This is really interesting, do you have a sense of how much organisations value skilled volunteers, and how likely it is that all the openings you’ve listed could be filled? (It seems like there are a lot!)
I’d also be curious how you prioritised this initiative overall from the other activities you are doing.
<<do you have a sense of how much organisations value skilled volunteers>>
Reactions were pretty mixed. Some orgs seemed quite excited about the idea, others either didn’t seem to get it, didn’t seem to think it would be helpful, or just didn’t reply. Most of the positive feedback was generic, along the lines of “this is an exciting initiative,” which makes it difficult to interpret how useful they actually expect it to be.
So in short, I don’t have a very clear sense, no.
<<how you prioritised this initiative overall from the other activities you are doing>>
We were in between some different projects, waiting on feedback. This felt like it would feed into several different goals we have and not take very long to set up, so we just tried it out with relatively little evaluation.
(If you’re interested in the more thorough thought process more typical of what we usually do for larger projects, see here https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/QGhoBnjjiGkBsrHC7/animal-advocacy-careers-2021-plans-and-2020-review)
This is really interesting, do you have a sense of how much organisations value skilled volunteers, and how likely it is that all the openings you’ve listed could be filled? (It seems like there are a lot!)
I’d also be curious how you prioritised this initiative overall from the other activities you are doing.
Thanks!
<<do you have a sense of how much organisations value skilled volunteers>> Reactions were pretty mixed. Some orgs seemed quite excited about the idea, others either didn’t seem to get it, didn’t seem to think it would be helpful, or just didn’t reply. Most of the positive feedback was generic, along the lines of “this is an exciting initiative,” which makes it difficult to interpret how useful they actually expect it to be. So in short, I don’t have a very clear sense, no.
<<how you prioritised this initiative overall from the other activities you are doing>> We were in between some different projects, waiting on feedback. This felt like it would feed into several different goals we have and not take very long to set up, so we just tried it out with relatively little evaluation. (If you’re interested in the more thorough thought process more typical of what we usually do for larger projects, see here https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/QGhoBnjjiGkBsrHC7/animal-advocacy-careers-2021-plans-and-2020-review)