Systemic Altruism
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Healthy Democracy

Supports civic assemblies and citizens’ initiative reviews, and trains advocates and administrators in deliberative-process design.

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Systemic Altruism practice potential: 73–83/100
90% of weighted axes reviewed. A mechanism hypothesis, not proven effectiveness or a donation recommendation.

Who this work enables

Tools & support for charities: Assembly-design methods and training for civic organizations, advocates and public administrators.

Humanity’s Checklist source match

Coordination · Gatekeepers — editorial, partial alignment.

Lottery selection, structured discussion and shared practitioner skills can broaden access to deliberation and collective problem-solving. These mechanisms are not evidence that institutions implement the recommendations.

Explicit checklist adoption: not verified. A mechanism match is not an affiliation, endorsement, evidence of effectiveness or a scoring bonus. Read the practice.

Focus classification: 2026-10-27. Based on the organization’s dated official sources below; earlier axis-review dates are unchanged.

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The proposed pathway

Deliberative civic-assembly design and practitioner capacity

Six dimensions, with rationale

Structural depth

4 / 4

Proposes lottery-selected deliberative structures that can alter how public decisions are formed, rather than only educating individual voters.

Institutional reach

3 / 4

Its methods can support multiple policy topics and institutions, without evidence here of representative access or consequential power in every setting.

Durability

2 / 4

Repeatable assembly designs may persist, but mandates, official uptake, budgets and ongoing public accountability are contingent.

Scalability

3 / 4

Practitioner training makes implementation more replicable; fair recruitment, accessibility, facilitation and institutional legitimacy are not automatic.

Funding additionality

Unreviewed

Unknown: current funding restrictions, staff capacity, local demand and the counterfactual effect of another grant relative to other deliberative approaches were not audited.

Community agency

Unreviewed

Unknown: selection and discussion participation do not prove binding authority, control of the agenda or accountability to all people affected by an assembly’s recommendations.

Evidence and selection

Organization reported; current primary mechanism sources inspected

Illustrative inclusion to examine this mechanism. Inclusion is not an external recommendation or a verified comparative ranking.

A testable next question

Do supported assemblies achieve representative participation and documented consequential public decisions beyond comparable engagement processes, with durable accountability?

Review confidence: Moderate for documented design; low for systemic attribution. The US nonpartisan 501(c)(3) nonprofit’s civic-assembly and capacity-building work, not a score of every assembly, host government or claimed policy outcome.

What remains uncertain

An advisory assembly can be ignored or used to legitimize predetermined decisions. Representation, compensation, nonresponse, minority rights and political follow-through need process-specific review. No fairness audit or independent systemic-impact attribution was performed.

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Axis review: 2026-10-27 · weighting method v0.2 (2026-10-26) · Method, conflicts and coverage