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Is there any legal reason the OP couldn't paypal money to someone else who then makes a donation on his behalf? I agree their accepting paypal is the ideal solution but maybe this is an acceptable short term workaround
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AI Use Note: Main body text entirely human written. Claude (Opus 4.8) helped develop models of animal life histories in the appendix.
Cross-posted from Good Structures.
Executive Summary
* Animal advocates sometimes make claims like “there are X of this animal...
“How long have you been v*g*n?”
This is one of the most common icebreakers at animal protection events. It’s a baseline assumption, and it mostly holds true: if you’re out advocating for animals not to be tortured or abused, realistically these days you are v**n, or close. And it makes for good conversation. It seems fairly safe to assume when you meet strangers.
But this assumption is hurting the movement in a way which we don’t always notice: someone new comes into the sp...
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Back in November 2023 I posted here to launch Spiro and raise our first $198k. Two and a half years later this is an update and a fundraiser for the next step.
The short version: we've now reached over-5,900 people with TB preventive medicine, including over 3,000 children under five years old. Our early results have held up well an...
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Thanks for the question! There are two separate things here, which I'll address separately.
PayPal as a regular payment option
We've considered adding PayPal support, but it hasn't been a priority as we've found most donors are able to use one of our other payment methods (e.g. credit cart/bank transfer/check). Adding new payment methods adds some complexity to our payment processing operations (which we try to keep as streamlined as possible to reduce admin overhead), and given that most people use PayPal to process credit card donations, we haven't seen it as offering a significant advantage over our existing credit card payment infrastructure. However, it's useful to know that PayPal is your only option, and is some data in favour of us considering adding it. This likely won't be for a while though, but if we do get to it I'll post an update as a comment on this question.
Using the PayPal Giving Fund
Unfortunately it's not possible to automate donations made through the PayPal Giving Fund, which means it's not viable for us to offer it as a payment option at checkout. Donations to the Giving Fund have to be made through PayPal's own website, which means we can't capture each donor's allocation, and therefore all the money appears as if it's just going to the Centre for Effective Altruism (CEA –the non-profit that EA Funds is a part of). This unfortunately just isn't scalable to hundreds of donors.
For larger donations ($1000+ or equivalent), you can use the PayPal Giving Fund to make a donation to CEA, but you'll need to email us so that we can manually add your donation to EA Funds and allocate it accordingly. If this fits your situation, you can make a donation using one of the links below, then forward your receipt to [email protected] along with your preferred allocation (you can see the available organizations to donate to on this page)
Thanks for the detailed answer!