Brief advertisements for EA infrastructure projects, Sept 2024

By Arepo @ 2024-09-07T05:23 (+85)

This is the latest of a theoretically-three-monthly series of posts advertising EA infrastructure projects that struggle to get and maintain awareness (see original advertising post for more on the rationale).

Italicised projects have been added since the previous post was originally submitted

Bolded projects have been edited in to this post since I first posted it, so you can easily see them if you revisit it

On with the adverts:

Support services for EAs

Online coworking/socialising

• EA Gather Town - An always-on virtual meeting place for coworking, connecting, and having both casual and impactful conversations
• EA Anywhere - An online EA community for everyone
• EA coworking Discord - A Discord server dedicated to online coworking

Free or subsidised accommodation

• CEEALAR/formerly the EA hotel - Provides free or subsidised serviced accommodation and board, and a moderate stipend for other living expenses.
• NonLinear's EA house  database  - An  experiment by Nonlinear to try to connect EAs with extra space with EAs who could do good work if they didn't have to pay rent (or could pay less rent). 

Mental Health

• Mental Health Navigator - a signposting service committed to connecting people to free or low-cost mental health resources.
• Rethink Wellbeing - engaging, proven, and low-cost programs tailored to the EA community. 

Coaching

• Effective Disagreement - teaches EAs how to effectively handle disagreements both internally and externally (but mostly with external stakeholders) with a 4-hour long, evidence based, truth-seeking and ethical workshop
• The Upgrade Program - a systematic method for upgrading your life in the most efficient and effective way we know how
• Finlinson Executive Coaching  - Executive coaching for people tackling the world’s most pressing problems
• Katie Glass - offers subsidised coaching to women working in longtermist & meta cause areas
• Magnify Mentoring - connects and supports people from underrepresented backgrounds who are ambitious and rigorous in their altruism, to have a positive impact with their careers and lives
• Elliot Billingsley - Coaching is best for people who have personal or professional goals they’re serious about accomplishing. My sessions are designed to improve clarity and motivation.
• Tee Barnett Coaching
  • (coaching training) - a multi-component training infrastructure for developing your own practice as a skilled coach.
  • (coach matchmaking) - Access matchmaking to high-quality coaching at below-market pricing.
• Probably Good - Whether you’re a student searching for the right path or an experienced professional seeking a purpose-driven opportunity, we’re here to help you brainstorm career paths, evaluate options, and plan next steps
• AI Safety Support - health coaching to people working on AI safety (first session free)
• 80,0000 Hours career coaching - Speak with us for free about using your career to help solve one of the world’s most pressing problems
• Yonatan Cale - Coaching for software devs
• FAANG style mock interviews - senior software engineer at Waymo, who previously worked at Google

Freelancing support

• Freelancing for Good - introduces freelancers both within and outside EA to different high-impact pathways

Support services for EA organisations

Marketing

• Good Impressions - helps drive engagement with content, services, courses, contests, programs, fellowships, and events.
• Annabel Luketic - free marketing strategy calls for EA projects
• Marisa Vogiatazi - offering free (possibly now discounted) social media advice and strategies, creating media kits, influencer outreach plans, and content to EA organisations
• User-Friendly  - an EA-aligned marketing agency

Evaluation/donation support

• GiveWiki - The AngelList for philanthropy: Follow expert grantmakers with your donations

Operations/strategy

• Future Matters - strategy consulting Support services for EA organisations
• WorkStream Business Systems - a service dedicated to EAs, helping you improve your workflow, boost your bottom line and take control of your business
• cFactual - a new, EA-aligned strategy consultancy with the purpose of maximising its counterfactual impact

Governance

• Good Governance Project - helps EA organizations create strong boards by finding qualified and diverse professionals

Research

• Arb - Our consulting work spans forecasting, machine learning, and epidemiology. We do original research, evidence reviews, and large-scale data pipelines.
• Pineapple Operations - Maintains a public database of people who are seeking operations or Personal Assistant/Executive Assistant work (part- or full-time) within the next 6 months in the Effective Altruism ecosystem
• Alok Singh - My experience ranges across fields from construction to biology. I know much mathematics, and with it, I grasp the unseen. (~$300/hr)
• Elizabeth van Nostrand - producing decision-relevant work under certainty (~$300/hr)
• Niplav - primarily research consulting; also software engineering and data science ($20 for impactful or interesting projects, $35 for work with a public result, $50 otherwise)
• Nuño Sempere - a niche estimation, evaluation and impact auditing consultancy(~$250/hr, at marginally decreasing price)
• Vasco Grilo - offers consulting on a wide-range of EA-topics (see his forum posts list) (~$20/hr)

General writing support

• Amber Dawn - a freelance writer, editor and writing coach for the EA community who can help you edit drafts and write up your unwritten ideas.

General tech support 

• Forum Magnum - an open source forum codebase that runs LessWrong, the EA Forum and others
• Altruistic Agency - provides discounted tech support and development 

General legal support

• Legal advice from Tyrone Barugh - a practice under consideration with the primary aim of providing legal support to EA orgs and individual EAs, with that practice probably being based in the UK.

Apps

• Connect for Animals - a free app to let you find events, groups, and like-minded people—and learn how to be more effective at advocating for animals.
• Spartacus.app - allows movement building while concealing your anonymity
• Sage tools:
  • Fatebook: the fastest way to make and track predictions
  • Fatebook for Chrome: Instantly make and embed predictions, in Google Docs and anywhere else on the web
  • Quantified Intuitions: Practice assigning credences to outcomes with a quick feedback loop
  • Fatebook for Slack - a Slack bot designed to help high-impact orgs build a culture of forecasting.
• Confido - A forecasting tool for during meetings or for within organisation! Potentially makes meetings faster and it is a simple way to get some groups forecasts. 

Inclusion criteria

The approximate criteria are as follows (as ever, open to discussion, and if there's something you think is essential to let people know about which doesn't strictly fit, feel free to suggest it - for eg the house database doesn't technically qualify, but seemed too valuable to omit):

• A service or product (I'm removing direct grantmakers from this list as of this post, since they don't really lack for awareness)
• The resource should be
  • available at a substantial discount to relatively poor EAs, or
  • aimed specifically at EA-oriented people
• It should be for the direct benefit of the people using it, not just to 'enable them to do more good' (though hopefully that will be a side benefit)
• It should be available to people across the world (ie. not just a local EA group)
• It should be
  • a service or product that someone is putting ongoing work into (ie not just a list of tips, or Facebook/Discord/Slack groups with no purpose other than discussion of some EA subtopic, etc) or
  • an organisation or project for which lack of funding is an existential concern

Also, let me know if I should remove any resources or edit any of the descriptions. I've checked it for broken links but haven't done any further editing. As ever, feel free to message me and let me know if some resource or organisation should be added to the list. Also let me know if you know prices for any of the paid services. I don't have bandwidth to track them all down, but I think it's useful info.

Finally if you think that these organisations deserve more exposure but don't want to give me free karma for a relatively low-effort post, please consider strong upvoting this post and strong downvoting this karma sink comment.