“An Order-of-Magnitude Increase in Outreach Resulted in a Smaller Club Intro Meeting” by AgentMa🔸, Brian4

In Fall 2023, EA Purdue barely existed. In fall 2024, EA Purdue had 35 people attend its intro meeting. In Fall 2025, EA Purdue had 33 new members attend its intro meeting despite doing dramatically more outreach. Below, outreach method and scale is specified. It is followed by a discussion of the implications for university group organizers, community builders, and a request for help. If you’re not an organizer, feel free to skip to the “Why I think this happened” section of this post, as it should be more relevant.Outreach MethodScale in 2024Scale in 2025 Club Fairs: Purdue has an all-club tabling fair and a computer science tabling fair. EA Purdue attended both of these in both years. These fairs yielded 100 and 32 mailing list signups respectively in fall 25. In fall 24, the fairs yielded 64 and 16 signups. Side note: At Purdue, the freshmen tabling [...] ---Outline:(01:06) Background on Purdue(02:08) Why I think this happened(03:27) Implications(04:14) Request to you--- First published: September 16th, 2025 Source: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/AJTYcJw3uyYLux6nc/an-order-of-magnitude-increase-in-outreach-resulted-in-a --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.