EACHI April Events:
April Learning Event: Join us for an ANIMAL RIGHTS movie screening and discussion on April 20th (this upcoming Saturday) from 4:30-6:30pm @ Music Box Theatre! We are subsidizing a limited number of tickets to The Smell of Money film screening and panel discussion. Get your ticket on the official Eventbrite page with our discount code "EAChi15"for $15 off the normal ticket price: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/film-screening-discussion-the-smell-of-money-tickets-859480056987. Subsidized tickets are limited (only 15 tickets!), so make sure to grab them ASAP!
April Social Event: We plan to hold the social during the last weekend of the month; the event details are coming soon!
EACHI Community Update
Hi EACHI!
As many of you know, I have been finishing the last year of my PhD at Northwestern and am graduating this spring. Some exciting news: I have accepted a postdoctoral research position at University of Toronto Rotman, and will be moving to Toronto in the fall. So, as of this month, I will be stepping down as organizer. It has been an honor to lead this community this past year, and I had a great time getting to know you all. I am also VERY excited to announce that we found an incredible new organizer for EACHI: Jana Guraziu! I honestly do not think that we could have found a better person to take over the role, and I am very excited to see what Jana has in store for EACHI in the coming months. I’ll be around the next month or so, so please make sure to say goodbye when you see me at the events! I’ll miss you all :)
Warm regards,
Sami
Hey from incoming EAChi Organizer
Hi everyone! I’m Jana, and I am very excited to follow in Sami’s fantastic leadership and step into the role of Community Organizer for EAChicago. I’m looking forward to getting to know everyone better. Please don’t hesitate to reach out with ideas, feedback, questions, or to just say hi!
First, huge thanks to Sami for her tireless passion and dedication to the Chicago and broader EA communities. Thank you for always giving your best for this community! Congratulations on wrapping up your PhD and I can’t wait to follow along with your future research!
I can’t wait to dive into the work of continuing to build EAChi into a supportive, safe, friendly, and inspiring community, together. I’d love your help in sustaining and building our community: please please please reach out with feedback and ideas!
Hope to see you at an event soon, Jana
PS - For Jana - the j is pronounced like a “y” :) (but I’m not too fussy about pronunciation, so please don’t let this stop you from saying hi)
Job Opportunities
The Lead Exposure Elimination Project (LEEP) is hiring a Program Manager for Pakistan. This person will be responsible for managing the successful delivery of the paint program in Pakistan, as well as developing and implementing new programs on spices and cosmetics.
Family Empowerment Media is hiring for two positions: Head of Operations and Operations Manager. These positions are an opportunity to have a significant impact on improving maternal health in Nigeria.
GiveWell is hiring for several positions, including newly posted Research Analyst positions and a Head of Philanthropy position.
The Centre for Effective Altruism (CEA) is making a recruiter hire. The team is taking on a new CEO and spinning out from Effective Ventures to become an independent organisation. This is one of its largest-ever hiring bursts, and the person in this role will play a key part in ensuring the organisation attracts the talent it needs to be successful.
News & Updates
Community
High Impact Athletes (HIA) founder, ATP tennis pro and GWWC pledger Marcus Daniell is upping his giving game by donating 50% of all his prize money from his final year on tour. HIA is inviting everyone to donate alongside Marcus in their campaign Back with Impact.
Effectief Geven has launched with the aim of growing the effective giving community in Belgium! You can connect with Effectief Geven and donate in Belgium here.
World Malaria Day is on April 25!
Despite being both preventable and treatable, malaria still kills about half a million children every year. World Malaria Day aims to raise awareness about this devastating disease and inspire commitments to take action against it. Want to observe WMD? Consider donating to Malaria Consortium (seasonal malaria chemoprevention) and the Against Malaria Foundation (bed nets to prevent malaria), two of our top-rated charities working on malaria prevention and treatment
Cause Areas
Animal Welfare
The Humane League UK attempted to deliver an open letter, signed by renowned TV Naturalist and Co-op member Chris Packham and over 2000 other members, to encourage Co-op to embrace the full Better Chicken Commitment (BCC). Co-op refused to accept the letter, but THL UK has continued to apply pressure on them to adopt the full BCC through other actions, such as a recent advert in The Guardian and a direct appeal from Chris Packham.
Big Think published a video titled ‘The Hidden Cost of Cheap Meat exposed by Peter Singer’, in which Singer impresses upon viewers the problematic nature of our factory food systems and the underlying psychology that fuels them, and shares a path towards more ethical eating.
Global Health and Wellbeing
New Incentives has released a photo blog documenting how it helps vaccinate hard-to-reach infants in rural Nigeria. Digital platform VaccinesWork recently published an article about their program, dubbing it "cashvocacy".
The Life You Can Save celebrated a major milestone: they have moved over $100m to their recommended effective charities! They have also appointed new leadership to further strengthen the organisation’s mission and have updated their charity evaluation framework to focus more intensively on the complexities of poverty.
The Lead Exposure Elimination Project (LEEP) recently published its 2023 Annual Review
Teaching at the Right Level (TaRL)
Announced its upcoming bootcamp in Nairobi from June 3 to 14, aimed at empowering program implementers across Africa. Registration is open until March 31st.
Will host a webinar on April 4, focusing on the impact and spread of TaRL models in Sub-Saharan Africa. TaRL also shared that its team has been participating in CIES events and recently presented evidence at SALEX 2024, “Harvesting the Power of Evidence for Schools”, highlighting the organisation’s commitment to improving education across the continent.
Suvita
GiveWell spotlighted Suvita’s work on promoting vaccinations through SMS text message reminders and Immunization Ambassadors who share information about vaccines in local communities.
Suvita also made their first foray into expanding SMS message reminders to additional states in India by visiting the state of Rajasthan to understand the routine immunisation context and explore potential partnerships.
Global Catastrophic Risk Reduction
80,000 Hours published a video called The Next Black Death (or worse) | Most Pressing Problems and updated an article on preventing catastrophic pandemics to help illustrate how you can use your career to effectively aid this cause.
The Nuclear Threat Initiative has launched the International Biosecurity and Biosafety Initiative for Science (IBBIS) in the run-up to the Munich Security Conference. This first-of-its-kind organisation is dedicated to strengthening international biosecurity governance – including through providing tools, such as the Common Mechanism, that will allow technological innovation to flourish safely and responsibly. You can read about the IBBIS launch and upcoming projects in Science, The Telegraph and Politico’s “Future Pulse” newsletter.
Evaluators, grantmakers and incubators
GiveWell recently published a blog post explaining its grantmaking scope, and in particular, how and why it grants beyond the top charities list that it is best known for.
Ambitious Impact (formerly Charity Entrepreneurship) has launched a new program: Founding to Give. Apply now to launch a high-growth company!
Giving Green released its 2023 annual impact report. In 2023, Giving Green moved $11.2 million USD to high-impact climate initiatives, resulting in an impact multiplier of 19x.
(Please contact EACHI’s organizer, Jana, if you have something you’d like featured here next month)
We look forward to seeing you in person or online!