(Full-time) Community Building as a way to build (charity) entrepreneurship career capital
I’ve been working full-time on EA Berlin & Germany since 1.5 years thanks to a CEA CB Grant, and I feel like the work is quite similar to (charity) entrepreneurship, with tasks like:
Developing vision & strategy
Building products, events & services (e.g. career advice or conferences)
Communication / Marketing / “Sales” (all my meetups and career advice are free of cost, so I don’t “sell” anything, but I still need to write engaging newsletters, websites etc. to convince people new to EA that it’s worth their time)
Operations: “Customer” Relationship Management, Event management, etc.
Budgeting, measuring impact, communicating value to donors, possibly legal stuff etc.
In terms of career capital, I do think that credentials like “grew community to 200 engaged members”, “inspired x people to donate x%” or “helped x people to get higher impact jobs, be more productive, happy etc.” are worth something outside of EA as well, albeit CB does scale less well than tech start-ups who can easily get thousands or millions of users. I don’t have any data on that, though, so if anyone here has data or a better estimate, please let me know!
(Full-time) Community Building as a way to build (charity) entrepreneurship career capital
I’ve been working full-time on EA Berlin & Germany since 1.5 years thanks to a CEA CB Grant, and I feel like the work is quite similar to (charity) entrepreneurship, with tasks like:
Developing vision & strategy
Building products, events & services (e.g. career advice or conferences)
Communication / Marketing / “Sales” (all my meetups and career advice are free of cost, so I don’t “sell” anything, but I still need to write engaging newsletters, websites etc. to convince people new to EA that it’s worth their time)
Operations: “Customer” Relationship Management, Event management, etc.
Budgeting, measuring impact, communicating value to donors, possibly legal stuff etc.
In terms of career capital, I do think that credentials like “grew community to 200 engaged members”, “inspired x people to donate x%” or “helped x people to get higher impact jobs, be more productive, happy etc.” are worth something outside of EA as well, albeit CB does scale less well than tech start-ups who can easily get thousands or millions of users. I don’t have any data on that, though, so if anyone here has data or a better estimate, please let me know!