An option that’s 10 times better than the Amazon Smile service in that link is to do all your Amazon shopping via the EA Shop for Charity portal, which earns a 5% commission on all your spending (at no cost for you) for the effective altruist foundation Charity Science, which automatically regrants all this money to GiveWell-recommended charities (currently deworming ones).
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Also, a Financial Effectiveness Repository is a great idea. Do you want to create that?
I think that’s a great idea! I would have loved to have something like a sequence starting at the fundamentals of Effective Altruism and boiling down to specifics like this.
Other options of comparable effectiveness:
http://lesswrong.com/lw/hd1/maximizing_your_donations_via_a_job/
http://lesswrong.com/lw/jzq/05_of_amazon_purchases_to_a_charity_of_your/
In general I wonder whether we should have a Financial Effectiveness Repository.
An option that’s 10 times better than the Amazon Smile service in that link is to do all your Amazon shopping via the EA Shop for Charity portal, which earns a 5% commission on all your spending (at no cost for you) for the effective altruist foundation Charity Science, which automatically regrants all this money to GiveWell-recommended charities (currently deworming ones).
Tell All Your Friends!
Also, a Financial Effectiveness Repository is a great idea. Do you want to create that?
Done
Thank you!
I think that’s a great idea! I would have loved to have something like a sequence starting at the fundamentals of Effective Altruism and boiling down to specifics like this.