Where To Give To Movement Building?

By Bentham's Bulldog @ 2025-11-05T21:43 (+22)

Effective altruism movement building seems potentially very high impact. I remember once seeing estimates that each dollar spent in it raised many dollars of EA donations. Does anyone know of good places to donate for movement growth and or estiamtes of its effectiveness?

Richard Y Chappell🔸 @ 2025-11-05T23:56 (+13)

EA Infrastructure Fund or Giving What We Can? For the latter, "our best-guess giving multiplier for [2023-24] was approximately 6x".

Vasco Grilo🔸 @ 2025-11-06T12:11 (+2)

Here is the post presenting GWWC's impact evaluation (I also looked into it), and here is a post from Melanie Basnak reflecting on Open Philanthropy's (OP's) grantmaking on effective giving.

Bentham's Bulldog @ 2025-11-06T02:27 (+2)

Thanks!

Rockwell @ 2025-11-06T12:55 (+3)

Consider directly supporting regional EA organizations. Funding is overwhelmingly coming from the same few sources, which makes these organizations more vulnerable and more subject to their funders' visions.

James Herbert @ 2025-11-06T13:20 (+2)

You can donate directly to EA Netherlands here ;)

Felix Wolf 🔸 @ 2025-11-06T22:13 (+1)

Or EA Germany here. Always depends on what you want.

James Herbert @ 2025-11-06T13:27 (+2)

I think the Infrastructure Fund is your best bet, or maybe chat with CEA about donating directly to the Groups Team or the CBG programme?

And of course, you can donate directly to movement builders like EA Netherlands ;)

This quarter, we're conducting a Qualitative Impact Protocol study with Bath SDR to assess, learn from, and demonstrate the impact of their work, but if you can't wait for those results, feel free to book a call with me to chat about how we do things.