All the best,

Joan, Harri, Catherine and Huw (Groups team, CEA)

• The EA Infrastructure Fund is looking to fund non-EA branded groups. These can be non-geographically-based groups, groups discussing blogs like Astral Codex Ten or LessWrong, or other cause area-based groups. 
• Open Philanthropy is seeking proposals for outreach projects related to improving the long-term future. 
  • Consider sharing this post with your group members and individually reaching out to specific members who you think might be a good fit. 
• Open Philanthropy is also funding academics for the development of EA-adjacent university courses. 
  • If you are a student organiser, and know a professor who’d be a good fit, please email bastian@openphilanthropy.org about them, rather than sharing the link or introducing them.
• The EA Forum team is trialling a new Groups and Events feature. Currently, only 6 groups are listed, but if the trial goes well, they'll add all public groups and will give organisers the ability to post events.
• There are two opportunities for Jewish people interested in EA
  • EA for Jews is preparing to launch and looking for volunteers.
  • Jewish Effective Giving works with rabbis to encourage congregations to donate to high-impact global health and development charities. Interested group members can contact Adam at info@jewisheffectivegiving.org if you have contacts with rabbis or congregations and would like to help.
• Two profession-based groups have launched recently: the Effective Altruism Medicine Network, and a Slack workspace for EA Creatives and Communicators. Feel free to refer anyone interested in those professions to those spaces.
• EA Bayreuth and EA Tübingen are organising a retreat in October for all German-speaking participants from virtual programs and online/in-person fellowships. The weekend will include a mix of organised and participant-driven programmes, as well as lots of time to socialise and get to know the German EA community better. Find more information here and the registration form here (both in German).
• Reminder: EA Virtual Programs will now be offered every month! The next round runs the week of September 6 through to the week of October 25. The deadline to apply is Sunday, August 29th. Current offerings include an Introductory Program, an In-Depth Program, and a reading group for The Precipice.
• Online events can be found on the international EA events Google calendar, the EA online events Facebook group, or the #events channel on the EA Groups Slack (join link).

• Ben West wrote up some 2021 CEA retention statistics 

• EA Forum user nadavb argues for the case against EA cause areas.

• Aaron Gertler is encouraging Forum users to write about their jobs. This can be a great activity that almost anyone in your group can do to contribute to the EA community’s knowledge and resources.

• Benjamin Todd wrote an update about the state of the effective altruism movement’s funding and talent constraints.

• Rethink Priorities published an analysis of EAs’ cause prioritization preferences from the 2020 EA Survey. 

Jobs, Internships, and Volunteering

• Effective Altruism Anywhere, a virtual “local” group for people without local groups, is hiring a Community Director. 

• CEA is accepting expressions of interest for an Early Field-Building Specialist, an External Communications Specialist, a Community Liaison, and an Epistemics Project Manager. More information is available on our Careers page. 

• Effective Thesis is hiring a Head of Coaching.

• Open Philanthropy has a Technology Policy Fellowship open to people with a right to work in the US, which many members of US-based groups may be interested in.

• There are many more jobs and internships on the 80,000 Hours job board and in the Effective Altruism Job Postings Facebook group.

• The Effective Altruism Volunteering Facebook Group has occasional volunteering opportunities which may be of interest to your group members.

• Peter Slattery has compiled a spreadsheet with titles and links for over 1900 Youtube EA videos. 

• EA Italia created some video animations of the EA lightbulb. If you’d like the template to write in your own text, get in touch with Stasja at stasya.fedorova@gmail.com.

• You are welcome to contact Catherine (catherine@centreforeffectivealtruism.org) with any questions about running your group. For advice about media inquiries or EA comms, email media@centreforeffectivealtruism.org. Julia Wise will be returning from parental leave in mid-August and will then be back as the contact person for help with community concerns.

• Funding is available to cover a group’s running expenses, such as room rental, snacks, books, website hosting, and software.

• EA Philippines had a “Student Chapters Unite!” event where their 3 student chapters (EA Blue, EA UP Diliman, and EA DLSU-Manila) presented about their progress in the last few months and their plans for the rest of the year. The new Executive Board members of each chapter also got to meet people in similar roles.

• EA Toronto invited trained authentic-relating facilitators to host two workshops to explore their members’ emotional relationships with cause prioritization, guilt, and efficacy. Email yuli.jadov@gmail.com if you’d like to hear more about the workshop or get connected with the facilitators. 

• EA Anywhere celebrated their one-year anniversary with a virtual birthday party which included a lightning talk open mic, EA Against Humanity, EA Codenames, and fun conversation.

• EA DC hosted a launch party to kick off their cause area-specific meetups. Email andymasley@gmail.com if you have questions about running a similar event.

• EA Italy community members travelled from various cities to Milan last month, to have their first in-person meeting in 2 years. They are pictured in the cover photo of this newsletter.