This sounds really cool! I’d love to hear about what you end up doing.
Minor thought—It might be worth changing the title of this post. I initially clicked on this expecting someone looking for career advice, I wasn’t expecting someone generously offering so much of their time and expertise. I expect there might be a bunch of orgs or projects that don’t click on it because they don’t have specific career takes for others, but who would be interested or have ideas of other projects that could benefit from your help.
Hi Charlotte,
Do you have any suggestions for a title? I didn’t really know what else to call it without sounding like a salesman, too clickbaity or pretentious. ^^”
I’ve received a handful of email with the current text/title.
Maybe something like “Which orgs would benefit from my unpaid labor?” or “Offer: I can work on your project for free for some months (Tech/Operation/Management)”.
Would you consider organising an AI Safety mentorship program? Selecting participants and matching them to mentors sounds like it would match up with your skills. It wouldn’t take a huge amount of work and there’s a decent chance it counterfactually shifts a few people’s careers into AIS and accelerate other people’s careers. PM’s open if interested.
I know you wrote that new types of research are not really what you are looking for, but I leave the link in case you are interested, and we sometimes also take volunteers to work on areas other than research and policy.
Thanks for being so generous in offering up your time for EA initiatives, I hope you find a good fit that is full of both impact and meaning :) You might be interested in helping out in the Nordic effective giving landscape, where I am Chairman for Ge Effektivt.
At Gi Effektivt and Ge Effektivt in Norway/Sweden respectively, we work to fundraise for charities recommended by GiveWell, Animal Charity Evaluators, and Giving Green. You might be familar either with us or counterparts from other countries like Effektiv Spenden or Ayuda Efectiva. The total money raised is a few million dollars per year, with significant increase in the past year.
Norway and Sweden share backend and most aspects of frontend, and we have a full-time CTO who is significantly capacity constrained. It sounds like you have skills that could come in handy, and I think we could have the right size where you’d get the right kind of support/counterpart to get you leverage on your time – and still an org small enough that you could make an impressive difference in a few months.
Happy to answer any questions at an initial stage, but in case interested I think it would be even more useful would be for you to speak to our CTO to get an idea of whether you could be helpful and if the projects excite you. You can either DM me here, email henri[at]geeffektivt.se, or reach out to the technical team directly.
Good luck finding a good volunteering project! Consider reaching out to 80K for advice? ( https://80000hours.org/speak-with-us/ ) I wonder if they might have a good sense of which orgs might be excited to use your support.
Hi Angelina, thanks for the link. Didn’t think that was fitting for me, considering they already rejected me twice in the past with reasons being that they mostly work with students. 😀 But I can give it another shot.
Hi Cassidy! We advise people at all career stages, and would be happy to chat about your specific situation, including finding opportunities that could be a good fit for you. If you’re interested, please feel free to reach out directly or apply for advising!
As an update, I’ve applied to 80k/contacted them via form as suggested. I specifically stated that I do not need normal career advice but asking to help instead.
Unsurprisingly, I’ve received only a standard rejection email, ignoring my special message. 🤷♀️
This sounds really cool! I’d love to hear about what you end up doing.
Minor thought—It might be worth changing the title of this post. I initially clicked on this expecting someone looking for career advice, I wasn’t expecting someone generously offering so much of their time and expertise. I expect there might be a bunch of orgs or projects that don’t click on it because they don’t have specific career takes for others, but who would be interested or have ideas of other projects that could benefit from your help.
Hi Charlotte, Do you have any suggestions for a title? I didn’t really know what else to call it without sounding like a salesman, too clickbaity or pretentious. ^^” I’ve received a handful of email with the current text/title.
I think sounding like a salesman is ok here.
Maybe something like “Which orgs would benefit from my unpaid labor?” or “Offer: I can work on your project for free for some months (Tech/Operation/Management)”.
Would you consider organising an AI Safety mentorship program? Selecting participants and matching them to mentors sounds like it would match up with your skills. It wouldn’t take a huge amount of work and there’s a decent chance it counterfactually shifts a few people’s careers into AIS and accelerate other people’s careers. PM’s open if interested.
Hi Chris, Thanks for comment—I’ve sent you a DM.
At ALLFED we are always looking for new volunteers and external collaborators: see the ALLFED research project database.
I know you wrote that new types of research are not really what you are looking for, but I leave the link in case you are interested, and we sometimes also take volunteers to work on areas other than research and policy.
Thanks for the link!
Hi Cassidy!
Thanks for being so generous in offering up your time for EA initiatives, I hope you find a good fit that is full of both impact and meaning :) You might be interested in helping out in the Nordic effective giving landscape, where I am Chairman for Ge Effektivt.
At Gi Effektivt and Ge Effektivt in Norway/Sweden respectively, we work to fundraise for charities recommended by GiveWell, Animal Charity Evaluators, and Giving Green. You might be familar either with us or counterparts from other countries like Effektiv Spenden or Ayuda Efectiva. The total money raised is a few million dollars per year, with significant increase in the past year.
Norway and Sweden share backend and most aspects of frontend, and we have a full-time CTO who is significantly capacity constrained. It sounds like you have skills that could come in handy, and I think we could have the right size where you’d get the right kind of support/counterpart to get you leverage on your time – and still an org small enough that you could make an impressive difference in a few months.
Happy to answer any questions at an initial stage, but in case interested I think it would be even more useful would be for you to speak to our CTO to get an idea of whether you could be helpful and if the projects excite you. You can either DM me here, email henri[at]geeffektivt.se, or reach out to the technical team directly.
Hi Henri, Thanks for your comment and suggestion. I have contacted Hakon, assuming that’s the CTO you mean. :)
Good luck finding a good volunteering project! Consider reaching out to 80K for advice? ( https://80000hours.org/speak-with-us/ ) I wonder if they might have a good sense of which orgs might be excited to use your support.
Hi Angelina, thanks for the link. Didn’t think that was fitting for me, considering they already rejected me twice in the past with reasons being that they mostly work with students. 😀 But I can give it another shot.
Hi Cassidy! We advise people at all career stages, and would be happy to chat about your specific situation, including finding opportunities that could be a good fit for you. If you’re interested, please feel free to reach out directly or apply for advising!
Hi there, Thanks for your tip, I’ve submitted the application form. :)
As an update, I’ve applied to 80k/contacted them via form as suggested. I specifically stated that I do not need normal career advice but asking to help instead.
Unsurprisingly, I’ve received only a standard rejection email, ignoring my special message. 🤷♀️
Hi Cassidy! Organisation for the Prevention of Intense Suffering may still be looking for volunteers, as far as I know. If this sounds interesting to you, consider contacting them. All the best!
Hi Nil. Thanks for the link, but it says they are looking for research and campaigners—these areas are not up my alley. 😉