I work as a Group Support Contractor at the Centre for Effective Altruism (CEA). I also am a co-founder and advisor of EA Philippines. I was on a community building grant from CEA to work full-time on EA Philippines in 2021. I was formerly a Senior Product Designer at First Circle, a FinTech company in Manila. You can reach out to me at brian.tan@centreforeffectivealtruism.org or add me on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/brianctan/.
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EA Philippines’ Career Planning Retreat for Students and Professionals
Hey Manuel, sorry for the late reply, but thanks for your comment!
I agree it would be better for the results of EA surveys (including this one) to be published earlier. The reason the census results came out in June was because:
In January-March, I had to prioritize other tasks/projects instead of analyzing and writing the census results
Analyzing and writing the census results took longer than I expected
We’ll try to publish the results for this year’s census a bit earlier.
Growth and engagement in EA groups: 2022 Groups Census results
“This post by Joey” returns a 404 page btw!
I agree that it seems good for EA to have a career-focused pledge, and I wrote up a similar idea here on the Forum two years ago, which had mixed feedback then. I think some people thought it was a bad idea because of the “maximizing” language in the pledge’s name and the post though, but they may still be sympathetic to the idea of a career-focused pledge. I now think that a “do the most good” pledge is not an ideal name, and I’ve updated the post to say this.
One difference between your pledge idea and mine is that yours doesn’t sound like a lifetime pledge—it sounds focused on being taken and adhered to during the phase where they’re building career capital. Maybe that’s intentional and good, but possibly a lifetime career-focused pledge might be better?
EA Philippines’ Progress in 2022 🇵🇭
The link to the Substack page at the top doesn’t work for me for some reason, even if it works on LessWrong. Maybe it’s a bug. Maybe you could get the link to work somehow?
Organizers: Please fill out the EA Groups Census 2022!
In case you haven’t seen it, the Resource Centre has advice on doing 1-1′s! It also links some resources on 1-1′s, including the Global Challenges Project’s guide.
I see, yeah you might get better attendance for social events when the group is more established and has more regular members!
No worries, and I’ll keep an eye on it! Sorry, I missed out on your last question. During our first year, I think we viewed EA Philippines as a serious organization trying to market EA via well-run events (i.e. with speakers), rather than as a small, tight-knit community. Moreover, it was only in November that we started to feel we had enough regular attendees (i.e. 15-20) to organize a socials.
Looking back, we could have done one or two more social meetups that year. I only say one or two because I think other types of events (especially discussions of EA readings, like for an intro fellowship) are generally higher value than socials. I see higher value in socials now than in our first year, although Manila traffic can make it hard for people to meet in-person. I think it’s fine for your group to have a monthly social gathering.
In case you (or others) didn’t know, you can find the top Shortform posts every month or every year at https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/allPosts, below the list of top posts. (There doesn’t seem to be a way to see the top ones all time though.)
Hey Mike, thanks for the kind feedback, and thanks for helping EA South Korea! I can answer your questions:
That $2,400 was via CEA’s group support funding. You’re correct though that the link is now different and is now here.
I now work for CEA as a group support contractor, and I process group support funding applications. EA South Korea can apply for group support funding from CEA for any expenses within our common expense guidelines.Yes, I did speak. I don’t remember it well, but I think I gave an intro to EA and EA Philippines. I may have given reasons on why they should engage with EA Blue too.
Good question—I think we wanted people who were more certain they could go, so we decided to charge for it. We only charged around $12-16 for it. Possibly if we were to organize one again, we could consider not charging for it and using funding from CEA or the EA Infrastructure Fund for it.
We were mostly asking them questions about their interest in EA and their career, and getting to know our members on a personal level. We weren’t giving much career advice back then, or we caveated things more given we were still learning things about EA. For resources on doing 1-1′s, you can check this guide or this.
got it!
Cool to see this is happening—when is the deadline for people to apply?
Cool opportunity! I assume that EA knowledge is not a requirement at all?
Thanks James! Yep, that’s usually the case
Your group can hold a watch party of the movie about Petrov: The Man Who Saved the World. Then maybe discuss it a bit after!
The title should be Rotterdam instead of Rottedam :)
Edited to add: Thanks for fixing!
Hey James, sorry for the late reply, but thanks for the feedback!
Here are the averages across groups by country for each of the group measures:
It would be time-consuming to show how the group measures have changed by country across groups surveys, and some questions in the 2022 census weren’t asked previously, so I hope the above is useful enough for you.
I can share the number of groups founded per country by year since 2011 here though (for groups still currently active):
I only included countries with a minimum of 3 groups that filled out the 2022 census in both images above. I hope this helps!