Great suggestion, DMMF! For roughly the same reasons, I think it is also good to involve charitable donations in bets (example), with the loser making a donation to one or multiple organisations selected by the winner (there is also room to let the loser decide which organisation(s) to pick within some options).

Thanks for doing this. For the reasons that you've mentioned, you're likely getting a bonus value as against a direct donation.

A note I would make is that the preferential treatment you've referred to when incorporating this into economic activity (selling goods, higher inducements for meetings, etc.) is the same  phenomena that underlies the idea of Profit for Good businesses (businesses where charities get the profit instead of other investors).

For your convenience, I'll link to a reading list- "Making Trillions for Effective Charities through the Consumer Economy" and "From Charity Choice to Competitive Advantage" are probably the two best reads.

Reading List

This is a great approach that definitely brings extra value to the table - people you know are getting involved in charity and potentially will also adopt this behaviour. Thanks for posting it!

Thanks for sharing this!

I wanted to build on your idea by pointing folks toward an MVP we’ve been testing called Good Wallet, which streamlines exactly this “redirect repayments into effective charity” flow. You can see our original EA Forum post (May 8) - but here is a quick summary:

Why it complements your approach

• One-click exposure: No manual charity lookup—your debtor just clicks a link, and donates to your Good Wallet.
  
   
• Smooth social flow: “Owe me $10?” becomes “Hey, here’s a link to do good together.”
• Future potential: Our long term vision is to offer a public API that enables the use of the Good Wallet as a payment system. With that, any platform or service (think marketplaces, cost sharing applications etc.) can integrate charitable giving as a means of “payment”.
  
   
• Note: This is an early MVP. We’re testing whether redirect-flows like yours gain traction at scale. If enough people sign up, give feedback, and actually use their wallets, we’ll invest in polishing the UX, adding group features, mobile integrations, and an open API so any platform can plug in charitable tipping. Some early feedback also indicates that instead of using the mini-DAF functionality, we should let the Good Wallet user pre-select their favourite charity (one or multiple) and when debtors/donors pay into the Good Wallet, it will be directly forwarded to that charity. 

How could you help, you ask?

If you have <5 minutes, please:

1. Check out our original post here. 
2. Take our short survey here to help us gather useful feedback and finetune this concept. 
3. Visit my personal Good Wallet page and explore the functionality here. The more people that actually use the Good Wallet, the higher the likelihood that we will bring this concept to a post-MVP next level.

Would love to hear from anyone curious to give it a whirl—drop feedback below or DM me after trying it. If the demand’s there, we’ll keep building out the Good Wallet!

Cheers,

Patrick / The Good Wallet Team