EA - Double the donation: EA inadequacy found? by Neil Warren
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Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Double the donation: EA inadequacy found?, published by Neil Warren on January 6, 2024 on The Effective Altruism Forum.I'm only 30% sure that this is actually an inadequacy made by those whose job it is to maximize donations but I've noticed that none of the donations pages of GiveWell, Giving What We Can, Horizon Institute, or METR have this little tab in them that MIRI has (just scroll down after following the link):This little tool comes from doublethedonation.com.I was looking for charities to donate to, and I'm grateful I stumbled upon the MIRI donation page because otherwise I would not have known that Google would literally double my donation. None of the other donation pages except MIRI had this little "does your company do employer matching?" box. WHY.I would wager other tech companies have similar programs, and that a good chunk of EA donations come from employees of those tech companies, and that thousands of dollars a year are wasted in missed opportunities here. If this is an inadequacy, it's a pretty obvious and damaging one. I wish to speak to the manager.I did not spend more than ten minutes noticing this, and just wanted to get this out there as fast as possible. There's a chance I'm being stupid. (Perhaps every tech employee is usually briefed on the donation matching) But if anyone out there has an answer for this or if a GiveWell employee is conveniently walking by and says "wait a minute! We could radically improve our UI!", that'd be great.Thanks for listening. To help us out with The Nonlinear Library or to learn more, please visit nonlinear.org