Sarah Parker arrived at Georgetown University eager to find a community.
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While Open Philanthropy gives more to other endeavors — it recommended a grant of more than $61 million last year for malaria prevention, for example — its spending on recruitment is an indication that a movement focused on doing the most good for the most people has decided that attracting new adherents is an important use of its time and resources, according to people who’ve been involved with EA.
Mike Levine, a spokesman for Open Philanthropy, noted that student organizers with a full course load would be unlikely to earn the full advertised sums of $45,000 to $80,000 because they are usually working part-time. The highest stipend a full-time student has received so far for a 12-month period is $29,700, he said.
Other students described grant money distracting from the higher calling that EA was meant to represent. Separately, a former member of the Georgetown EA group said earning an easy $30-per-hour salary at EA-affiliated charity Giving What We Can, which had been associated with Bankman-Fried, seemed great until the FTX meltdown. When the student, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, received an email saying they should retain documents for legal reasons tied to the FTX bankruptcy, it suddenly seemed they’d wound up in a movement whose contours they didn’t really understand.
“That leads you to different places that sometimes look very strange,” Moskovitz said. “The thing that does the most good is often something that’s important that other people aren’t doing for whatever reason.”Social networking, so central to Moskovitz’s personal fortune, proved key to the growth of the EA community too. Its followers convene on a tangle of online forums and job boards, including the Reddit-style EA Forum.
The push to recruit and keep college-age members comes as the broader EA movement regroups from a turbulent stretch. In its most recent annual report, Open Philanthropy called the years since 2022 “a rollercoaster,” spanning the collapse of FTX and volatility in Meta’s share price.
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