There's one of these at my university - https://www.trinitysmf.com/ which manages somewhere between 100,000 and 400,000 euros. Sponsors provide the money to help with recruitment, and students learn generally useful meta skills and develop better models of how finance works.
They've a lot of bright students interested in portfolio management and cost effectiveness analysis, so we're currently exploring running a program similar to the Oxford Priortisation Project with them. https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/tag/oxford-prioritisation-project
This is great - thanks so much for putting it together!
Quick question: Did this project inspire any ideas for software projects relating to AA? The career related ideas you suggest above are great, what I'm looking for is more similar to a SHIP project in scope.
Context: I'm participating in https://www.joinpatch.org/ this summer, and a few of us have an interest in animal advocacy.
Just a short update here on the outcomes from this process! The updated Handbook content is now live, with the end product mostly consisting of small changes to both structure and content. Below are some brief notes on the process that we followed, and the changes this culminated in.
We took the following steps to assess what edits to make:
This led to a smaller number of edits overall than we were expecting, which we think was driven by the following factors:
Some notes on the edits that we did make:
We made some updates to the readings in the Handbook to provide a more up-to-date overview of the topics covered, such as adding Our World in Data’s page on Global health to Section 2, and Managing AI Risks in an Era of Rapid Progress to Section 6. We also swapped some of the critiques in Section 7 to better reflect the current ecosystem. We traded out some older critiques on free-spending with some readings on the risks of naive consequentialism to highlight reflections since the FTX collapse.