TL;DR: The EA Opportunity Board is back up and running! Check it out here, and subscribe to the bi-weekly newsletter here. It’s now owned by the CEA Online Team.
EA Opportunities is a project aimed at helping people find part-time and volunteer opportunities to build skills or contribute to impactful work. Their core products are the Opportunity Board and the associated bi-weekly newsletter, plus related promos across social media and Slack automations.
It was started and run by students and young professionals for a long time, and has had multipleiterations over the years. The project has been on pause for most of 2024 and the student who was running it no longer has capacity, so the CEA Online Team is taking it over to ensure that it continues to operate.
I want to say a huge thank you to everyone who has run this project over the three years that it’s been operating, including Sabrina C, Emma W, @michel, @Jacob Graber, and Varun. From talking with some of them and reading through their docs, I can tell that it means a lot to them, and they have some grand visions for how the project could grow in the future. I’m happy that we are in a position to take on this project on short notice and keep it afloat, and I’m excited for either our team or someone else to push it further in the future.
Our plans
We plan to spend some time evaluating the project in early 2025. We have some evidence that it has helped people find impactful opportunities and stay motivated to do good, but we do not yet have a clear sense of the cost-effectiveness of running it[1].
We are optimistic enough about it that we will at least keep it running through the end of 2025, butwe are not currently committing to owning it in the longer term.
The Online Team runs various other projects, such as this Forum, the EA Newsletter, and effectivealtruism.org. I think the likeliest outcome is for us to prioritize our current projects (which all reach a larger audience) over EA Opportunities, which means we’d continue to run EA Opportunities but at approximately the lowest reasonable cost[2]. It’s also possible that we will feel it’s worth focusing more capacity on the project for a few weeks every once in a while, or that we decide to invest in it more and perhaps even hire an additional person on our team to own it.
We are open to handing the project off to someone who could give it the attention it deserves, as there is a good chance we will decide to prioritize other things. Previous owners of the project have gotten grant money from EAIF to run it. If you’re interested, please email us at forum@centreforeffectivealtruism.org and we can discuss further. I believe they have been able to run it part-time (up to 15 hrs/wk during the busy season, usually more like 5 hrs/wk).
Help us by providing input
If you’ve interacted with EA Opportunities, it would help us to hear about your experience (especially if it has concretely helped or harmed you) and any feedback you have. Please feel free to fill out this form (all questions are optional). Thanks!
The EA Opportunity Board is back
TL;DR: The EA Opportunity Board is back up and running! Check it out here, and subscribe to the bi-weekly newsletter here. It’s now owned by the CEA Online Team.
EA Opportunities is a project aimed at helping people find part-time and volunteer opportunities to build skills or contribute to impactful work. Their core products are the Opportunity Board and the associated bi-weekly newsletter, plus related promos across social media and Slack automations.
It was started and run by students and young professionals for a long time, and has had multiple iterations over the years. The project has been on pause for most of 2024 and the student who was running it no longer has capacity, so the CEA Online Team is taking it over to ensure that it continues to operate.
I want to say a huge thank you to everyone who has run this project over the three years that it’s been operating, including Sabrina C, Emma W, @michel, @Jacob Graber, and Varun. From talking with some of them and reading through their docs, I can tell that it means a lot to them, and they have some grand visions for how the project could grow in the future. I’m happy that we are in a position to take on this project on short notice and keep it afloat, and I’m excited for either our team or someone else to push it further in the future.
Our plans
We plan to spend some time evaluating the project in early 2025. We have some evidence that it has helped people find impactful opportunities and stay motivated to do good, but we do not yet have a clear sense of the cost-effectiveness of running it[1].
We are optimistic enough about it that we will at least keep it running through the end of 2025, but we are not currently committing to owning it in the longer term.
The Online Team runs various other projects, such as this Forum, the EA Newsletter, and effectivealtruism.org. I think the likeliest outcome is for us to prioritize our current projects (which all reach a larger audience) over EA Opportunities, which means we’d continue to run EA Opportunities but at approximately the lowest reasonable cost[2]. It’s also possible that we will feel it’s worth focusing more capacity on the project for a few weeks every once in a while, or that we decide to invest in it more and perhaps even hire an additional person on our team to own it.
We are open to handing the project off to someone who could give it the attention it deserves, as there is a good chance we will decide to prioritize other things. Previous owners of the project have gotten grant money from EAIF to run it. If you’re interested, please email us at forum@centreforeffectivealtruism.org and we can discuss further. I believe they have been able to run it part-time (up to 15 hrs/wk during the busy season, usually more like 5 hrs/wk).
Help us by providing input
If you’ve interacted with EA Opportunities, it would help us to hear about your experience (especially if it has concretely helped or harmed you) and any feedback you have. Please feel free to fill out this form (all questions are optional). Thanks!
For example, about a year ago 80K added a collections tab to their job board, which covers a lot of the same use cases as the Opportunity Board does.
Though my guess is that we’d want to at least migrate the website off of the current no-code platform so that we can make some basic UX improvements.