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: EA Israel: 2022 Progress and 2023 Plans, published by ezrah on February 23, 2023 on The Effective Altruism Forum.

This document recaps EA Israel’s and the Israeli effective altruism community progress in 2022, and lays out EA Israel’s plans for 2023 (we know that 2023 started a couple months ago, but figured better late than never). We wrote the post in order to increase transparency about EA Israel’s activities, share our thoughts with the global community, and as an opportunity to reflect, strategize and celebrate.

Summary

Updates to our existing strategy

We’re placing an increased emphasis on supporting, incubating and launching new projects and organizations

We’re investing in our operations, in order to be able to scale our programs, support community members’ initiatives and mature into a professional workplace to support staff development and retention

We’re presenting our work and value proposition clearly and in a way that’s easily understood by the team, community, and general public

2022 Progress

Achievements by Israeli EA community

We asked community members to briefly share their personal progress this year.

EA Israel’s Progress

EA Israel’s work can be divided into four verticals:

1. Teaching tools about effective social action and introducing Israelis to effective altruism

Through an accredited university course, university groups, year-long fellowships, short intro fellowships (“crash courses”) for young professionals, newsletter and social media and large public events, along with onboarding new community members.

2. Helping community members take action and maximize their social impact

Incubating sub-groups (based on cause area / profession)

Impact acceleration programs and services

Support for community members and projects

3. Increasing the effectiveness of donations in Israel

Preparing for the launch of Effective Giving Israel

Launching the Maximum Impact Program, a program that works with nonprofits to create and publish cost-effectiveness reports at scale (22 reports in the pilot) with the goal of making Israeli philanthropy effectiveness-oriented and evidence-based

Counterfactually raise 500k ILS for high-impact nonprofits

4. Infrastructure to enable continued growth

We’re setting ourselves up to be a well-run, high-capability organization

We’re supporting a thriving and healthy community

We also discuss some of the major challenges of 2022:

FTX’s crash

Staff turnover and the difficulties of transitioning from a volunteer-based group to a funded nonprofit

2023 Annual Plan (requisite Miro board included)

Effective Altruism Israel’s vision is one where all Israelis who are interested in maximizing their social impact have access to the people and the resources they need to help others, using their careers, projects, and donations.

In 2023 EA Israel will continue to focus on its 4 core areas,

Teaching tools about effective social action and growing the EA Israel community

Core objectives: scale and optimize outreach programs

Supporting impactful action

Core objectives: incubate new sub-groups; launch new impact-assistance programs with potential to scale; provide operational support for projects, orgs and individuals

Effective donations

Core objectives: Launch Effective Giving Israel; improve, scale and run second round of local nonprofit evaluation program

Organizational and community infrastructure

Core objectives: support growth of outwards-facing programs; implement M&E systems; streamline internal processes and operations; improve male / female community ratio and support a thriving and healthy community

Here’s a visual map of our current and planned projects and services, where projects in italics are planned projects, and if you scroll down you’ll see our services mapped out relative to our target audiences. Note that the impact / cost scal...