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Feb 27, 2018 - Pete Michaud

Fundraising & Leadership Updates

I have a bunch of good news to share from CFAR today. Fundraising & Venue I’ll start by reporting that we recently completed the most successful fundraiser in our history. First, we raised $768,000 from individual donors, which is an amazing outpouring of support that I think is justified by our case for this year. In addition, the Open Philanthropy Project renewed our institutional grant for this year and next....

Fourth Quarter CFAR Newsletter

(Cross posted from our alumni mailing list) Hey everyone! As 2017 comes to a close, I wanted to share some news about what we’ve done over the last quarter, and about what we plan to do next. Note: our fundraiser is currently live! You can find our 2017 retrospective here, and read more about our plans for 2018 here. What We Did Mainline Workshops - We ran three of our...

CFAR 2017 Fundraiser

Update 2018-01-10: CFAR's fundraiser is now over! We exceeded our target of $740,000, raising a total of $759,829. Thank you so much to everyone who contributed! Thanks to the 42 donors who supported us during this fundraiser! We raised a total of: $759,829 I’m happy to report that with your help, CFAR can make 2018 by far the highest impact year we’ve ever had. According to our new data, a...

CFAR 2017 Retrospective

As we approach the end of the year, we’d like to offer everyone a summary of what CFAR has been up to in 2017. Sprint & Instructor Training The first half of the year focused on improving and stress testing our main intro workshops. We ran a “sprint” of five workshops from February through May. This had a couple of main aims: We wanted to see if we could do...

CFAR 2017 Impact Report

Intro CFAR was founded with a two-part vision: to develop and train people in the art of rationality, and to have some of those people then be more likely to work effectively on the world’s most important problems. Last year, we decided to focus especially on our alums’ impact on the problem of AI risk. The question of how well CFAR is succeeding at its mission can be broken down...

Second Quarter CFAR Newsletter

(Cross posted from our alumni mailing list) Hello again! The second quarter of 2017 has come and gone, so it’s time for an update about what CFAR has been up to and what we’re planning. If you missed our newsletter last quarter, here’s a link to catch up! What We Did Finished Workshop Sprint - We finished the last 2 workshops of our 5 workshop sprint! From February through early May we...

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"I went to the July workshop. I think it was probably the most useful week of my life in terms of exposure to things I could be doing to be more productive and effective."

— Ben Toner, CEO of Draftable

"As a founder of a company with a similar mission to CFAR’s – making people more awesome – ... CFAR’s Rationality for Entrepreneurs workshop did not disappoint."

— Daniel Reeves, Co-Founder of Beeminder

Number of workshop alumni

1045 and counting

Average participant rating based on the question "Are you glad you came?"

9.2 out of 10

Increased life satisfaction

0.17σ after 1 year