Happy to share that I got this article promoting effective giving, and especially advocating The Against Malaria Foundation, GiveWell, and The Life You Can Save, published in The Huffington Post! It's part of my broader work at Intentional Insights to promote effective giving and rational thinking to a broad audience effectively, by using modern promotion and marketing methods.
Our goals with this and similar articles is to channel both money to effective charities and encourage people to think about donations in a rational, science-based, data-driven manner. These articles are also aimed to be a good fit for people committed to effective giving to share with others on social media, to help encourage others to adopt effective giving strategies, since the articles are aimed to be easy to read and engaging.
I'd love your feedback on how well you think this article works in accomplishing the goals outlined above, both strengths and weaknesses, to help me improve my writing and to help Intentional Insights improve its efforts. Would you share this on your social media? Why or why not?
Also, I would value any ideas on how to evaluate the impact gained from channeling people's money and thinking toward effective giving, as that's something we at Intentional Insights are trying to figure out. What are good approaches to estimating this number? The best we came up with so far is a first-order intuitive gut reactions of how much would you pay to not have this article and its influence on people disappear, so I'd be curious about your response to this question.
P.S. I'd be glad to speak to anyone who wants to know more about and collaborate on promoting effective giving and rational thinking effectively, by using modern promotion and marketing methods, my email is gleb@intentionalinsights.org or PM me
!['Hey folks, can use some problem-solving feedback about money.
As many of you know, I lead the nonprofit @[1390196814536100:274:Intentional Insights], whose goal is to address the thinking errors that research in behavioral science shows cause us to make bad decisions. Poor decisions in our everyday life really harms our happiness and success. Poor decisions in political, civic, and economic settings result in fundamental challenges and dangerous risks, including catastrophic and existential risks, for our society.
The large majority of the population is not aware of these thinking errors, and our goal is to both make them aware of these errors and provide them with tools to address these problems. Here's a basic article about such thinking errors if you don't know too much about them yourself: http://intentionalinsights.org/autopilot-vs-intentional-system-the-rider-and-the-elephant
We've been having some big successes in getting these messages out there. You can scroll through my FB feed for the last couple of weeks to see notable examples. We are clearly making a difference in influencing both public discourse and the lives of individuals. We also have a bunch of supporters in the Intentional Insights Insiders which I welcome you to join if you consider yourself a supporter of Intentional Insights :-)
https://www.facebook.com/groups/InInInsiders/
Yet we haven't been able to monetize the positive value we bring to individuals and our society. We regularly ask people for donations, but only have a small group of donors, and my wife and I pay for the large majority of the organization's $42,000 annual budget - about $36,000. We can't do this for much longer, and the organization will have to shut down in less than a year if we don't figure out a way to make the organization financially sustainable. BTW, I welcome you to donate if you support the organization's goals and appreciate its accomplishments, and encourage you remember Edmund Burke's quote: "nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little": http://intentionalinsights.org/view/donate
Yet my post is not about donations - it's about brainstorming ways to monetize the value of the organization. I know for myself that I am not very financially savvy. Other people in leadership positions are not very savvy either.
So I would like to ask you all to help provide feedback on the following:
1) How would you convince potential donors of the benefits of donating to Intentional Insights?
2) What kind of potential donors should we be looking for and where and how can we find these donors?
3) What other strategies could we be pursuing for monetizing the value we bring to individuals and society besides seeking donations?
Thank you for your thoughts!'](https://scontent.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-0/p100x100/14492547_1292981697418980_23134582265686309_n.jpg?oh=6a1dacb6a1e1f175a366117aee2152c5&oe=589910FD)
