EA - Celebrating Progress: Recent Highlights from the NYC EA Community by Alex R Kaplan

Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Celebrating Progress: Recent Highlights from the NYC EA Community, published by Alex R Kaplan on September 20, 2023 on The Effective Altruism Forum.Inspired by EA NYC's 10th birthday and the first-ever EAGxNYC, we wanted to share this unabashed brag post about New York City's EA community and its accomplishments! Below, we'll share highlights from EA NYC specifically, as well as the EA community in New York City more broadly.While it's true that living in New York sometimes instills a self-aggrandizing perspective, we unironically support all communities announcing their achievements and were inspired by the Spanish-Speaking Effective Altruist Community, the Dutch EA Community, and many others with success to report.We hope our posts provide additional context for groups around the world and inspire others to share their stories as well as any feedback and comments! For example, in February we posted about our community health infrastructure, and we have been heartened to see EA Germany share similar information. And, if this series inspires you to check out our little town, we've also recently published a guide to visiting NYC.Quick note on the relationship between EA in NYC and EA NYCNot to toot our own horn, but we consider EA NYC (the organization) to be a critical actor in the promotion and coordination of effective altruism in NYC. Despite the size, significance, and potential of the EA (and non-EA!) community in NYC, EA NYC is currently the only meta EA resource based in NYC.As a result, EA NYC serves as a resource hub, connector, and platform for a wide variety of EA initiatives and individuals interested in EA within the NYC metropolitan area. This takes shape in a variety of ways and can look like anything from providing newcomers with educational programming, to creating a platform for motivated community members to deepen their volunteer engagement, to assisting EA organizations with boosting job openings or finding meeting spaces.In short, EA NYC strives to not only execute our own community programming, but also to serve as a multiplier for other EA initiatives. So as we write this post, we are of course proud to describe the work our team has done and the progress we've made, but we also take pride in how far the community itself has come. We're honored to serve the NYC EA community, and we're thrilled to share some of the cool initiatives we've seen come out of our hometown!Community highlightsSummaryThe NYC EA community is largeThe NYC EA community is activeThe NYC EA community is coolYou're missing out if you're not hereSizeIn the 2022 EA Survey, NYC had the largest US concentration of EAs outside of the Bay Area, consistent with the 2020 Survey results.According to Brian Tan at the Centre for Effective Altruism, EA NYC has the highest number of "engaged EAs" out of any group based on CEA's 2022 Group Census.In 2022, the New York EA community had approximately 600 active members who attended EA NYC events, registered interest in utilizing a NY EA co-working space, joined EA NYC subgroups, spoke one-on-one with EA NYC leadership, and/or attended EAG/EAGx conferences.In Q1 and Q2 2023, EA NYC saw 220 new event attendees (+49% relative to 2022).Over 1,250 people are subscribed to the EA NYC monthly newsletter (with a 59% six-month, rolling average open rate) and over 1,100 people are members on the EA NYC Slack (with a 187-person 6-month, rolling average active usership).EA NYC has 12 wonderful volunteer leaders who support the facilitation and coordination of events.ActionCommunity Building Programming"Standard" programming (though it's anything but!)EA NYC strives to hold a minimum of one unique public event per week. In the course of a typical month, EA NYC typically holds at least one speaker presentation, at least one socia...