EA - Pineapple now lists marketing, comms and fundraising talent, fiscal sponsorship recs, private database (Jan '23 Update) by Vaidehi Agarwalla

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: Pineapple now lists marketing, comms & fundraising talent, fiscal sponsorship recs, private database (Jan '23 Update), published by Vaidehi Agarwalla on January 27, 2023 on The Effective Altruism Forum.Marketing, PR & comms skills lists now live (in addition to Ops, PA & ExA work)Candidates can now explicitly list themselves as having marketing, comms & fundraising roles. As we previously discussed, these kinds of skills are often swept under the operations umbrella at many EA-aligned orgs, especially smaller ones.We soft-launched the option in our sign-up form during Dec '22, and have already had ~12 people be open to these roles on their profile.You can view candidates by role on our roles page here. If you're an existing candidate who'd like to add those skills to your profile, email us at [email protected] now list fiscal sponsorship resourcesFiscal sponsorship and operations support are a common pain points of early stage projects, so we've shared some recommendations from operations staff at other EA organizations. The Pineapple Ops team has not personally vetted or thoroughly reviewed this list. Please do research any fiscal sponsor you wish to work with.Why are we sharing these resources? Knowledge sharing of operations in EA has a lot of room for improvement. Since our team doesn't have the capacity to do resource compilations ourselves with a concerted effort, we wanted to try collaborating with other folks to create lists.Our progress to date (what we think we've done well on)Progress on placements (our main metric for impact)We've been up for 3 months, and in that time we've placed at least 9 people in full- or part-time roles, with at least 4 more getting strong leads and/or making it to late stage of the applications process that we know of. We currently list over 180 people candidates.Rough cost per placement: ~$420 USD (We expect cost per placement to drop as this estimate includes project set-up time)We've received a lot of positive feedback from employers and candidates alike - even those who haven't yet been placed directly from the board.Moving fast & experimentingI am happy with the pace at which we've moved as a part-time project. I think we've found new areas to explore which aren't too ambitiousWe are currently experimenting with another, smaller project that we hope will result in more candidate placements, and currently troubleshooting demand-supply issues. (We plan to discuss this project in more depth in future updates).Areas of improvementDuring our informal internal review, I (Vaidehi) felt the main area for improvement was to spend a little bit more time advertising the database to candidates and employers more. We did an initial sprint during November but this died down over Dec & Jan. We want to make sure that folks know about Pineapple Operations and its offered resources. We are currently evaluating capacity to do more advertising, but tentatively want to hit a target of putting out reminders, content or resources every 3-6 weeks. So far, we don't think we've made any major mistakes in the course of running this project.Additionally, although initial budgeting for the project was correct, we've identified more worthwhile opportunities than we expected to spend our initial funding on and will likely need to reduce time spent on the project or fundraise.As an unpaid volunteer, I (Vaidehi) have not been as strict on time tracking my hours as I would like to be, so I expect we may be underestimated my time input (and possible counterfactual of where else I could spend my time).Get Involved & Support usSign up to be listed on the databaseLet us know if you've been hired or made it to later stages of a job application (or found a good candidate!) because of our job boardWe are seeking funding (~$10K) t...