Short excerpt of a study of management students and their potential impact created in just one year, if they would donate e.g. just 5% of their expected annual income to the High Impact/effective charities becoming Effective Altruists. --- Effective altruism is a philosophy and social movement that applies evidence and reason to determine the most effective ways to improve the world. Effective altruists aim to consider all causes and actions, and then act in the way that brings about the greatest positive impact.

1. Effective Altruism:
Global Leadership for High Impact
EXCERPT: IMPACT OF A MANAGEMENT CLASS OF 62 STUDENTS
By Akilnathan Logeswaran 2015 | CEMS International Management Student | WU Wien | IIM Calcutta

2. Survey: How much do you expect your
Annual Starting Salary (incl. bonus) to be?
[in Euros]
Timestamp
Annaul Starting
Salary
6/24/2015 19:00:20 65000
6/24/2015 19:09:18 32000
6/24/2015 19:09:24 28000
6/24/2015 19:09:44 45000
6/24/2015 19:09:53 33000
6/24/2015 19:10:30 35000
6/24/2015 19:14:46 65000
6/24/2015 19:15:27 2000
6/24/2015 19:20:56 70000
6/24/2015 19:34:37 49000
Timestamp
Annaul Starting
Salary
6/24/2015 19:35:02 42500
6/24/2015 19:55:33 24000
6/24/2015 20:51:41 60000
6/24/2015 21:00:18 22000
6/24/2015 21:17:30 confidental
6/24/2015 21:24:43 15000
6/24/2015 21:26:19 55000
6/24/2015 21:38:39 48000
6/24/2015 21:48:03 65000
6/24/2015 22:17:24 10000
Timestamp
Annaul
Starting
Salary
6/24/2015 22:45:23 55000
6/24/2015 22:58:12 32000
6/24/2015 22:59:16 45000
Calculations
Average 42,642.85
Total
(62 students)
2,643,857.14
5% donations
would
amount to
132,192.86
Calculations excluded time stamp 6/24/2015 19:15:27 & 6/24/2015 21:17:30.

3. 2,643,857€Total that the entire class of 62 management students is expected to earn in 2016

4. What effect could
our class have in
just one year?!

5. Calculating Potential Impact of the CEMS
Class of 2015 (62 Students)
Total Salary
*
5% Donation
Selecting
Weights
Selecting
Organization
Effectiveness
Potential Impact
created by Class
2,643,857.14 * 5%
=
132,192.86 €
33.33%
0.35€ for treatment to
deworm a child
125,885 people
dewormed
33.33%
31.34€ provides a
child with school meal
program for one year
1,405 children
provided school meals
for an entire year
33.33%
44.64€ funds a
cataract surgery for
one person
987 people
cured from blindness
Effectiveness evaluted by GiveWell, The Life You Can Save & Giving What We Can.

6. If we gave just 5%
of our salary to
effective NGOs…

7. 125,885people dewormed

8. +

9. 1,405children provided with school meals for the full year

10. +

11. 987people cured from blindness

12. Effective Altruism:
Are you an Altruist?
 TEST:
Would you push a button that gave you 10 euros
AND inflict a horrible disease on a child?
 Would you push the button?
 Omission Bias:
What if you already have the 10 euros, would you give them away
in order to prevent a horrible disease in a child?
 Currently there are:
 2.5 billion people are living in extreme poverty (less than $ 2/day)
 1 bilion people that lack access to clean water
 800 people go to bed hungry every day
 6 milion children die from preventable diseases every year
… all while we live in the richest society that has ever been created.

13. Charity Evaluation:
Top International Evaluating Organizations
(Effective Altruism Supporters)
 Give well helps donors decide
where to give
 Charities Evaluated: 8 top charities,
>800 International
 Members to evaluate: 18 full-time
staff and 8 Conversation Notes
Writers
 Impact: $27.8 million moved to
effective charities in 2014
 Finance:
http://www.givewell.org/about/FAQ
#HowdoesGiveWellsupportitself
 The Life You Can Save
enhances and supports the
Effective Altruism
movement
 Charities Evaluated:
List of 15 top charities
 Members to evaluate: 10
team members
 Impact: $718,790 moved to
effective charities in 2014
 Finance:
http://www.thelifeyoucansav
e.org/About-Us/Impact-
Report
 Giving What We Can dedicated
to eliminating extreme poverty
 Charities Evaluated:
no primary research, list of top 4
 Members to evaluate: 10 team
members, volunteer work
 Impact: For every $1 spend, up
to $60 donated to effective
charity
 Finance:
https://www.givingwhatwecan.or
g/about-us/our-finances
 ACE dedicated to find &
advocate for highly effective
opportunities for improving the
lives of animals
 Charities Evaluated: top 3,
>150 international
 Members to evaluate: 8 team
members, remote volunteers
 Impact: $141,000 moved to
most effective charities in 2014
 Finance:
http://www.animalcharityevalua
tors.org/about/transparency/bu
dget/

14. Remember
128,277+lifes we could change in just one year

15. Short Introduction:
Effective Altruism on TED
Beth Barnes (6 min) Peter Singer (17 min)

16. 17,876+people already pledged to donate X% of the income

17. Pledge
Today!

18. 17,876+people already pledged to donate X% of the income

19. Sources (1/3)
TED Talks:
 Peter Singer: The why and how of effective altruism (17 min),
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Diuv3XZQXyc
 Effective Altruism | Beth Barnes (6 min), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LtWINl3C_7s
 Choosing for effective altruism | Helen Toner (10 min),
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRmkk2PmNcY
Other videos available on YouTube:
 Effective Altruism: Impact through Rationality - by Lucius Caviola and Adriano Mannino (58
min), https://youtu.be/O02-06mdkC4
 Adriano Mannino: Effective altruism for all sentient beings (91 min),
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFPqBJewI60
 Peter Singer: "Doing the Most Good: The Effective Altruism Movement“ (57 min),
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDiR6L9yuKM

20. Sources (2/3)
Books on Effective Altruism:
 Carey, R. (2015), The Effective Altruism Handbook
 Singer, P. (2015), The Most Good You Can Do: How Effective Altruism is Changing Ideas about Living Ethically
 Singer, P. (2010), The Life You Can Save: How to Do Your Part to End World Poverty
 MacAskill, W. (2015), Doing Good Better: Effective Altruism and How You Can Make a Difference
Cousera Course by Princeton University: https://www.coursera.org/learn/altruism/
Organizations that evaluate causes and charities:
 GiveWell, http://www.givewell.org/
 The Life You Can Save, http://www.thelifeyoucansave.org/
 Giving What We Can, https://www.givingwhatwecan.org/
 Animal Charity Evaluators, http://www.animalcharityevaluators.org/

21. Sources (3/3)
Short articles on effective altruism:
The Drowning Child and the Expanding Circle by Peter Singer
What is Effective Altruism? by William MacAskill
Cheerfully by Julia Wise
Other introductory articles on effective altruism can be found on effective-altruism.org.
Other useful effective altruism websites:
Effective Altruism, a network of individuals committed to effective altruism
80,000 Hours, a non-profit organization dedicated to enabling people to do the most
good with their careers.