Since we're on this topic, I recently saw that the Happier Lives Institute estimated that the best charities (based on WELLBYs per dollar) are about 100x more cost-effective than the average charity https://www.happierlivesinstitute.org/world-happiness-report/
I have given a shallow recap of their medium-depth report, so take with a grain of salt.
The "free mailing list for new events" aspect of following a city group (depending on your notification settings) could be pretty useful.
I wonder if we could make posts in a city group and have that be emailed to group followers (depending on settings), basically as a mailing list? I don't currently have something like a mailing list. Our group has an increasing number of platforms - a mailing list would be one more ... signing up to the forum and following the group is a bit more work than signing up for than a mailing list but would save me one additional platform and potentially a monthly fee, etc.
As a group organizer, I want to know how many people are following our city group on the forum and find out when a new person starts following it. E.g., how many people are following our city group on the forum now compared to before a recent EAGx event?
As a group organizer, it might be nice to be able to DM people who follow our local group, though this may have privacy implications I have not thought through.
It's also the case that the 10 Percent pledge is not the best course of action for everyone in the EA movement.
Putting an emoji by your name is just a really blunt tool and I'm not sure it's the right tool to encourage people already interested in or part of EA to donate more.
Especially in the absence of other badges my gut is worried about this leading to unhelpful social pressure (though I'm not sure what percentage of users have the emoji etc).
This also makes the EA forum and online social spaces slightly more cult-like via increased social pressure.
A very half-baked thought: I wonder if we should encourage orgs to depend less on networking instead of encouraging applicants to network more? Networking seems to depend, at least partially, on a bias towards people you know and therefore like more. I suppose it may also increase trust in the applicant if mutual contacts can vouch for them and I don't know where the balance of benefits / drawbacks lands.
I appreciate the initiative and helpful presentation of results! A lot of people want to work for an EA org, I think on the basis that this action seems extremely EA-approved and charting your own impactful career path seems very nebulous and daunting. I fairly frequently repeat something like "okay but I want you to pay attention to the mountain of rejected EA resumes over here", so I appreciate this resource and novel reporting about how people actually felt about the process.
Here's a list of links, in case you want to directly copy and paste the links:
Against Malaria Foundation: https://projectforawesome.com/videos/project-for-awesome-2026-amf
Allied Scholars for Animal Protection: https://projectforawesome.com/videos/vote-asap-to-save-animals-and-planet-p4a2026
Animal Welfare Observatory: https://projectforawesome.com/videos/project-for-awesome-2026-animal-welfare-observatory-recommended-by-bjoern
Centre for Governance of AI: https://projectforawesome.com/videos/project-for-awesome-2026-gov-ai
Ethical Seafood Research: https://projectforawesome.com/videos/project-for-awesome-2026-vote-for-ethical-seafood-research
FarmKind: https://projectforawesome.com/videos/farm-kind-for-project-for-awesome-2026
Faunalytics: https://projectforawesome.com/videos/faunalytics-p4-a-2026
GiveDirectly: https://projectforawesome.com/videos/project-for-awesome-2026-give-directly-recommended-by-pablo
Giving Green: https://projectforawesome.com/videos/project-for-awesome-2026-giving-green-recommended-by-mel
Good Food Fund: https://projectforawesome.com/videos/good-food-fund-project-for-awesome-2026
Good Food Institute: https://projectforawesome.com/videos/support-the-magical-good-food-institute-project-for-awesome-2026
International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons: https://projectforawesome.com/videos/ban-all-nuclear-weapons-project-for-awesome-2026
International Centre for Animal Rights and Ethics: https://projectforawesome.com/videos/icare-for-project-for-awesome-p4-a-2026
Lafiya: https://projectforawesome.com/videos/lafiya-saving-lives-through-family-planning-p4-a
Machine Intelligence Research Institute: https://projectforawesome.com/videos/p4-a-2026-machine-intelligence-research-institute-project-for-awesome-2026
New Roots Institute: https://projectforawesome.com/videos/project-for-awesome-2026-2
ProVeg International: https://projectforawesome.com/videos/project-for-awesome-2026-writing-the-next-chapter-of-our-food-story-with-pro-veg
Sinergia Animal: https://projectforawesome.com/videos/vote-sinergia-animal-for-project-for-awesome-2026 or https://projectforawesome.com/videos/sinergia-animal-project-for-awesome-2026-help-us-end-factory-farming
Spiro: https://projectforawesome.com/videos/vote-for-tb-charity-spiro-for-project-for-awesome-2026
The Humane League: https://projectforawesome.com/videos/project-4-awesome-2026-the-humane-league
Veganuary: https://projectforawesome.com/videos/project-for-awesome-2026-veganuary-pass-the-broccoli or https://projectforawesome.com/videos/remember-to-vote-for-veganuary-at-project-for-awesome-2026
Wild Animal Initiative: https://projectforawesome.com/videos/wild-animal-initiative-p4-a-2026
The Double Up Drive is now live, with donation matching and the possibility of a tax receipt when donating from a variety of countries. https://doubleupdrive.org/2025-match-drive-preview/
Since we're on this topic, I recently saw that the Happier Lives Institute estimated that the best charities (based on WELLBYs per dollar) are about 100x more cost-effective than the average charity https://www.happierlivesinstitute.org/world-happiness-report/
I have given a shallow recap of their medium-depth report, so take with a grain of salt.
For what it's worth, https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/users/aaronhamlin has been engaging with the EA community on the topic of electoral reform.
The "free mailing list for new events" aspect of following a city group (depending on your notification settings) could be pretty useful.
I wonder if we could make posts in a city group and have that be emailed to group followers (depending on settings), basically as a mailing list? I don't currently have something like a mailing list. Our group has an increasing number of platforms - a mailing list would be one more ... signing up to the forum and following the group is a bit more work than signing up for than a mailing list but would save me one additional platform and potentially a monthly fee, etc.
Thank you very much!
As a group organizer, I want to know how many people are following our city group on the forum and find out when a new person starts following it. E.g., how many people are following our city group on the forum now compared to before a recent EAGx event?
As a group organizer, it might be nice to be able to DM people who follow our local group, though this may have privacy implications I have not thought through.
It's also the case that the 10 Percent pledge is not the best course of action for everyone in the EA movement.
Putting an emoji by your name is just a really blunt tool and I'm not sure it's the right tool to encourage people already interested in or part of EA to donate more.
Especially in the absence of other badges my gut is worried about this leading to unhelpful social pressure (though I'm not sure what percentage of users have the emoji etc).
This also makes the EA forum and online social spaces slightly more cult-like via increased social pressure.
A very half-baked thought: I wonder if we should encourage orgs to depend less on networking instead of encouraging applicants to network more? Networking seems to depend, at least partially, on a bias towards people you know and therefore like more. I suppose it may also increase trust in the applicant if mutual contacts can vouch for them and I don't know where the balance of benefits / drawbacks lands.
I appreciate the initiative and helpful presentation of results! A lot of people want to work for an EA org, I think on the basis that this action seems extremely EA-approved and charting your own impactful career path seems very nebulous and daunting. I fairly frequently repeat something like "okay but I want you to pay attention to the mountain of rejected EA resumes over here", so I appreciate this resource and novel reporting about how people actually felt about the process.