EA - Getting organizational value from EA conferences, featuring Charity Entrepreneurship’s experience by Amy Labenz

Link to original articleWelcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Getting organizational value from EA conferences, featuring Charity Entrepreneurship’s experience, published by Amy Labenz on February 17, 2023 on The Effective Altruism Forum.For individuals in the EA community, EA Global and EAGx conferences are an opportunity to be exposed to ideas and people who can help us identify and pursue more impactful paths. And for organizations, they’re an opportunity to connect with potential new hires, grantees, and funders.Charity Entrepreneurship recently shared with us (the CEA events team) a summary of the impact their participation at EAG and EAGx has had on their Incubation Program.We were inspired by this post, and wanted to encourage orgs working on EA causes — object and meta, large and small, older and newer — to consider carefully how to get the most out of the conferences we’ve got lined up in 2023. The opportunities include:Talks & workshops can be used to inform the community about your work and how others can contribute to increasing your impact as collaborators, funders or recruits.Office hours & career fairs are available for you to interact directly with those interested in your plans and how they might fit into them.1-on-1 meetings are the bedrock of all the conferences CEA is involved in organizing, facilitating in-depth discussion and establishing connections between people with common goals.If you’re interested in your org appearing on the program at an upcoming conference, or would like to discuss with us how best to approach these events, please reach out to us at [email protected] thought sharing Charity Entrepreneurship’s experience publicly might be valuable for others to learn from in planning their own approach to future conferences. Here’s their story in their own words.CE’s EAG and EAGx Success StoriesFrom the launch of Charity Entrepreneurship’s Incubation Program, EAG and EAGx conferences have been a crucial part of the organization’s outreach strategy. Thanks in part to CE’s increasing presence — talks, workshops, and participation in numerous career fairs — nonprofit entrepreneurship has become a recognized career option in the effective altruist community.From just one round of applications for CE’s Incubation Program, 325 out of 720 applicants had participated in EAG or EAGx conferences where the organization was present. 169 applicants had interacted directly with CE at EAGs by participating in a workshop, office hours, or talking to CE staff one on one.When young entrepreneurs who got into the Incubation Program and started new high-impact charities were asked what convinced them to apply, they named EAGs as one of the top reasons (along with the EA movement in general, partner/friend, internships, talking to CE staff members and group organizers).So far, Charity Entrepreneurship has started 23 organizations and provided them with $1.88 million in total funding. These organizations have fundraised a further $20 million to cover their costs and are now reaching over 120 million animals and over 10 million people with their interventions. You can learn more about them on CE’s website; they include charities like Fortify Health (three GiveWell Incubation Grants, 25% chance of becoming a top charity), Fish Welfare Initiative (ACE Standout Charity), Shrimp Welfare Project (first organization ever working on shrimp welfare), and Lead Exposure Elimination Project (precursory policy organization now working in 10 countries).Key benefits for CEFinding talented entrepreneurs to start high-impact projects (50% of the founders had been in contact with CE’s outreach efforts during EAG conferences).Finding hires for the CE team (20% of the team have been hired thanks to outreach efforts during EAG conferences), as well as fellows and interns.Making useful connections for funding (10% of fun...