Lilly: I am so pleased to read this- thank you for sharing your experiences with our network. _ I hope it is appropriate to mention here, on the note of EA funding, that Magnify Mentoring got close to the wire funding-wise this time. Thanks to incredible individuals from our network, we now have enough funding to open rounds for applications in May to coincide with EAG London. We are not yet at our total fundraising 2023 goals. We are so excited to be able to welcome our new cohort of mentees though! :) If I can do anything at all to help in the meantime, please reach out to me at Kathryn (kathryn@magnifymentoring.org). If you are reading this and find our work compelling, we would love to hear from you. Thank you so much!
@MagnifyMentoring and specifically @KMF were pivotal for my career direction, success, and emotional health. MM helped me build the confidence and systems I needed to move forward at a time I felt I couldn’t, and Kathryn specifically went above and beyond to support me. This was the first time I felt I could be vulnerable and honest about my difficulties and limitations, and–contrary to all my expectations–I received acceptance, care, encouragement, and practical help.
I know for a fact I wouldn’t be where I am now without Kathryn and my direct mentor I am concerned and saddened that other women and minorities would miss out on that critical support if MM didn’t receive enough funding to continue operating.
For me Magnify has been super important to balance my idea of what kind of people the EA movement consists of and to feel more at home in the community!
I’m so glad a project like Magnify Mentoring exists and am really happy to hear that you got funding to run another round. Back in 2020 my mentor helped me navigate my applications to different EA orgs and it was soo helpful! I now have my first mentee and it’s a very rewarding thing to give back to the community.
As always, thank you so much for your effort and engagement, Kathryn + others!
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.
Lilly: I am so pleased to read this- thank you for sharing your experiences with our network.
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I hope it is appropriate to mention here, on the note of EA funding, that Magnify Mentoring got close to the wire funding-wise this time. Thanks to incredible individuals from our network, we now have enough funding to open rounds for applications in May to coincide with EAG London. We are not yet at our total fundraising 2023 goals. We are so excited to be able to welcome our new cohort of mentees though! :) If I can do anything at all to help in the meantime, please reach out to me at Kathryn (kathryn@magnifymentoring.org). If you are reading this and find our work compelling, we would love to hear from you. Thank you so much!
Magnify Mentoring is so great and I’m really glad they exist! I got a lot out of the conversations with my mentor. Hope they continue to get funding!!
@MagnifyMentoring and specifically @KMF were pivotal for my career direction, success, and emotional health. MM helped me build the confidence and systems I needed to move forward at a time I felt I couldn’t, and Kathryn specifically went above and beyond to support me. This was the first time I felt I could be vulnerable and honest about my difficulties and limitations, and–contrary to all my expectations–I received acceptance, care, encouragement, and practical help.
I know for a fact I wouldn’t be where I am now without Kathryn and my direct mentor I am concerned and saddened that other women and minorities would miss out on that critical support if MM didn’t receive enough funding to continue operating.
For me Magnify has been super important to balance my idea of what kind of people the EA movement consists of and to feel more at home in the community!
I’m so glad a project like Magnify Mentoring exists and am really happy to hear that you got funding to run another round. Back in 2020 my mentor helped me navigate my applications to different EA orgs and it was soo helpful!
I now have my first mentee and it’s a very rewarding thing to give back to the community.
As always, thank you so much for your effort and engagement, Kathryn + others!
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.