On the question of costs, these could be reduced dramatically if there were a central, updated hub that informed people about opportunities, ideally linked from the EA Forum or otherwise made conspicuously available to EAs or those aligned with similar cause areas. I vaguely recall efforts like this in the past, but having an easily accessible and conspicuous organization of opportunities is critical to reducing search costs. It’s somewhat surprising that something like this hasn’t already been fully implemented and maintained, given the significant reduction in effort and resources it would imply.
I’ve just put together the trial version of “Actions for Impact”, the newsletter to leverage the effective altruism (EA) community’s size to complete quick high impact tasks to support EA cause areas. I’m getting feedback on the first version at the moment.
DM me on the forum if you’re interested and I’ll send you the first version—very welcome to feedback!
On the question of costs, these could be reduced dramatically if there were a central, updated hub that informed people about opportunities, ideally linked from the EA Forum or otherwise made conspicuously available to EAs or those aligned with similar cause areas. I vaguely recall efforts like this in the past, but having an easily accessible and conspicuous organization of opportunities is critical to reducing search costs. It’s somewhat surprising that something like this hasn’t already been fully implemented and maintained, given the significant reduction in effort and resources it would imply.
Haha good point, that’s precisely why I asked.
I’ve just put together the trial version of “Actions for Impact”, the newsletter to leverage the effective altruism (EA) community’s size to complete quick high impact tasks to support EA cause areas. I’m getting feedback on the first version at the moment.
DM me on the forum if you’re interested and I’ll send you the first version—very welcome to feedback!