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Just a short update here on the outcomes from this process! The updated Handbook content is now live, with the end product mostly consisting of small changes to both structure and content. Below are some brief notes on the process that we followed, and the changes this culminated in.

We took the following steps to assess what edits to make:

  • Interviews with previous EA Handbook authors & CEA staff
  • Open-input survey for the broader EA community, via the survey linked above
  • Review of reading time data for each section of the Handbook 
  • Review of qualitativ
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Answer by Cian MDec 31, 20214
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There's one of these at my university - https://www.trinitysmf.com/ which manages somewhere between 100,000 and 400,000 euros. Sponsors provide the money to help with recruitment, and students learn generally useful meta skills and develop better models of how finance works.

They've a lot of bright students interested in portfolio management and cost effectiveness analysis, so we're currently exploring running a program similar to the Oxford Priortisation Project with them. https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/tag/oxford-prioritisation-project

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Thanks! Would students have learned the meta skills and developed better models of how finance works anyway even without the Student Investment Fund?

This is great - thanks so much for putting it together!

Quick question:  Did this project inspire any ideas for software projects relating to AA? The career related ideas you suggest above are great, what I'm looking for is more similar to a SHIP project in scope.

Context: I'm participating in https://www.joinpatch.org/ this summer, and a few of us have an interest in animal advocacy.