EA - Meet the candidates in the Forum's Donation Election (2023) by Lizka

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: Meet the candidates in the Forum's Donation Election (2023), published by Lizka on November 29, 2023 on The Effective Altruism Forum.This post collects some information about thecandidates in the Donation Election, with an emphasis on whatmarginal donations to the candidates would accomplish. It also includes some information about other projects .Please let me know if you spot mistakes or you'd like to add more context.[1] If your project isn't on this list, please feel free to write about it in the comments.Consider also:Donating to the Donation Election Fundor to individualprojectsDiscussing which of these donation opportunities are most cost-effective and how we should vote in theDonation Election (voting opens on Friday!)Candidates in the Donation ElectionCross-cause & meta (6)These projects work across different cause areas, or helpbuild effective altruism.LogoBasicsMore infoCharity Entrepreneurship: Incubated Charities FundTopics wiki pageFundraiserWhat extra donations would buyDonations to this Fund will be granted directly to Charity Entrepreneurship'sincubated charities. Charity Entrepreneurship'sfocus areas include health and development policy, mental health, family planning, and animal advocacy, and EA meta.Arguments or evidence for cost-effectivenessA post from March:After launch. How are CE charities progressing? (these charities had raised $22.5M by that point from their own funders,including GiveWell, Open Philanthropy, Founders Pledge, ACE).More on their track record here.EAIF:Effective Altruism Infrastructure Fund (EA Funds)Topics wiki pageFundraiserWhat extra donations would buyThe EAIF seems to have around $1.5M right now, so marginal donations to the EAIF would go towards grants like expenses for a student magazine covering issues like biosecurity and factory farming for non-EA audiences ($9,000), a shared workspace for the EA community in a major European city, andmore. (Open Philanthropy willmatch donations to the EAIF.)Arguments or evidence for cost-effectivenessAn argument for giving to the EAIF/LTFF is madehere.The EAIF hasreceived funding from Open Philanthropy.You cansee their public grants here, and some recentgrant recommendations and reasoning here.GWWC:Giving What We CanTopics wiki pageFundraiserWhat extra donations would buyBaseline funding would put them on stable financial footing for 2024 to support their operations, to support more donations and donation pledges. Fundraising for their expansion budget would allow them to grow (e.g. reach more potential donors), conduct and share more research, support the wider/international effective giving ecosystem, andmore.Arguments or evidence for cost-effectivenessGWWC'ssummary of their impact. They estimate that each dollar invested in GWWC generated $30 in donations for effective charities.GWWChas been funded by Open Philanthropy.Giving What We Can (Charity Elections)FundraiserWhat extra donations would buyOperations of the programme (0.5 FTE salary and a bit extra for promotions and outreach, to set up charity elections at schools) and improving measurement of impact (fromhere).Arguments or evidence for cost-effectivenessSeethis project brief for evidence of impact from EA Market Testing team and more.Rethink PrioritiesTopics wiki pageFundraiserWhat extra donations would buyRP seeks to raise funding to continue publishing research on the Forum, run the EA survey, pursue creative projects like themoral weights work (and other innovative work, which hashistorically been supported by individual donors), run other promising research projects, spend less time fundraising in the next year, andmore.Arguments or evidence for cost-effectivenessHere is their review of 2023; in 2023 they worked on ~160research pieces, ...