Over the next few weeks, the Centre for Effective Altruism will be reaching out to the community to raise funds to support our next year of work.
So far, more than 300 effective altruists have contributed to CEA. If it were not for your help, we would not have been able to create a community of effective givers who have pledged more than half a billion dollars to charity, guide hundreds of graduates into careers that make a difference, advise policy-makers around the world on effective policy, or support the effective altruist movement through events like EA Global. Now we need your continued support to help us build on that work. You can find much more detail in the 2015 CEA Winter Prospectus.
As a whole, CEA is committed to making sure that effective altruist ideas reach their potential to shape the world's future for the better. Each of the parts of CEA addresses a different component of that challenge.
- Giving What We Can supports effective donation to charity
- 80,000 Hours helps people lead effective altruist careers
- EA Outreach enables the effective altruist community to grow healthily
- Global Priorities Project helps policy-makers apply EA ideas in their work
Supporting all of this is our operations team which delivers shared services that let each project focus on delivering their core objectives.
Each part of CEA will be raising more this winter to help us hire great people, cover our costs for the year ahead, and make our existing work better and bigger.
- Giving What We Can aims to raise £475,000 and still needs £282,000 to reach that goal.
- 80,000 Hours aims to raise £220,000 and still needs £48,000 to reach that goal.
- EA Outreach aims to raise £474,000 and still needs £274,000 to reach that goal.
- Global Priorities Project aims to raise £300,000 and still needs £160,000 to reach that goal.
- CEA shared services aim to raise £200,000 and still need £150,000 to reach that goal.
Each organisation will be communicating more about their plans and funding needs. You can find an overview of all of our work in the 2015 CEA Winter Prospectus.
I'm happy to answer any of your questions here. You can find details on how to donate here. You can also contact us to discuss donations. You can contact any of the project leaders directly using the details available in our prospectus.
People will want to ask this, but it will be awkward, so I'll take one for the team:
You are trying to raise a ridiculous amount of money. Your costs heavily increase from one year to the other, with three organizations attempting to at least double their costs, in one case much more than that.
Many hundreds of lives could be saved with this money if donated to AMF.
How confident are you that you are producing more value than AMF? How are you justifying the extreme increase in costs?
Thanks for the long discussion everyone - I think I can cope with the single downvote. :-)
In case that wasn't clear, my phrasing was more for rhetorical reasons than it reflected personal beliefs. It seemed somewhat likely someone would use the same framing if noone else had done it so far, and then I'd rather have it written by someone where I'm not worried that it will put a strain on the relationship between CEA and them. But maybe I'm just rationalizing feeling like I wanted to be controversial that day. ;-)
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