Effective Institutions Project here. As of now I’d say our number is more like $150-200K, assuming we’re talking about an annual commitment. The number is lower because our networks give us access to a large talent pool and I’m fairly optimistic that we can fill openings easily once we have the budget for them.
Maybe indirectly? Addressing talent gaps within the EA community isn’t a primary focus of ours, but it does seem that our outreach is helping to increase the pool of mid-career and senior people out in the world who take EA seriously.
I think it’s more like: CEA projects are limited by other essential resources (like staff, management capacity, onboarding capacity) before they run out of money.
(I agree it’s not 0⁄1 exactly, but it’s not as easy as you’d think to just spend more money and get more good stuff.)
Maybe in the longer term it’s easier to do so … scaling up all of the things you mention? Of course a big consideration is ‘whether we can use/trust non-EA-aligned people to do good work for a salary’. But I suspect in many/most cases this is doable.
CEA is not funding constrained. I wonder where the EtG/direct work trade-off lies in more funding constrained or less talent constrained cause areas.
+1
I hope one of those orgs will reply here
Effective Institutions Project here. As of now I’d say our number is more like $150-200K, assuming we’re talking about an annual commitment. The number is lower because our networks give us access to a large talent pool and I’m fairly optimistic that we can fill openings easily once we have the budget for them.
Hearing this, I wonder if you could maybe close talent gaps in other orgs?
Maybe indirectly? Addressing talent gaps within the EA community isn’t a primary focus of ours, but it does seem that our outreach is helping to increase the pool of mid-career and senior people out in the world who take EA seriously.
May I be a capitalist for a moment?
If another EA org would offer you $300,000 for finding them a really good really senior person they’d hire, how would you feel about that?
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Haha, well it would depend a lot on the specifics but we’d probably at least be up for having a conversation about it :)
Thank you! I added a link directly here from the post
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I don’t think it’s so 0⁄1. Does CEA really have enough funds to fund every project they believe has positive net value?
I think it’s more like: CEA projects are limited by other essential resources (like staff, management capacity, onboarding capacity) before they run out of money.
(I agree it’s not 0⁄1 exactly, but it’s not as easy as you’d think to just spend more money and get more good stuff.)
Maybe in the longer term it’s easier to do so … scaling up all of the things you mention? Of course a big consideration is ‘whether we can use/trust non-EA-aligned people to do good work for a salary’. But I suspect in many/most cases this is doable.
Ben Millwood’s summary seems basically right to me.
And yup, the team has tripled over the past year, but scaling the further team is a top priority, hence my interest in getting people to apply :)