CEA run the EA community fund to provide financial support EA community group leaders.
The key metric that CEA for evaluating the success of the groups they fund is the number of people from each local group who reach interview stage for high impact jobs, which largely means jobs within EA organisations. Bonus points available if they get the job.
This information feels like a relevant piece of the puzzle for anyone thinking through these issues. It could be (that in hindsight) CEA pushing chapter organisers to push people to focus on jobs in EA organisations in many ways might not be the best strategy.
I’m the project lead on EA Community Building Grants, which I think is what your referring to here.
The accredited positions include those that are in EA organisations, but many of the accredited positions are not. For example, accredited positions include doing an economics Phd at a top university, working at Facebook AI research, and many positions listed on the 80,000 Hours jobs board.
Based on the data submitted by groups so far, I’d expect the majority of positions we accredit to not be positions at EA organisations, though we’re still in the early stages of receiving and analysing data here.
Our previous update post provides some more context on our evaluation criteria.
CEA run the EA community fund to provide financial support EA community group leaders.
The key metric that CEA for evaluating the success of the groups they fund is the number of people from each local group who reach interview stage for high impact jobs, which largely means jobs within EA organisations. Bonus points available if they get the job.
This information feels like a relevant piece of the puzzle for anyone thinking through these issues. It could be (that in hindsight) CEA pushing chapter organisers to push people to focus on jobs in EA organisations in many ways might not be the best strategy.
Hi, thanks for the comment.
I’m the project lead on EA Community Building Grants, which I think is what your referring to here.
The accredited positions include those that are in EA organisations, but many of the accredited positions are not. For example, accredited positions include doing an economics Phd at a top university, working at Facebook AI research, and many positions listed on the 80,000 Hours jobs board.
Based on the data submitted by groups so far, I’d expect the majority of positions we accredit to not be positions at EA organisations, though we’re still in the early stages of receiving and analysing data here.
Our previous update post provides some more context on our evaluation criteria.
https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/RZrikMAuTwt4e9Fs4/ea-community-building-grants-update