"While I am passionate about helping others as much as possible, I personally do not give to GiveWell’s recommend charities any more, because I think better options are being uncovered, for example by GiveWell’s sister project, the Open Philanthropy Project. Does that mean I don’t agree with ‘effective altruism’? No. A lot of vegetarians like kale, but just because you don’t like kale doesn’t mean you eat meat. Similarly, I can think some scientific paper reached the wrong conclusion, without disagreeing with the goal of expanding our understanding of the natural world, let alone the scientific method."

Our regular monthly social meetup, open to all. Just come by whenever and have a chat with other aspiring effective altruists! If there are many curious people, we will give a short intro to EA pitch at 7:30. We're usually there until 10pm. You will find us in the back lounge area or on the terrace if the weather allows it. Please, take twenty seconds to sign-up, so that we can stay in touch with you afterwards: https://goo.gl/forms/tRz0qpdfMUHCOkJt1

Improving the world through effective policy-making? That's discussed once a month at the Global Policy Afterwork of GeM Labs, your next chance to join is on the 8th August: https://www.facebook.com/events/526517074346120/

"Beyond making big lifestyle decisions such as choosing to live in a dense urban area with public transportation, cutting red meat out of your diet, and having fewer children (or none at all), there are diminishing returns to the energy you put into avoiding plastic or making sure your old AAs end up in the appropriate receptacle. Globally, we’re projected to spend $9.32 billion in 2017 on green cleaning products. If we had directed even a third of that pot of money (the typical markup on green cleaning products) toward lobbying our governments to ban the toxic chemicals we’re so afraid of, we might have made a lot more progress by now."

Our regular social meetup at the Ethno Bar; every 3rd Tuesday of the month, open to all. Just come by whenever and have a chat with other aspiring effective altruists! We're usually there until 10pm. You will find us in the back lounge area or on the terrace if the weather allows it. Please, take twenty seconds to sign-up, so that we can stay in touch with you afterwards: https://goo.gl/forms/tRz0qpdfMUHCOkJt1

Want to join a community of aspiring effective altruists who are interested in policy related topics? Join us on July 4th at an afterwork event of the Geneva Macro Labs!

Yesterday, Geneva Macro Labs successfully launched their activity - an ambitious project to work on global coordination and concrete problem-solving by leveraging the unique collective intelligence around Lake Geneva. The idea was conceived at one of our social meetups and it seems promising. We'd be happy if you show this project your support!

While the ITU hosts the 'AI for Good Global Summit 2017', Effective Altruism Geneva welcomes summit attendees to a social dinner and drinks at restaurant Vapiano, beginning at 19:45h on the 8th June 2017. The event is open to AI experts, policy experts, and aspiring-effective altruists alike. We look forward to seeing you there and building connections between experts interested in ensuring the positive impact of AI. [Not an official side event. Image accreditation: Leendert Botha, http://ml.sun.ac.za/people/leendert-botha/]

"We welcome applicants from individuals of any background and hope that applicants will include senior professionals and academics as well as recent graduates. Our hope is to fund a diverse array of projects, both in terms of causes and approaches. In terms of length and size, we are both looking to give large grants to longer projects (up to £100,000, e.g., over more than a year), and smaller grants to shorter projects, or parts of projects (e.g., £10,000 (~$13,000) over a three-month period). The smaller grants could go to applicants who wish to transition into a more impactful career or who want to get started on a larger project. Grants of any size may be renewed. If you have a project that would require significantly more than £100,000, we still encourage you to apply as we may be able to find you funding from other sources." https://www.effectivealtruism.org/grants/

Is philanthropy getting smarter? Yes, it is! But there is still a lot of room for fairly easy improvements.

Last Thursday, our co-president Max' Stauffer was invited to give an 'Intro to EA' guest lecture to graduates working in the development sector at the John D. Gerhart Center AUC in Cairo. We received a lot of great feedback and are looking forward to further exchange!

We are launching our first bigger project: Geneva Macro Labs We want to leverage Lake Geneva's collective intelligence with you to shape international collaboration. Geneva Macro Labs (GeM Labs) will build an innovative community and platform to identify, develop and advance promising solutions to the world's most crucial problems. Join us for our first event: https://www.facebook.com/events/1874667162800439/