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Announcements

We are very excited to announce that applications are open for the very first EAGx NYC Picnic! EAGx NYC Picnic will be an outdoor gathering for the New York region EA community on Saturday, October 2, from 11 am to 8 pm EST. Modeled after the successful San Francisco event this past July, we are thrilled to host a full day of discussion, connection, food, and games in the beautiful garden of the Brooklyn Society for Ethical Culture, across the street from Prospect Park. Think of the event as an outdoor, one-day EA conference with no formal talks — just good conversations and relaxed fun 😁

Find more info and apply at https://effectivealtruism.nyc/picnic!

As we refine our plans for the coming year, we would love for you all to fill out this short(ish) survey to help us understand your experiences so far, and how we can do the most good going forward! Please feel free to respond and share feedback regardless of how much you’ve participated in the group. Responses are welcome at any time but responses by September 10th are preferred as we work to develop a new strategic plan.

Finally, applications are open for EA Global: London, which will run October 29-31 and is the first in-person European EA conference in two years!

Upcoming Events

September 9, 6 pm: EAs play "Would you rather?" (outdoors, park)
September 20, 6:30 pm: Cultured Protein: A discussion with two leaders in the space (outdoors)
September 27, 7 pm: Reading Group - How Asia Works (virtual)
October 2, 11 am: EAGx NYC Picnic! (all-day, outdoors)

To keep up to date on our upcoming events, check out our calendar on Facebook or Meetup, or add us to your Google Calendar!

High Impact Jobs in NYC

EA Giving Tuesday is hiring an Operations Specialist.
Giving What We Can is looking for volunteers for its 12-month Ambassador program to coordinate and share local giving projects.
EA Funds is hiring a variety of roles (including an Exec Director, Operations Analyst, Product Manager, and more) to work on its platform, which moved $10 million last year.
Woodleigh Impact (a new Charity Entrepreneurship incubated charity focused on global poverty, animals, and climate change) is hiring two Research Analysts.

Check out all 140+ listings on our job board! And if you know of an impactful opportunity that we've missed on our board, please share it with us :)

See the EA NYC Job Board

Opportunities/Resources

The EA Animal Welfare Fund has a general RFP for the next round of funding. The deadline for submissions is Oct 3rd.
80,000 Hours released a new, short introduction to their advice on pursuing high-impact careers. It explains their central ideas, our most important advice, and how they can help people in a single, readable essay you can share with friends and colleagues.
Open Philanthropy just re-opened applications for their early-career funding for individuals interested in improving the long-term future. Apply here by January 21st, 2022.

Effective altruism in the news

Peter Singer won the $1M Berggruen prize for impactful philosophical work and is donating all the proceeds. It was written up in the New York Times!
EA NYC community member Danny Bressler's work on the mortality cost of carbon is receiving continued widespread media coverage.
EA NYC community member Jay Shooster's consumer protection legal work was highlighted in the New York Times.
EA Sam Bankman-Fried made Fortune's 40 Under 40.

On Our Minds

Arushi enjoyed this Atlantic piece on Long COVID; it's encouraging to see that the search for treatments is progressing, although most patients have still not been able to fully recover. It was also surprising to learn how low-tech a lot of the treatments are (e.g. breathing exercises). She also enjoyed rewatching Ajeya Cotra’s fantastic, heartfelt introduction to EA.

Rocky reread an article from March about the overlap between redlining and flooding in urban areas while drying out her basement after Ida hit.

Reading Group: How Asia Works

This month, we'll be reading How Asia Works (2014) by Joe Studwell. In it, Studwell distills his research into the economics of nine countries—Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, the Philippines, Vietnam, and China—to understand what led to an economic boom in some countries, while others were unable to achieve the same results.

Make sure to join the #reading-group channel on the EA NYC Slack (join here) to discuss throughout the month. Stick around since that's where we decide on the books for future months!

Community Spotlight: Kenneth Scheffler

"I came to Effective Altruism through the typical gateway thinker, Peter Singer. Singer provides a singular point of view. In contrast, I'm not sure you could make more than a few statements that the vast majority of Effective Altruists would agree with. And I think that intellectual diversity is what makes the community worthwhile and our EA NYC meetups fun.

Last year I co-founded Family Empowerment Media (FEM). We work to improve family planning in Nigeria through evidence-driven mass media campaigns. I think family planning is not prioritized as a cause area enough in the EA community. Helping couples avoid unintended pregnancies is one of the most cost-effective ways to impact health, poverty, gender, education, and sustainability issues. As a result, I think FEM has the potential to one day compete with GiveWell's top rated charities on impact per dollar.

Outside of work and EA stuff, I play soccer, run, and strive to perfect my vegan pizza-making."

Quote

"Do not be daunted by the enormity of the world's grief. Do justly now, love mercy now, walk humbly now. You are not obligated to complete the work, but neither are you free to abandon it."

- Rabbi Tarfon

That's all for this month! Take care and we'll see you soon!

Yours,
Arushi & Rocky

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