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“How we started our own EA charity (and why we decided to wrap up)” by KvPelt🔹, Ren Ryba
This post shares our journey in starting an Effective Altruism (EA) charity/project focused on Mediterranean fish welfare, the challenges we faced, our key learnings, and the reasons behind our decision to conclude the project. Actual research results are published in a Literature review and article.
Key points
The key points of this post are summarized as follows:
- We launched a project with the goal of enhancing fish welfare in Mediterranean aquaculture.
- We chose to limit our project to gathering information and decided against continuing our advocacy efforts after our initial six months.
- Our strategy, which focused on farmer-friendly outreach, was not effective in engaging farmers.
- The rationale behind our decision is the recognition that existing organizations are already performing excellent work, and we believe that funders should support these established organizations instead of starting a new one.
- The support and resources from the Effective Altruism (EA) and [...]
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Outline:
(00:27) Key points
(01:48) Personal/Project background
(03:01) Why work on Mediterranean fish welfare?
(07:07) Project plans and initial work
(11:03) Initial work
(13:47) Farmer outreach
(20:45) Wrapping up the project
(22:30) Other takeaways from starting a project
(24:48) Resources for launching a new charity
The original text contained 1 footnote which was omitted from this narration.
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First published:
February 26th, 2024
Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.
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