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 by MichaelA🔸 Mar 26 2020 6 min read 4 14

 Community Biosecurity COVID-19 pandemic Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security Donation writeup Frontpage Fundraising for the Center for Health Security: My personal plan and open questions Planned fundraiser text TLDR: I think the John Hopkins Center For Health Security is perhaps the best place to donate for COVID-19 and pandemic preparedness more generally. And right now your donation can be matched 1-for-1, to double your impact (just send a receipt to deployments@founderspledge.com). I've donated - will ... I'd add this as a post within the fundraiser, or a comment on the status, or something Some extra nuance that you’re very welcome to skip 4 comments This post may not be worth your time, and may not be worth being a post. My planned donation size is ~150AUD, and I expect to raise somewhere between 1000-1750AUD. I wasn't initially planning to make a post, but am doing so quickly in relation to this question and due to Claire Zabel's 2016 recommendation for EAs to talk about donations earlier and more . 

 It seems to me that the John Hopkins Center for Health Security is perhaps the best donation opportunity for both: 

 appealing to non-EAs who want to donate to something COVID-related right now, or in the near future
 actually being extremely valuable (primarily from a longtermist perspective), whereas many other COVID-related opportunities may be crowded or just perhaps not as cost-effective because the usual EA bar is very, very high
 This is based largely on Founders Pledge's recommendation , Sanjay/SoGive's recommendation (which is itself partly based on FP's recommendation), and Open Phil's donations. 

 I therefore intend to start a Facebook fundraiser for CHS (just for my not-very-large network), and donate ~150AUD to it to get it started. I'd share it on my personal wall and in my local EA group's Facebook page.

 This is intended primarily to leverage the current interest in supporting efforts on COVID/pandemic preparedness, and more speculatively to perhaps get people more lastingly interested in this important organisation and cause area. See below for what I plan to write in the fundraiser.

 My intention in sharing this:

 Potentially inspire others to do similar fundraisers, if this seems a good idea 
 Provide a template that can be copied, if this seems a good idea 
 Get feedback on my phrasings/tone/angle
 Perhaps particularly, should it be shorter? I've opted for relatively long to try to be high-fidelity and plant seeds of lasting attitude changes. 
 Get feedback on whether my overall logic 

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