Resources

New to effective altruism? Start here to get the core ideas.

• Effective Altruism: An Introduction: a 10-episode podcast series. A great first listen.
• The 80,000 Hours Podcast: in-depth conversations on the world's most pressing problems and what you can do about them.
• EA Newsletter: news and updates from the community, straight to your inbox.
• The EA Forum: where the community discusses ideas and coordinates projects.
• Apply for an EASA program: our facilitated courses. Join the waitlist for future rounds.
• In-Depth EA Program: a deeper, guided course from EA Virtual Programs.
• Attend an EA Global or EAGx event: conferences to learn and meet people.
• EA Anywhere Slack: an online community if you don't have a local group.

Talk to someone about your path. Most of these are free.

• Request a 1-1 with EASA: discuss your next steps and how we can support you. Start here.
• Probably Good: career advice for any stage. Read the Career Guide and apply for free personal advising.
• High Impact Professionals: a free 6-week impact accelerator for working professionals, plus a talent directory.
• 80,000 Hours advising: 1-1 calls, primarily for people interested in AI safety.
• SuccessIf: coaching for mid-career and senior professionals, focused on AI safety.
• Charity Entrepreneurship: guidance for people considering founding an organisation.
• Consultants for Impact: Career Conversations for students and consultants.
• High Impact Medicine: for doctors and medical students.
• Health Progress Hub: supports people from LMICs to work in high-impact charities.
• Magnify Mentoring: mentorship for women, non-binary and trans people pursuing high-impact careers.
• Animal Advocacy Careers Talent Directory and Hive: for animal advocacy careers.

Go deeper in a specific cause. Each has a recommended first step.

🌍 Global Health & Development

• Charity Entrepreneurship Incubation Program: start a high-impact charity with training and funding.
• D-Prize: seed funding to distribute proven poverty solutions; focused on people from LMICs.
• Health Progress Hub: connects global health organisations with value-aligned talent.
• EASA workshops & programs on global health: subscribe to our Luma calendar.

🐄 Animal Welfare

• Animal Advocacy Careers: a free, self-paced course and a job board.
• Animal Advocacy Africa: building the movement in Africa, with a training programme.
• Kickstarting for Good Incubator: a 15-week incubator for nonprofits transforming the food system.
• EASA workshops & programs on effective animal advocacy: subscribe to our Luma calendar.

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

• Future of AI: a free 2-hour course by BlueDot Impact. Explore their other AI safety courses.
• ILINA Program: an African-led AI safety & governance research program, with a seminar and research fellowship (applications open in Q1).
• AI Safety South Africa. AI safety field-building in SA: events, reading groups and courses.

🔭 Other cause areas

The areas above are the ones we cover most often, but they're far from the only causes that matter. For the wider landscape, browse the EA Forum's Big List of Cause Candidates. A few starting points:

• Climate & environment: Effective Environmentalism for evidence-based climate action, and Giving Green for where to give.
• Biosecurity & pandemics: 80,000 Hours' problem profile on preventing the worst pandemics.

Make your money go as far as possible. Whether it's your first donation or your next big one, these tools help you give where it does the most good, and we're glad to help you choose.

• GiveWell: finds the charities that save or improve the most lives per dollar.
• Giving What We Can: a community of effective givers. Take the pledge or trial pledge, and see their best charities for 2025.
• The Life You Can Save: makes smart giving simple, with a curated list of evidence-based charities tackling extreme poverty.
• Founding to Give: supports founders building businesses to donate profits to high-impact causes.
• Giving from South Africa, or not sure where to start? We offer free, localised input on where and how to give. get in touch.

Giving locally: Effective giving isn't only a Global-North idea. Giving is already part of life across South Africa, and local movements make it easy to start: see Giving Tuesday Africa, or explore Inyathelo, which champions philanthropy in South Africa.

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