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Back to Episodes“Building sustainable momentum: progress report on CEA’s 2025-26 strategy” by Zachary Robinson🔸, Oscar Howie
Description
“I” refers to Zach, the Centre for Effective Altruism's CEO. Oscar is CEA's Chief of Staff. We are grateful to all the CEA staff and community members who have contributed to the development and implementation of our strategy. Mistakes are of course our own.
Executive summary
One year into our 2025-26 strategy, we have reversed our programs’ negative growth trajectory from 2023-24 and will sustain that momentum in 2026 while preparing to hit much more ambitious goals from 2027 onwards:
- CEA grew the number of people engaging with our programs by 20–25% year-over-year across each tier of our engagement funnel, beating our targets of 7.5–10% without increasing spending, and reversing the moderate decreases in engagement with our programs throughout 2023–24.
- We laid the foundations for furthering our contribution to EA funding diversification by merging with EA Funds and hiring an accomplished new Director (Loic Watine).
- And we strengthened CEA's own foundations, establishing our in-house Operations Team and growing our headcount from 42 to 66 while increasing talent density, including another incoming experienced Director for our new Strategy and M&E function (Rory Fenton).
We also faced some challenges:
- Beyond the impact of EA growth on the perception of the [...]
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Outline:
(00:34) Executive summary
(03:05) Stewardship and sustainable momentum
(04:22) Growing the EA community
(05:05) 2025
(08:17) 2026
(09:35) Improving the EA brand
(10:02) 2025
(15:24) 2026
(16:30) Diversifying EA funding
(16:50) 2025
(19:53) 2026
(21:20) Strengthening CEA
(21:38) Operations Team
(22:07) Staffing
(23:38) Spending
(24:46) Monitoring & evaluation
(25:40) EV, still
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First published:
February 6th, 2026
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Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.
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