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EA - Participate in the Donation Election and the first weekly theme (starting 7 November) 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: Participate in the Donation Election and the first weekly theme (starting 7 November), published by Lizka on November 2, 2023 on The Effective Altruism Forum.TLDR: Participate in the Donation Election, start writing posts for "Effective giving spotlight" week (starting this Tuesday!), and more.There are many ways to participate:Get involved in Giving Season eventsDonate to the Donation Election Fundto encourage discussion and participation (we're partially matching donations)Add candidates to the ElectionPre-vote[1]to register your interest (pre-votes are anonymous, but we'll know how many people pre-voted for a given candidate in the Election)Share your experience donating, fundraising, earning to give, or moreor your uncertainties or considerations about where we should donate and how we should fundraiseFundraise for your projectExplain how your project would use extra funding (particularly for Marginal Funding Week), share impact analyses or retrospectives,invite Forum users to ask you questions, and see if your project should be listed as a candidatein the ElectionExploreTheGiving portalWriting about effective givingFollow theDonation Election(This post is an update to ourearlier announcementabout Giving Season on the Forum.)Giving Season & weekly discussion themesStart preparing for discussion themes on the EA Forum:Theme and datesDescriptionEffective Giving Spotlight(7-14 November) - starting this Tuesday!How can we grow the amount of funding going to effective projects aimed at improving the world? We'll feature people's experiences with donating, fundraising, earning to give, etc.See more details below.Marginal Funding Week(14-21 November)How would your project use extra funding?To decide whether donating to a given project or organization is cost-effective, it's really useful to know how marginal funding would get used. We'll invite EA organizations and projects to describe how they would use extra donations - a bit likethis post about LTFFor otherwise share more about what they do.We might also try to collect a summary of the key information in one post at the end of the week.Donation Debate Week(21-28 November)Where should we donate (and what should we vote for in the Donation Election)?Discuss which interventions and projects are mostcost-effectiveand how they should vote (and donate!). I'm hoping to see estimates (including rough "back of the envelope calculations"BOTECs) and productive disagreement or identification of what thecruxesthat drive different conclusions are.We'll also probably feature some classic writing on the topic, some relevantAMAs, and more.First weekly theme: Effective Giving Spotlight (November 7-14)A lot of promising projects are funding-constrained[2]they'd get more done if they had more funding. "Effective Giving Spotlight" week will feature content on how we can grow the amount of funding going to effective projects aimed at improving the world. efConsider participating!You can write posts (orlink-posts, including things like reviews of classic writing on the topic), comment on others' posts, or share the event. You might want to write about:Your experience donating, fundraising, earning to give, etc. - lessons, things you've changed your mind on,postmortemsThoughts on who should considerearning to giveUncertainties you have about where to donateWhat effective projects would be particularly useful⦠or anything else related to effective giving.If you're not sure if something would be useful or relevant, please feel free to reach out to me or to the Forum team. We'll post smaller announcements with more details about the other themes.Participate in the Donation ElectionIn December, Forum users[1]will vote on how theDonation Election Fundshould be allocate...
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