Community Builders

Please do not share this link with anyone other than community builders.

Here you’ll find information and resources for EA community builders collected by Effective Altruism Germany (EAD):

• Monthly European Community Builders Call
• Communication channels
• Operational Support
• Contact for questions/issues 
• Resources

For community builders in Austria: contact office@effectivealtruism.at for support with event advertisement and funding.
For community builders in Switzerland: contact hello@effectivealtruism.ch for access to the guide and resources.

European Community Builders Call

This call takes place on the second Monday of the month. Check out the next date and subscribe to the event series here on Luma.

Everyone working on building the European EA community is welcome! 

This is a monthly call to

• get to know each other better,
• share updates, templates and experiences & support each other,
• discuss Community Building strategy

We gather on Google Meet, here are the meeting notes.

Communication Channels

1. EAD Slack: Send a Slack-Message to Sarah Tegeler to be added to our closed Channel for Community Builders in Germany. Here you will receive important updates and you can share tips and receive feedback from others.
2. DACH CB Directory: Add yourself to the list of Community Builders in Germany, Austria and Switzerland incl. contacts, so other Community Builders can get in touch.
3. EA Groups Slack: Join for updates from groups all over the world.

Newsletters

• EAD newsletter (in German or English) by EA Germany
• EA groups newsletter by CEA

Operational Support 

We offer operational support that can be helpful for you, such as:

• Processing and acceptance of grants for groups (see „fiscal sponsorship“ under programs)
• Official email address ([city]@effektiveraltruismus.de) and Google Workspace
• Access to project management tool Asana
• Access to Canva to create visual documents such as share pics or flyers

If not indicated differently, send an email or Slack message to Sarah to get access.
Have a look at our further programs.

Contacts

• Sarah Tegeler for CB strategy & advice (email)
• Milena Canzler, EA Germany’s Community Health Contact for interpersonal, group or policy issues too complex or hard to handle for you on your own. Have a low bar for reaching out.

If you want to learn about our team and the structure of EA Germany, please have a look here.

Resources

• Groups Resource Center by the Center for Effective Altruism (CEA): General Information, recommendations for funding, advice & templates
  • Special recommendations on outreach
• Resources for local groups by Effective Altruism Germany (EAD): German and English language materials (we’re currently in the process of merging this with CEA’s resources)
• EA Student Groups Handbook by the Global Challenges Project

We keep an internal archive of resources that are no longer up to date but might prove useful in the future (e.g. as design or content templates). Contact us if you think something you’re looking for might have been archived.

If you have materials that might be helpful to other local groups, please send them to Milena Canzler. Comments and feedback are also very welcome!