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Centre for Effective Altruism
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CEA is the institutional backbone of the EA movement, which has been a major funding and talent source for AI safety research; understanding CEA helps contextualize the broader ecosystem in which AI safety work is conducted.
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Summary
The Centre for Effective Altruism (CEA) is the primary organizational hub for the effective altruism movement, supporting community growth through conferences, local group funding, online forums, grants, and communications. It operates key EA infrastructure including the EA Forum, EA Funds, and effectivealtruism.org. CEA's work is broadly relevant to AI safety as a significant portion of the EA community prioritizes existential and catastrophic AI risks.
Key Points
- •CEA runs EA Global conferences connecting researchers, donors, and practitioners working on the world's most pressing problems including AI safety.
- •Supports hundreds of local EA groups worldwide, serving as a pipeline for recruiting talent into AI safety and other cause areas.
- •Operates EA Funds, which provides grants to projects aligned with EA principles including AI safety research organizations.
- •Maintains the EA Forum as a central discussion platform where significant AI safety discourse, research, and career advice is published.
- •Community health and support functions help maintain a productive and ethical ecosystem for those working on existential risk reduction.
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# We're building a global network dedicated to
# doing good better
[View open roles at CEA →](https://www.centreforeffectivealtruism.org/careers)
[Effective altruism](https://www.effectivealtruism.org/) is a philosophy and movement that encourages people to combine compassion and care with evidence and reason to find the most effective ways to help others.
The Centre for Effective Altruism (CEA) is an organisation working to promote the principles of effective altruism and support and grow the effective altruism community.
What we do
## Providing resources to help people do more good
Our mission is to nurture a community of people who are working on critical global challenges. We enact our mission via five main efforts:
### Running global conferences
We run conferences promoting the ideas of effective altruism.
[Learn more →](https://www.eaglobal.org/)
### Supporting student and city groups
We support hundreds of local effective altruism groups.
[Learn more →](https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/community)
### Community support
We support community members and prevent problems that could hinder the community’s ability to have impact.
[Learn more →](https://www.centreforeffectivealtruism.org/community-health)
### Online resources and a discussion Forum
We build and moderate an online Forum about effective altruism. We also run [effectivealtruism.org](https://www.effectivealtruism.org/) and the [Effective Altruism Newsletter](https://www.effectivealtruism.org/ea-newsletter-archives).
[Learn more →](https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/)
### Communicating effective altruism
We work with the media, advise and assist communicators in the community, and support content about effective altruism.
[Learn more →](https://www.effectivealtruism.org/#effective-altruism-in-the-media)
### Making grants to impactful projects
Through [EA Funds](https://funds.effectivealtruism.org/) we provide grants directly to projects aligned with effective altruist principles.
[Learn more →](https://funds.effectivealtruism.org/)
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