EA organizations
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EA organizations is a recurring organization in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 4 times across 4 issues between February 03, 2022 and February 02, 2026. The archive places it in contexts such as “We are part of a recently formed team that advises EA organizations on how they can attract more donations”; “they’ve become the bar that EA organizations rate other charities against”; “Writing Forecasting Questions For EA Organizations”. It most often appears alongside ACX, Africa, Charter Cities Institute.
Metadata
- Category: Organizations
- Mention count: 4
- Issue count: 4
- First seen: February 03, 2022
- Last seen: February 02, 2026
Appears In
- ACX Grants ++: The First Half
- Highlights From The Comments On Capitalism & Charity
- ACX Grants 1-3 Year Updates
- Open Thread 419
Related Pages
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- ACX (3 shared issues)
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- Africa (3 shared issues)
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- Charter Cities Institute (3 shared issues)
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- effective altruism (3 shared issues)
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- Scott (3 shared issues)
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- ACX Grant (2 shared issues)
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- ACX Grants (2 shared issues)
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- Brazil (2 shared issues)
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- CCI (2 shared issues)
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- China (2 shared issues)
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- EA (2 shared issues)
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- facebook (2 shared issues)
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Source Context
Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.
#20: Test Charity Pitch Strategies We will conduct an intervention competition to test which strategies are most effective in convincing people to donate to an effective cause. We (Bastian Jaeger, Josh Lewis, and Noah Costelo) are part of a recently formed team that advises EA organizations on how they can attract more donations. There is little high-quality research on this topic and it is unclear which marketing approaches work best or should be trialed in the field. We will conduct a large-scale experiment to fill this gap. First, we will challenge academics and members of the EA community to submit an intervention that is most effective in generating donations for an effective charity. Next, we will distribute a survey among the participating teams and the EA community in which people are asked to predict the effectiveness of each intervention that was submitted. Finally, we will select the most promising interventions and test their effectiveness in a high-powered, pre-registered, and incentivized experiment. The study will generate actionable insights for various EA organizations looking to optimize their marketing strategy and attract more donations. The survey data will also allow us to test how accurate people are in forecasting the effectiveness of different strategies, by comparing forecasted with actual effectiveness. All data will be made openly available. See https://osf.io/adbwv/ for a more detailed description and you can contact me via b.jaeger@vu.nl.
But precisely because they’re so good and so easy to quantify, they’ve become the bar that EA organizations rate other charities against, and some of those ratings find the other charities to be better. For example, GiveWell says the charities they fund are usually between 5x and 8x more effective than GiveDirectly.
30: Writing Forecasting Questions For EA Organizations
Helped create Manifold Markets, a prediction market site with thousands of satisfied users, whose various spinoffs play a central role in the rationalist/EA community.
Peter Wildeford, who placed 1st out of all 2975 participants. Peter is a forecasting celebrity, a leader at EA organizations Rethink Priorities and Institute For AI Policy and Strategy, and a blogger at The Power Law. He regularly makes the top 20 or so, but this year he was able to close the distance and take the top spot. I often rely on his blogging for my geopolitical opinions, and these contest results suggest that you should too. Peter is also the first ACX Forecasting Contest winner to have been featured on the Daily Show: