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Dear Effective Altruist,

We hope you will enjoy this newsletter where we share ways to engage with EA(N), updates and inspiring resources.

EAN News

Workshops Ministry of Foreign Affairs

We have launched a year-long challenge at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs! During several workshops and interactive sessions with ~20 - 50 civil servants will use tools to make better decisions (e.g. Multi Level Decision Analysis) and use their collective experience to improve decision making. For more information, watch this 1 minute animation.

For those who are interested in Institutional Decision Making, here are some great resources:

EAN is expanding!
It is an exciting time for EAN: multiple people have joined since the last newsletter and we are working hard to make EAN a sustainable, effective, and professional organisation.

Siebe Rozendal (right picture) joined the management team as Interim Community Director and his first priority is to secure his own funding. His EA knowledge and passion for community building has already proven to be very valuable.
We are increasing our efforts to secure funding for the management team. If successful, we can spend all our time on incubating projects and the professionalisation of EAN!
Of course, any contributions are more than welcome! You can find more info here and you can always reach out to us.
Welcome Maritt (operations assistance), Ruben (data & analysis), Jasper (fundraising) and Lotte (graduation project) to our team!

Doneer Effectief in the Media
Visitors to Doneer Effectief have increased exponentially, since the publication of two articles in nu.nl and FD (registration necessary).
Moreover, Givewell and the Clean Air Task Force have now gained the tax-deductability status (ANBI).

You can expand your impact by making your network aware of DoneerEffectief.nl!

Read the steps to donate

Introduction to Longtermism

(Re)watch our event here.
Longtermism is an important concept in the EA community. During this event Matthijs Maas gave an overview of this area. (Go directly to specific talks via links in the notes.) Interested in Longtermism? Contact us to be updated on future activities.

'Beter goed doen' (Doing good better) workshops results
We finished this minicourse with a very diverse group of 30 enthusiastic participants. Throughout four interactive sessions, we established individual values, explored in which area participants would like to do good (donating, career, lifestyle or leisure), shared experiences and discussed ways to implement our intentions. This lead to a broad variety of positive outcomes, such as more than 10k in annual pledges for effective charities; taking up volunteer work; changes in one’s career path; and shifting to a vegetarian or vegan diet!
For those who joined: Thank you for your participation!

Want to participate next time? Contact us or check our activities regularly.

EAN event manager needed
Would you like to make a substantial impact next to your job or studies? Are you interested in coordinating well-organized and insightful events?

EAN is looking for one or two volunteers for approximately one to four hours a week to join our event team! (Read more here.) If you are interested in applying, please email us a short motivation and your LinkedIn profile to info@effectiefaltruisme.nl.

Other EA-related news

EA international conferences: save the dates!
CEA just announced the dates for two effective altruism conferences that will take place in 2021. One of them might even take place in person (if conditions allow)! Watch previous EAG(x) talks on CEA's YouTube channel.

Toby Ord contributes to UN Human Development
The UN’s latest Human Development Report features a 7-page piece by Toby Ord on existential risk and the protection of humanity’s longterm potential. Toby said of the piece:

I’ve long admired the HDR, and referred to it often when I worked on global poverty. So it’s great to be able to give something back, and to start up a conversation connecting existential risk with human development writ large.

It is also great to engage with the UN on existential risk. There is already a lot of engagement on individual risks (nuclear, bio…) but less so far on existential risk as a whole — e.g. on the importance of achieving lasting security from all such risks.

Read full report

Progress made last 200 years
This positive and flashy message compiled by Altruisto could be the start of interesting conversations with people not familiar with EA.

Watch here

EAN Dutch Charity Event
The principles of Effective Altruism sounds logical and self explanatory to many people. Actually applying these principles in practice is challenging.
Four Dutch based NGOs will share their experiences with the application of the EA principles, and will exchange ideas. We will also present a brief overview of a practical framework to apply the EA principles within NGOs.
This event (11 Feb, 3-5PM) is for a specific target audience (working at, applying for or advising NGO's). Apply here.

Upcoming events

PISE & EAN: Maximizing impact by investing to give

What: An insightful seminar on what makes a charity effective and how your contributions can be invested to ensure even more impact. After the talk you can engage in discussions (optional)
When: Thursday 11 February at 20.00 - 21.00 (CET)
Where: Via Zoom (online)
Target audience: Everyone who is interested!
Sign up: Simply click on the link just before the events starts

EA Meditation Group: Ongoing event

What: Every Wednesday and Sunday you can join guided meditations with other aspiring effective altruists!
When: Wednesdays and Sundays at 17:30 (Amsterdam time)
Where: Via Zoom (online)
Target audience: Effective Altruists and aspiring Effective Altruists

Other EA online events:

There are many ways to discover online events to attend:

See all events by EA Rotterdam on their website

Visit Facebook groups 'Effective Altruism Online Events' and 'EA Anywhere' for exciting international events

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