“Reflections on the $5 Minimum Donation Barrier on the Giving What We Can Platform — A Student Perspective from a Lower-Income Country.” by Habeeb Abdul
I wanted to share a small but important challenge I've encountered as a student engaging with Effective Altruism from a lower-income country (Nigeria), and invite thoughts or suggestions from the comm...
29 Apr 20252min
[Linkpost] “Scaling Our Pilot Early-Warning System” by Jeff Kaufman 🔸
This is a link post. Summary: The NAO will increase our sequencing significantly over the next few months, funded by a $3M grant from Open Philanthropy. This will allow us to scale our early-warning s...
25 Apr 20255min
“Why you can justify almost anything using historical social movements” by JamesÖz 🔸
[Cross-posted from my Substack here] If you spend time with people trying to change the world, you’ll come to an interesting conundrum: Various advocacy groups reference previous successful social mov...
25 Apr 20259min
“AI for Animals 2025 Bay Area Retrospective” by Constance Li, AI for Animals
Our Mission: To build a multidisciplinary field around using technology—especially AI—to improve the lives of nonhumans now and in the future. Overview Background This hybrid conference had nearly 55...
19 Apr 202526min
“ALLFED emergency appeal: Help us raise $800,000 to avoid cutting half of programs” by Denkenberger🔸, JuanGarcia, Laura Cook
SUMMARY: ALLFED is launching an emergency appeal on the EA Forum due to a serious funding shortfall. Without new support, ALLFED will be forced to cut half our budget in the coming months, drastica...
18 Apr 20257min
“Cost-effectiveness of Anima International Poland” by saulius
Summary In this article, I estimate the cost-effectiveness of five Anima International programs in Poland: improving cage-free and broiler welfare, blocking new factory farms, banning fur farming, and...
17 Apr 202539min
“Announcing our 2025 strategy” by Giving What We Can
We are excited to share a summary of our 2025 strategy, which builds on our work in 2024 and provides a vision through 2027 and beyond! Background Giving What We Can (GWWC) is working towards a world ...
14 Apr 20257min
“EA Reflections on my Military Career” by The Sailor 🔸
Introduction Four years ago, I commissioned as an Officer in the UK's Royal Navy. I had been engaging with EA for four years before that and chose this career as a coherent part of my impact-focused c...
12 Apr 202527min
