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Hi! I am Chief of Staff to Jessica McCurdy, who is CEA's Director of Community Growth. I work closely with her on the Groups, Online, and Courses teams, and on CEAâs Growth initiative â helping coordinate across teams, set priorities, and keep things moving.Â
We often post updates on the Forum about what we're up to, and are always happy to answer questions!
Before this, I led University Groups team, before we split that up into two teams. I also helped start & ran Positive Impact Society Erasmus (PISE) in 2020-2022, and was co-lead for EAGxRotterdam 2022. I'm happy to answer any questions about those experiences!
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Donations to Doneer Effectief grew with 40+% in 2025, to over âŹ8 million! Made me smile when I saw the announcement post earlier this month :)
Just quickly noting the Forum hosted two AMAs recently that might be helpful to browse through (or still engage with!). One was with career advisors, one with recruiters.Â
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Good luck with your job search Taylor and thank you for trying to find an impactful job and for posting here asking for advice!
Congrats on landing a Bluebook position, that's so cool! Through the Impactful Policy Careers program I know some EA-aligned folks who'll also start the next round of Bluebook - happy to put you in touch :)
And happy my post was helpful!
Thanks for writing this!Â
I wanted to add some personal observations, from interacting with a bunch of people around the School in person, attending some SMA events, and following them quite closely online:
- Many founders / early joiners of the organization are very sympathetic to EA ideas, and think hard about how to have the most impact
- Those who have entered something like the 'core' group more recently (e.g. fellows, new employees) seem to catch on to some key ideas, but not others. Specifically, I was surprised how much they care about donating effectively, but don't seem to have thought much about cause prioritization
- And finally, 'moral ambition' has entered mainstream discourse, but in return has become a bit of a watered-down catchphrase. I've heard it used to refer to vaguely do-goody things - nothing about the ITN/SSS framework, for example
I also think James from EA Netherlands left some useful thoughts here
Such a nice write-up! Thanks James
I'm curious: what makes you attribute the application increase to marketing specifically? I think there's many other reasons one could brainstorm that could explain the increased attendance (Amsterdam vs Utrecht, general growth of the EA community, etc.). But maybe you e.g. asked people how they first heard about the event, and many more folks selected "Facebook ads"