Over the past few years, we’ve seen a growing number of fellowships, accelerators, bootcamps, and training programs across the EA and EA-adjacent ecosystem (AI safety, biosecurity, animal welfare, global health & development, climate, and more).
One recurring challenge is: 👉 How do programs consistently recruit the right participants and fill cohorts effectively?
I’m especially interested in hearing from:
Program organizers or managers who have run these types of initiatives.
People working on marketing, communications, or outreach for fellowships/accelerators.
If that’s you, I’d love to learn from your experience.
Here are some guiding questions (please feel free to answer whichever are relevant):
Biggest challenges – What has been hardest about recruiting the right participants for your program?
Approaches tried – Which outreach or marketing strategies have you used? What worked best, and what didn’t?
Resources – Did you rely on in-house capacity, or did you also use external agencies/consultants/freelancers?
Future needs – If you could improve one thing about your recruitment pipeline, what would it be?
Scaling – What do you see as the main barriers to scaling recruitment effectively across EA-aligned programs?
Next steps: I plan to synthesize responses into a short write-up so we can all learn from each other’s experience.
Thanks so much to anyone willing to share insights — this will be helpful not just for me, but for many others building and scaling programs in the community!
[Question] Program managers & marketing leads — what have you learned about filling cohorts effectively?
Over the past few years, we’ve seen a growing number of fellowships, accelerators, bootcamps, and training programs across the EA and EA-adjacent ecosystem (AI safety, biosecurity, animal welfare, global health & development, climate, and more).
One recurring challenge is:
👉 How do programs consistently recruit the right participants and fill cohorts effectively?
I’m especially interested in hearing from:
Program organizers or managers who have run these types of initiatives.
People working on marketing, communications, or outreach for fellowships/accelerators.
If that’s you, I’d love to learn from your experience.
Here are some guiding questions (please feel free to answer whichever are relevant):
Biggest challenges – What has been hardest about recruiting the right participants for your program?
Approaches tried – Which outreach or marketing strategies have you used? What worked best, and what didn’t?
Resources – Did you rely on in-house capacity, or did you also use external agencies/consultants/freelancers?
Future needs – If you could improve one thing about your recruitment pipeline, what would it be?
Scaling – What do you see as the main barriers to scaling recruitment effectively across EA-aligned programs?
Next steps:
I plan to synthesize responses into a short write-up so we can all learn from each other’s experience.
Thanks so much to anyone willing to share insights — this will be helpful not just for me, but for many others building and scaling programs in the community!