Donation Election (2025)

During the Donation Election (i.e. right now) is a great time to work through our cruxes around cause prioritisation, and tactics within causes. If you want to help cause more discussion on the Forum, consider writing a poll post, highlighting some key crux (like policy change vs research work in AI Safety, or funding farmed vs wild animal welfare). You don't need to include much background info besides the poll, but linking out to a few readings on each side of the debate is always a bonus. 

I just want to say thanks for all the orgs posting for marginal funding week for not having really donor-grabby messaging in their posts. No guilt trips, no exploitative photos of people in distress, etc. Just genuine explanations of what could be done with extra money.

I really dislike being the target of pushy giving tactics, because I'll be honest they just make me feel bad. And the fact that the EA community on the whole doesn't tolerate them is an amazing plus for being the kind of place I want to hang out in.

Idk how to make the right people at CEA see this but: I thought the theme/header at the top of the forum during Giving Season has been unbelievably good-looking ! The orange, the yellow, the images ! Would be kinda sick for it to have something like that all the time

I wasn't as clear as I'd like to have been about deadlines for admission to the donation election, so I'll make things clearer here:

• If an org posted during marginal funding week (which ended on November 23rd), and had not signalled that they'd like to be included in the donation election - I'll message them before including them as candidates. You'll see a couple of these orgs added over the next couple of days.
• If an org communicated with me and planned to post for marginal funding week, but was unable to post in time, I'll allow a couple days of grace (more participants is better!)
• However, if an organisation has neither communicated with me, nor posted during marginal funding week it is now too late for them to apply to join the donation election.