Course curriculum

  • 1

    Day 1: Introduction

    • Lecture: Welcome (26 mins)

    • Crowdsourced Lecture Notes

    • Lecture: Impact of Charity Entrepreneurship (16 mins)

    • Feedback: Impact of Charity Entrepreneurship

    • Lecture: When to Start a Charity (19 mins)

    • Feedback: When to Start a Charity

    • Introduction To Projects (10 mins)

    • Project 1: 10 Minute Presentation (3 hours)

    • Project 2: 'Working with me' Documents (3 hours)

    • CE Resource Hub

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    Day 2: Charity entrepreneurship as a career path + comparing cause areas (pt 1)

    • Lecture: Plan B (5 mins)

    • Feedback: Plan B

    • Lecture: Gathering Support for Your Decisions Part 1 (9 mins)

    • Lecture: Gathering Support for Your Decisions Part 2 (13 mins)

    • Feedback: Gathering Support Videos

    • Lecture: Comparing Moral Reasons to Support Different Cause Areas (27 mins)

    • Feedback: Comparing Moral Reasons to Support Different Cause Areas

    • Lecture: Evidence and Epistemology in Different Cause Areas (17 mins)

    • Feedback: Evidence and Epistemology in Different Cause Areas

    • Project 3 : CE's Research Process (3 hours)

    • Project 4: Philosophical Scenarios (2 hours)

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    Day 3: Comparing cause areas (pt 2) + 2023 charity ideas (pt 1)

    • Lecture: The Logistics of Working in Different Cause Areas (31 mins)

    • Feedback: The Logistics of Working in Different Cause Areas

    • Lecture: Introduction to Top Ideas (2 mins)

    • Lecture: Top Idea Report - Tobacco Taxation (17 mins)

    • Lecture: Top Idea Report - Road Traffic Safety with Vicky Cox (25 mins)

    • Project 5: Moral Parliament (2 hours)

    • Project 6: One Minute Pitch Practice (2 hours)

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    Day 4: 2023 top charity ideas (pt 2)

    • Lecture: Top Idea Report - Milkfish in Philippines (18 mins)

    • Lecture: Top Idea Report - Banning live baitfish (13 mins)

    • Lecture: Top Idea Report - Banning low-welfare imports (19)

    • Feedback: Top Idea Videos (collectively)

    • Project 7: Cause Comparison Spreadsheet (3 hours)

    • Project 8: Research Summaries (2 hours)

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    Day 5: Feedback day (and miscellaneous lectures)

    • Feedback Friday Instructions

    • Lecture: Feedback (24 mins)

    • Feedback: Feedback

    • Lecture: Handling Failure (3 mins)

    • Feedback: Handling Failure

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    Day 6: Working with people

    • Lecture: Importance of People (9 mins)

    • Feedback: Importance of People

    • Lecture: Working with People - When To Be Cautious (7 mins)

    • Feedback: When To Be Cautious

    • Lecture: Picking a Co-founder (15 mins)

    • Feedback: Picking a Co-founder

    • Lecture: Working with Your Co-founder (19 mins)

    • Feedback: Working with Your Co-founder

    • Lecture: Strengthening Your Co-founder Relationship (22 mins)

    • Feedback: Strengthening Your Co-founder Relationship

    • Project 9: Co-founder Agreement (3 hours)

    • Project 10: Co-founder Interview (3 hours)

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    Day 7: Decision making + spreadsheets

    • Lecture: Importance of Decision Making (13 mins)

    • Feedback: Importance of Decision Making

    • Lecture: Meta Decision Making (17 mins)

    • Feedback: Meta Decision Making

    • Lecture: Spreadsheets Theory (21 mins)

    • Feedback: Spreadsheets Theory

    • Lecture: Spreadsheets Application (26 mins)

    • Feedback: Spreadsheets Application

    • Project 11: Compare Interventions (3 hours)

    • Project 12: Values and Culture (2.5 hours)

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    Day 8: Theory of Change + Effective Altruism (as a tool)

    • Lecture: Theory Of Change (5 mins)

    • Feedback: Theory Of Change

    • Lecture: Effective Altruism Theory (31 mins)

    • Lecture: Effective Altruism Examples (7 mins)

    • Feedback: Effective Altruism Theory & Examples

    • Project 13: Theory of Change (3 hours)

    • Project 14: Effective Altruism (2 hours)

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    Day 9: External stakeholders

    • Lecture: Talking to and Speaking for Beneficiaries (9 mins)

    • Feedback: Talking to and Speaking for Beneficiaries

    • Lecture: Online Communications (35 mins)

    • Feedback: Online Communications

    • Project 15: Stakeholder Map (3 hours)

    • Project 16: Inclusive Research and Programming (2 hours)

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    Day 10: Feedback day (and miscellaneous lectures)

    • Feedback Friday Instructions

    • Lecture: Managing Your Organization - Patrick (19 mins)

    • Feedback: Managing Your Organization

    • Lecture: Operations - Working with PPF

    • Feedback: Operations - Working with PPF Title

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    Day 11: Rationality

    • Lecture: Rationality Theory (24 mins)

    • Lecture: Rationality in Practice (14 mins)

    • Feedback: Rationality Videos

    • Project 17: Project Pilot (3 hours)

    • Project 18: What's Your Endgame? / Scaling (2.5 hours)

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    Day 12: Experts + Advice (pt 1)

    • Lecture: Experts Theory (16 mins)

    • Lecture: Experts Practice (8 mins)

    • Feedback: Experts Videos

    • Lecture: Importance of Advice (9 mins)

    • Feedback: Importance of Advice

    • Lecture: Getting Advice from Mentors and Funders (14 mins)

    • Feedback: Getting Advice fro Mentors and Funders

    • Lecture: Structuring Your Board (14 mins)

    • Feedback: Structuring Your Board

    • Project 19: Strengths, Weaknesses and Mitigation Measures (3 hours)

    • Project 20: Mentor Connection (1.5 hours)

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    Day 13: Advice (pt 2) + Scaling

    • Lecture: Getting Advice from Academic Experts (6 mins)

    • Lecture: Getting Advice from Policymakers (8 mins)

    • Lecture: Getting Advice From Your Cause Community (9 mins)

    • Lecture: Getting Advice From Other Organizations (7 mins)

    • Feedback: Getting Advice Videos

    • Lecture: What Animal Advocates Can Learn From Medicine And Global Development (26 mins)

    • Feedback: What Animal Advocates Can Learn From Medicine And Global Development

    • Project 21: Expert Consensus (2 hours)

    • Project 22: Project X - The Missing Puzzle Piece 🧩 (3 hours)

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    Day 14: Science + M&E

    • Lecture: Science Theory (19 mins)

    • Lecture: Science Application (6 mins)

    • Feedback: Science Videos

    • Lecture: M&E Theory (15 mins)

    • Feedback: M&E Theory

    • Lecture: Policy M&E (23 mins)

    • Feedback: Policy M&E

    • Project 23: Project Concept Development (3 hours)

    • Project 24: Interpreting and Summarizing Studies (3 hours)

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    Day 15: Feedback day (and miscellaneous lectures)

    • Feedback Friday Instructions

    • Lesson: Evidence & Measurement Worksheet (optional)

    • Feedback: Evidence & Monitoring Worksheet

    • Lecture: Budgeting and Financial Planning (31 mins)

    • Feedback: Budgeting and Financial Planning

    • Lecture: Finance (35 mins)

    • Feedback: Finance

    • Charity idea and co-founder WFM

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    Day 16: Policy

    • Lesson: Policymaking Worksheet

    • Feedback: Policymaking Worksheet

    • Article: Seven (more) Learnings from LEEP

    • Project 25: Policy Advocacy Template (3 hours)

    • Project 26: Policy Intervention Pre-Mortem (3 hours)

    • Feedback: Policy Projects

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    Day 17: Long-term planning

    • Lecture: Long-term Planning Theory (21 mins)

    • Feedback: Long-term Planning Theory

    • Lecture: Communications Part 1 (31 mins)

    • Lecture: Communications Part 2 (32 mins)

    • Feedback: Communications Videos

    • Project 27: Five Year Plan (2.5 hours)

    • Project 28: 15-30 Minute Pitch Practice (3 hours)

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    Day 18: Fundraising (pt 1)

    • Lecture: Importance of Funding (8 mins)

    • Feedback: Importance of Funding

    • Lecture: Fundraising Part 1 (23 mins)

    • Lecture: Fundraising Part 2 (29 mins)

    • Lecture: Fundraising Part 3 (27 mins)

    • Project 29: Budget (3 hours)

    • Project 30: HQ Location Plan (2 hours)

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    Day 19: Fundraising (pt 2) + CEAs

    • Lecture: Fundraising Part 4 (19 mins)

    • Feedback: Fundraising Videos

    • Lecture: Cost-effectiveness Analysis (36 mins)

    • Feedback: Cost-Effectiveness Analysis

    • Lecture: CEA Practice (15 mins)

    • Feedback: CEA Practice

    • Project X: The Missing Puzzle Piece 🧩 Part 2 (3 hours)

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    Day 20: Feedback day (and miscellaneous lectures)

    • Feedback Friday Instructions

    • Lecture: Geographic Assessment (23 mins)

    • Feedback: Geographic Assessment

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    Day 21: In-person week - Geographic assessment (practice)

    • Project 32: Geographic Assessment (4 hours)

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    Day 22: In-person week - CEA (practice)

    • Project 33: CEA (4 hours)

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    Day 23: In-person week - Fundraising and pitching

    • Project 34: One Year Plan (3 hours)

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    Day 24-25: In-person week - Proposal writing

    • Project 35: Project Proposal (3+ hours)

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    Day 26-27: Charity development: Geographic selection (for final proposal)

    • Announcement: Projects Going Forward

    • Bonus: Q&A videos

    • Project 36: Geographic Assessment (Again)

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    Day 28-29: Charity development: CEA (for final proposal)

    • Project 37: CEA (Again)

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    Day 30: Charity development: Proposal feedback

    • Project 38: Values and Culture (Again)

    • Project 39: Co-founder Agreement (Again)

    • Project 40: Name Search

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    Day 31: Charity development: Theory of change

    • Project 41: Theory of Change (Again)

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    Day 32: Charity development: M&E

    • Project 42: M&E Concept and Testing

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    Day 33: Charity development: One year plan

    • Lecture: Strategy with Sam Hilton (11 mins)

    • Lesson: Organizational Strategy Worksheet

    • Project 43: One Year Plan (Again)

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    Day 34: Charity development: Budget

    • Project 44: Budget (Again)

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    Day 35: Charity development: Proposal feedback

    • Feedback Friday Instructions

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    Day 36: Charity development: Pitching

    • Project 45: 3-5 Minute Pitch Practice

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    Day 37: Final proposal

    • Project 46: Project Proposal

    • Feedback this week

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    Day 38: Sharing content for peer feedback

    • Submitting content for peer feedback

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    Day 39: Giving and receiving feedback on draft proposal content

    • Giving feedback

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    Day 40: Handing in project proposal

    • You know what to do :)