“Reflecting on One Year of Mieux Donner: Launching the French Effective Giving Initiative” by Romain Barbe🔸, Jennifer Stretton

As we mark one year since the launch of Mieux Donner, we wanted to share some reflections on our journey and our ongoing efforts to promote effective giving in France. Mieux Donner was founded through the Effective Incubation Programme by Ambitious Impact and Giving What We Can. TLDR  Prioritisation is important. And when the path forward is unclear, trying a lot of different potential priorities with high productivity leads to better results than analysis paralysis. Ask yourself what the purpose of your organisation is. If you are a mainly marketing/communication org, hire people from this sector (not engineers) and don’t be afraid to hire outside of EA. Effective altruism ideas are less controversial than we imagined and affiliation has created no (or very little) push back Hiring early has helped us move fast and is a good idea when you have a clear process and a lot of [...] ---Outline:(00:29) TLDR(01:11) Summary of our progress and activities in year 1(02:50) Results: one year of Mieux Donner(03:05) Meta Goals(04:01) Fundraising Goals(05:10) Reflections on why our first year results were so low compared to our goals(07:20) Proxy of impact/future impact(07:24) Progress and Key Goals(09:58) Some data(11:39) Learnings(22:40) To conclude--- First published: July 13th, 2025 Source: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/9iw5D6Atr6nAnpFTc/reflecting-on-one-year-of-mieux-donner-launching-the-french --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO. ---Images from the article:Apple Podcasts and Spotify do not show images in the episode description. Try Pocket Casts, or another podcast app.

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