Thanks John! Happy to share a few of the specific metrics behind the track record highlights, and we can share more data and reasoning docs. by request. From our spring 2024 programmes (latest analysed data) we estimated:
£5.15 per hour of direct engagement
£26 per connection made by Fellows and Finalists
£199 per completed Fellow
£1,237 per highly engaged EA
We hope to roughly ~halve costs/Fellow this coming summer based primarily on larger discussion group sizes and lower facilitator costs.
Thanks for writing this Arjun! I help run both Leaf and Non-Trivial and can report that we’re definitely thinking about these topics, and love hearing ideas and reflections from many different sources like this. I’d be happy to connect to learn more about your views of this space and chat about what we’re already doing and what more we could be doing to create a really epistemically healthy, welcoming, sustainable, and impactful community for young people. Feel free to email me at jonah@non-trivial.org to find a time to chat!