: 8:00 pm, New York 2:00 pm, San Francisco: 11:00 am)
- RSVP on Facebook
- RSVP for the event on the EA Forum
- Set a reminder on YouTube
- In person events will be listed on EffectiveGivingDay.org soon!
New content from Giving What We Can
Blog
- Member Profile: Timeo Williams
- Isn’t poverty just a symptom and not the real problem we should be addressing? - Guest blog from Dr. Caroline Wood
YouTube
- GiveWell finds the world’s best charities. Here’s how they do it.
- Today, we can do more good than ever before. So why aren’t we?
- Jo Duyvestyn’s member story
- Climate change & Africa: Lily Odarno, Clean Air Task Force
Podcast
- Find audio-only versions of new YouTube content on the Giving What We Can podcast!
News & Updates
Effective altruism community
- Announcing EA Giving Tuesday: If you’re in the USA and are planning to donate during this giving season, EA Giving Tuesday is a great opportunity for you to maximise your donations! Facebook will be offering donation matches starting from 6am (EST) on the 29th of November. You can learn more about this on the EA Giving Tuesday website and sign up for updates.
- A new introductory essay on Effective Altruism was recently published on EffectiveAltruism.org.
- Vox announced The Future Perfect 50, a list which features people that “embody the question Future Perfect asks every day: How do we make the future a better place for everyone?”. Everyone on this list is deserving and it features some of our members including founding member, economist Rachel Glennester and Lucia Coulter of the Lead Exposure Elimination Project.
- The Effective Altruism Forum announced the winners of the EA criticism contest, which included top prizes for: A critical review of GiveWell's 2022 cost-effectiveness models and Methods for improving uncertainty analysis in EA cost-effectiveness models by Alex Bates, Biological Anchors external review by Jennifer Lin and Population Ethics without Axiology: A Framework by Lukas Gloor.
Evaluators, grantmakers and incubators
- GiveWell has published a blog post answering some of the questions it's gotten from donors about the grant it recommended to Evidence Action for a chlorine dispenser program, Dispensers for Safe Water, and about its overall water quality investigation. Chlorination appears to be a promising way to reduce child mortality in areas with unsafe water. Since recommending the grant for Dispensers for Safe Water in January of this year, GiveWell has been exploring other chlorination interventions, such as in-line chlorination, for possible funding.
- GiveWell has also published pages about $13.5 million in grants it recommended to Malaria Consortium for seasonal malaria chemoprevention (SMC), and a $3.4 million grant to Bridges to Prosperity (B2P) to fund the construction of additional trailbridges as part of a study of B2P's program. B2P builds trailbridges in rural communities to help residents access schools and markets, which GiveWell believes may increase household income.
- GiveWell strongly encourages followers of its work to consider applying for its Senior Researcher position, or sharing the opening with someone who may be interested.
- Animal Charity Evaluators turned 10 as well as recently released a new decision-making framework for animal charities to help them become more effective.
- Founders Pledge have introduced a new Global Catastrophic Risks fund.
- Charity Entrepreneurship applications close on the 31st!
Cause areas
Animal welfare
- Kenny Torrella discusses what an animal’s life is worth in Vox’s Future Perfect
- Supreme Court grapples with animal welfare in a challenge to a California law requiring pork to be humanely raised, The Conversation.
- Battery hen and animal testing laws could be scrapped because of Brexit, warns RSPCA, The Independent.
- 80,000 Hours discuss wild animal welfare as a problem profile
- Vox’s Future Perfect explores the future of cultivated meat
Global health and development
- Check out the redesigned Our World in Data Poverty topic area page, as well as learning more about what they hope to achieve with their redesign.
- Fifty Two, which delivers news through journalism and art from the Indian subcontinent presents a story on hunger in Sri Lanka, a worsening crisis.
- Keep up to date with New Incentives with their October Newsletter.
Long-term future
- William MacAskill was on The Daily Show with Trevor Noah talking about future generations.
- Read about some of the people who are leading the way in protecting the long0term future in Vox’s Future Perfect 50.
- The ERC (European Research Council) is providing 10 million euros for an ICTA-UAB project that will study how to escape from a growth economy and ensure social welfare and planetary sustainability.
- The carbon-free energy resource you’ve never heard of: superhot rock energy from Clean Air Task Force.
Useful Links
- Review our giving recommendations.
- Report your donations with your pledge dashboard.
- Share our ideas to help grow our community and multiply your impact.
- Join other members in the Giving What We Can Community Facebook group.
- Find more ways to get involved with Giving What We Can and effective altruism.
- Discuss effective giving and effective altruism on the EA Forum.
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