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I am writing up two charity ideas I’ve wanted to investigate, but haven’t been able to, in the hopes someone will investigate them further. If you end up investigating either, I'd be most interested to see what conclusions you come to!
Vulture preservation as a global health intervention
Since the mid 1990's the vulture population in India has been rapidly declining. The reason is due to a few chemicals which are fed to livestock, which is highly poisonous to vultures.
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Epistemic status: Wrote this pretty fast, probably ~70% confident some version of the thesis claim is true, would welcome being proven demonstrably wrong.
Context: I’m a grantmaker focused on alt-protein and am fairly well-connected/moderately in the loop of what animal welfare grantmakers are doing.
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I was wondering what all should I consider before taking a pledge like GWWC 10% ? Looking upto relevant article suggestions or advices.
Just as one random bit of advice, I'd say don't feel like you have to be sure you can make the 10% every year before you can take it. I took the pledge as a student, and have had some years where I've fallen behind, but will work to compensate for those in the years where I make more.
Thank you for this one! I'm glad to know you did this as a student. I can only suggest to not get overwhelmed in those low years- you're already doing fine than most!