TLDR: Sarah Bluhm and I are funding and mentoring ideas-first (as opposed to, e.g., careers-first) EA community builders. If you’re at one of these universities or know someone who is, we want to talk to you, especially this subset:

• University of Toronto
• University of Michigan
• UCLA
• USC
• NYU
• Columbia
• Claremont Colleges (Claremont McKenna, Scripps, Harvey Mudd, Pomona, Pitzer)
• Stanford
• Harvard
• MIT
• Cornell
• Georgetown
• Northwestern

**Contact us here or at [email protected]**

The Network for EA Support & Training (NEST)

We (Matt Reardon and Sarah Bluhm) founded NEST, whose mission is to build vibrant in-person EA communities by teaching organizers the craft of communicating EA ideas with courage and authenticity.

I (Matt) am a former lawyer and 80k advisor who blogs, tweets, and podcasts about EA. Sarah worked on CEA's university groups team and has a background in bioengineering.

NEST's philosophy is that EA communities should be platforms for individuals to form their own views on the central questions of Effective Altruism: what are the most important issues in the world, why those issues, and what should I do about them?

This contrasts with approaches to community building that act as recruiting funnels for specific organizations or fields. We think [...]

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