Anyone who’s interested in EA can benefit from joining a local group!

Our community has a broad range of career, educational, and personal backgrounds and we strive to make it an inclusive and welcoming space for everyone. As long as you’re interested in engaging with EA ideas we’re excited to have you!

Not really. We don’t expect agreement about any specific ideas within effective altruism, or about the role effective altruism plays in your life.

EA is a broad debate about where we can use money, time, and career capital to do the most good. There are no agreed-upon answers. A lot of EAs do tend to agree with some specific ideas, like “factory farming is a big ethical problem” or “advanced AI may pose an existential risk to humanity,” but we don’t want you to feel any social obligation to believe these. We agree with Helen Toner’s forum post about EA being a question, not an ideology, and do not want our members to feel any social pressure to take on specific beliefs about how to do the most good.

We ask that our community be open to debate about where we can do the most good. Our members have varying perspectives and answers to these questions and strongly value debating them to reach deeper levels of understanding. We value and support any and all critical perspectives on mainstream EA ideas as long as they are expressed and debated in good faith and respectfully by all sides.

In the first instance, we recommend getting in touch with the event organiser. Our groups are independently run, so the local organisers will have the most context about the situation.

However, if you're unhappy with the response or would prefer to speak to someone who wasn't directly involved, you're more than welcome to contact the national team at info@effectivealtruism.nz

There is also a community health team at the Centre for Effective Altruism which helps manage community issues around the world. If for any reason you have not been satisfied with our handling of a situation or would feel more comfortable talking about an issue to the community health team you should feel free to reach out to them.

We’re always really excited to chat with people. Whether you have specific questions about EA or EA NZ or anything else in particular you’d like to talk about please reach out to us at info@effectivealtruism.nz