EA Organization Updates Thread: February 2026 - EA Forum
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This is a routine EA community updates thread with minimal relevance to AI safety topics; it primarily covers effective altruism organization announcements in animal welfare, global health, and charity evaluation domains.
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A February 2026 EA Forum thread experimenting with a new format for EA organization updates, allowing organizations to post directly to the forum rather than through editorial curation. Features updates from Happier Lives Institute (new fund launch, charity impact research), Ambitious Impact (new leadership, Charity Entrepreneurship Program applications), and Anima International (campaign wins, job openings).
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- •Format change: EA organizations now post updates directly to the forum thread rather than submitting to editors, enabling community interaction
- •Happier Lives Institute launched the Happier Lives Fund ($116k raised), published research on why some charities are 1,000x more impactful than others
- •Ambitious Impact announced new executive leadership and opened applications for the September 2026 & February 2027 Charity Entrepreneurship Program cohorts
- •Anima International shared campaign wins on fast-growing chicken breeds in Norway and posted job openings in Denmark
- •The open format trades curation/endorsement for accessibility, with moderation trade-offs to be monitored
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# EA Organization Updates thread: February 2026 By Toby Tremlett🔹 Published: 2026-02-09 For the last couple of years, [EA Organization Updates](https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/topics/ea-organization-updates-monthly-series) has been a monthly series hosted on the forum. It doesn't normally get very much attention. Previous to that it was part of [the EA Newsletter](https://www.effectivealtruism.org/ea-newsletter-archives) until the newsletter got far too long to host it. Now we're trying something new. Instead of asking organisations to write in to us, editing and posting their updates, we're asking them to write directly here on the forum, where you can interact with them. If this goes well, we'll continue the series as a monthly thread which stays up for a week. Note that this thread will be less gate-kept, curated and endorsed than the previous series. This is a positive (content isn't restricted to the organisations we have asked to write something) and negative (if the thread proves popular, we might have to spend moderation capacity removing irrelevant updates). We'll keep an eye on this trade-off. You can see previous updates on the “[EA Organization Updates (monthly series)](https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/topics/ea-organization-updates-monthly-series) topic page. Notice that there's also an[ “organization updates” tag](https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/topics/organization-updates?sortedBy=new), where you can find more news and updates that are not part of this consolidated series.
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