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A curated list of resources on how to do the most good
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A curated list of resources on how to do the most good

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URL: https://github.com/henryaj/awesome-effective-altruism
Owner: henryaj
License: cc0-1.0
Created: 2018-08-24T12:58:03.000Z (about 6 years ago)
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        # Awesome Effective Altruism  [![Awesome](https://awesome.re/badge.svg)](https://awesome.re)

> A curated list of resources on _how to do the most good_.

_Inspired by [awesome lists](https://github.com/sindresorhus/awesome)._

Feel free to improve this list.

## Contents

- [What is effective altruism?](#what-is-effective-altruism)

- [The Basics](#the-basics)

- [Essential reading](#essential-reading)

- [Charity evaluators](#charity-evaluators)

- [Popular causes](#popular-causes)

- [Join the discussion](#join-the-discussion)

- [EA Organizations](#ea-organisations)

- [See also](#see-also)

## What is effective altruism?¹

Effective altruism is about answering one simple question: how can we use our resources to help others the most?


Rather than just doing what feels right, we use evidence and careful analysis to find the very best causes to work on.


Working on a cause is likely to be high impact to the extent that it is:




  

Great in scale (it affects many people’s lives, by a great amount)

  

Highly neglected (few other people are working on addressing the problem), and

  

Highly solvable (additional resources will do a great deal to address it).



## The Basics

* [Introduction to Effective Altruism](https://www.effectivealtruism.org/articles/introduction-to-effective-altruism/)

* [Effective Altruism Handbook](https://www.effectivealtruism.org/handbook/)

* [Effective Altruism: How Can We Best Help Others?](https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/874692)

## Essential reading

* [80,000 Hours Career Guide](https://80000hours.org/career-guide/)

* [Hits-based Giving](https://www.openphilanthropy.org/blog/hits-based-giving)

* [Money: The Unit of Caring](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/ZpDnRCeef2CLEFeKM/money-the-unit-of-caring)

## Charity evaluators

* [GiveWell](https://www.givewell.org/) - evaluates and promotes outstanding human health interventions

* [Animal Charity Evaluators](https://animalcharityevaluators.org/) - researching highly effective charities that help animals

## Popular causes

**Funds**

Increasingly, donors are choosing to give money to "funds" – organisations which regrant money to the current-best charitable organizations.

* [EA Funds](https://app.effectivealtruism.org/funds) - a way to donate more effectively through philanthropic managed funds

* [Let's Fund](https://lets-fund.org) - a curated crowdfunding site focusing on high-impact neglected charities.

* [Raising for Effective Giving](https://reg-charity.org/fund/)

**Popular charities**

| **Global development** | **Animal welfare** | **Far future & existential risk** | **Community-building** |

|:---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------:|:----------------------------------------------------------------:|:-------------------------------------------------------------------:|:----------------------------------------------------------------------------:|

| [Against Malaria Foundation (AMF)](https://www.againstmalaria.com/)^a | [Animal Equality](https://animalequality.org/)^b | [OpenAI](http://openai.com) | [Centre for Effective Altruism](https://www.centreforeffectivealtruism.org/) |

| [GiveDirectly](https://givedirectly.org/)^a | [The Humane League](http://www.thehumaneleague.com/)^b | [Future of Humanity Institute](https://www.fhi.ox.ac.uk/) | [LEAN (Local Effective Altruism Network)](https://rtcharity.org/lean/) |

| [Schistosomiasis Control Initiative (SCI)](https://www.imperial.ac.uk/schistosomiasis-control-initiative)^a | [The Good Food Institute](http://www.gfi.org/)^b | [MIRI](https://intelligence.org/) |  |

| [Evidence Action](https://www.evidenceaction.org/)^a | [Mercy for Animals](https://mercyforanimals.org/) | [Center for the Study of Existential Risk](https://www.cser.ac.uk/) |  |

| [Malaria Consortium](http://www.malariaconsortium.org/) | [Sentience Institute](https://www.sentienceinstitute.org/) | [Future of Life Institute](https://futureoflife.org/) |  |

| [Helen Keller International](http://www.hki.org/) | [Compassion in World Farming USA](https://www.ciwf.com/) | [Global Catastrophic Risk Institute](https://gcrinstitute.org/) |  |

| [Sightsavers](https://www.sightsavers.org/) | [Faunalytics](https://faunalytics.org/) | [ALLFED](http://allfed.info/) |  |

| [The End Fund](http://www.end.org/) | [Animal Ethics](http://www.animal-ethics.org/) | [Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative](http://existence.org/) |  |

|  | [Humane Slaughter Association](https://www.hsa.org.uk/) | [Center for Human-Compatible AI](https://humancompatible.ai/) |  |

**a**: recommended by [GiveWell](https://www.givewell.org/) 


**b**: recommended by [Animal Charity Evaluators](https://animalcharityevaluators.org/)

### Global health

* [The Drowning Child and the Expanding Circle](http://effective-altruism.com/ea/6u/the_drowning_child_and_the_expanding_circle/)

### Animal welfare

* [Why Farmed Animals?](https://animalcharityevaluators.org/donation-advice/why-farmed-animals/)

* [The Importance of Wild Animal Suffering](https://foundational-research.org/the-importance-of-wild-animal-suffering/)

### Existential risk

* [Existential Risk: Diplomacy and Governance](https://www.fhi.ox.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/Existential-Risks-2017-01-23.pdf)

* [There's No Fire Alarm for Artificial General Intelligence](https://intelligence.org/2017/10/13/fire-alarm/)

* [Morality, Foresight, and Human Flourishing: An Introduction to Existential Risks](https://www.risksandreligion.org/)

### Outreach and community-building 

TODO

## Join the discussion

* Find a local EA chapter near you!

* Go to an [EA conference](https://www.eaglobal.org/events/)

## EA Organizations

* [80,000 Hours](https://80000hours.org/) – advice on finding a fun, impactful career

  * [To find work you love, don't follow your passion](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKlx1DLa9EA) 🎥

* [Centre for Effective Altruism](https://www.centreforeffectivealtruism.org/) - helping to grow and maintain the effective altruism movement

* [Effective Altruism Foundation/Stiftung für Effektiven Altruismus](https://ea-foundation.org/) - developing, promoting, and implementing effective altruism

* [Foundational Research Institute](https://foundational-research.org) – examining how humanity can best reduce suffering

## See also

* [Priority Wiki](http://priority.wiki/) - a cause prioritization website that anyone can edit

* [EA Blogs](http://eablogs.net/) - an EA blog aggregator

* [LessWrong](https://www.lesswrong.com) - community blog for rationalists

* [Slate Star Codex](http://slatestarcodex.com) - a blog about many things, including rationality and effective altruism

[1] Excerpted from the [Effective Altruism Handbook](https://www.effectivealtruism.org/handbook/), © Centre for Effective Altruism 2018.