It's much easier to fundraise for GH&D (less "weird" / more legible)

Thanks for your time Lizka! As someone who has shared a bunch of feedback on the forum, I appreciated your willingness to always engage and stay curious.

Moderation is one of important and invisible jobs where it's really hard to please everyone. i think you / the team did a really good job in what was probably the hardest period of time to be a mod on this forum.

+1 and I'd go further - I think that "steady hands" are even more critical at the leadership level.

+1 to preparing to be in a position to do E2G. I think this is true for many career paths, but it's easier to justify it when you're doing a PhD in ML to work in TAIS research, or working in an entry level position in Congress to try to gain career capital and influence policy.

One general hesitation I had with parts of the post's framing was that it may not look at this as a long term career path (which means e.g. ramping up giving %'s , doing things to psychologically / emotionally feel good + confident about giving away more money).

well worth the time, and for sure! here are a few thoughts:

• importance of targeted channels / personas, building a funnel, focus on the user

+10000 and advice i've given to folks working on any kind of CB / meta work. targeting users is always a good think (and you can always increase the personas you support over time). careers just take time to change, very much a marathon not a sprint (low hanging fruit are limited).

EA overall (EA thinking, funders, some parts of the EA community) have more blindspots / a lot of suspicion around longer impact timelines (this has it's benefits / it's good to stay focused and it's very easy to avoid hard questions when your TOC becomes too long). But I think this has resulted in a lack of infra / longer term thinking especially when it comes to career advising. I want to get a more diverse funding landscape with funders taking slightly different strategies and doing active grantmaking to hopefully foster more of this.

• talent density on a team

I like the "hire slowly fire quickly" framing - although it can be tough in practice. I think it's really easy to get into scarcity mindset around hires / fear the cost of replacing a team member.

• hiring is hard (yes! especially for meta work!)

• adding more sectors for careers i am very curious on what your research finds re finding more impactful jobs / removing that as a bottleneck for impact - that's something i've been thinking about a bit in the GCBR context (where there are even fewer very explicitly EA/GCBR aligned orgs, and a lot of opportunities for impact are at other places).

(Also i can't believe it's already been 5 years - congrats on that!!)

Thank you for writing this! Your observations match many of my intuitions about the career advising landscape, it's really helpful to get the confirmation since your team has been doing this for so many years.

This is one of the most useful posts I've read on the forum this year.

Thanks so much for sharing these insights! Over the past few years I've seen the inner workings of leadership at many orgs, and come to appreciate how complex and difficult navigating this space can be, so I appreciate your candor (and humor/fun!)

Sebastian addressed this in a comment below. I'll also add that the Hub is a volunteer-run project, and we have limited time / resources. 

Fair point, I couldn't find a link to point to the budget, but:

"We launched this program in July 2022. In its first 12 months, the program had a budget of $10 million."

From their website - https://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/ea-global-health-and-wellbeing/

I don't think they had dramatically more money in 2023, and (without checking the numbers again to save time) I am pretty sure they mostly maxed out their budget both years.

They also have a much smaller budget (as indicated by total spend per year). 

You can see a direct comparison of total funding in this post I wrote: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/nnTQaLpBfy2znG5vm/the-flow-of-funding-in-ea-movement-building#Overall_picture