On the other hand, this is a really good offer, so I would rather see it here, then not see it at all. While in the future I might change my mind, for now I'll welcome these kinds of posts.

I did expect some readers to have this reaction, but thought more people would appreciate the opportunity to donate to causes that many of us support - especially considering the warm reception the Quantified Health Prize received.

Thanks for the feedback.

ETA: I'll change the name, to make the content more obvious.

Downvoted. I do not want to see advertisements on LW, especially not in the guise of posts, and especially not in the main section.

Unfortunately that is where they seem to end up (main, promoted). Even when the negative reception actually makes the advertiser (or donor) look terrible.

I'd prefer to evaluate whether the post should be in Main based on the quality of the offer being made in the advertisement, not based on the fact that it's an advertisement.

I think the reason people are averse to advertisements is because of social versus economic norms. A traditional post offers an exchange involving time, thought, insights, prestige, etc. when construed with economic norms terminology. An advertisement offers an exchange involving money, goods, services, etc. Right now I don't see any good reason for the first sort of offer to be given additional visibility privileges, although a good reason may exist.

Wow, thanks for letting me know.

Not a problem. If you are cold-contacting companies, one sign-up for 12 hours of work would be a very good rate. If you're contacting people you know, it's reasonable to expect that you could at least set a few meetings with 12 hours of work.

Be sure to email me if you have any more questions.

Not sure why you believe that. Louie Helm has been managing the account for a long time, and we show up on Spyfu for Less Wrong and SI's homepage.

ETA: Is it possible that you're confusing AdWords with AdSense? Perhaps I should have made the difference clearer. AdWords is for advertising on Google search results, not placing banner ads on your site.

I think you're mixing up AdWords (short textual advertisements on Google search result pages) with AdSense (advertisements on other sites, with Google mediating between advertisers and people with webpages).

[EDITED to add, for clarity: Ads on the SI's sites would be AdSense ads (the SI offers advertising space and Google pays them). michaelcurzi is talking about ads in Google's search results (Google offers advertising space and the SI pays). The two are almost exactly opposite.]

http://singinst.org/ and related sites don't have ads, so huh?

AdWords means adds for them, not adds on them.