Yale Effective Altruism

Mission

To spread the ideas of effective altruism through outreach, advocacy, education and collaboration, and to engage with and enable effective altruistic practice using the immense resources and opportunities available at Yale.

Student Leaders

Hannah Owens Pierre – Co-Coordinator/Co-President Cole Haynes – Co-Coordinator/Co-President

Activities

Animal Welfare Volunteering Advocacy or Activism YEA members volunteer at a farmed animal sanctuary once a month to connect with farmed animals and teach members about the harms of factory farming. Giving What We Can Pledge Drive Advocacy or Activism Over the course of a week, Yale Effective Altruism will promote the importance of effective charitable giving through speaker events, tabling, and 1:1 meetings. Our goal is to encourage students as well as the broader Yale community to commit to donating a portion of their income/spending money to the most effective charities. Yale Effective Altruism Retreat Advocacy or Activism YEA will be traveling to Stonington, Connecticut for a club retreat at an AirBNB near the beach. We will be doing workshops about effective altruism and engaging in team building activities. Yale Effective Altruism Retreat Advocacy or Activism YEA will be traveling to Stonington, Connecticut for a club retreat at an AirBNB near the beach. We will be doing workshops about effective altruism and engaging in team building activities. Yale Effective Altruism Fellowship Advocacy or Activism Yale Effective Altruism’s Fellowship is designed to prepare students to maximize their positive impact in the future. Open for undergraduate, graduate, and professional students, fellows deeply engage with ideas and strategies for improving the world through evidence and reason. One for the World Pledge Drive Fundraising In partnership with One for the World, Yale Effective Altruism will be hosting a pledge drive to ask students to donate 1% of their future income towards effective charities. The pledge drive will focus on two main outreach efforts: speaker events and tabling. We will organize speaker events featuring One for the World representatives and members of the effective altruism community, who will discuss the impact of evidence-based giving and the importance of sustained donations. These events will include time for questions and discussion. In addition, we will conduct regular tabling in high-traffic areas on campus, where trained volunteers will engage students in brief conversations, share informational materials, and invite them to take the pledge. Together, these efforts will help raise awareness, encourage reflection on ethical giving, and support students in making meaningful, long-term commitments to effective charities. Yale Effective Altruism Reading Group Social/Cultural/Team-Building This reading group will meets for one hour each week to read and discuss a book related to effective altruism. Topics will include global health and development, farmed animal welfare, existential risk, artificial intelligence, ethics, and rationality. Yale Effective Altruism Dinner Discussion Social/Cultural/Team-Building Join Yale Effective Altruism for our weekly dinner discussions to debate and talk about all things related to effective altruism. Topics include: global health development, pascal’s mugger, and animal welfare Effective Altruism Global Conference in NYC Social/Cultural/Team-Building This conference brings together thousands of people across the world to discuss EA ideas and practice. Most of the people at these conferences are interested in effectively creating change in the world through their work and many are working professionals. We try to bring our students to this conference so they can meet and create connections with other people in this community, with the hope that our students will try to make the world a better place in the future. Yale Effective Altruism Fellowship Social/Cultural/Team-Building At Yale Effective Altruism, our mission is to answer one question: how can we do the most good with our resources? We are driven to solve the largest problems that humanity faces today?whether it be global health, extreme poverty, animal welfare, engineered pandemics, AI risk, nuclear security, climate change, or other existential and global catastrophic risks?through research, public policy, ethics, charity entrepreneurship, philanthropy, direct work, and the many other resources at our disposal. In joining us, you will not only enjoy deep and lasting conversations, but also find a global community stretching across all disciplines, such as philosophy, political science, and computer science, working together to identify and solve these problems. Yale Effective Altruism’s Fellowship is designed to prepare students to maximize their positive impact in the future. Open for undergraduate, graduate, and professional students, fellows deeply engage with ideas and strategies for improving the world through evidence and reason. Applicants should be driven to do as much good as they can, open-minded and eager to update their beliefs in response to critical discussion and holistic evidence, and ready to commit ~3 hours per week across ~8 weeks. Our fellowship is currently open to all incoming and current Yale students. For non-Yale students, we recommend EA Virtual Programs. If you have any questions, please reach out to yaleeas@gmail.com. In addition to the Introductory Fellowship, we host a range of events and activities, which you are more than welcome to participate. Yale Effective Altruism Retreat Social/Cultural/Team-Building YEA will be going on a retreat to another part of Connecticut with members who have completed the Intro Fellowship. We will listen to guest speakers on EA cause areas, bond over meals and board games, and enjoy time outside of Yale!

How Others Get Involved

Get involved with YEA! Check out our website for more information and join our mailing list! Find it all here at: https://www.yaleeffectivealtruism.com. If you have any questions feel free to email us at yaleeas@gmail.com