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Announcements
Check out giving season resources and upcoming EA conferences in 2024.

Events
Find them all on our consolidated calendar here and add our Google Calendar to yours here!

Jobs and Opportunities
Check out our hand-picked selection for local jobs as well as our curated local opportunities (from the EA Opportunities Board).

News and Organizational Updates
While you can find all of this month's updates in this neat database, we've also sorted some of the biggest news by category and put it immediately below:

Animal Welfare

• Neil Dullaghan with a summary from the animal advocacy forum | 1-minute read

Building Effective Altruism / Meta-EA Causes

• Several organizations need (and/or could use) marginal funding
  • Fish Welfare Initiative
  • ALLFED
  • Vida Plena
  • EA Animal Welfare Fund
  • Rethink Priorities
  • Center on Long-Term Risk
  • and many more! (you can also donate to EA NYC here)
    
• 80,000 Hours is looking for a new CEO (or looking to fill other internal vacancies) | 1-minute read
• Zachary Robinson (Effective Ventures) describing how EV's supported organizations will be decentralizing into independent charities (also, post-FTX settlement news) | 3-minute read
  • See also: Giving What We Can's update on their spin-out from EV and 80,000 Hours' announcement
• Sjir Hoeijmakers, Michael Townsend, and Alana HF with Giving What We Can and a critical evaluation of other charity evaluators (GW, HLI, AWF, ACE, LTFF, LLF) | 7-minute read
• Dylan Matthews and Sigal Samuel for Vox's Future Perfect released a guide on effective giving | 25-minute read
  • See also: Kelsey Piper's piece on the case for giving sooner rather than later

Global Health / Wellbeing

• James Snowden for Open Philanthropy on their new "Global Public Health Policy" program within their Global Health and Wellbeing portfolio | 2-minute read
  
• The Life You Can Save has funds to help prevent violence against women and girls | 2-minute read
  • See: Help Women & Girls Fund and All Charities Fund
    

Global/International Risks

• Probably Good released posts on climate change (including top priorities and job recommendations)
• Dr. Marion Messmer and Dr. Patricia Lewis writing for Chatham House on optimism around China-US talks and arms control | 4-minute read
  

Other Risks Concerning AI

• Nita Farahany on the 80,000 Hours Podcast about neurotechnology's use in convicting criminals and manipulating workers | 121-minute podcast
  
• Jeff Sebo on the 80,000 Hours Podcast on digital minds, and how to avoid sleepwalking into a major moral catastrophe | 158-minute podcast
  • See also: his podcast with Biounethical

Evergreen resources
Lastly, you can find a collection of tips and resources that we generally recommend in this newsletter or on our website.

Giving Season Resources

Check out the EA community's top resources for donors looking to give before the new year!

Personal takes
Kyle Luchesse shared their giving story, Michael Townsend wrote about their thoughts on their Giving What We Can (GWWC) Pledge, Lizka Vaintrob shared thoughts on not taking the GWWC pledge, and Jeff Kaufman made an "Ask Me Anything" on Earning to Give. You can also read more about the community's thoughts on this year's giving season here!

Resources from organizations
Giving What We Can released a personal donation recommendation tool, new recommendations, a donation lottery, and updated cause area funds (including a Risks and Resilience Fund that combines Longview Philanthropy's Emerging Challenges Fund and EA Funds' Long-Term Future Fund).

The EA Forum Team has also finalized the donation election candidates for 2023!

Summary of giving recommendations
If you're ever looking to make a donation and don't know where to start, book a call with us! We're happy to chat about the causes you care about and see if there are any resources we can provide. You can also find our summary of recommendations in our last newsletter!


Conferences
The Centre for Effective Altruism (in association with other groups) has some special events coming up in the months ahead!

EAGxLATAM Returns to Mexico City
Now in its second year, EAGxLATAM will take place February 16th-18th in Mexico City. In addition to those in the Latin American region, the event is open to other North American applicants (including those who don't speak Spanish!). Alex went to their last conference (earlier this year) and was glad to have met a bunch of incredible people! You can find out more about the event on their website here.

EA Global Conferences in 2024
The Centre for Effective Altruism also recently announced its plans for EAG conferences next year:

EAG Bay Area: Global Catastrophic Risks will be the first EA Global conference tailored to a specific theme. Running from February 2 - 4, the event will be most valuable to participants working on AI risks, biosecurity, and other global catastrophic risks, as well as relevant cross-cause areas such as work in policy and community building. Regardless of background, all are still welcome to apply here.

EAG London 2024 will be a "more traditional" EA Global conference with about 50% of the event's content focused on material other than AI / Global Catastrophic Risks. As with all EAG conferences, participants will have ample opportunities for networking and building connections with the other attendees. Apply here to join the conference from May 31 - June 2.