Project for Awesome (P4A) is a charity video contest running from February 11th to February 19th, 2025. The public can vote on videos supporting various charities, and the ones with the most votes receive donations. Thanks to the support of the EA community, three EA charities received $37,000 each last year.
Please help generate additional donations for EA charities again this year with just a few clicks! Voting is open until Wednesday, February 19th at 11:59 AM EST. You can find more information about P4A in this EA Forum post.
On the P4A website, there are numerous videos showcasing different charities, including several EA charities. Feel free to watch the videos and cast your votes.
Here’s how it works: „Anyone can go to the homepage of projectforawesome.com to see all videos. You can sort by charity category, pick from a dropdown of organization names, or search for a specific video. After you click on a video, look for a big red “VOTE” button either next to or below the video. You’ll have to check an “I’m not a robot” box, too.“
This year, there’s a new rule: „Our voting rule for Project for Awesome 2025 is one vote per charitable organization per device.“ So, you can vote for all the charities you want.
List of videos about EA charities
If you can’t find videos of EA-aligned charities directly, here’s a list:
* Access to Medicines Initiative (Vote here)
* ACTRA (Vote here)
* Against Malaria Foundation (Vote here)
* Animal Advocacy Africa (Vote here)
* Animal Advocacy Careers (Vote here or here)
* Animal Charity Evaluators (Vote here or here)
* Animal Equality (Vote here)
* Aquatic Life Institute (Vote here or here)
* Center for the Governance of AI (Vote here)
* Faunalytics (Vote here or here)
* GiveDirectly (Vote here)
* Giving What We Can (Vote here or here)
* Good Food Institute (Vote here or here or here)
* International Campaign to Aboli
Hi Grace, as you know, I think this is really great video, and I think you lead it super well, and I would gladly watch more content with you like this. I was wondering if you are at liberty to share the cost of making this video - it looks very good, professional, great image, and audio quality. And if not too much trouble, I am assuming this is part of the bigger campaign - including ads etc. I would be curious after you run it, if you will be able to share learnings. I think at EA, we shy away a bit from creating public-engaging content and big social media campaigns, I will be very curious to have a good case for this working, as I can imagine, e.g., other giving multipliers could follow the route. Overall a big fan of the approach you have been taking with your communications lately. I am hoping it really will hype effective giving and get more pledgers to emerge in the long run.
Hi Ula! Sorry for the very slow response! I got caught up with other work!
A video like this would generally cost between 10k-20k GBP depending on the team used and how much staff time goes into it.
We're currently not running ads with this video, but will probably do so in the future. We have been trying to get as much organic traction on it as possible so far! Happy to share some further results with you when we have it!
Great video, will share!
One question – in the interviews you incorporated, people stated that they thought it would be very expensive to save a life (£100k+) and even more (!) internationally.
Was this the norm? Because in the academic research I've seen people tend to state very low amounts, vastly underestimating the true (~£5k) cost. (This also seems to be happening iirc in my own ongoing work with Janek Kretschmer and Paul Smeets. Also why I was interested in seeing someone develop a "how much does it cost to save a life quiz and calculator"?)
If this £100k+ estimate was fairly normal in your street interviews, I'm wondering if you framed this in a particular way, or whether you stated something before asking them this question that made them think of these larger numbers. Potential useful to know how to frame this question for other research work and other contexts so that people are getting at 'what we really mean by cost to save a life'.
Hi David!
I'm not sure why they thought it was so high! It also surprised me!
I think maybe because we had talked about their own income beforehand? But I also hadn't really introduced much about charity before that point - so perhaps in other settings they are also being anchored?
I had a small sample size so not sure I can draw any major conclusions here! The filming was about 10 months ago so I'm afraid I can't remember!
Great work! Nice editing choice to use the "iPad" frame to show different footage.
I really like this video, it made my day!
Great video, it was really fun and inspiring to watch!
Great video!
Nice!
This really seems directed more at middle class people who already have all of their needs met instead of "everyone". They enjoy delicious food and sick sexual needs.
I'm in the top ~20% globally with my ~$10k yearly income bur if I start giving to charity. I won't be able to afford my own cost of living. So who does that really help?
Just seems strange to put the onus of charity on to school teachers and old people in wheelchairs when billionaires still exist.
I very much agree that those who are wealthiest have much more of a responsibility to give! - but GWWC is not explicitly aimed at trying to get billionaires to donate more, because we're not really set up to do that! And there are other organisations who are trying to do this much better than we could.
This video is definitely not asking all people to give large amounts to charity, but I also wanted to talk to all kinds of people about charity. People across all spectrums of income give to charity, even people with very low incomes, so I think it's worthwhile giving people the knowledge that some charities can do a lot more than others. I think Imma is right below that even a small amount can go a long way when donated effectively.
We always encourage people to do what feels right to them, and would agree that people who are just trying to get their own needs met, may be better off not donating!
This video is really for people who have their needs meet (whatever this means to them) and who might be interested in giving. But it's very hard when you put a video up online to provide all these caveats or messages about who the video is for when you're trying to make a relatively interesting 15 min video that's already covering a bunch of topics. How hard it is to get the balance right is something I've been reflecting on lately. I hope we've struck an okay balance here.
(have not watched the video fully). I agree with you.
Multiple things can be true at the same time
It's good when people know these things!
I don't know where you live, but donating $10k while being on the top ~20% percentile globally sounds a lot. It does not help to donate so much to be unable to afford your living costs. It is simply not sustainable. Maybe donating a small bit is feasible. If donated well, a tiny amount already help people a lot, and I find donating very fulfilling. It also helps creating a culture where giving is normal, and not something weird.
Wealth is distributed insanely unequally. Billionares exist. They can donate much more with a much less sacrifice to themselves. They should (and pay taxes), do so thoughtfully, and keep their ego's and individual preferences on the background.