My donation log

Donating to the right place is very important. ‘By telling people you donate, you encourage giving norms, which encourages other people to donate. Imagine if, over the course of my life, I encourage just 1 other person to do the same. I’ll have doubled my impact.

As such, it can be said that it’s “more selfish” to donate and not tell anyone than to donate and tell everyone.’ — Michael Dello-Iacovo

You can have it both ways by giving to efficient charities. http://www.givewell.org/

In We can make massive strides towards a more compassionate world, Matthew Glover, co-founder of Veganuary, explains how there are many ways we can help make the world a better place for all sentient animals. Certainly, donating to effective organisations is not something I consider to be the one and only thing one should be doing — but I think that it is a very important and impactful thing to do.

If you still believe that donating is not particularly important, I urge you to read this page from The Life You Can Save.

So, this here is the place where I will be keeping a log of my donations. It will help me keep track and I hope it will inspire you to 1/ research where you should be donating and 2/ donate. I appreciate that donating time also matters and obviously, I am not expecting people in dire situations to be guilt tripped into donating the money they desperately need. I am a school teacher and I find that I can afford these donations.

See the bottom of the page for further (but realistic) reading recommendations.

NOTE: This starts from December 2016 as my records are too sketchy before that and I want to be thorough. I will update this monthly. Currency = AU$

Year 2017

Date — organisation — amount — note

I stopped updating it.

12 November — Fred Hollows Foundation — $100 — I said I would donate $100 to FHF if 2 colleagues went for a jog one morning. They did.

10 November — Animals Australia — $35

10 November — One Step For Animals — $35 for One Step For Animals Australia, advertising on Facebook

30 October — Population Services International — $32.80

16 October — Fred Hollows Foundation — $25

13 October — Animals Australia — $35

29 September — Population Services International — $31.91

15 September — Fred Hollows Foundation — $25

14 September — Animals Australia — $35

29 August — Population Services International — $31,71

28 August — Animals Australia — $600

26 August — One Step For Animals — $1700 — One Step For Animals is a friendly and pragmatic animal advocacy organisation and every donation is doubled by a generous donor! As such, this donation is going to count twice!

23 August — One Step For Animals-Australia — $152

15 August — Fred Hollows Foundation — $25

14 August — Animals Australia — $35

31 July — Population Services International — $31.43

17 July — Fred Hollows Foundation — $25

13 July — Animals Australia — $35

30 June — Population Services International — $33 — Monthly donation

15 June — Fred Hollows Foundation — $25 — Monthly donation

14 June — Animals Australia — $35 — Monthly donation

30 May — Population Services International — $33.69 — Monthly donation

15 May — Animals Australia — $35 — Monthly donation

30 April — Population Services International — $33.50 — Monthly donation

18 April — Animals Australia — $35 — Monthly donation

30 March — Population Services International — $33 — Monthly donation

21 Mar — Fred Hollows Foundation — $75 (indirectly) — See below

21 Mar — Animals Australia — $? / advocacy — I bought 3 copies of Animals Australia’s new cookbook to give to colleagues as gifts if they pledged to donate $25 to Fred Hollows Foundation.

15 Mar — Against Malaria Foundation — $25 — Birthday gift for a friend

15 Mar — Animals Australia — $35 — Monthly donation

02 March — Animal Justice Party — time donated organising an event which raised about $400

28 Feb — Population Services International — $32.63 — Monthly donation I just set up.

15 Feb — Animals Australia — $35 — Monthly donation

09 Feb — Animal Justice Party — $20 — Political Party supporting non-human animals

26 Jan — Edgar’s Mission — $100 — Animal Sanctuary doing excellent outreach work

17 Jan — Amnesty International — $20 — Monthly donation

11 Jan — Animals Australia — $35 — Monthly donation

3 Jan — Population Services International — $357.40 — Effective health education in the developing world

Year 2016

Date — organisation — amount — note

21 Dec — Animals Australia — $1,000 — An outstanding organisation doing top notch animal advocacy

19 Dec — Amnesty International — $20 — Monthly donation

13 Dec — Memphis Meats — $669.37 — Supporting science and technology to help animal advocacy

11 Dec — Animals Australia — $35 — Monthly donation

From each according to their ability, to each according to their need

Now if I may, One Step for the Animals is an organisation I’d personally like you to consider including in your donations because I think it’s a great initiative based on being effective, plus I’m actually working on setting up a branch in Australia, too.

FURTHER READING:

Other donation logs:

Michael Dello-Iacovo (Effective Altruism Autralia): His log. His explanations.

Articles:

Time to donate! (and why animal causes are a great choice) by Tobias Leenaert

Effective giving to reduce global suffering and death? It’s a no brainer by The Life You Can Save

Notes on Giving Away my First $100,000 by Mr. Money Mustache

Ways to Help by Animal Charity Evaluators

Books:

The Most Good You Can Do, Peter Singer

The Life You Can Save, Peter Singer