We've read about donation opportunities, we've held the Donation Election, we've discussed why we donate. There's only one thing left... actually donating.
When you've completed your donations for the year, leave a heart on the banner and a comment below!
Just shy of $120k, roughly double 2024; something like 40-45% of income. GWWC since 2018.
Wow this is crazy cool, thanks so much for your generosity!
Very cool!
Mostly to Ellis Impact and a little bit to EA Estonia to run their donation plattform Anneta Targalt
50% of my income for the 11th year to ALLFED.
Now that's putting your money where your mouth is - Love it!
Thanks!
I donated to Charity Entrepreneurship! I think they have an incredibly high hit rate on a tight budget
Strongly agree, and I think early org funding can be far more valuable than later on, making sure that org exists and grows at all where it might not have otherwise.
I allocated my 10% pledge as follows:
UK political animal welfare work
I mostly donated to democracy preservation work and did some political giving. And a little to the shrimp.
Donated to The Life You Can Save's Women and Girls Fund
FarmKind, Anima International, THL UK, SWP, FWI, ACE, RP, The Centre for Feed Innovation, Scale Welfare, Arthropoda, Indonesian Cage-Free Association, Across Species Project Indonesia
I donated to AMF because it beat the Humane League in our club donation election :(
I'm curious, did you decide on the entire year's worth of donations through an election? To me, donation elections can be a fun way to generate discussions around giving (I donated to the election fund here after all) but I would never let it decide on a significant part of my donations (let's say 1% at most). If you want to outsource the day-to-day decision making on what charities to give to, then I believe funds are a much more effective tool for that than elections or lotteries.
:) sounds right to me. A couple factors here that might clear things up.
1) I probably want to donate to both GH and AW charities across my life, so I don't think the results of this donation election counterfactually affected my lifetime donations much.
2) I'm a student and this donation was relatively small compared to future ones I expect to make.
Keen to hear more about how you guys ran the election and who won! (If you've got time to share).
I’m also a co-president at EA Purdue.
We had very brief intros for each charity and then a non-binding vote at the start, a short discussion on the vote, followed by an introduction to effective giving with a discussion in the middle. We then gave more info on each charity. Voting was done as: discussion, first round vote to eliminate one charity, discussion, final round of voting to choose winner.
Charities were AMF, GiveDirectly, and the Humane League. The slides were a modified version of GWWC’s donation election presentation so the initial vote also included the Play Pumps fake out.
So cool!
What an awesome exercise!
Bloggers for Shrimp!
In descending order of amount I have donated to @CEEALAR , the Givewell All Grants Fund (my preferred "default" place to put donations), and the Humane League (something I feel obligated to do as a condition of being vegetarian rather than vegan). The largest donation was basically bankrolling the effective giving organiser retreat I am running at CEEALAR: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/events/HfeSKe7Ekmm9uddLh/effective-giving-organiser-retreat (which still has sign up space, by the way!)
I have also made a few non-effective donations to friends, to organisations I used the services of, or local places I volunteered for and want to see succeed, which are not in my pledge.
Center on Long-Term Risk, Rethink Priorities, Fish Welfare Initiative, EA Infrastructure Fund
MIRI, CAIS policy fund, shrimp welfare, FarmKind