EA - Seeking founders for new effective giving organisations by Luke Moore

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: Seeking founders for new effective giving organisations, published by Luke Moore on August 4, 2023 on The Effective Altruism Forum.Giving What We Can is looking to help founding teams organise to grow effective giving around the world and wants to hear from people excited about helping new effective giving initiatives get off the ground. These are likely to be initiatives in new geographies, like Effektiv Spenden, but we are also open to hearing about ideas for projects seeking to promote effective giving to specific interest groups, like High Impact Athletes. At this point we will prioritise supporting organisations which will fundraise for GWWC's existing recommendations over helping with geographically specific research and making geographically specific recommendations, although we are interested in this as well.Send us your expression of interestWhy?Effective giving is an incredibly efficient way for us to convert resources into impact and moreover, there are many positive indirect effects from promoting effective giving; such as advocating for effective altruism and promoting positive values globally. However, there are significant regional gaps in the current effective giving ecosystem. As a result, donors from unrepresented regions or communities may be unable to make (tax-deductible) donations to effective charities and more importantly may not even come to hear about effective giving, as the ideas are not available in their language or cultural/community/social context. We think that this represents a huge missed opportunity - and one that we hope to help rectify.What?These new effective giving initiative will likely be a fundraising organisation that hosts funds which make grants to other effective charities and high-impact funding opportunities. These new fundraising organisations will need to be able to accept donations (ideally tax-deductible) in their legal jurisdiction and be able to make grants to charitable programs.Who?We are initially interested in recruiting a working group that would set the strategy, take the initial steps, and hire the executive director (who could be one of the original founding team). The types of roles that could be useful at this stage will be very varied and include e.g. volunteers, board members, an executive director and other team members, particularly those with expertise in the following areas:LegalGovernanceWebsite designPhilanthropic advisingMarketing and communicationsAccounting and financeCommunity fundraisingEventsIT and information securitySupport from Giving What We Can?Giving What We Can can provide support to new organisations in the following ways:General advice and supportSharing best practice and lessons learntAn MVP starter-guide for new effective giving organisationsAccess to shared resources and content within the effective giving communityIntroductions to the broader effective giving network (potentially helping form mentorship relationships)Assistance in accessing legal advice when neededHelp in finding funding for the project, and potentially spending some of Giving What We Can's own budget on initial costsIn some cases, the use of the GWWC brand and donation platformThe level of support will depend on the specific project, its potential for impact, and the strength of the founding team.Giving What We Can has previously provided support in various ways to different effective giving organisations, here are just a few illustrative examples:Don Efficace: We provided some funding, governance and legal support, access to our donation platform, and mentorship for the founding team.Ayuda Efectiva: We provided a brand partnership and Ayuda Efectiva acts as the community for our members in Spain with their Executive Director being an Ambassador for Giving What We Can.Giving Gr...