“Announcing the Rethink Priorities Cross-Cause Fund” by Rethink Priorities

About this episode

The episode announces the launch of the Rethink Priorities Cross-Cause Fund aimed at strategic cross-cause prioritization in effective giving.

TL;DR Today, based on our multi-year prioritization research, we launch the Rethink Priorities Cross-Cause Fund (CCF). The fund pools donors’ contributions and allocates them to high-impact giving funds across Global Health and Development, Animal Welfare, and Global Catastrophic Risks. Key highlights from this post: We believe that strategic cross-cause prioritization is an important step in doing good at scale. This fund is for donors who want their donation to go where a marginal dollar is likely to do the most good across cause areas, all things considered. We modeled key uncertainties that matter for cross-cause prioritization: moral weights, time discounting, risk attitudes, aggregation across ethical views, AI-related uncertainty, and empirical uncertainty within each giving opportunity. We present the current recommended allocation of marginal resources across high-impact funds in each of the three cause areas mentioned above. In addition, we’re introducing you to the first version of the Donor Compass, a tool to help donors explore cross-cause giving, powered by our cross-cause prioritization model. It is a short quiz that outputs custom giving allocations based on the…

Topics covered

• effective giving
• cross-cause prioritization
• high-impact funds
• donor strategies
• moral and empirical uncertainty

Keywords

• Rethink Priorities
• Cross-Cause Fund
• high-impact giving
• donor compass
• moral weights
• time discounting
• risk attitudes

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Rethink Priorities, Global Health and Development, Animal Welfare, Global Catastrophic Risks

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