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Perhaps the most important new development is Giving What We Can's reviews of several funds, which people considering donating to said funds should probably take a look at: https://www.givingwhatwecan.org/en-US/why-and-how-gwwc-evaluates-the-evaluators#how-we-chose-which-evaluators-to-investigate-in-2023

Giving What We Can also has its own funds now (one each for global poverty, animal welfare, and longtermism), but they actually say in advance which orgs they're going to regrant those funds to, so this is more like "a convenient way to defer to GWWC's recommendations as explained in the above reviews" than the "give experts more flexibility" model of the other funds.

The Longtermism Fund is now called the Emerging Challenges Fund.

Longview also now has a Nuclear Weapons Policy Fund: https://www.longview.org/fund/nuclear-weapons-policy-fund/

Giving Green now has their own fund: https://www.givinggreen.earth/give

The Life You Can Save has seven different funds: https://www.thelifeyoucansave.org/cause-funds/

There's also some stuff about tax deductions but it's more boring so I'm relegating it to a separate comment.

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As promised, here's the infodump on international tax deductibility.

All of the above funds except for TLYCS's are tax-deductible in the countries that GWWC supports (the U.S., UK, and Netherlands). TLYCS is tax-deductible in the U.S., the UK, and Australia. There are also a number of funds whose purpose is to let people in other countries get tax benefits from donating. (I'm specifically listing the ones that either do their own donation allocation or redirect donations to another fund.)

- Australia (global poverty): https://effectivealtruism.org.au/donate/ ("we conduct our own research, primarily using GiveWell, Open Philanthropy, The Life You Can Save, The Global Priorities Project and academia")

- Australia (climate change): https://effectivealtruism.org.au/environment/donate-environment/ (works with Founders Pledge and Giving Green)

- Canada (various): https://rcforward.org/giving-what-we-can-canada/ (supports the funds on GWWC and also has their own funds; note that IIUC they ran into some regulatory problems last year so it's taking a long time to disburse donations, I don't understand all the details)

- Czech Republic (various): https://effektiv-spenden.org/donate-cz/ (global poverty is based on GiveWell's All Grants Fund; animal welfare, climate change, and longtermism talk to a few different evaluators and list a few specific direct-donation options that they like)

- Denmark (global poverty): https://giveffektivt.dk/#stot (I think this is equivalent to GiveWell's Top Charities Fund)

- Estonia (various): https://annetatargalt.ee/anneta (supports GiveWell's Top Charities Fund, ACE's Recommended Charity Fund, and Founders Pledge's Climate Change Fund)

- Germany (various): https://effektiv-spenden.org/spenden-deutschland/ (same as Czech Republic)

- Netherlands (various): https://doneereffectief.nl/doneren (but I'm not sure why this is necessary since GWWC is also in the Netherlands)

- New Zealand (various): https://thegifttrust.org.nz/donate-to/#fund/id/63e1bfc8a978400745e3a6d6/ (supports the EA Funds, except the EA Infrastructure Fund, and ACE's Recommended Charity Fund)

- New Zealand (global poverty): https://effectivealtruism.nz/donate/ (supports GiveWell's Top Charities Fund)

- New Zealand (climate change): https://thegifttrust.org.nz/how-it-works/carbon-critical-net-zero-fund/ (I think this org does its own research; their targets overlap with those of other EA climate-change funds)

- Norway (global poverty): https://gieffektivt.no/ (supports GiveWell's Top Charities Fund)

- Spain (global poverty): https://ayudaefectiva.org/dona#/ (most recently supported GiveWell's top charities, but split raised funds equally among them rather than by GiveWell's recommended allocation)

- Sweden (various): https://geeffektivt.se/ge#donation (supports GiveWell's Top Charities Fund and All Grants Fund, ACE's Recommended Charities Fund, and Founders Pledge's Climate Change Fund; they also have their own funds which they say are based on recommendations from GiveWell, ACE, and Giving Green)

- Switzerland (various): https://effektiv-spenden.org/spenden-schweiz/ (same as Czech Republic)

Poland has https://www.wiecejdobra.pl, which supports EA charities in several different focus areas, but no funds. Likewise, Spain's Ayuda Efectiva supports a couple non-global-poverty charities.

Also I think donors from any EU country might be able to get tax deductions from donations to any EU charity, which includes everything on GWWC since they have an affiliate in the Netherlands, but I don't understand the details of how this works, you might have to do extra paperwork.

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