EA - EA Germany's Mid-Year Update 2023 by Sarah Tegeler

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: EA Germany's Mid-Year Update 2023, published by Sarah Tegeler on September 19, 2023 on The Effective Altruism Forum.This post outlines our current status regarding the planned focus areas in our strategy for this year.BackgroundEA Germany (EAD)In the 2022 EA survey, 9.9% of all participants were from Germany, up from 7.4% in 2020, remaining the third-largest community behind the US and the UK. We are a membership association with 108 members, six board members, five employed team members (four FTEs), and ten contractors and volunteers (for EAGxBerlin 2023, intro program and newsletter).In 2023, the association gained 35 new members and two new employees.Local GroupsThere are currently 27 active local groups in Germany, some of which are university-based, but most refer to themselves as local groups.Group size ranges from 5-50 active members. Overall, there are ~50-70 community builders and a total of >300 people regularly involved in the groups.Impact EstimationWe have gathered data points about the outcomes of our programmes, which we will share in the following sections. Since, however, we are uncertain about the interpretation of this data, we cannot be sure about the overall impact of our programs.In the future, we will focus on finding better evaluation criteria in order to estimate our impact.Focus AreasFoundational ProgramsFoundational programs are either the continuation of existing programs or those that seem broadly beneficial to growing a sustainable community. We have established OKRs for each program and are reviewing them monthly.CommunicationsWe have been running and are regularly updating effektiveraltruismus.de, the German website about effective altruism, since Effektiv Spenden handed it over to us in late 2022. They also handed us the newsletter, which enabled us to send out our existing monthly German-language newsletter to more than 4,000 subscribers compared to the 350 we had before.We are in regular exchange with Open Philanthropy grantees to coordinate the translation of articles from English into German. They have published some of their content on our website, and we have promoted their podcast with narrations of articles.Additionally, we have been helping to coordinate the publication of EA-relevant books in German, including the German launch of What We Owe The Future on 30th August 2023.EAGx ConferencesWe have applied for and received funding to run EAGxBerlin on September 8-10, 2023 and hired a team of six people in order to do so.Additionally, we have organised meetups for German EAs at 4 EAG(x) conferences with ~5-50 attendees each.Intro Program [formerly Intro Fellowship]The Intro Program, which used to be called "EA Intro Fellowship", was held in the winter of 22/23 and summer of '23. During the last round, we received a peak of more than 100 applications. Around 60 % of the participants completed the program successfully and more than 90 % of program participants described at least one relevant event outcome, e.g. making an important professional connection, discovering a new opportunity, or getting a deeper understanding of a key idea.Career 1-1sWe had ~160 calls and meetings related to career paths and decisions between January and June: ~60 at conferences, ~30 at retreats. The others were career calls or office hours. Recommendations came through our programs, 80,000 hours, and the form on our website.Community HealthWe appointed our team member Milena Canzler as the German Community Health contact person, listing her contact details on our website while also including a German and English contact form. In several cases, we have already been able to provide support. Additionally, we provide materials and training for awareness teams at EA-related events in order to avoid negative experiences for and har...