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Epistemic status: medium, unsure if this is biased to what I have experienced, but think it is useful regardless.

I think that organisations and individuals should try be more transparent about their capacity, e.g. at conferences when people ask for volunteering / collaboration opportunities, a lot of orgs/individuals say yes, and then nothing ever really happens.

For example, some members from EA Bath attended EAGx Amsterdam last year. One of my members was pretty excited about EA and using his skills to help in climate change / GHD. He met with a lot of people who offered him opportunities and collaboration, so he followed up with them all after the conference, but it resulted in them all ghosting him, which lead to him being less sure that EAG/ EAGx's were a good use of his time. I've had similar experiences too, with asking people if they have opportunities and them saying yes, and then I receive no reply when I email them.

I think that these people / organisations are genuinely excited for more people like me (students / entry-level) to get involved, but are also probably time constrained. Because of this I think it's super important that [...]

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First published:
March 25th, 2026

Source:
https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/AiHAkP4BuT6gYYPFb/being-transparent-about-capacity

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