Per the discussion in my last advertising post, I’m currently aiming to write a post every 3 months advertising EA infrastructure projects that would otherwise struggle to get and maintain awareness.
Please let me know if there’s a project I should add (see inclusion criteria below the adverts). I’ve added a comment below as a downvote sink to offset karma from this post. If you want to signal boost these projects without throwing karma at me, please upvote this post and then downvote that comment with the same weight.
From now on I’ll italicise organisations added since the previous post was originally submitted and bold those edited in to the current one after posting, to make it easier for people to scan for new entries.
Now on with the adverts:
Coworking/socialising
EA Gather Town—An always-on virtual meeting place for coworking, connecting, and having both casual and impactful conversations
CEEALAR/formerly the EA hotel—Provides free or subsidised serviced accommodation and board, and a moderate stipend for other living expenses.
NonLinear’s EA house database - An experiment by Nonlinear to try to connect EAs with extra space with EAs who could do good work if they didn’t have to pay rent (or could pay less rent).
Professional services
WorkStream Business Systems—a service dedicated to EAs, helping you improve your workflow, boost your bottom line and take control of your business
cFactual—a new, EA-aligned strategy consultancy with the purpose of maximising its counterfactual impact
Good Governance Project—helps EA organizations create strong boards by finding qualified and diverse professionals
Altruistic Agency—provides discounted tech support and development to organisations
Legal advice from Tyrone Barugh—a practice under consideration with the primary aim of providing legal support to EA orgs and individual EAs, with that practice probably being based in the UK.
Anti Entropy—offers services related operations for EA organizations
Arb—Our consulting work spans forecasting, machine learning, and epidemiology. We do original research, evidence reviews, and large-scale data pipelines.
Pineapple Operations—Maintains a public database of people who are seeking operations or Personal Assistant/Executive Assistant work (part- or full-time) within the next 6 months in the Effective Altruism ecosystem
Coaching
AI Safety Support—free health coaching to people working on AI safety
80,0000 Hours career coaching—Speak with us for free about using your career to help solve one of the world’s most pressing problems
Fatebook for Slack—a Slack bot designed to help high-impact orgs build a culture of forecasting.
Confido—A forecasting tool for during meetings or for within organisation! Potentially makes meetings faster and it is a simple way to get some groups forecasts.
Financial and other material support
Nonlinear productivity fund—A low-barrier fund paying for productivity enhancing tools for top longtermists. Supported services and products include Coaching, Therapy, Sleep coaching, Medication management , Personal Assistants, Research Assistants, Virtual Assistants, Tutors (e.g. ML, CS, language), Asana, FocusMate, Zapier, etc., Productivity apps, A/C, dishwashers, etc, SAD Lamps
Effective Altruism Funds—Whether an individual, organisation or other entity, we’re eager to fund great ideas and great people.
Nonlinear fund—We incubate longtermist nonprofits by connecting founders with ideas, funding, and mentorship
Survival and Flourishing Fund—A “virtual fund”: we organize application submission and evaluation processes to help donors decide where to make donations.
Open Philanthropy Project—a research and grantmaking foundation that aims to share its findings openly
Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative—Supports university research groups working to reduce x-risk, by providing them with free services and support.
Inclusion criteria for other organisations
The guidelines remain as follows (open to discussion, and if there’s something you think is essential to let people know about which doesn’t strictly fit, feel free to suggest it—for eg the house database doesn’t technically qualify, but seemed too valuable to omit):
The resource should be free to use, or at available at a substantial discount to relatively poor EAs
It should be aimed specifically at EA-oriented people
It should be for the direct benefit of the people using it, not just to ‘enable them to do more good’ (though hopefully that will be a side benefit)
It should be available to people across the world (ie. not just a local EA group)
It should be a service or product that someone is putting ongoing work into (ie not just a list of tips, or Facebook/Discord/Slack groups with no purpose other than discussion of some EA subtopic)
Also, let me know if I should remove or edit any of the descriptions. I’ve checked it for broken links but haven’t done any further editing.
Let’s advertise EA infrastructure projects, May 2023
Per the discussion in my last advertising post, I’m currently aiming to write a post every 3 months advertising EA infrastructure projects that would otherwise struggle to get and maintain awareness.
Please let me know if there’s a project I should add (see inclusion criteria below the adverts). I’ve added a comment below as a downvote sink to offset karma from this post. If you want to signal boost these projects without throwing karma at me, please upvote this post and then downvote that comment with the same weight.
From now on I’ll italicise organisations added since the previous post was originally submitted and bold those edited in to the current one after posting, to make it easier for people to scan for new entries.
Now on with the adverts:
Coworking/socialising
EA Gather Town—An always-on virtual meeting place for coworking, connecting, and having both casual and impactful conversations
EA Anywhere—An online EA community for everyone
EA coworking Discord—A Discord server dedicated to online coworking
Free or subsidised accommodation
CEEALAR/formerly the EA hotel—Provides free or subsidised serviced accommodation and board, and a moderate stipend for other living expenses.
NonLinear’s EA house database - An experiment by Nonlinear to try to connect EAs with extra space with EAs who could do good work if they didn’t have to pay rent (or could pay less rent).
Professional services
WorkStream Business Systems—a service dedicated to EAs, helping you improve your workflow, boost your bottom line and take control of your business
cFactual—a new, EA-aligned strategy consultancy with the purpose of maximising its counterfactual impact
Good Governance Project—helps EA organizations create strong boards by finding qualified and diverse professionals
Altruistic Agency—provides discounted tech support and development to organisations
Tech support from Soof Golan
Legal advice from Tyrone Barugh—a practice under consideration with the primary aim of providing legal support to EA orgs and individual EAs, with that practice probably being based in the UK.
SEADS—Data Science services to EA organizations
User-Friendly - an EA-aligned marketing agency
Anti Entropy—offers services related operations for EA organizations
Arb—Our consulting work spans forecasting, machine learning, and epidemiology. We do original research, evidence reviews, and large-scale data pipelines.
Pineapple Operations—Maintains a public database of people who are seeking operations or Personal Assistant/Executive Assistant work (part- or full-time) within the next 6 months in the Effective Altruism ecosystem
Coaching
AI Safety Support—free health coaching to people working on AI safety
80,0000 Hours career coaching—Speak with us for free about using your career to help solve one of the world’s most pressing problems
Yonatan Cale—Coaching for software devs
FAANG style mock interviews
EA-targeted tools
Fatebook for Slack—a Slack bot designed to help high-impact orgs build a culture of forecasting.
Confido—A forecasting tool for during meetings or for within organisation! Potentially makes meetings faster and it is a simple way to get some groups forecasts.
Financial and other material support
Nonlinear productivity fund—A low-barrier fund paying for productivity enhancing tools for top longtermists. Supported services and products include Coaching, Therapy, Sleep coaching, Medication management , Personal Assistants, Research Assistants, Virtual Assistants, Tutors (e.g. ML, CS, language), Asana, FocusMate, Zapier, etc., Productivity apps, A/C, dishwashers, etc, SAD Lamps
Effective Altruism Funds—Whether an individual, organisation or other entity, we’re eager to fund great ideas and great people.
Nonlinear fund—We incubate longtermist nonprofits by connecting founders with ideas, funding, and mentorship
Survival and Flourishing Fund—A “virtual fund”: we organize application submission and evaluation processes to help donors decide where to make donations.
Open Philanthropy Project—a research and grantmaking foundation that aims to share its findings openly
Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative—Supports university research groups working to reduce x-risk, by providing them with free services and support.
Inclusion criteria for other organisations
The guidelines remain as follows (open to discussion, and if there’s something you think is essential to let people know about which doesn’t strictly fit, feel free to suggest it—for eg the house database doesn’t technically qualify, but seemed too valuable to omit):
The resource should be free to use, or at available at a substantial discount to relatively poor EAs
It should be aimed specifically at EA-oriented people
It should be for the direct benefit of the people using it, not just to ‘enable them to do more good’ (though hopefully that will be a side benefit)
It should be available to people across the world (ie. not just a local EA group)
It should be a service or product that someone is putting ongoing work into (ie not just a list of tips, or Facebook/Discord/Slack groups with no purpose other than discussion of some EA subtopic)
Also, let me know if I should remove or edit any of the descriptions. I’ve checked it for broken links but haven’t done any further editing.