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Thom Norman is the co-founder of FarmKind (www.farmkind.giving), a new non-profit focused on raising money for some of the best farmed animal charities. FarmKind is designed to help donors both have a big impact for animals and donate to the organisations they care about most. It allows users to split donations between an expert-recommended super-effective charity and their favourite charity, then provides a bonus on both.

FarmKind was founded through the Charity Entrepreneurship incubation program (www.charityentrepreneurship.com) earlier this year. FarmKind aims to help close the funding chasm for farmed animal charities: there is estimated to be just $200m per year to cover 100 billion farmed animals.

Doing good has always been a driving ambition for Thom, something that might trace back to his upbringing in a strongly religious household. He has followed a fairly classic route to effective altruism, through veganism and Peter Singer. However, his own philosophy and values are less EA-typical, as much motivated by John Rawls as utilitarianism. Thom also has a strong interest in politics as a force for change, having been active in politics for over a decade and worked in the UK civil service.

Thom has a broadly naturalistic worldview. He is vegan and has a sentiocentric moral scope.

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