Over time they started running other projects: conferences, supporting local
groups, the EA
forum, community
health, etc. There was effectively a âCEAâ community-focused
organization within the âCEAâ umbrella organization:
This was pretty confusing: when someone said âCEAâ did they mean the
organization focused on the EA community (âCEA runs EA Globalâ) or the
umbrella organization (â80k is part of CEAâ)? This got even more
confusing as there started to be more organizations and projects:
Unfortunately the announcement
wasnât very clear about what specifically was changing, and a lot of
people are stillconfused about when to say âCEAâ and when to say
âEVâ. Hopefully this history and the diagrams clear things up a bit!
[EDIT: changed âEVFâ to âEVâ; Shakeel
says they prefer the latter.]
[1] This is also the origin of using effective
altruism to refer to the movement.
CEA Disambiguation
In 2011 effective altruists in Oxford had two main organizations: Giving What We Can and 80,000 Hours. They wanted to incorporate, and created the Centre for Effective Altruism as an umbrella organization to host them: [1]
Over time they started running other projects: conferences, supporting local groups, the EA forum, community health, etc. There was effectively a âCEAâ community-focused organization within the âCEAâ umbrella organization:
This was pretty confusing: when someone said âCEAâ did they mean the organization focused on the EA community (âCEA runs EA Globalâ) or the umbrella organization (â80k is part of CEAâ)? This got even more confusing as there started to be more organizations and projects:
In September 2022 the umbrella organization renamed itself to the Effective Ventures Foundation:
Unfortunately the announcement wasnât very clear about what specifically was changing, and a lot of people are still confused about when to say âCEAâ and when to say âEVâ. Hopefully this history and the diagrams clear things up a bit!
[EDIT: changed âEVFâ to âEVâ; Shakeel says they prefer the latter.]
[1] This is also the origin of using effective altruism to refer to the movement.