Thanks for sharing this experience in such detail! I appreciate learning more about different movement-building strategies. I have some questions:
In total, the crash course lasts 8 weeks, which seems like a similar length to intro fellowships. Have you considered making it more intensive, like over an extended weekend?
How did you select participants? Were there more people interested than vacancies available in any of the iterations?
Are the sessions themselves more active than traditional reading group sessions? If yes, do you think this made a difference in engagement?
Do you have data on how successful the fellowship and the “practical ethics” course have been? I’d be curious to compare results and learn more about the local context – would you say something particular about EA Israel or the universities you targeted influenced the outcomes?
Also, a suggestion: try a more descriptive title for this post, such as “EA Israel movement-building strategy and results: intro crash courses”. I didn’t expect this content from the title.
Hey, thanks for the long comment! I hope that not a lot of people missed the post because the original title wasn’t clear enough.
We didn’t consider the option to make it more intensive because people attending are generally busy (work, life). But I wouldn’t stop it of course if the need came from a specific group :)
We selected people we knew mostly from events and from ‘discussing effectiveness’ that seemed high-potential (marked them in the CRM). We didn’t post it to the broader community at all yet so there aren’t any requests, but we excpect that there will be many because of the low fidelity of the program
I think they are not more active then the reading groups we hosted, but I don’t know a lot about how other reading groups are facilitated.
I find it hard comparing to the fellowship because it is more thorough and the particpants found projects at the end, and the course it to a much wider group and gives us ‘status’ and credentials. I do however personally belive fellowships could be much shorter if the facilitation and follow-ups are right
Thanks for sharing this experience in such detail! I appreciate learning more about different movement-building strategies. I have some questions:
In total, the crash course lasts 8 weeks, which seems like a similar length to intro fellowships. Have you considered making it more intensive, like over an extended weekend?
How did you select participants? Were there more people interested than vacancies available in any of the iterations?
Are the sessions themselves more active than traditional reading group sessions? If yes, do you think this made a difference in engagement?
Do you have data on how successful the fellowship and the “practical ethics” course have been? I’d be curious to compare results and learn more about the local context – would you say something particular about EA Israel or the universities you targeted influenced the outcomes?
Also, a suggestion: try a more descriptive title for this post, such as “EA Israel movement-building strategy and results: intro crash courses”. I didn’t expect this content from the title.
Hey, thanks for the long comment! I hope that not a lot of people missed the post because the original title wasn’t clear enough.
We didn’t consider the option to make it more intensive because people attending are generally busy (work, life). But I wouldn’t stop it of course if the need came from a specific group :)
We selected people we knew mostly from events and from ‘discussing effectiveness’ that seemed high-potential (marked them in the CRM). We didn’t post it to the broader community at all yet so there aren’t any requests, but we excpect that there will be many because of the low fidelity of the program
I think they are not more active then the reading groups we hosted, but I don’t know a lot about how other reading groups are facilitated.
I find it hard comparing to the fellowship because it is more thorough and the particpants found projects at the end, and the course it to a much wider group and gives us ‘status’ and credentials. I do however personally belive fellowships could be much shorter if the facilitation and follow-ups are right