“New Giving What We Can page on comparing charities (and an updated approach to talking about this topic!)” by Alana HF, Giving What We Can

We’re very excited to publicly announce our new comparing charities page, which takes a different approach than we’ve previously seen to communicating a core premise in effective giving: that where you choose to donate greatly affects how much impact your money will have. Below is a post with some reasoning for why we took the approach we did, and also an explanation of how we’d recommend talking about this concept when using quantifiers. We encourage other effective giving orgs and members of the effective giving community to learn from our mistakes and examine their own language for potential issues with interpretation and clarity. Here's the post (cross-posted on the Giving What We Can blog): Comparing effective giving to other forms of charitable donations: Dos and Don’ts On our homepage and throughout our website, we make a claim that is quite central to the project of effective giving [...] ---Outline:(00:48) Comparing effective giving to other forms of charitable donations: Dos and Don’ts(02:24) Why we changed our language(04:52) Breaking down the claim: You can do 100x more good per dollar by donating to the best charities.(05:01) What this means:(08:06) What this doesn’t mean:(10:53) Concluding thoughtsThe original text contained 1 image which was described by AI. --- First published: December 9th, 2024 Source: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/YAbMDB3GoudgMGrZz/new-giving-what-we-can-page-on-comparing-charities-and-an --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO. ---Images from the article:Apple Podcasts and Spotify do not show images in the episode description. Try Pocket Casts, or another podcast app.