Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: AIM/CE's Materials and Resources for EAs, published by CE on April 5, 2024 on The Effective Altruism Forum.

With just two weeks to go (deadline April 14th), many EAs are preparing to apply to our three programs.

Our

Charity Entrepreneurship Incubation Program (to launch your own nonprofit)

Our

Research Program (to find the best solutions to the worst problems)

Our new

Founding to Give pre-Incubator (to find a highly commercial idea and co-founder)

Before applying, we often encourage applicants to check out our resources to give them the best chances of success. We also believe in just sharing good ideas and good materials. So we decided to post some of those resources here for the community at large.

There's a lot of material here, so don't feel put off. Most successful applicants don't have a huge amount of time to prepare before applying. Instead, they dig deeper into specific content the further they get in the application process.

7 suggested resources and steps for applying

Read up about the

programs you're interested in, take Impactful Careers Quiz or

CE-specific quiz on our website, explore our

blog, and read the relevant

report or

idea summaries.

Read our

handbook. Here's a free copy of the

first chapter.

Get a sense of how

our research process is designed to help us find the best ideas.

Understand

our values and think about what they mean to you.

Read about a few of the

31 charities we have helped launch and take a look at our

past participants and their testimonials.

Read our blog post: How to increase your odds of getting accepted

Revisit and tailor your CV to highlight relevant, independent, altruistic, or unusual projects or work.

If you want to go deeper,

check out this document with many links, articles, podcasts, and book recommendations covering the following and more:

Learn more about Effective Altruism

Get motivated to be ambitious

Get better at decision-making and meta skills

Get better at productivity systems

Get better at being fast and lean

Work on your creativity

Get better at quantitative work, research, science

Learn more about scientific methods and evidence

Get more resilient and confident

Learn more about running a charity

And much more.

We hope the following are useful in helping you consider and prepare for an application to one of our programs! You can

apply here until April 14!

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