There’s a big “chapter push” happening this summer, coordinated across those supporting local presences via GBS, GWWC and the local effective altruism network. This’ll include seeding new presences, but also helping them grow.
Central to this will be finding ‘mentors’ who can talk to them, in particular from other groups. This needn’t be a heavy commitment—to find out more or explore helping out, contact Jonathan Courtney on jonathan.e.courtney@gmail.com and if you decide to sign up with him he’ll pass you back to the local effective altruism network to assign to other groups across the network.
(If you’d like a mentor, tell kijewskijoseph@gmail.com, giving your name and EA presence location.)
Relatedly, it would be useful to compile research on what makes groups successful. I haven’t seen anything like this oriented toward helping EA chapters be more effective.
I wasn’t aware of those groups. I know lots of people who run effective altruism groups, so I can help coordinate multiple perspectives on running a local effective altruism group. I could post that in those groups as well as on this forum.
[Help Mentor EA Chapters]
There’s a big “chapter push” happening this summer, coordinated across those supporting local presences via GBS, GWWC and the local effective altruism network. This’ll include seeding new presences, but also helping them grow.
Central to this will be finding ‘mentors’ who can talk to them, in particular from other groups. This needn’t be a heavy commitment—to find out more or explore helping out, contact Jonathan Courtney on jonathan.e.courtney@gmail.com and if you decide to sign up with him he’ll pass you back to the local effective altruism network to assign to other groups across the network.
(If you’d like a mentor, tell kijewskijoseph@gmail.com, giving your name and EA presence location.)
Relatedly, it would be useful to compile research on what makes groups successful. I haven’t seen anything like this oriented toward helping EA chapters be more effective.
Yeh, anyone could organise this by posting in their Google group and Facebook haunts. I’d be interested to see an objective take on that too.
I wasn’t aware of those groups. I know lots of people who run effective altruism groups, so I can help coordinate multiple perspectives on running a local effective altruism group. I could post that in those groups as well as on this forum.
I have also made a quick video explaining the project- check it out here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3boEcNVFw_U