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A chronological history of the Centre for Effective Altruism (CEA) from its founding in 2011 through its major milestones, including the incubation and spin-off of key EA organizations, the coining of the term 'effective altruism,' and the development of community infrastructure like EA Global conferences and EA Funds. The page documents how CEA evolved from an umbrella organization for Giving What We Can and 80,000 Hours into a broader community-building institution.
Key Points
- •CEA was founded in 2011 as an umbrella for Giving What We Can and 80,000 Hours, and coined the term 'effective altruism' during this process.
- •CEA incubated several major EA organizations including The Life You Can Save and Animal Charity Evaluators before they spun off independently.
- •Key infrastructure milestones include EA Global conferences (2015), EA Funds (2017), Community Building Grants (2018), and the EA Forum relaunch (2018).
- •CEA underwent significant structural changes including merging with Giving What We Can (2016) and establishing a Berkeley office alongside its Oxford base (2017).
- •The organization shifted focus toward community health, local group support, and content production over time.
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2009
Giving What We Can , a community of effective givers, is founded in Oxford, UK.
2011
80,000 Hours is founded to help people lead high-impact careers.
The Centre for Effective Altruism is founded as an umbrella organization for Giving What We Can and 80,000 Hours. In the process, we come up with the term "effective altruism" .
2012
Giving What We Can incubates The Life You Can Save , which later spins off as a separate organization.
80,000 Hours incubates Animal Charity Evaluators , which later spins off as a separate organization.
2014
We host Good Done Right , an academic conference on effective altruism.
We work with the Future of Humanity Institute to form the Global Priorities Project (which merged back into CEA in 2016).
2015
We trial EA Ventures to fund experimental projects (the project was closed in 2016, and later replaced with EA Grants).
We begin to run the EA Global conference series.
The 80,000 Hours team participates in the Y Combinator startup accelerator.
We help to promote Doing Good Better , the first widely-read book on effective altruism.
2016
CEA helps local organizers run the first EA Global X community conferences.
Giving What We Can merges into CEA.
CEA's Special Projects division is formed; it includes our Philanthropic Advising and Fundamentals Research teams.
The Global Priorities Project is discontinued and merged into the Future of Humanity Institute and our Fundamentals Research team.
2017
We participate in the Y Combinator startup accelerator and launch Effective Altruism Funds .
We establish a new permanent office in Berkeley, CA (in addition to our office in Oxford, UK).
The Special Projects division decides to focus on content production and merges with the rest of CEA.
We launch Effective Altruism Grants and our Individual Outreach team. (The team will later be merged into the Groups, Online, and Events teams.)
2018
We award our first round of Community Building Grants and second round of Effective Altruism Grants.
We launch a new version of the Effective Altruism Forum .
We formalize the Community Health team as one of our main projects, and publish our stance on diversity and inclusion .
We incubate the Forethought Foundation for Global Priorities Research , providing key operational support to help the foundation begin its work.
2019
We grant $9.8 million (our highest annual total so far) to a variety of causes through Effective Altruism Funds .
We provide nearly $900,000 in Community Building Grants to assist individuals and groups working on local EA community building.
We scale up our work on helping community members to navigate media engagement, and publish a revised version of our advice for responding to journalists .
We begin to collect much more feedback from the EA community, and t
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