Donor Diaries
Donor Diaries is a podcast about the beauty and messiness of living organ donation. Get ready for some amazing stories about what happens when people decide to share their organs with other people, when people chose to share life. The sharing of kidneys and other organs is an incredibly fascinating topic that teaches a lot about kindness, love, and life! There are over 100,000 people on the kidney transplant waitlist today, and sadly about 13 people die each day waiting for a kidney that they never receive. One in three Americans are at risk for developing chronic kidney disease and one in nine already have kidney disease. Most don’t even know it. Donor Diaries shares unfiltered stories of kidney donation through the voices of living donors and straight talk from transplant experts who are committed to bringing the conversation of living organ donation to the forefront of society, so patients no longer have to die or suffer while waiting for a transplant.
Donor Diaries
Effective Altruism and Kidney Donation With Dylan Matthews | EP 18
Do you ever stop to think about the effectiveness of the time and attention you put towards making a difference? We all have the power to make the world a better place, but what could be possible if we all put more thought into maximizing our personal and financial resources?
Welcome to the world of Effective Altruism (EA) with non-directed kidney donor Dylan Matthews, a senior correspondent from Vox’s section Future Perfect. Future Perfect reports on people and institutions trying to do the most good for the world they can. Kidney donation is an unusually good way of help somebody, such that a given amount of effort goes an unusually long way. And that’s what Effective Altruism is all about.
In this episode, Dylan walks us through the EA Movement, and discusses how many people in the EA Community are kidney donors. Come check out the EA Community with us and take a look at the practical thinking that supports living kidney donation as an effective way to truly make a difference.
Show Notes
Future Perfect
Givewell
Giving What You Can Pledge
Animal Charity Evaluators
The Kindest Cut in the New Yorker
Alexander Berger, 80,000 Hours
Josh Morrison
Waitlist Zero
Community Tax Aid
VITA
Center for Effective Altruism