“Stewardship: CEA’s 2025-26 strategy to reach and raise EA’s ceiling” by Oscar Howie, Zachary Robinson🔸

“I” refers to Zach, the Centre for Effective Altruism's CEO. Oscar is CEA's Chief of Staff. We are grateful to all the CEA staff and community members who have contributed insightful input and feedback (directly and indirectly) during the development of our strategy and over many years. Mistakes are of course our own.

Exec summary

As one CEA, we are taking a principles-first approach to stewardship of the EA community.

During the search for a new CEO, the board and search committee were open to alternative strategic directions, but from the beginning of my tenure, we’ve committed to a strategy under which we will:

• Operate as one CEA, rather than winding down, breaking up or renaming the organization. Instead of optimizing for each of our team's programs, we’ll be optimizing for EA as a whole.
• Take a principles-first approach to EA, rather than becoming an AI org or otherwise re-orienting [...]

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Outline:

(00:38) Exec summary

(04:15) What does stewardship mean for CEA?

(06:55) What does CEA's stewardship mean in practice?

(08:34) Growing the EA community

(14:54) Improving the EA brand

(18:20) Diversifying EA funding

(21:47) Strengthening CEA

(23:38) Why bother?

The original text contained 1 footnote which was omitted from this narration.

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First published:
March 28th, 2025

Source:
https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/QkE35oTsasMn37o7R/stewardship-cea-s-2025-26-strategy-to-reach-and-raise-ea-s-1

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Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.

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