Hello!
We hope the first month of the year has been good for you! EA Philippines has a hefty handful of announcements from the month as well as some opportunities for you to look forward to.
Read on and best of luck for February! 😎
📣 Highlights
SPOTLIGHT: EA PH 2025 Kickoff
Last January 25, EA Philippines held a reflection and planning event to start off the year. It was great to hear about each other's ideas and plans. We hope attendees were able to refine and learn more about how to best execute them!
We can't wait to see you in our upcoming outdoor event this February! 🌷
We’ve launched the EA Philippines Mini Library!
EA Philippines just launched its Mini Library, a way to make key EA ideas more accessible to members of our community! Members can pick from a variety of EA Books covering topics in Longtermism & Existential Risks to Animal Welfare and more.
You can view the announcement in our Facebook group or Slack to see more details!
Some titles in our selection have free physical copies or ebooks. We highly recommend checking them out!
🔗 The Precipice by Toby Ord (Free Physical Book): https://bit.ly/40FNTwy
🔗 How to Launch a High-Impact Nonprofit (Free E-book): https://bit.ly/3Emkq3a
🔗 The Life You Can Save by Peter Singer (Free E-book): https://bit.ly/4aFg4Al
🔗 You can also head to Impact Books to attain 1 free physical copy from a selection of EA books: bit.ly/40DWM9T
Upcoming: EA In-Depth Fellowship 2025
EA Philippines will be running its first program of the year, an EA In-Depth Fellowship!
This is a program intended to help fellows deepen their understanding of Effective Altruism (EA) and how they can increase their impact. It aims to explore questions like:
How do I know what I think I know?
What do I morally value?
How should I plan my career?
Should I focus on near-term impact or long-term impact?
How do I account for the indirect effects of my actions?
Applications are set to open this February so stay tuned!
CEA Introduces the “EA Summit”
The Centre for Effective Altruism is soliciting Expressions of Interest to run local, introductory events (estimated size anywhere from 50–400 people) designed to increase EA engagement and serve existing EA communities in their respective areas.
“EA Summits” will be more accessible, exploratory events with lower costs than EAGs/EAGxs and lighter CEA oversight. It aims to have “introduce EA concepts” and “inspire newcomers to get involved” as primary goals alongside aiming to accelerate paths-to-impact of people who already have EA context.
🔗 You can check out their EA Forum post here.
🇵🇭 Philippine EA: Local News
Our local EA-aligned initiatives and organizations are continuing their tremendous work in doing the most good they can. We’d like to highlight and commend the recent milestones and achievements of the following local EA initiatives:
Effective Altruism Taft. EA Taft recently opened up an interest check for an Introductory Fellowship for La Sallians. The interest check can be accessed here. The Introductory Fellowship is expected to be run by Kael Julio, Enrica Dio, and Alyssa Estoque. Please feel free to circulate with fellow La Sallian friends!
Effective Altruism Davao. EA Davao announced their full organizing team! Their team includes Hanie Guiamadil (President), Marjorie Lim (Vice President, Outreach Director), Carl Dumanon (Director for Learning Experience), Kim Magbanua (Community Liaison), Jett Calpotura (Finance and Logistics) and Pen Roxas (Creative Director). We wish the organizing team the best of luck as key representatives for EAs in Davao! 🥳
Paro Institute. Paro Institute was officially launched in January 2025! Their co-founders include Pierce Manglangit and Carmel Pascual. Paro Institute is a nonprofit initiative that aims to “catalyze the shift to alternative protein production and consumption by uniting science, industry, policy, and other key stakeholders to foster collaboration and innovation.” It first started as APRMI PH where Pierce and Carmel conducted scoping study on the state of alternative proteins in the Philippines together with Animal Empathy Philippines. Currently, Paro Institute is hiring for an Outreach and Engagement Specialist, with the deadline on February 7.
WhiteBox Research. WhiteBox Research recently concluded the application period for the second cohort of their AI Interpretability Fellowship. They accepted 30 participants and launched their first session last weekend.
⭐️ Opportunities
Upcoming Conferences
EAGxCDMX March 14-16, 2025 - link
VENUE: Universum - Museo de las Ciencias, Mexico City
APPLICATION DEADLINE: 24th February 2025EA Global London, June 6-8 2025 - link
VENUE: InterContinental London—The O2, 1 Waterview Dr, London, SE10 0TW
APPLICATION DEADLINE: 18th May 2025 (11:59pm BST)EAGxNordics, 25-27 April 2025 - link
VENUE: Oslo, Norway at Rebel (Universitetsgata 2, 0164 Oslo)
APPLICATION DEADLINE: 8th April 2025
EAGxPrague 2025, 9-11 May 2025 - link
Get notified when applications open.
On the fence about applying to an EA Global? You can learn more about the bar for admissions for EA Globals in this forum post. (To quote the post, “Currently, we suspect that many people who reach the admissions bar are not applying. We want to encourage you to apply!“)
Upcoming Programs, Workshops, and Reading Groups
Introductory EA Program by Effective Altruism Virtual Programs - link
START HERE IF YOU’RE NEW TO EA!
24 February - 20 April 2025
Application deadline: 2nd March 2025 (11:59 pm EDT)
In-Depth EA Program by Effective Altruism Virtual Programs - link
24 February - 20 April 2025
Application deadline: 2nd March 2025 (11:59 pm EDT)
[Self-paced] How to (actually) change the world by Effective Altruism Virtual Programs - link
Learn the foundational ideas of effective altruism in 5- to 10-minute interactive lessons.
Existential Risk Workshop (in Oxford) by Global Challenges Project - link
28 - 31 March 2025
Application deadline: 16th February 2025
Jobs, Internships, and Volunteering
Paro Institute
Outreach and Engagement Specialist - link
Application deadline: 7 February 2025
The Humane and Sustainable Food Lab is looking for collaborators! - link
They’re seeking partners who can help them run interventions to get people to eat less meat in real-world contexts.
Centre for Effective Altruism
Executive Office Associate - link
Application deadline: 9 February 2025 (11:59PM PT)
[Expression of Interest] Start an AIS safety field-building organization at the city or national level - link
Effective Thesis
Volunteer Research Intern Application - link
Applications reviewed on a rolling basis
EA Opportunities Board - link
80,000 Hours Job Board - link
List of Challenges and Prizes Related to Top Problems - link
List of Internship and Residency Programs, Machine Learning / Software Engineering - link
List of Alternative Proteins Opportunities - link
Funding Opportunities - link
Donate
You can make significantly more impact by donating to the best charities. Here are a few recommendations for where to start:
GiveWell - link
They search for the charities that save or improve lives the most per dollar.Giving What We Can - link
Giving What We Can is a community of effective givers. They inspire people to give more, and give more effectively.The Life You Can Save - link
They offer donors multiple options to make giving as simple and impactful as possible. By contributing to one of their funds, you have the opportunity to empower their research team to direct funds to the most impactful opportunities across their recommended charities.Giving Multiplier - link
Give to both your favorite charity and a super-effective charity recommended by experts. They’ll add to your donations.
📖 Further Reading
Global EA-related news
The Effective Altruism Forum opens an Instagram page. - link
Some interesting reads & watches
The ugly sides of two approaches to charity by Julia Wise - link
TIME: Why AI Progress Is Increasingly Invisible by Garrison Lovely - link
Our World in Data: The great global redistributor we never hear about: money sent or brought back by migrants by Simon van Teutem and Tuna Acisu - link
The “Most Important Century” Blog Post Series by Holden Karnofsky - link
The "most important century" series of blog posts argues that the 21st century could be the most important century ever for humanity, via the development of advanced AI systems that could dramatically speed up scientific and technological advancement, getting us more quickly than most people imagine to a deeply unfamiliar future.
What is the EA PH Core Team reading right now?
Strangers Drowning by Larissa MacFarquhar - link
Uncontrollable: The Threat of Artificial Superintelligence and the Race to Save the World by Darren McKee - link
Priority-Setting in Health: Building Institutions for Smarter Public Spending - link
Human Compatible by Stuart J. Russell - link