Thomas Moispointner
Director of Donor Relations @ Effektiv Spenden
Hi everyone! I'm a Berlin-based philosopher turned EA startup operations manager with a passion for entrepreneurship. Since early 2021, I work at the German and Swiss EA fundraising and regranting organization Effektiv Spenden (effektiv-spenden.org), where we focus on promoting effective giving to a general audience, advising donors (in collaboration with Munich-based HNWI philanthropy consultancy Legacies Now; legacies-now.de), and providing fiscal sponsorship to high-impact charities around the world. In addition, we run the Berlin EA Coworking Space TEAMWORK (teamwork-berlin.org), which serves as a hub for the EA community. Come visit! :)
Power for Democracies’ first research findings are out
More info in this joint webinar with Effektiv Spenden from last Tuesday. Most of it is in German, but Samantha Sekar presents the main research update in English.
👉 Direct link to Samantha’s part
Teaser: Their first giving recommendations focus on Turkey, Argentina, and the US.
Major update on our Defending Democracy Fund
The beta phase wrapped up on July 30, 2025. Until then, the fund focused on initiatives strengthening democracy in Germany — but it now supports the most promising pro-democracy projects worldwide.
This new global grantmaking is guided by research from Power for Democracies — the first international charity evaluator for democracy. Its first research results will be published in November 2025.
If you’d like to learn more, you can watch this webinar from October 2, 2025, where Stephan Schwahlen explains the reasoning and next steps.
Very nice work, I'm excited about this new communications effort! (Minor point: Isn't there an important book missing under resources?)
TEAMWORK can be somewhat hard to find at first, so Antonia created this handy little guide: https://docs.google.com/document/d/17nZqyRuuE4qPZyqWUqSpThMaANhQvb8IwwWoJ3YHrRM/edit?usp=sharing