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This is the third in a sequence of posts taken from my recent report: Why Did Environmentalism Become Partisan?
Summary
Rising partisanship did not make environmentalism more popular or politically effective. Instead, it saw flat or falling overall public opinion, fewer major legislative achievements, and fluctuating executive actions.
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I think right now EAs might be making a significant mistake by paying insufficient attention to the political realm. As EAs we tend to figure out what’s most impactful for us to work on and focus hard. That’s great! But there are various actions that are ‘non-delegatable’ - the extent to which an individual can do the action is limited (like voting, going to a protest, making hard money contributions to particular campaigns). It might be useful if we were all more in the habit of doing variou...
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This post presents the executive summary from Giving What We Can’s impact evaluation for 2025. At the end of this post we share links to more information, including the full report and...
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Thanks for sharing, Nicoll. Could you share how much demand you have found for cost-effectiveness analyses (CEAs)? I am open to reviewing these for free.
Thanks for offering Vasco! We'll likely take you up on this.Â
An impact analysis or cost-effectiveness estimate is one of the most asked questions. When talking with the organizations, we however almost always land on gathering data on the project first to inform why a program is generating results (otherwise, a CEA/CEE isn't very actionable).
However, I wouldn't be surprised if we do some in the coming period. Even if the actual number of animal/dollar isn't actionable (yet), a CEA/CEE can be used to identify the most likely drivers for impact. Let's stay in touch!
You are welcome to reach out any time. I am also open to looking into CEAs you may have done in the past if you think that is helpful. I also gave feedback on the CEAs of 7 charities Animal Charity Evaluators (ACE) assessed in 2025.
Great to know.
That makes sense. At the same time, I think there are cases where a CEA could show an intervention is not promising even without any data collection. It could be that the parameters required to make the intervention cost-effective relative to a relevant benchmark are not realistic. CEAs are one way Ambitious Impact (AIM) assesses which charities to incubate.
Agreed. The CEA could show whether an intervention is cost-effective or not relative to a relevant benchmark crucially depends on some key parameters. Then the data collection could focus on decreasing the uncertaity in these.