Episode Details

TL;DR

In 2025, we grew engagement with CEA's programs by 20–25% across every tier of engagement, reversing two years of moderate declines in engagement. We did so without substantially increasing costs or lowering the quality or bar for our programs.

This post reviews CEA's work on growing the EA community, which is only one of our strategic goals. See more on our other strategic goals here. We plan to accelerate our growth even further, and we're hiring across multiple teams to make that happen. Join us!

Summary

• The Centre for Effective Altruism's 2025 and 2026 strategy is focused on building sustainable momentum for EA, and growing the EA community is the cornerstone of building that momentum.
• In our first year of executing this strategy, we grew by 20–25% year-over-year across each tier of our engagement funnel, beating our targets of 7.5–10% year-on-year growth, and reversing the moderate decreases in engagement with our programs throughout 2023-2024. Our results include:
  • Hosting the biggest EA Global ever without lowering the admissions bar (with the highest satisfaction score and lowest cost-per-attendee in the last 4 years)
  • Launching a new 4-day online bootcamp to help participants make a high-impact career pivot
  • Reviving several groups at pilot universities [...]

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Outline:

(00:17) TL;DR

(00:57) Summary

(05:08) Why grow?

(07:10) 2025. review

(08:04) Our growth model and 2025 targets

(08:45) Our results

(09:18) Tier 2: Exploring EA

(11:02) Tier 3: Actively Involved with EA

(12:34) Tier 4: Committing to Impact

(14:21) Tier 5: Actualizing Impact

(17:17) Changes in our spending

(19:05) Maintaining the quality of our programs while we scale

(20:42) 2026. plans

(22:06) What does this all mean?

(24:16) Acknowledgements

(24:51) Join us

(25:04) Appendices

(25:07) Our model and targets

(25:11) Building the model

(27:25) Setting the goals

(29:38) Changes in our spending

(33:31) G.R.O.W. principles

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First published:
February 11th, 2026

Source:
https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/NKrpEdg7wAgcoHNRG/cea-is-growing-again-25-more-people-engaged-with-our-1

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