![[Linkpost] “Announcing Sjir Hoeijmakers as the new CEO of Giving What We Can” by Giving What We Can](https://cdn.podme.com/podcast-images/E49A75B9B5FE30D58408D946D761A6BB_small.jpg)
[Linkpost] “Announcing Sjir Hoeijmakers as the new CEO of Giving What We Can” by Giving What We Can
This is a link post. Dear Giving What We Can community, We are writing to share exciting news: on Tuesday the 11th of November, the boards unanimously voted to appoint Sjir Hoeijmakers as the new glob...
16 Nov 20241min
“Why you should allocate more of your donation budget to effective giving organisations” by Luke Moore 🔸
This post is written in my personal capacity, but is based on insights that I’ve gained through my work as Effective Giving Global Coordinator and Incubator at Giving What We Can since I took on the r...
15 Nov 202429min
“Bad omens for US farmed animal policy work?” by Tyler Johnston
Disclaimer: This is a weak take — mostly based on anecdotes and vibes — but I thought it's worth sharing nonetheless, even if only as a means of soliciting better takes. Disclaimer #2: I am very appre...
15 Nov 20249min
“Testing Framings of EA and Longtermism” by David_Moss, Jamie E
Rethink Priorities has been conducting a range of surveys and experiments aimed at understanding how people respond to different framings of Effective Altruism (EA), Longtermism, and related specific ...
13 Nov 202425min
“EA Animal Welfare Fund: 2024 Review, Changes, and Plans” by KarolinaSarek🔸
Overview With Marginal Funding Week, we want to share key updates on the EA Animal Welfare Fund (AWF). We'll cover what we've accomplished so far in 2024, our impact this year, recent changes, and wh...
13 Nov 202422min
“Consider donating to whoever helped you” by OllieRodriguez
I work for CEA, but this post isn’t intended as a fundraising post for CEA. The main beneficiaries I want to direct readers to are e.g. EA groups and EA communicators who might not have capacity for f...
12 Nov 20245min
“Fund Causes Open Phil Underfunds (Instead of Your Most Preferred Causes)” by Ariel Simnegar 🔸
Key Takeaways Optimizing your giving's effect on "EA's portfolio” implies you should fund the causes your value system thinks are most underfunded by EA's largest allocators (e.g. Open Phil and SFF)....
11 Nov 20247min
“Expectations Scale with Scale – We Should Be More Scope-Sensitive in Our Funding” by Joey 🔸
TLDR: The shortest version of this argument is very simple: your expectations for an organization should be higher where their budget and staff size are higher. In other words, we should have differen...
8 Nov 20245min
