EA - Seeking expertise to improve EA organizations by Julia Wise

Link to original articleWelcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Seeking expertise to improve EA organizations, published by Julia Wise on April 27, 2023 on The Effective Altruism Forum.There’s been a lot of interest in how EA might reform, both in response to the FTX crisis and in general.We’re working on a project where a task force (exact members TBD, but including us and some others from across the EA ecosystem) will sort through different ideas for reforms that EA organizations might enact, and try to recommend the most promising ideas. This project doesn’t aim to be a retrospective on what happened with FTX, and won’t address all problems in EA, but we hope to make progress on some of them.The output will likely be a set of recommendations to EA organizations, while recognizing that different practices will make sense for different organizations depending on their goals, size, and circumstances. Those recommendations might look like best practices for board composition, a proposed whistleblowing mechanism, etc.As part of this process, we want to gather ideas and best practices from people who know a lot about areas outside EA. We’d like your help in connecting with those people! We’re particularly interested in people with knowledge of these areas:Whistleblowing systemsNonprofit boardsConflict of interest policiesOrganization and management of sizeable communitiesWe can’t promise this task force will talk to everyone who’s suggested, but we’d welcome your input on this form. Thank you!Thanks for listening. To help us out with The Nonlinear Library or to learn more, please visit nonlinear.org.