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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.
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* 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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How do you access the donation matching?
On Tuesday GD will announce this and post the link. I'll post it here as soon as Tyler sends it to me.
Givedirectly Twitter feed retweets any charitable matching offers and I'll post that too if one becomes available.
2 weeks ago a woman named Catherine offered a $10k match if you sent screen shot of GD donation receipt.
A man named Peter offered to match her 10k donation.
And Givedirectly fundraiser page has a link to Julie's matching campaign.
So I donated $1k to max out Julie's campaign, sent screen shot to Catherine and Peter on the Twitter campaign.
3:1 match so $4k effective donation.
8 people lifted out of poverty and over $10k economic impact.
An example of how you can leverage several match together to get the max impact for your giving.
This time we have 2:1 guaranteed from GD campaign.
Tyler told me that GD does a big annual $1 million match campaign at the end of each year.
Not sure if it's as generous as 2:1 each year but at the least it's 1:1.
So at the end of each year it should be possible to get 2:1 match and possibly 3:1.
Something to consider when planning your charity giving for the year.
It's great to give all year if you can find a 1:1 match, which Givedirectly usually has available via their fundraising page.
But consider keeping the majority of your giving budget in reserve to get that 2:1 or even 3:1 match at the end of the year.