“Organise a Donation Admin Party This Year” by Christoph Hartmann 🔸

<p> Donating is a pretty lonely experience: You research charities, click through a bunch of forms and wire the money. To me, it feels like doing taxes. But it doesn't have to be this way!</p><p> The last two years we organised Donation Admin Parties to do it all together. Below is a picture from the last one at EA Amsterdam's office. It's not just fun, it's also impactful: One of the events somebody mentioned they wouldn't have donated otherwise because they felt a lack of motivation.</p><p><strong> How the event works</strong></p><p> I'm sure this can be done in lots of ways but what worked for us best</p><ul> <li> Walk-in: People get to know each other, start talking about donations</li><li> Pizza: Do a round of where people are in their journey, what they are planning to do today, any questions</li><li> Admin: Everybody gets their laptop out and figures out how much to donate where, does the donations</li><li> Celebration: Whenever somebody is done, they announce it, get celebrated, and it slowly morphs into a social hang</li></ul><p> Whenever we did it we tried to avoid talking about how much money was being donated in absolute terms. This shouldn't feel like a competition but a [...]</p> <p>---</p><p><strong>Outline:</strong></p><p>(00:51) How the event works</p><p>(01:36) It takes two hours to organize</p> <p>---</p>

<p><b>First published:</b><br/>

October 18th, 2026 </p>

<p><b>Source:</b><br/>

<a href="https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/cSFbivwC9thP58JHL/organise-a-donation-admin-party-this-year?utm_source=TYPE_III_AUDIO&utm_medium=Podcast&utm_content=Source+URL+in+episode+description&utm_campaign=ai_narration" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/cSFbivwC9thP58JHL/organise-a-donation-admin-party-this-year</a> </p>

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<p>---</p><div style="max-width: 100%";><p><strong>Images from the article:</strong></p><a href="https://res.cloudinary.com/cea/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/mirroredImages/cSFbivwC9thP58JHL/gtpxrczepaeftecv7fly" target="_blank"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/cea/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/mirroredImages/cSFbivwC9thP58JHL/gtpxrczepaeftecv7fly" alt="Group of people smiling around table with laptops and drinks." style="max