Episode Details

Otherwise known as: Effective givers should bankroll more effective giving infrastructure

Do you donate a significant amount to GiveWell's Top Charities, perhaps because you have pledged money and you want to end preventable childhood death? Would you like more money to go to GiveWell's Top Charities? You should instead consider donating to:

• A professional effective giving fundraising organisation, that employs staff to fundraise on behalf of GiveWell's Top Charities. There are a load of them around with 3x or greater multipliers and real funding gaps. I'd actually like to see someone do a proper public analysis of this space to work out where the reasonable multipliers and consistent funding gaps are.
• Your local EA community-builder or local EA group's operations costs, or other small EA thing happening in your local area. Tell them you would like effective giving towards GiveWell's Top Charities to be a more visible and valued part of the EA movement and that is the purpose of your donation. There are many EA community-builders who are able to use extra money to expand the EA movement in such a way as GiveWell's Top Charities get extra money at at least a 1x multiplier. They [...]

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First published:
February 23rd, 2026

Source:
https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/Z9gdKj7eGsy3rzurH/you-should-donate-to-ea-fundraisers-or-community-builders

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Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.