![]() It is just too much of a hassle for them. I have personally had a struggle to convince people around me, good-hearted people that regularly donates money to charities, to donate to effective charities. How you, the effective altruism community and the world can benefit from this The idea is to take a lot of inspiration from Share The Meal, because they do some things really well, then do some things even better, and make donations go to effective charities through The Life You Can Save instead of to WFP. We are not competing with GiveWell, GWWC or EA funds since we believe they are focused on utilon donations. All donations in the app go to the United Nation's World Food Programme which is not considered an effective charity. They've also received a ton of positive media exposure. In their 2017 report it says 9,610,028 meals were shared thanks to donations made in the app. Competition/InspirationĪ great example of a successful mobile charity application and an app from which we've drawn a lot of inspiration is Share The Meal. People who already donate money to charities but don't know about or are not convinced enough by EA to go through the "hassle" of donating effectively through GiveWell, The Life You Can Save, EA funds or other alternatives. We want to create the same thing for effective organizations. Other, less effective charities are getting donations because they provide that fuzzy feeling, among other things. ![]() The focus is entirely on making people feel awesome by doing good effectively. Make donating to effective charities provide a happy, fuzzy feeling. The problem is that donating money to effective charities does not provide a significantly happy, fuzzy feeling. People mostly do good based on getting a happy, fuzzy feeling. Unfortunately, most people are not effective altruists (yet!). I have a MSc in Software Engineering and currently live in Stockholm where I am active in an effective altruism group. Since then I have been both learning more and more about effective altruism and trying to apply its practices in my own life. I first came into contact with the ideas of effective altruism a couple of years ago by reading Practical Ethics by Peter Singer. We are doing this because we share EA values and want to do good in the world in the best way we can - and what we do best is software.įirst, a bit of background about me. I'm a software developer at a small IT company that has been developing a mobile application pro bono in collaboration with The Life You Can Save since October.
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