EA - Update from the EA Good Governance Project by Grayden

Link to original articleWelcome 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: Update from the EA Good Governance Project, published by Grayden on February 11, 2023 on The Effective Altruism Forum.BackgroundThe EA Good Governance Project (GGP) launched 4 months ago. For more information on the rationale, please see here. The last few months have been eventful for the EA community. The number of posts tagged nonprofit governance has grown from 2 to 21. If you have not already read it, I would highly recommend this post.I would also like to thank the many people who have shared the EA GGP. I was also delighted to receive many unsolicited cold emails offering financial support, volunteering their skills and reporting broken links. What a great community we have!Trustee DirectoryAs at 11th February 2023, the Trustee Directory includes 60 individuals:with 557 years of collective experience;from 19 countries;expertise in all 18 subject areas; and15 of the 16 skills we listed.Roughly half earn-to-give, including:15 associated with Founders' Pledge / EA Entrepreneurs;12 associated with the EA Consulting Network; and7 associated with EA Finance.28 organizations have signed up to view the directory and 5 have requested candidate contact details.Best Practice GuidanceSince launch, we have developed a variety of guidance on governance topics, as well as a template for conducting a board assessment. We hope that this will strengthen practices within EA orgs. If you have any requests for topics to cover, please reach out.ImpactTo-date, we are not aware of anyone who has been hired as a result of EA GGP (we do not have perfect information, so please message me if I am wrong). It is difficult to assess the counterfactual because we do not know whether organizations would have been connected to the same candidates if the EA GGP did not exist. This is particularly true of large organizations such as Founders' Pledge.The impact of guidance documents will be even harder to assess, but given these have been published more recently, the impact is likely to be close to zero.The cost so far has been ~£300 and 30-50 hours of time (mostly pre-launch).This includes people who signed up using personal email addresses so may not represent an organizationThanks for listening. To help us out with The Nonlinear Library or to learn more, please visit nonlinear.org.