Effective Altruist Project Ideas

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2	a Givewell for medical research
3	a Givewell for economic research		comments
4	an app for happiness, stress and mental health (I've already posted this on the EA London and EA Entrepreneurs pages	Michael Plant	check WHO and queenstown australia on research for this. however app needs to compete with addictiveness with facebook. hard. I use youtube videos of waves/oceans
5	A new charity ratings system: more comprehensive than Givewell and better than CN (Charity Navigator)	Sanjay	To do this, we need to gather data on the cost of the intervention per beneficiary. If you are interested in pursuing this, I'd talk to GiveWell first.
6	donations trading system to maximise gift aid	Richard
7	A peer-to-peer charity fundraising platform - see video at GivTree.com	Max	This is project is already underway, but would really value input
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9	research success and failure of previous social movements	Richard, Ryan, Rob
10	create ea course (mooc) to educate newcomers and allow old hands to learn in more depth (maybe	Richard, Ryan, Rob	Different from the Coursera thing?
11	flesh out eaventures project ideas into more detailed proposals	Richard, Ryan, Rob
12	search for potential ea allies in politics, business, science etc	Richard, Ryan, Rob
13	take action on the proposed ea hub in Thailand project	Richard, Ryan, Rob
14	find out how much money the government spends on things we might be interested in. compare to potential of private donations	Richard, Ryan, Rob
15	pilot study of letter writing campaign (other activists do this and may have advice, e.g. climate change: http://www.hftf.org.uk/how-to-lobby-your-mp/)	Richard, Ryan, Rob
16	find out how campaign groups form and use mass campaigns e.g. amnesty international	Richard, Ryan, Rob
17	organise effective policy conference	Richard, Ryan, Rob
18	organise effective careers fair	Richard, Ryan, Rob
19	Replicate EA policy analysis for the uk http://effective-altruism.com/ea/jv/introducing_effective_altruism_policy_analytics/	Richard
20	Work on existing .impact projects http://effective-altruism.com/ea/jw/may_in_ea_projects/	Richard
21	Adding features to and fixing bugs on the EA forum (from a long queue): https://github.com/tog22/eaforum/issues	Richard
22	Adding features to, fixing bugs on and doing tasks related to EA Hub (from a long queue): https://github.com/tog22/eahub/issues
23	way to display
24	list of celebrities to contact re EA/GWWC, and a strategy for doing so? Already a discussion on .impact	Derek
25	invite any newcomers to EA to the Greg Lewis Why don't doctors do much good? talk at LSHTM on Monday	Derek
26	Compile existing resources/tips/discussions for local EA groups/outreach in http://effective-altruism.wikia.com/wiki/Local_groups (from which we'll add it to http://www.thehighimpactnetwork.org/ and send it round the local effective altruism network)	Tom
27	Pick an existing or new page to improve or add to on the EA Wiki. Ideally then post it to relevant places.	Tom
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