Rasool
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In the UK at least, they are especially desperate for donors who are male and/or from an ethnic minority background
https://www.anthonynolan.org/help-save-a-life/join-stem-cell-register
I encourage people to check out the EA art and fiction tag, in particular these posts:
- https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/WNKhrcddQyyZceGNW/some-longtermist-fiction
- https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/zCJDF6iNSJHnJ6Aq6/a-ranked-list-of-all-ea-relevant-audio-books-i-ve-read
- https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/ebgd79z64LESeLxGN/what-are-your-favorite-examples-of-moral-heroism-altruism-in
Seconding Strong Female Protagonist, and noting that it is also available as a printed graphic novel for those who prefer to read offline
Oh for sure, and I gladly donated.
I just didn't want this to turn into a whole conversation about effectiveness, but rather the power of stories
Someone accidentally donated $15,000 instead of $150 to their neighbour's charity in Bangladesh. Before they could get a refund they were inundated with pictures and videos from the grateful recipients.
In addition to then donating $1,500 rather than the $150 as originally planned, they also told the story of their blunder on reddit, which went viral and caused ~3000 people to donate ~$100,000
Warm fuzzies galore
Looking forward to this!
While I do like spacing things out, 1 month between posts seems like a long time to me
You might want to reach out to the author of this post to see if they got anywhere with their research
I can only echo what I said on that post, Energise Africa lets you invest in bonds, it used to be just for solar panels but they've expanded recently to other things like electric forklifts
You can invest via your ISA too
The platform itself I think is stable and reliable, though the companies themselves do occasionally go under - I think rising interest rates over the past couple of years hit some of these companies hard. When I have time later I'll go through my portfolio and share the performance of my investments