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Happy November <<First Name>>!

EA Global conferences
The team had a really wonderful time at EAG London, though we're excited to finally be back home in NYC 🌃 If you missed the conference, you can watch the live-streamed keynote talks and hear from speakers like Will MacAskill on the current state of EA, career advice for making impact, and more!

If you're hankering for another trip to Europe for an EA conference, check out EAGxPrague on Dec 3. This conference is a good fit for both new and experienced EAs, and the deadline to apply is Nov 17th.

Giving Season
November kicks off the start of “giving season”, the months during which the majority of fundraising dollars are raised for most charities. EA-aligned charities are no exception, and giving season also brings unique opportunities to increase the impact of our donations, with a variety of opportunities for matching funds.

If you're planning to make donations this year, you should take some time to plan your end-of-year giving! We recommend Giving What We Can's guide to choosing a charity, and their list of recommended charities.

Check out more details below on the two biggest current opportunities we're currently aware of to get your donations matched 💵

Every.org - Right now!
Check out this forum post to learn how to double a $100 donation to a charity of your choice. There’s still more than $60,000 of matching funds left from this opportunity, but it will probably run out quite soon, so you should take advantage ASAP!

Giving Tuesday - November 30
Facebook’s Giving Tuesday donation match is happening soon, on November 30, 2021 at 8 a.m. EST / 5 a.m. PST, and the EA Giving Tuesday project is back to help us maximize our donation matches!

Over the past four years, the effective altruism community, coordinated by the EA Giving Tuesday team and Rethink Charity, has directed $1.5 million USD in matching funds from Facebook to highly effective nonprofits. Facebook is offering $8 million in matching funds this year, but the structure of this year’s match makes it especially important to donate quickly, even more so than in past years.

For details and instructions on how to maximize your chance of getting your donations matched, sign up at www.eagivingtuesday.org. You can also attend their talk for EA NYC on Nov 15 at 7pm (details below) to hear more from the project organizers and get your questions answered!

Upcoming Events

EA Donation Matching Initiative: Overview and Q&A
Monday, November 15 at 7pm

Megan Jamer and Avi Norowitz from the EA Giving Tuesday project will give a talk and Q&A about the project's past successes, lessons learned, and plans for 2021.
If you're planning to make any donations as the end of the year approaches, we HIGHLY recommend attending this event to learn how to get your donations matched! You can also find details and sign up for updates on their website.
(Virtual. See details & RSVP on Facebook and Meetup).

EA NYC Speed Friending
Thursday, November 18 at 6:30pm

We’re excited to meet up and do some speed friending next week at the Brooklyn Society for Ethical Culture (the lovely hosts of our EAGxNYC Picnic last month)! During speed friending, you'll get paired with a new conversation partner (and given some guiding questions) every 5 minutes. It’s a great way to meet a lot of new people in the community at once!
(Indoors, with vaccination required. See details & RSVP on Facebook and Meetup).

Giving Tuesday Celebration
Tuesday, November 30 at 7pm

After a morning of furious donating by many members of our community, we will be gathering this evening to celebrate Giving Tuesday, and the efforts of the EA Giving Tuesday team!
(Indoors, with vaccination required. See details & RSVP on Facebook and Meetup).

Reading Group: Poor Economics
Monday, December 6th at 7pm

We'll be discussing Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty, by the co-founders of J-PAL and Nobel Prize winners Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo!
(Online. See details & RSVP on Facebook and Meetup).

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

We’re currently reconfiguring our job site! In the meantime, we’d suggest checking out the 80000 Hours job board! Here are several jobs in particular we want to flag:

Open Phil is hiring an Associate In-House Counsel and multiple roles in finance, operations, and recruiting until Nov 14.
The Future of Life Institute is offering Microgrants for AI safety work (for students, faculty, and postdocs).
Harvard’s Belfer Center is offering 13 fellowships across a variety of topics including climate, security, nuclear, and more. Applications close December 1.
The Humane League is hiring for four remote roles and Legal Impact for Chickens is hiring a litigation attorney.

Opportunities

The Effective Institutions Project is running a 6-week reading group on Improving Institutional Decision-Making, which started on November 2. Sessions will be on Tuesdays from 5:30-6:30pm UK time. More information and sign-up here.
High Impact Professionals is a new organization incubated by Charity Entrepreneurship, which is working to support EA working professionals to maximize their impact. They’re currently conducting interviews with EA working professionals to understand their needs and barriers to impact; if you’re interested in chatting with them to help them understand what programs they should offer, sign up here!
You can also let them know if you’re interested in running an EA-aligned fundraising campaign at your company, and they will provide resources and training to help you!
EA for Jews is a new EA outreach and community group that just launched! Their mission is (1) to share EA ideas with Jews (broadly defined to include religious as well as secular Jews) and (2) to build a community of Jews interested in EA. Join their Facebook group here and learn more through their website here.
The next rounds of EA Cambridge’s 8-week AI Safety Fundamentals and Alternative Proteins seminars will both run January-March, with applications due by Dec 15.
Applications for the next rounds of Center for Effective Altruism’s Virtual Programs (the Introductory EA Program, the In-Depth EA Program, and The Precipice reading groups) are coming up on November 28. If you have participated in any EA fellowships, programs, or reading groups before, and are interested in facilitating, you should apply to facilitate by Sunday, November 21.
Training For Good is a new organization that is running one-day programs to help people build their negotiation skills and develop a concrete plan for negotiating a raise or promotion. Learn more here and apply. Their upcoming online trainings are on Nov 20 and December 4.

Resources

The Nonlinear Library (searchable on any podcast app) uses text-to-speech software to create an automatically updating repository of "top EA content,” including EA forum posts! It is possibly illegal though.
The weekly EA Forum Digest newsletter is another good way to stay updated on the top 5-7 posts each week!
Giving What We Can has a wonderful guide to talking about EA.
Looking to volunteer for a project in the EA community? Have a project and need volunteers or collaborators? EA Impact CoLabs is a new platform built to connect EA projects and people who want to help. Sign up to submit a project or volunteer on EA CoLabs (or sign up to help out EA NYC)!

Get Involved

Volunteer with EA NYC
As the New York EA community grows, we’re creating new ways to get involved and support the group. If you’re interested in helping out with EA NYC events, outreach, or operations, you can fill out this interest form to let us know. We’re looking for anything from help getting snacks for events, to new board members, to everything in between! See a full list of ways to help on the form.

Host EA NYC
We also can always use help finding well-priced venues! Private outdoor spaces and large, private indoor spaces are especially valuable. A wide variety of spaces will work - we’re looking for spaces that can fit anywhere from 15 to 150 people. If you know of or have connections with any venues, please do get in touch at info@effectivealtruism.nyc.

Reading Group: Poor Economics

This month, we'll be discussing Poor Economics (2011) by Nobel Prize winners Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo!

In Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty, the two Economics professors and co-founders of the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL), discuss their lessons from 15 years of working on global poverty. They take an evidence-based approach, drawing on the hundreds of RCTs they've conducted, to understanding what traps people in extreme poverty, and some of the solutions that can improve the situation.

Because our usual date would have conflicted with the holidays, we will be discussing on Monday, Dec 6th instead.

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!

“One difference between investing in a company and donating to a charity is that the charity world often lacks appropriate feedback mechanisms. Invest in a bad company, and you lose money; but give money to a bad charity, and you probably won’t hear about its failings.”

- William MacAskill

We hope you have a wonderful giving season!

Yours,
Arushi & Rocky

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