I have collated reports published by EA organizations from 13 September 2013 to 12 March 2014. I commend all of these organizations on their transparency and quote Holden Karnofsky:
I believe that nonprofits sometimes mimic for-profits in ways that don’t make sense given their missions... They keep information confidential rather than publishing it as a public good. And they exaggerate successes and downplay shortcomings, while being more honest would help the rest of the world learn and thus ultimately promote their mission (if not their organization).
This post begins with some highlights from the activities of EA organizations and concludes with a list of links to their reports.
Highlights
Meta Effective Altruism
- 80,000 Hours has pivoted toward performing case-studies on a smaller number of effective altruists
- The Center for Applied Rationality has delivered workshops more frequently
Fundraising
- Effective Fundraising has rebranded to the Greatest Good Foundation, and has stopped grant-writing in order to diversify its operations, including fundraising from high net-worth individuals
- Giving What We Can has concluded that it is effectively generating donations
- The Life You Can Save has has generated more funding since Peter Singer's TED talk
Charity Evaluation
- Animal Charity Evaluators have rebranded and are evaluating the impact of leafleting, humane education and US animal organizations
- Givewell is moving more money, cooperating with GoodVentures, and diversifying its research through GiveWell Labs
GCR Research
- The Centre for the Study of Existential Risk has attained funding, launched, delivered some lectures and done some media
- The Future of Humanity Institute has done significant media, hosted and attended conferences, liaised with government and started the Global Priorities Project with the Centre for Applied Altruism
- The Global Catastrophic Risk Institute has published, presented and held an online lecture series
- The Machine Intelligence Research Institute has published a lot of research and interviews, delivered presentations and held workshops
Reports
Meta-charities
80,000 Hours
- Review of Progress on the Website
- Summary of our Six Month Evaluation
- Our progress
- Metrics report
- Evaluation of 80,000 Hours as a Project
- Trustee Performance Evaluation of 80,000 Hours
- Our Plans for the Next Six Months
- Finance Report
- Our Latest Business Strategy
- Our Latest Summary Business Plan
- Impact Survey Evaluation
- Stories of Career Change Due to 80,000 Hours
Center for Applied Rationality
Fundraising
Greatest Good Foundation
Giving What We Can
The Life You Can Save
Evaluators
Animal Charity Evaluators
- ACE Strategic Plan
- January Board Meeting
- December Board Meeting
- November Board Meeting
- October Board Meeting
- What we’ve learned
- Change at EAA
- Newsletter Subscription Page (note - I cannot find its contents online)
GiveWell
- General Plans for GiveWell as an organization in 2014
- GiveWell Labs – Progress in 2013 and Plans for 2014
- 2014 plan for GiveWell’s traditional (“top charities”) work
- 2013 Progress on GiveWell’s traditional (“top charities”) work
- GiveWell’s Progress in 2013
- Update on GiveWell’s Funding Needs
- Update on GiveWell’s web traffic / money moved: Q3 2013
- GiveWell’s Funding Needs
- GiveWell Labs Update
- Monthly Highlights (note - I cannot find its contents online)
Global Catastrophic Risk Research
Centre for the Study of Existential Risk
Future of Humanity Institute
Global Catastrophic Risks Institute
Machine Intelligence Research Institute
- Feb 2014 Newsletter
- Jan 2014 Newsletter
- 2013 in Friendly AI Research
- 2013 Strategic and Expository Research
- 2013 Outreach
- 2013 Operations
- Dec 2013 Newsletter
- Nov 2013 Newsletter
- Oct 2013 Newsletter
Methodology
I have included all reviews, newsletters and global assessments that I could easily find online but I probably missed some. Please Please contact me to have them included.
Crossposted from Ryan Carey's blog
Cool, thanks for the update.