I don’t think CEA has a public theory of change, it just has a strategy. If I were to recreate its theory of change based on what I know of the org, it’d have three target groups:
Non-EAs
Organisers
Existing members of the community
Per target group, I’d say it has the following main activities:
Targeting non-EAs, it does comms and education (the VP programme).
Targeting organisers, you have the work of the groups team.
Targeting existing members, you have the events team, the forum team, and community health.
Per target group, these activities are aiming for the following short-term outcomes:
Targeting non-EAs, it doesn’t aim to raise awareness of EA, but instead, it aims to ensure people have an accurate understanding of what EA is.
Targeting organisers, it aims to improve their ability to organise.
Targeting existing members, it aims to improve information flow (through EAG(x) events, the forum, newsletters, etc.) and maintain a healthy culture (through community health work).
If you’re interested, you can see EA Netherland’s theory of change here.
They has been writings from CEA on movement-building strategy. I think you might find them in the organiser handbook. These likely aren’t to date though, especially since there’s a new CEO.
Yeah, I’m aware of those, but I don’t think they’ve published a ToC for CEA as an organisation anywhere. I think it would be good for CEA to have a public ToC because, as noted here, this is a basic good practice in the non-profit sector.
I don’t think CEA has a public theory of change, it just has a strategy. If I were to recreate its theory of change based on what I know of the org, it’d have three target groups:
Non-EAs
Organisers
Existing members of the community
Per target group, I’d say it has the following main activities:
Targeting non-EAs, it does comms and education (the VP programme).
Targeting organisers, you have the work of the groups team.
Targeting existing members, you have the events team, the forum team, and community health.
Per target group, these activities are aiming for the following short-term outcomes:
Targeting non-EAs, it doesn’t aim to raise awareness of EA, but instead, it aims to ensure people have an accurate understanding of what EA is.
Targeting organisers, it aims to improve their ability to organise.
Targeting existing members, it aims to improve information flow (through EAG(x) events, the forum, newsletters, etc.) and maintain a healthy culture (through community health work).
If you’re interested, you can see EA Netherland’s theory of change here.
They has been writings from CEA on movement-building strategy. I think you might find them in the organiser handbook. These likely aren’t to date though, especially since there’s a new CEO.
Yeah, I’m aware of those, but I don’t think they’ve published a ToC for CEA as an organisation anywhere. I think it would be good for CEA to have a public ToC because, as noted here, this is a basic good practice in the non-profit sector.