16 November – end of year
Giving Season 2026
A series of events focused on big questions in effective giving and the EA funding ecosystem. (more info)
16 – 22 November
Marginal Funding Week
Effective organisations share their funding gaps, and what they could do with extra funding. (more info)
23 – 29 November
Funding Strategy Week
A week to discuss cruxy questions about how EA resources are being spent, and how they should be. (more info)
30 November – 6 December
EA and AI: Debate Week
A debate week on the question: what % of EA resources should go to making AI go well? (more info)
14 – 20 December
‘Why I Donate’ Week
Writing about why we donate to impactful charities. (more info)
28 December – end of year
Donation Celebration
A week to publicly celebrate our annual donations. (more info)
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If we want EA to be a decentralised movement, it’s worth looking at how other movements/structures move money from the centre to national, regional, and local orgs. Here are a few comparisons.
In the big federations, money flows up. Amnesty’s national sections sent just over a third of what they raised to the international budget in 2013. Greenpeace works in a similar way. Because the sections fund the centre, they also have a formal say in how it’s run.
EA works the other way round. Most of the movement building money comes from one funder, Coefficient Giving, and passes through CEA. Three examples have a similar shape (it's hard to find something perfectly analogous to EA):
At CEA, operational spending in 2025 was $21.8m, Claude tells me that Community Building Grant costs fell 22% that year. I don’t know what share of CEA’s budget goes to local and national orgs, and I couldn’t find a published figure. In 2026 the CBG portfolio covers 11 orgs and is closed to new applicants.