EA - Suggest new charity ideas for Charity Entrepreneurship by CE

Link to original articleWelcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Suggest new charity ideas for Charity Entrepreneurship, published by CE on March 8, 2023 on The Effective Altruism Forum.At Charity Entrepreneurship (CE) we launch high-impact nonprofits by connecting entrepreneurs with the effective ideas, training and funding needed to launch and succeed.Each year our research team collates hundreds and hundreds of ideas for promising new charities. We scour the research, we talk to colleagues in partner organisations and we solicit ideas from academia.We then vet these ideas and whittle them down to the top ~3. We create detailed reports about these top ideas and then we recruit, train and fund entrepreneurs to take these ideas and make them a reality. In 5 years we've launched over 23 exceptional organisations. You can read more about charities we incubated here.In 2023 Charity Entrepreneurship will be researching two new cause areas: mass media interventions and preventative animal advocacyWe want your ideas!!!Prize: If you give us an idea which leads to a new charity then you will win: A copy of the Charity Entrepreneurship handbook, a box of vegan cookies and $100 to a charity of your choice. And more importantly, a new charity will be started!Notes: If multiple people submit the same idea we will give the award to the first submission. Max 5 prizes will be awarded. If you submit an idea already on our list, you are still eligible for a prize.Please submit your ideas into this form by end of the day Sunday 12th March.[SUBMIT]Mass mediaThe cause area:By ‘mass media’ intervention we refer to (1) social and behaviour change communication campaigns delivered through (2) mass media aiming to improve (3) human wellbeing.Definitions:1. Social and Behavior Change Communication (SBCC) – The strategic use of communication to promote positive outcomes, based on proven theories and models of behavior change (more here).2. Mass media – Mass communication modes that reach a very large audience where any targeting of segmented audiences can be mass applied (e.g. would include online advertising that targets relevant audiences but not posters in health centers) (more here). Examples include: TV, Radio, Mobile phones, Newspapers, Outdoor advertising.3. Human wellbeing – For our purposes, wellbeing refers broadly to areas of human health, development and poverty.Headline metricOur key metrics for the quantitative side of this research will be DALYs averted or % income increases. We will likely compare across these metrics using a moral weight formula. We may set our own moral weights or use recent moral weights by GiveWell (e.g. from here). Note that the use of this as a headline metric does not mean that other factors (autonomy, environmental effects, suffering not captured by DALYs) are excluded, although they may not be explicitly quantified.Scope limitationsCurrently, all interventions that could reasonably be considered mass media are in scope. If in doubt, assume it is in scope.Example ideasNote: there is no guarantee that any of the following ideas make it past the initial filterPromoting healthier dietsPromoting CBT tools for stressMessaging against tobacco use with resources for quittingSignposting to available support in cases of abuse, violence, etc.Anti-suicide campaignsChanging HIV attitudesPromotion cancer screening (cervical, breast, bowel, prostate, etc.)Information campaigns about criminal politiciansEncouraging lower sugar consumptionPreventative animal advocacyThe cause area:The focus this year is on intervention and policies that prevent future harms done to animals as opposed to solving current problems. We will be looking for interventions that as well as having some short run evidence of impact will prevent future problems i.e. have the biggest impact on farmed animals in the future, say ...