CEEALAR 19 Jan 2024 11:46 UTC
23 points
5 ∶ 1
on: EA Infrastructure Fund Ask Us Anything (January 2024)
CEEALAR provides cost-effective support to EAs working on global catastrophic risks in the form of free or subsidised coliving and coworking spaces, but has so far been unsuccessful in securing EAIF grants. Does EAIF see a role for this type of infrastructure? If so, what would you like it to look like?

Celebrating 2023: 10 successes from the past year at CEEALAR

CEEALAR11 Jan 2024 11:08 UTC

80 points

3 comments2 min readEA link

CEEALAR’s Theory of Change

CEEALAR19 Dec 2023 20:21 UTC

51 points

5 comments3 min readEA link

CEEALAR 21 Nov 2023 18:08 UTC
36 points
15 ∶ 0
on: How would your project use extra funding? (Marginal Funding Week)
How The Centre for Enabling EA Learning and Research would use additional funding
The Centre for Enabling EA Learning and Research (CEEALAR) is a space for promising EAs to rapidly upskill, perform research, and work on charitable and entrepreneurial projects. We provide assistance at low cost to those seeking to do the most good through subsidising accommodation, organising a productive atmosphere, and fostering a strong EA community. We recently published a post announcing that we are funding constrained and looking to attract new donors over this giving season.
How we would use extra funding
It costs us £12,500 ($15,500) to run CEEALAR for 1 month. We host an average of 20 grantees at a time – making the cost of supporting 1 grantee for 1 month £625 ($750). Unfortunately, we only have ~3 months runway remaining: a donation from you would extend our runway and enable us to support more promising EAs.
We do not know all of the applicants we will be supporting 3 months from now; however, we recently updated our application criteria to be increasingly selective, and are seeing the results of assisting such high-quality applicants. To give a sense of how much can happen in 1 month alone, we have included examples of outputs solely from October. We are confident that we would accept applicants of similar quality and see similar outputs in the spring months if we are able to extend our runway.
Donations extending our runway will:
- Enable more talented individuals to upskill into impactful work
  - This October, a recent alumnus now working as a researcher in the MIT Fraenkel Lab (where they are building an LLM for metabolomics research using retrieval-augmented generation) was accepted to the AI Futures Fellowship Program. They used their time at CEEALAR to transition from a career in data science to AI safety research.
- Enable more EA organisations to launch
  - This October, two current guests received funding from an EA grantmaking org to launch ML4Good UK. ML4Good is a project that runs intensive AI safety bootcamps in the UK, Germany, France, and Switzerland. Before coming to CEEALAR, they worked in banking and tech respectively and were only involved in EA in a voluntary capacity.
- Enable more EA research to be done
  - This October, a current guest had their research paper accepted to the Socially Responsible Language Modelling Research (SoLaR) conference. They are using their time at CEEALAR to transition from an academic career in physics to AI safety research.
How you can donate
You can donate here – all donations are greatly appreciated and will help us stay alive! We support PayPal, Ko-Fi, PPF Fiscal Sponsorship, and bank transfer donations.
You can find out more about CEEALAR here! Please feel free to ask us questions at contact@ceealar.org.
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CEEALAR is funding constrained

CEEALAR9 Nov 2023 11:08 UTC

110 points

3 comments1 min readEA link

CEEALAR is hiring

CEEALAR10 Aug 2023 17:31 UTC

11 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

Job Opportunity: Operations Manager at CEEALAR

CEEALAR11 Jan 2023 19:41 UTC

10 points

0 comments2 min readEA link

CEEALAR 11 Jan 2023 19:08 UTC
2 points
0 ∶ 0
on: CEEALAR: 2022 Update
We are hiring for a full-time Operations Manager, please share with anyone you think may be interested: https://ceealar.org/job-operations-manager
To start mid-late February. £31,286 – £35,457 per year (full time, 40 hours a week).