Hi! Iām seeking opportunities to use my people and relationship skills to strategically help farmed or wild animals. Iām open to part-time opportunities to join a team as staff or a skilled volunteer.
I have 4 years of experience in the EA ecosystem across comms, ops, and leadership roles. Iāve worked with ALLFED, EA Giving Tuesday, and Rethink Charity (on the RC Forward effective giving platform). I love to build warm, transparent, mutually supportive relationships with allies of a cause who are excited to get involved, be it through time, advocacy, or donations.
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Thanks Grace, donated!
Thank you for writing this, and to everyone who worked hard to make these EAGx conferences happen!
Oh this is such a lovely post. Thank you for the wonderful mix of data, anecdotes, pictures, and writing. In particular, the personalities of community members really shone through. Congratulations on all of your accomplishments so far, and best wishes for 2023!
Small thing: the table of āfavourite community membersā is displaying very tall and narrow for me.
Hi David! I apologize for the very slow response. A few points:
- Your analysis makes me upgrade how important I think diligent time tracking is on this project in future years, segmented by e.g., āmanagerial and tech timeā vs āvolunteer/āstudent timeā
- I donāt have a go-to answer for you on the time costs for EA GT 2021. We had 2 Ops Specialists (Aisha and Mac) each work ~200 paid hours; I worked about 350 paid hours (including hiring and training); Avi worked probably a few hundred volunteer hours (including hiring and training); Gina and a few others worked a small amount of volunteer hours.
- Can the projectās time costs decrease via ālearn by doing?ā I am somewhat optimistic about this. But itās tricky because historically, new people have had to be trained on the systems and context every year. So processes can be improved, but a big thing is getting the same people to contribute to the project year after year. And this is tough, because itās uncertain the project will run any given year, and itās only seasonal. Ideally, the āinstitutional knowledgeā would sit at an EA org (ideally, with the same people) over the long term.
- Thanks again for your BOTEC, I enjoyed reading it and I imagine it has helped folks in the community evaluate the projectsā value.
I appreciate thatāthanks! I have worked a lot on it. A lot of the credit goes to my great EA GT teammates, in present and past years.
Hi David! At present, thereās no funding secured. That said, the project has received funding in past years. Iām relatively confident (70-80%) that for the right org/āindividual, there are a few different funding sources that would consider funding it.
Thanks for taking the time to complete and share a first-pass assessment, David! Iāll follow up with a bit more info when Iām able.
Given that the process to spend the $50 doesnāt have to happen right away (unless Iām mistaken), then maybe it should be emphasized that the signing up part only takes 20 seconds or so.
Thanks so much!
Hi! Great idea. Iām Megan, I work in communications at Rethink Charity and at ALLFED. Iād love to be in the group, although I donāt have a lot of capacity to contribute to it over the next few months. Thanks!
Hello Chloe. Iām also an early career communications generalist who likes running, vegan cooking, and living abroad. Happy to chat about my experiences with any of these, or with working at EA orgs! (I work at Rethink Charity and at ALLFED). My email is megan@rethinkprojects.org. Enjoy the EA Forum!
Thanks a lot, Ben!
Interesting to hear about the flexible take you already had on video/āaudio. Thanks for the response and for editing the post!
Hi Aidan, thanks for the great tips! I read this after the conference, so Iāll have to use some of them next time. āDive down the rabbit holes of passionā is a fantastic phrase.
Do you have thoughts on mentioning the option for audio-only calls to people youāre wanting to chat with, in case that would make them more comfortable and/āor willing to meet in the first place? I for one have only recently gotten over some of my nerves surrounding video calls with new people. Now I find them engaging, but sometimes distracting as well.
During the conference, I wondered if some people find face-to-face networking daunting, and would appreciate the optionāfor them perhaps an additional benefit of a virtual conferenceāto choose how and when they use video. I think going forward Iāll offer the option to people Iām connecting with (for them and for me).
Hope you had a great conference!
Thank you Carrick. Marisa was my entry point into the EA community in 2020. She was the volunteer ambassador that was assigned to me during EAGxVirtual that year. She made me feel comfy (a word she liked) sharing my doubts and insecurities, and then suggested I started volunteering with Rethink Charity, where she was working. Marisa had a significant impact on me as a colleague and as a friend. Iām moved by how all of you describe her in the comments. As you say, she was compassionate, funny, dedicated, friendly, thoughtful, smart, proactive, reliable, kind, honest. Iām devastated that she is gone and will be processing this for some time. Thank you Marisa for all the lives that you touched, known and unknown to you, in your brutally short time with us.