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EA Forum Podcast (All audio)

Audio narrations from the Effective Altruism Forum, including curated posts, posts with 30 karma, and other great writing. If you"d like fewer episodes, subscribe to the "EA Forum (Curated & Popular)" podcast instead.

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7:25

“Strategic Alliances for a Viable Earth can reduce...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/11/22

Overview Strategic Alliances for a Viable Earth (SAVE) aims to reduce the risk of crossing ecological and social tipping points by having a systemic approach on the interconnected crises that are present today. This is done by connecting actors who have the power to reduce these risks with experts and organizations who know how to reduce these risks by using the networks in SAVE. SAVE is composed of diverse, highly networked, impact-driven, experienced policy advisors; climate activists; management

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6:51

“Replacing feeder rodents for pet snakes” by...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/11/22

TLDR: Hundreds of millions of mice and rats are bred and killed each year as feeder animals for pet snakes, in conditions that resemble the worst of factory farming. We are developing a convenient, cost-competitive, and nutritionally complete snake food made from beef meat, organs, and bones to displace frozen feeder rodents. Cattle to mice is up to 1 to 100,000 replacement and a very strong welfare tradeoff. Products will be on the market in 2026, and will start displacing feeder rodents

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6:49

“OFTW: Early Results from New Growth Strategy” by...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/11/22

Why marginal funding matters for the front door of effective giving. TLDR/ Overview: One for the World's mission is to scale the effective giving movement on poverty and public health. As such, we’re the tip of the spear for effective giving in the English-speaking world. We’ve focused on two target segments: MBA students and early-career professionals in tech, consulting, and finance. This year we’ve seen strong early momentum: pledges up 4× YTD (July 1 → now), ≈$300k moved since July 1, improved

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17:27

“Invest in Futures: Support MSI Reproductive Choices...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/11/21

Summary MSI Reproductive Choices is one of the largest providers of reproductive health services globally. Last year we served more than 23.8 million people and are on track to exceed that in 2025. We work in 36 countries and are highly cost-effective. On average, we can provide a woman with a year of protection from unintended pregnancy for $6.50 You can read more about our cost-effectiveness here. USAID was by far the largest global donor to family planning, and its dissolution has put the

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7:34

“Announcing ClusterFree: A cluster headache advocacy...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/11/21

Today we’re announcing a new cluster headache advocacy and research initiative: ClusterFree Learn more about how you (and anyone) can help.Our mission ClusterFree's mission is to help cluster headache patients globally access safe, effective pain relief treatments as soon as possible through advocacy and research. Cluster headache (also known as ‘suicide headache’) is considered the most painful condition known to mankind. We believe it is one of the largest sources of preventable extreme suffering

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2:45

“Forethought likely has room for more funding” by...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/11/21

I lead Forethought: we research how to navigate the transition to superintelligent AI, and then help people to address the issues we identify. I think we might soon be funding constrained, in the sense that we’ll have more people that we’d like to hire than funding to hire them. (We’re currently in the middle of a hiring round. While we’re still evaluating candidates, we’ve been pleasantly pleased with our applicant pool, and we think that we might want to end up making offers to (or offering

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7:41

“Why Donate to the Center for Reducing Suffering?” by...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/11/21

Center for Reducing Suffering's post for Marginal Funding Week 2025. Quick Summary CRS is a non-profit organization that aims to alleviate and prevent the worst forms of suffering, in the present and in the long-term future, across all sentient beings. We believe reducing suffering is an urgent moral priority and in this post we will share how your support can help us expand our work. What We Do We conduct research with the goal of understanding how to best reduce and prevent suffering. Our outputs

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8:52

“Cost-effectiveness analysis: a data-driven approach...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/11/21

TL;DR: As global challenges grow more complex and resources more constrained, the question is no longer just how much we can do, but how can we feasibly save the most impactful components of lifesaving and lifechanging programming. The social sector has always had to grapple with constrained resources, but the recent seismic shifts in the funding environment are exerting new pressure on changemakers. Leaders are facing difficult tradeoffs: which programs to continue, which to adapt, and how to

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8:55

“EA Connect 2025: (C)EA’s largest event ever is in...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/11/21

Register now! (takes ~1 minute) EA Connect 2025 is two weeks away (December 5–7). We've hit 3,000+ registrations, making this likely the largest EA event CEA has ever run! We expect more than 1,500 of these attendees will be newcomers to EA: people taking their first serious look at the community and trying to figure out how they might get involved. If you're an experienced community member who's attended EAG or EAGx before, we'd value your participation. One of the most important things we can do

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15:16

“Scaling Evidence-Based Mental Health Care Through...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/11/21

TLDR Who we are:Vida Plena(meaning a ‘flourishing life’ in Spanish), which launched in 2022 viaAmbitious Impact/ Charity Entrepreneurship. What We Do: Combat depression and anxiety by fostering hope and connection through community-based group therapy sessions. Why We Do It: Because untreated depression drives immense suffering, yet remains one of the most neglected health burdens in low-resource settings. Where We Work: Ecuador, with plans for regional expansion starting in 2028 Results: 84% of

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22:06

“Shrimp Welfare Project’s path to helping 100 billion...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/11/21

Written as part of the EA Forum's Marginal Funding Week 2025. Exec Summary I believe there's a popular perspective in EA that animal welfare organisations can't absorb much more funding — but I actually think there are ambitious megaprojects in the movement (and within Shrimp Welfare Project specifically) that could each absorb millions of dollars. Shrimp Welfare Project doesn't have a funding gap, fortunately. I'm confident that by maintaining our current funding levels, we can continue to

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21:50

“AWF’s Plan to Deploy $20M+ to Scale Impact for...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/11/21

440 billion farmed shrimp, 1 trillion farmed insects, 85 billion chickens, 100 billion farmed fish. These are the staggering numbers of animals raised in factory farms each year—most suffer in systems where their welfare is an afterthought, if considered at all. But 2025 proved that strategic grantmaking can change the fate of those animals. A single $28,500 grant helped ban cages for 270,000 hens in Slovenia. $290,000 in seed funding launched campaigns that secured welfare commitments for billions

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4:02

“My working group on the best donation opportunities”...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/11/21

Written in my personal capacity. Quick summary: over the past couple of months, I've been spending my free time working with some collaborators to figure out the best ways to donate money and share our takes with prospective donors. We differ from existing orgs in that we're willing to evaluate and recommend time-sensitive opportunities, and we don't shy away from political donation opportunities. If your donation budget is over $30,000year and you're interested in our takes, please email me

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13:37

“EA Animal Welfare Fund 3-Year Grantmaking Strategy”...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/11/20

Read the grantmaking strategy as a visualized PDF here. Over the last year and a half, the Animal Welfare Fund (AWF) has implemented organizational improvements, such as increased staffing, communications, evaluation, and fundraising efforts, enabling us to expand the scope and sustainability of our impact. To capitalize on these changes, we are refining our 3-year grantmaking strategy to maximize our support for non-human animals. In this update, we describe the role we believe AWF can play in

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13:31

“Additional funding would accelerate learning on...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/11/20

TL;DR: We’re testing whether a scalable, digitally-supported, community-based Kangaroo Mother Care model delivered through Dimagi's Connect platform can meaningfully reduce neonatal mortality among small and vulnerable newborns. Early results from Uganda are promising and there is strong interest from local implementers in Nigeria. Marginal funding now would support additional newborns in Uganda, let us expand to Nigeria, and generate the evidence needed to assess key uncertainties to determine

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13:10

“CEEALAR Needs a New Roof” by CEEALAR

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/11/20

We are the Centre for Enabling EA Learning and Research (CEEALAR) (formerly known as the ‘EA Hotel’). TLDR Minimum critical need: £30k for essential roof repairs to prevent building damage. Full 2026 budget: £360k ($476k) to run operations, launch structured programs, and expand capacity What we do: Cost-effective residential incubator supporting ~20 EA researchers and entrepreneurs at a time, at half the cost of major cities. We're the only year-round space in EA where people can live, work, and

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10:07

“Support Talos’ AI policy placements: The talent...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/11/20

TL;DR Talos Network trains and places the next generation of European AI governance talent. We have a strong track record: Between 2022 and 2025,70% (58 / 83) of Talos Alumni successfully transitioned to roles directly contributing to advanced AI policy and safety. Our fellows shape policy: Our fellows now work across the EU AI Office, UK AISI, OECD, think tanks like RAND Europe and CEPS, and national parliaments. AI policy organisations value our work: In a2025 survey of AI safety organisation

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21:26

“Hive’s 2025 in Review and 2026 Plans and Funding...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/11/20

Also posted on the Hive blog. TL;DR The Problem: The farmed animal advocacy movement is up against a trillion-dollar industry. To be effective, we need to be coordinated and strategic, but our potential is often lost due to a lack of shared infrastructure. Our Solution: Hive provides this infrastructure. We are a global, impact-focused "digital home" for over 4,500 farmed animal advocates across 100+ countries, serving as a movement multiplier through our active Slack community, widely-read

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1:41

“Having strict rules on EA Groups WhatsApps helps...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/11/20

I'm Co-Chair of EA Bath, and therefore manage the WhatsApp community for it. A common problem people have in university society group chats is that scammers and bots often join, so to prevent this, every time someone requests to join the group chats, I message them and ask if they are a real student. If they are a real student, I then ask them how they heard about EA, and usually follow up with something like 'Oh, that's really cool! Would you be okay to meet so I can explain what EA is about and

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10:45

“Untapping the Philanthropic Potential in Estonia:...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/11/20

Summary EA Estonia runs Anneta Targalt, the Estonian effective giving donation platform that has moved $317,758 to top-rated effective charities since December 2021. Operating entirely on volunteer capacity, we've already attracted two of Estonia's top 10 wealthiest individuals as donors, but lack the resources to scale. We're seeking $24,020 to hire a 0.5 FTE Platform Coordinator for one year to unlock growth through major donor cultivation, paid advertising, and volunteer team coordination. Our

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