Hello and welcome to our June Newsletter!
This month's major news: We’ve released a brand new website! This new, redesigned website has been in the works for a long time, and we’re thrilled that it’s live! It will enable us to have a more integrated donation and pledge experience and hopefully brings our new branding to life!
A big thank you to our developers Fabio and Sarah, and designers Alex, Casper and Jasper who put many hours of love into creating a new ‘face’ for Giving What We Can.
Thank you to everyone who gave feedback about our new video introduction format, and also to those who gave additional feedback about our newsletter and how we could improve - we read all of the feedback given to us and use it to inform our strategy.
Based on the feedback, we’ll continue to do a video (and audio) summary for those who’d prefer it and we’ll keep the newsletter the same for those who enjoy reading it.
We will also make an effort to provide some context to some of our news that we include, to make sure that those who are just beginning their journey with effective giving feel supported along their journey (thank you to the one person who left very detailed feedback about this).
Until next time, keep doing good!
-Luke Freeman & the rest of the Giving What We Can team.
Positive Impact Society Erasmus (PISE) recently held a pledge party and had 10 people sign a pledge, with some karaoke and a meal afterwards!
Attend An Event
Community Conversations with Julia Wise
We invite you to join us at a special community conversation with Julia Wise to discuss how the funding and goals in effective altruism have been shifting recently and how this impacts our effective giving as individual donors, as well as community health in general. We will ask Julia a bit about her personal reflections on how to best navigate these times and what she thinks some of the issues might be, and then open up to you to ask any questions that you may have for her.
This event will be held in duplicate in order to be more accessible globally:
Session #1
Tue Jul 19 18:00 UTC (8:00 pm CEST)
Session #2
Thu Jul 21 00:00 UTC (Wednesday 8:00 pm EST)
Meetups
This month’s meeting will be a social event- Let’s do icebreakers and get to know each other better, let's play games (suggestions are also welcome!). Let's hang out and chat about whatever topics take your fancy! Look forward to seeing you there - Meetups team
June Meetup (Americas/Oceania)
- Jul 2: 22:00 UTC (New York: Sat 6:00 pm, Sydney: Sun 8:00 am)
- RSVP on Facebook
- Register
June Meetup (Europe/Asia)
- Jul 3: 08:30 UTC (London: 9:30 am, Munich: 10:30 am, Mumbai: 2:00 pm, Singapore: 6:30 pm) CHECK TIMES
- RSVP on Facebook
- Register
Open Forum
Our open forum is an event where you can come along with questions about effective giving or just come along to meet others interested in effective giving. Alternates between different timezones each month.
June Open Forum (Europe/Asia)
- Jul 18: 11:00 UTC (London 12pm, Munich 1:00 pm, Mumbai 4:30 pm, Singapore 7:00pm)
- RSVP on Facebook
- Register
New content from Giving What We Can
Blog
- How flawed judgments limit the impact of charitable donations - Shakeel Hashim, Giving What We Can blog
- Member Profile: Vasco Grilo - Vasco Grilo, Giving What We Can blog (Esta história está disponível em português.)
YouTube
- A simple guide to giving effectively - Giving What We Can Youtube
- Akhil Bansal | People Who Give Effectively - Giving What We Can Youtube
Podcast
- Our Exec Director Luke was interviewed for a podcast: The Opportunity Motivation: Effective Altruism and Our Impetus to Give - Luke Freeman and Rachel Mindell, Impact Audio
- Member story: Akhil Bansal - Giving What We Can Podcast
- June newsletter summary - Giving What We Can Podcast
News & Updates
Effective altruism community
- Centre for Effective Altruism is hiring for a Head of Finance, applications close 27th July
- High Impact Professionals have launched a new directory for professional and workplace groups, so you can connect with other people in your industry or workplace about effective altruism
- A new TEDx Talk on effective altruism called “What if we all learned how to best help the world?”, from the founder and president of Georgetown EA and student mentorship lead with the Charity Elections program
- An essay from Luke Muehlhauser on “Effective altruism as I see it”
- Want to try your hand at effective altruism style research on promising causes?
Open Philanthropy has launched the Cause Exploration Prizes. They are offering hundreds of prizes for research on:
New causes they could fund, with the aim of improving health and economic outcomes
Key questions in cause prioritisation. (For example: What are the most important and addressable sources of pollution in low- and middle-income countries?)
Submissions are due by Thursday, August 4. They'd love to see ideas from experts and amateurs alike — almost anyone can apply! See the FAQ for details, or contact hello@causeexplorationprizes.com with any questions.
Evaluators, grantmakers and incubators
- If you have an idea or project that you think could have a big positive impact on the future of the world, Clearer Thinking would love you to apply to their regrants program!
- “How does producing advocacy research affect the animal advocacy movement?” a report from Animal Charity Evaluators
- GiveWell has published a page on a $66,400 grant it recommended to WAW Statistical Consulting, Ltd., to continue the development of baggr, a Bayesian statistical package for R.
- GiveWell is hiring for several new positions that require no particular academic or work credentials, and could be especially suitable for someone with a nontraditional background. Whatever your background, please consider applying if one of these sounds like a job you'd enjoy, or share these listings with a friend!
- Philanthropy Advisor - Application deadline: July 5.
- Philanthropy Associate - Application deadline: July 5.
- Grants Coordinator - Application deadline: July 17.
- GiveWell is also still looking for excellent candidates for its open Senior Researcher, Senior Research Associate, and Content Editor positions. You can see all open positions on its jobs page.
Cause areas
Animal welfare
- Interested in applying for funding for a wild animal welfare research project? Send expressions of interest to Wild Animal Initiative by June 30.
- Good Food Institute Europe calls for coordinated funding after UK Government pledges to support sustainable proteins and spoke recently to UK parliamentarians
- Interested in taking more action to improve animal welfare? Check out The Humane League’s Fast Action Network
Global health and development
- Happier Lives Institute and StrongMinds hosted a webinar called Disrupting Charitable Giving, on the value of investing in mental health, and the recording is available now
- Lead Exposure Elimination Project (LEEP), a charity that went through Charity Entrepreneurships incubation program are hiring for a few different roles
- “About 200 years ago, the world started getting rich. Why?” from Dylan Matthews at Vox
Long-term future
- What is progress studies, and how does it relate to safeguarding our long-term future? Garrison Lovely investigates in Do we need a better understanding of progress?
- Effective climate change philanthropy was discussed on the podcast Volts with Johannes Ackva, Senior researcher at Founders Pledge being interviewed by David Roberts
- Research on how messaging around climate change impacts youth was discussed in Vox Future Perfect
- If you’re interested or maybe think you might one day be interested in working on safeguarding the long-term future, fill out this form
You can now support Giving What We Can’s operations using our donation platform. This funding helps us to inspire donations to high impact charities
Useful Links
- Review our giving recommendations.
- Report your donations with your pledge dashboard.
- Share our ideas to help grow our community and multiply your impact.
- Join other members in the Giving What We Can Community Facebook group.
- Find more ways to get involved with Giving What We Can and effective altruism.
- Discuss effective giving and effective altruism on the EA Forum.
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