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The Centre for Effective Altruism's University Groups Team reviews their 2023/2024 activities supporting EA student groups, including the Organiser Support Programme, AI safety group incubation, and retreats. The team outlines plans to scale impact through more intensive support for select university groups and a new strategy hire.
Key Points
- •Ran the Organiser Support Programme (OSP), a three-week mentorship initiative for EA university group leaders.
- •Incubated and spun out a dedicated organization focused on supporting AI Safety university groups.
- •Hosted retreats and summer internships to develop group organizer capacity and community.
- •Expanding internal evaluation efforts to better measure impact across the university EA ecosystem.
- •Hiring a University Groups Strategy Lead to pilot more intensive, targeted support for select groups.
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Building effective altruism Announcements and updates Centre for Effective Altruism Organization updates University groups Frontpage What Has the CEA Uni Groups Team Been up To? – Our 2023/2024 Review Summary Intro What we’ve been working on Organiser Support Programme (OSP) OSP Fall ‘24 Participation over time Size and Spread of University Groups (2024) Raw data - OSP 2024 Early OSP fall ‘24 Fieldbuilder Support Programme (FSP) Retreats Group Support Funding Succession and handover M&E Expanding the Team Summer Internships Other activities Strategic trade-offs Upcoming activities 3 comments Today, we’re sharing two posts:
this post, on what we have been up to over the past year
an update on our pilot university program
We’re also announcing that we’re hiring a University Groups Strategy Lead to focus on these pilot universities!
As we’ll be attending EAG Boston this weekend, we likely won’t be able to respond to comments as quickly, but we will try our best!
Summary
Over the past year, we’ve continued to coordinate large-scale mentoring programmes and offer grants for standard group expenses. We also ran a retreat and hosted two summer interns
We incubated and spun-out an organisation focused on AI Safety group support
We’re working on piloting more involved support with a select number of university groups - for which we’re hiring a University Groups Strategy Lead !
Internally, we’ve stepped up work to evaluate the impact of our programmes and been joined by some new team members
We’re excited to continue our work, and to build on it. Some of our plans are detailed below, and in our pilot university post !
For this post, we worked to balance capturing all key details and conserving time. If you have any questions not answered by the post, you are welcome to ask them in the comments section! Note that we are attending EAG Boston this weekend, so may not be able to reply to comments as quickly as normal. You are welcome to reach out to us at the event if you have questions about any of our programmes.
Intro
The university groups team focuses on supporting EA university groups and their organisers. University groups have a strong track record of sharing EA ideas and motivating young people to take action. We work to help group organisers achieve this with their groups.
Our team currently comprises:
Joris Pijpers (team lead)
Alex Dial
Jemima Jones
Sam Robinson
We’re supported by Antonia Boetsch and Ignacio Ibarra, and are part of the broader Groups team run by Jessica McCurdy.
In this post, we share what we’ve been working on in the past year, including our
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