The Giving What We Can Podcast

We recently spoke with Joshua Green, a renowned psychologist and author of the book Moral Tribes. He recently co-founded Giving Multiplier along with a Giving What We Can member Lucius Caviola. Giving Multiplier aims to make it easy to introduce people to effective giving by adding bonus money onto their donations if they include highly effective charities alongside their favourite ones. Giving What We Can members get a special higher matching rate to share with their friends and family. Full transcript and links are available at our blog: https://www.givingwhatwecan.org/post/2021/08/giving-multiplier-interview-with-joshua-greene/    00:00 - Hopes for Giving Multiplier 00:23 - Introduction 00:56 - How Giving Multiplier works 02:16 - Research that led to Giving Multiplier 06:09 - Results to date 06:09 - Results to date 08:20 - How people are discovering Giving Multiplier 08:50 - Special GWWC offer 10:16 - Plans for the future 11:20 - Closing thoughts

By supporting these three cause you could do an astonishing amount of good. Which one do Bill Gates, Grimes, and Stephen Hawking all support? Stay tuned to find out. 00:00 - Introduction 01:20 - 1. Global health and development 01:40 - 1a. Scale 02:00 - 1b. Neglectedness 02:30 - 1c. Tractability 04:19 - 2. Animal welfare 04:52 - 2a. Scale 05:23 - 2b. Neglectedness 05:37 - 2c. Tractability 06:16 - 3. Safeguarding the long-term future 07:50 - 3a. Scale 08:19 - 3b. Neglectedness 09:50 - 3c. Tractability 10:50 - Matching your values to causes

Member Ollie Base who shares why he joined Giving What We Can. Read Ollie's story here: https://givingwhatwecan.org/post/2021/09/member-profile-ollie-base 

We look at three studies on money and happiness to find out when money can buy happiness and when it doesn't. Find the graphs mentioned in the full article by Michael Plant & Julian Hazell: https://www.givingwhatwecan.org/post/2021/06/can-money-buy-happiness-a-review-of-new-data/ Watch the video on our YouTube channel: https://youtu.be/JLfKZCzkBDs  00:00 - Introduction 00:48 - Kahneman and Deaton study 01:18 - Killingsworth study 03:00 - Killingsworth reformatted 04:40 - Are you spending money right? 05:38 - Spending money on others 06:30 - Conclusion STUDIES MENTIONED: - Daniel Kahneman and Angus Deaton (2010): https://www.princeton.edu/~deaton/downloads/deaton_kahneman_high_income_improves_evaluation_August2010.pdf - Matthew A. Killingsworth (2021): https://www.pnas.org/content/118/4/e2016976118 - Elizabeth W. Dunn, Daniel T. Gilbert, Timothy D. Wilson (2010): https://scholar.harvard.edu/files/danielgilbert/files/if-money-doesnt-make-you-happy.nov-12-20101.pdf - Elizabeth W. Dunn, Lara B. Aknin, Michael I. Norton (2008): https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18356530/

Luke Freeman and Josh Ross discuss effective giving, objections to charity, giving and happiness, charities doing good, the cost of improving animal welfare, national differences in generosity, and maximizing charitable impact for personal happiness.

Lucia Colter is a doctor turned charity founder who recently co-founded the Lead Exposure Elimination Project (LEEP).  LEEP works to eliminate lead poisoning worldwide by advocating for the regulation of lead paint. Lucia is also a member of the Giving What We Can community, where she used to be the co-president of our Cambridge chapter. ## SHOW NOTES & TRANSCRIPT https://www.givingwhatwecan.org/post/2021/09/podcast-lucia-coulter/  ## Links Mentioned https://leadelimination.org https://givingwhatwecan.org  https://givingwhatwecan.org/get-involved/videos-books-and-essays/famine-affluence-and-morality-peter-singer/