Tucson Effective Altruism (TEA) is a student-run club at the University of Arizona in the ever-sunny Tucson, AZ.
Our goal is to motivate ambitious and altruistically-minded students to work on some of the most pressing global problems using their skills, careers, and other resources.
To learn more about our club events and EA, scroll below. All our links can be found here.
What we do as a club
As a club, we aim to:
— Provide programming that introduces our members to concepts relevant to maximizing their impact
— Offer workshops and resources that help our members plan an impact-oriented career
— Create a space where members can convene together and rigorously discuss meaningful ideas
— Cultivate a supportive community and foster long-lasting connections!
Our Spring '25 activities are as follows:
1. Pathways to Progress Fellowship — a program that aims to answer questions such as: "What are the some of the most pressing global priorities? How do we assess the importance of these problems? And how do we best allocate our time and resources to solve them?"
2. The Advanced Fellowship: A program geared towards those who have completed the introductory program, encouraging them to dive deeper into questions and projects related to effective altruism, philosophy, and cause areas of interest. For Spring '25, this is our primary activity for "graduated" fellows.
3. Campus Outreach: Find us at the UA Mall during and tell us about your favorite ethical dilemma!
4. One-on-one guidance: Meet with our club facilitators to learn about some of the most impactful career pathways and how to design one for yourself.
5. The TEAsearch Symposium: First hosted during Spring '23, our mini-conference will make a comeback this semester. Details TBA.
What is Effective Altruism (EA)?
"Effective altruism is a project that aims to find the best ways to help others, and put them into practice.
It's both a research field, which aims to identify the world's most pressing problems and the best solutions to them, and a practical community that aims to use those findings to do good.
This project matters because, while many attempts to do good fail, some are enormously effective. For instance, some charities help 100 or even 1,000 times as many people as others, when given the same amount of resources.
This means that by thinking carefully about the best ways to help, we can do far more to tackle the world's biggest problems.
Effective altruism was formalized by scholars at Oxford University, but has now spread around the world, and is being applied by tens of thousands of people in more than 70 countries.
People inspired by effective altruism have worked on projects that range from funding the distribution of 200 million malaria nets, to academic research on the future of AI, to campaigning for policies to prevent the next pandemic.
They're not united by any particular solution to the world's problems, but by a way of thinking. They try to find unusually good ways of helping, such that a given amount of effort goes an unusually long way."
For an extended introductory description, see the Centre for Effective Altruism's guide here.
