We've read about donation opportunities, we've held the Donation Election, we've discussed why we donate. There's only one thing left... actually donating.
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Donated to The Life You Can Save's Women and Girls Fund
50% of my income for the 11th year to ALLFED.
I allocated my 10% pledge as follows:
I donated to Charity Entrepreneurship! I think they have an incredibly high hit rate on a tight budget
I donated to AMF because it beat the Humane League in our club donation election :(
I'm curious, did you decide on the entire year's worth of donations through an election? To me, donation elections can be a fun way to generate discussions around giving (I donated to the election fund here after all) but I would never let it decide on a significant part of my donations (let's say 1% at most). If you want to outsource the day-to-day decision making on what charities to give to, then I believe funds are a much more effective tool for that than elections or lotteries.
:) sounds right to me. A couple factors here that might clear things up.
1) I probably want to donate to both GH and AW charities across my life, so I don't think the results of this donation election counterfactually affected my lifetime donations much.
2) I'm a student and this donation was relatively small compared to future ones I expect to make.
Keen to hear more about how you guys ran the election and who won! (If you've got time to share).
In descending order of amount I have donated to @CEEALAR , the Givewell All Grants Fund (my preferred "default" place to put donations), and the Humane League (something I feel obligated to do as a condition of being vegetarian rather than vegan). The largest donation was basically bankrolling the effective giving organiser retreat I am running at CEEALAR: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/events/HfeSKe7Ekmm9uddLh/effective-giving-organiser-retreat (which still has sign up space, by the way!)
I have also made a few non-effective donations to friends, to organisations I used the services of, or local places I volunteered for and want to see succeed, which are not in my pledge.
MIRI, CAIS policy fund, shrimp welfare, FarmKind