Kestrel's Quick takes

Looking for a way to skill-build as a student or young graduate? Consider charity trusteeship!

EAs are often good at maths/technology and less good at leadership and governance skills. This is an excellent match for (non-EA) trustee governance boards, that often have committed older people with good leadership and governance but who struggle with use of tech and maths. There are a lot of trustee vacancies around - highly absorbable - and it's an easy way to get started on tackling real issues with charities big and small!

You can help your charity act more effectively in the world using EA principles and frameworks about effective use of charitable resources, and learn experientially about practical issues than arise with those frameworks when they are implemented. Organisations like the Young Trustees Movement (UK) can mentor and support you, and the other trustees will probably have a lot of sage advice. And while trusteeship is unpaid, it also doesn't *cost* money either, so it's a fairly cheap way to do "EA as a hobby".

The EA community needs more people aged 30+ with genuine commitment and leadership skills, and should encourage people looking for principles-first EA to consider this as a life path in their 20s.

I just want to say thanks for all the orgs posting for marginal funding week for not having really donor-grabby messaging in their posts. No guilt trips, no exploitative photos of people in distress, etc. Just genuine explanations of what could be done with extra money.

I really dislike being the target of pushy giving tactics, because I'll be honest they just make me feel bad. And the fact that the EA community on the whole doesn't tolerate them is an amazing plus for being the kind of place I want to hang out in.

Did you enjoy EA Global? Was it useful to you? 

Consider "tipping" CEA with a donation ( you can donate at https://www.givingwhatwecan.org/charities/centre-for-effective-altruism ) to close any gap between what you paid at registration and the value you feel you have received.

I am going to be running an effective giving event about malaria. For this I need three effective anti-malaria charities that attendees can split a funding pool between (and thereby learn things about what malaria is and how to tackle it, which is the main purpose of the event). I have the Against Malaria Foundation and the Malaria Consortium. I would like a charity that is focused on the roll-out of malaria vaccines, or better malaria vaccine research, that can at least be argued to be near EA's effectiveness threshold (possibly only when downstream effects of research or advocacy is taken into account). Ideally it should have "Malaria" in its name. Anyone have any ideas?