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Giving the first £10,000 | Rohan's Rambles

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TL;DR: I’ve donated to some high-impact charities in animal welfare, malaria prevention, and poverty reduction, and it’d be amazing if you considered doing the same. While I think money given to any of these interventions has at least two orders of magnitude more impact than the average, animal welfare is perhaps 100x as impactful per dollar as malaria prevention, which in turn has a 10-20x advantage over direct cash transfers. When I’m choosing what to write about here, normally I pick topics that feel especially exciting or interesting in that moment – but that means that there’s a skew away from the issues I consistently think are important, like transformative AI See a recent piece by Julia Wise for more on this. or altruism. This is a first attempt to push back against that and focus on something I care a lot about but which now, to me, feels mundane: taking the Giving What We Can🔸10% Pledge to donate one-tenth of my income to high-impact charities. Donations I’ve made since mak

Giving the first £10,000 | Rohan's Rambles Giving the first £10,000 First published: 01 April 2025 ; Last modified: 10 May 2025 Contains some discussion of factory farming and global poverty. TL;DR : I've donated to some high-impact charities in animal welfare , malaria prevention , and poverty reduction , and it'd be amazing if you considered doing the same. While I think money given to any of these interventions has at least two orders of magnitude more impact than the average, animal welfare is perhaps 100x as impactful per dollar as malaria prevention, which in turn has a 10-20x advantage

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