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Thank you for your question. Since its inception, HIP has been dedicated to finding the most effective ways to maximize impact by empowering working professionals. Our journey started with a focus on corporate fundraising, but after trialing various strategies and gathering insights, we found that on the margin, talent holds the most transformative potential today. Through an iterative approach—testing hypotheses and refining our programs—we uncovered that connecting skilled professionals with high-impact roles offered the greatest leverage.
This led us to launch two new initiatives in 2023: the Impact Accelerator Program (IAP) and the Talent Directory (TD). Designed to channel skilled professionals toward high-impact roles, these programs tested our hypothesis that talent transitions could yield substantial, lasting impact.
The results have been exciting. In 2023, our pilot round of the IAP helped facilitate 5 career transitions, and we saw the potential to scale. This year, we expanded significantly—starting with around 20 people in IAP 1 and growing 6.5x to reach approximately 130 participants in 2024, including the 50 current IAP 4 participants whose career transitions will contribute to our impact for the year. Each round has built upon the last, with constant improvements aimed at supporting professionals in impactful career transitions. One of those improvements is the addition of the Pledge Partnership, which we started in July 2024.
Our TD has also shown promising growth. So far, we know of 12 confirmed hires through the TD, though we expect the actual number may be higher as not all participants report back. We anticipate that as awareness of the TD grows, so too will the number of successful placements, with potential for even greater impact as more organizations and professionals become engaged.
Our vision for 2025 is to continue scaling the IAP and TD, reaching more professionals, inspiring more transitions, and expanding our pledge community.
Thanks, @Denkenberger! We’ve been excited by the results we’re seeing and are always pushing for that number to go even higher. That success rate is due to some features of the program, including a network of amazing people who push each other to do more and the program’s holistic approach to high-impact careers from high-absorbancy paths to more niche selective opportunities.
Hi, Chris. Thanks for your question. We’re giving that possibility serious consideration and may release the content more broadly in the (potentially near) future. If we do, we will be sure to let the EA community know via the Forum and other channels. Though not nearly as robust as the full content, for the time being, please feel free to refer to the FAQ section of the IAP page on our website for an overview of each of the program’s core 6 weeks: https://www.highimpactprofessionals.org/impact-accelerator-program.
Hey Sarah,
Great question. Short answer is we don’t know as we haven’t gotten feedback loops on it.We proactively shared the list of candidates with many organizations who were interested and also added the list of candidates to our talent directory so there is still the potential for further matches, but without the feedback loops it is hard to be more concrete.
We will do a broader survey to organizations and to sign ups later in the year to see how many matches were facilited but it is quite costly to do so so we’ve prioritized getting new features out.
Hope this is helpful.
Great! This project looks really interesting!
Great initiative! People who’ve gotten laid off are also welcome to sign-up to our talent directory—we will try to get you placed at a high-impact organization. More in our post.
Also, happy to coordinate with you on this @nicolenohemi if you think it makes sense.
Yes! This is the right answer. We have a question about this on the sign up form and plan on forwarding those interested to the EA good governance project.
Since this has generated so much interested it is worth noting that the Center for Reducing Suffering is hiring for a Communications Director, so if you are knowledgable about s-risks do check out the job description.
Which social media the group uses is listed for each record and you can inline filter for anything you care about (e.g. “hide all the ones using facebook”, “show only those using slack”).
Hi there,
Thanks for the comments! To some of your points:
Fixed this—we had this at some point but something must have happened...
Not sure what you mean by this one. Can you elaborate?
We know about this feature but want to be able to present working groups all by themselves and on a site that caters to a broader audience than the forum. It is possible we will add this to the forum at some point as well.
Hi Anjay, thanks for the shoutout and we at HIP couldn’t agree more that EA workplace and professional groups are important: that is why we are putting such a focus on them in our organization.
If anyone is interested in starting a group at their organization or for their industry, please pm us here. Also, we are going to publish a current list of workplace and professional groups on our site and in the forum some time next week, so look out for that if you are a professional looking to join a group.
Hi John, thanks for your comment. Yes, there are indeed many more groups that this, both in the private and public sectors. We only presented here the top 30 orgs according to number of EAs.
We are going to publish a list of all workplace and professional groups on our website soon and will post in the forum when we do.
Thank you, Chris. We’ve looked for a duplicate, in case one was inadvertently posted, but are only seeing this one. In any event, we hope that the information contained in the post is helpful and would encourage all interested to apply to the program.