I think introductory fellowships are extreme outlier interventions. EA Philippines’ 8-week Intro to EA Discussion Group (patterned after Stanford’s Arete fellowship) in May-July 2020 was by far our best activity yet. 31 signed up and 15 graduated, and out of the graduates, I believe we’ve created the following counterfactual impact:
One became the president of our student chapter EA Blue
Another became a core team member of EA Blue
Two have since taken the GWWC pledge
Three have become new volunteers (spending ~1-2 hrs/week) for EA Philippines (we actually got two more volunteers aside from these three, but those two I would say were not counterfactual ones)
Helped lead to a few career plan changes (I will write a separate impact report about EA PH’s 2020, and can talk about this more there).
EA Blue is now doing an Introductory Fellowship similar to ours with 26 participants, which I’m a facilitator for, and I think we’re having similarly good results!
I think introductory fellowships are extreme outlier interventions. EA Philippines’ 8-week Intro to EA Discussion Group (patterned after Stanford’s Arete fellowship) in May-July 2020 was by far our best activity yet. 31 signed up and 15 graduated, and out of the graduates, I believe we’ve created the following counterfactual impact:
One became the president of our student chapter EA Blue
Another became a core team member of EA Blue
Two have since taken the GWWC pledge
Three have become new volunteers (spending ~1-2 hrs/week) for EA Philippines (we actually got two more volunteers aside from these three, but those two I would say were not counterfactual ones)
Helped lead to a few career plan changes (I will write a separate impact report about EA PH’s 2020, and can talk about this more there).
EA Blue is now doing an Introductory Fellowship similar to ours with 26 participants, which I’m a facilitator for, and I think we’re having similarly good results!