Sorry to be late to the game: Would it be helpful if I collected donation opportunities for making EA safer and more welcoming for women, BIPOC and other marginalized groups? While a tough decision I have to contemplate more, I feel some obligation to donate to such causes myself and perhaps others feel the same.
Thank you so much. Magnify Mentoring would put to excellent use further donation support from the community. We have 200 mentee applications this time which I am currently reviewing and matching. On specific support, I am aware of Magnify Mentoring’s work, Epoch and FRI’s Mentorship program, and GPI’s recent programming. I am also working out whether we (Magnify) should do some Bay-specific event programming (think activities to further create a warm, welcoming space, focused on cheap information dissemination and career building activities) and I expect I’d try and raise a small side budget to this but I am still working out what already exists and what has been tried. Thank you so much, Ulrik and my turn to apologize for missing this ;)
This is really nice of you to think of! I think I would want to get clear first on whether (1) there are good such opportunities (i.e., ones that are tractable, neglected, etc), and (2) funding is a barrier to implementing/growing them. I sort of suspect that the changes that would most make things better for women are structural (e.g., getting clearer policies around sexual harassment on the books), and that lack of funding is not the primary barrier to implementing them, but I haven’t thought about this enough to be confident in that, and others might disagree.
Sorry to be late to the game: Would it be helpful if I collected donation opportunities for making EA safer and more welcoming for women, BIPOC and other marginalized groups? While a tough decision I have to contemplate more, I feel some obligation to donate to such causes myself and perhaps others feel the same.
Thank you so much. Magnify Mentoring would put to excellent use further donation support from the community. We have 200 mentee applications this time which I am currently reviewing and matching. On specific support, I am aware of Magnify Mentoring’s work, Epoch and FRI’s Mentorship program, and GPI’s recent programming. I am also working out whether we (Magnify) should do some Bay-specific event programming (think activities to further create a warm, welcoming space, focused on cheap information dissemination and career building activities) and I expect I’d try and raise a small side budget to this but I am still working out what already exists and what has been tried. Thank you so much, Ulrik and my turn to apologize for missing this ;)
This is really nice of you to think of! I think I would want to get clear first on whether (1) there are good such opportunities (i.e., ones that are tractable, neglected, etc), and (2) funding is a barrier to implementing/growing them. I sort of suspect that the changes that would most make things better for women are structural (e.g., getting clearer policies around sexual harassment on the books), and that lack of funding is not the primary barrier to implementing them, but I haven’t thought about this enough to be confident in that, and others might disagree.