In addition to considering what you can do as one person, I recommend using a classic EA community building move and trying to multiply yourself.
If there are ~6,000 people at your organization, it seems very likely that you aren’t the only person there who is somewhat familiar with effective altruism, and interested in applying it to RTI’s work.
Have you tried doing anything to search for other people at RTI with this interest? Some ideas for doing so:
Posting on a casual Slack channel if the org has one
Looking for existing groups/mailing lists that seem relevant (this is how we got initial interest in the EA group Linch and I co-founded at Epic)
Searching LinkedIn for people who work at RTI and have (a) mentioned EA on their profiles, or (b) listed 80,000 Hours or Giving What We Can or GiveWell as an “interest” (I’d guess those are the three biggest EA-shaped things on LinkedIn, but I haven’t checked)
I only spent a couple of minutes thinking about this, so given your inside knowledge, you could probably think of other methods!
I love this idea! I somewhat recently realized it would be helpful to try to just build an EA community within RTI, more generally. But you’re right that it’s very unlikely I’m alone right now, and I could really use the extra hands and brains to make progress on these initiatives more quickly.
In addition to considering what you can do as one person, I recommend using a classic EA community building move and trying to multiply yourself.
If there are ~6,000 people at your organization, it seems very likely that you aren’t the only person there who is somewhat familiar with effective altruism, and interested in applying it to RTI’s work.
Have you tried doing anything to search for other people at RTI with this interest? Some ideas for doing so:
Posting on a casual Slack channel if the org has one
Looking for existing groups/mailing lists that seem relevant (this is how we got initial interest in the EA group Linch and I co-founded at Epic)
Searching LinkedIn for people who work at RTI and have (a) mentioned EA on their profiles, or (b) listed 80,000 Hours or Giving What We Can or GiveWell as an “interest” (I’d guess those are the three biggest EA-shaped things on LinkedIn, but I haven’t checked)
I only spent a couple of minutes thinking about this, so given your inside knowledge, you could probably think of other methods!
I love this idea! I somewhat recently realized it would be helpful to try to just build an EA community within RTI, more generally. But you’re right that it’s very unlikely I’m alone right now, and I could really use the extra hands and brains to make progress on these initiatives more quickly.