“What do Open Philanthropy’s recent changes mean for university group organizers?” by Uni Groups Team, Joris P
TLDR Open Philanthropy (OP) announced it is passing over the EA university group support portfolio to the Centre for Effective Altruism's (CEA's) University Groups Team. We are encouraged by OP's endorsement and are excited to continue to support EA university groups around the world. As part of this update, Open Philanthropy (OP) shared it will only accept applications from EA university groups for their University Organizer Fellowship until December 31, 2024. After that, the Fellowship will be unavailable for EA university group organizers. Changes in funding can be confusing and/or disappointing. In this post (mostly aimed at university group organizers), we want to clarify what the EA university group support landscape will look like after these changes. Most importantly, after December 31st: OP will no longer pay part-time EA student group organizers for their time. CEA is exploring whether to offer financial support for organizers in the future (and we are [...] ---Outline:(00:07) TLDR(02:46) What is changing?(03:50) What will the support landscape look like now?(04:01) Group expenses(04:49) Funding for part-time organizers(06:02) Funding for full-time organizers(06:40) Continuing to grow the EA university group ecosystem--- First published: December 10th, 2024 Source: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/9yxW6FcPhjtNb9TEQ/what-do-open-philanthropy-s-recent-changes-mean-for --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.