EA - Impactful (Side-)Projects and Organizations to Start by AlexandraB

Link to original articleWelcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Impactful (Side-)Projects and Organizations to Start, published by AlexandraB on April 16, 2023 on The Effective Altruism Forum.Are you an (aspiring) changemaker looking for the next thing to do? Consider founding something!In Nov and Dec of 2022 I have scoured the depths of the internet to find as many lists of impactful project/organization/charity ideas as I could to gain inspiration for what to start myself. I hope that sharing this curated version of my 'list of lists' can help more people to get the creative juices flowing and to take the next step.There are definitely resources that I have overlooked or newer ones which did not exist yet during my search, so I'd invite everyone to share ideas and links to additional resources in the comments.Longtermist & Neartermist - mixed ideasPossible gaps in the EA community (2021)Things CEA is not doing (2021) by CEABig List of Cause Candidates (2020)Cause candidates tag on the EA forumAnnotated List of Project Ideas & Volunteering Resources (2020) which includes smaller and larger project ideas and links to many lists.69 things that might be pretty effective to fund (2018) lists many (potentially) high-impact projects.List of possible EA meta-charities (2019)EA Summit Project IdeasProjects I’d like to see (2017)Concrete project lists (2017), both the post and the comments might be valuable.EAV Ideas in Need of Implementation (2015)Longtermist ideasNonlinear's idea list (2023) contains hundreds of ideas. It is not published yet but you can request access to the document.The Future Fund's Project Ideas Competition (2022) - The comments under this post.Ideas that were on the Future Fund's website (2022).Longtermist Entrepreneurship Fellowship ideas database (2020)Neartermist ideasCharity Entrepreneurship's research reports (2020-2023)Animal Welfare charity recommendations by Animal Charity Evaluators:Charities We’re Excited About (2018)Interventions we’d like to see (2017)Charities we’d like to see (2016)Charities we’d like to see by GiveWell (2015)Bonus resourcesCharity Entrepreneurship's handbook (2021)So you want to be a charity entrepreneur. Read these first. (2022)Help for coming up with ideas:Prompts to find problems (2020)Two EA project idea exchange platforms:EA Work Club ProjectsAirtable Project PlatformThanks for listening. To help us out with The Nonlinear Library or to learn more, please visit nonlinear.org.