“2024 review, 2025 plans, and funding gap for Non-Trivial” by Peter McIntyre

Summary Non-Trivial helps bright high school students start solving the world's most pressing problems. Since our first fellowship 2 years ago, we’ve received over 35,000 applications and our alums have already gone on to co-author reports for the UN and publish at NeurIPS. We’re now facing an unexpected funding gap of ~$360k for 2025 and ~$1M for 2026. This post is an abridged review of 2024, 2025 plans, and our funding gaps. If you’d like any more information, or you can help out, please email our founder Peter ([email protected]). About Non-Trivial Many young people make crucial decisions that guide the rest of their lives. Non-Trivial empowers exceptional high schoolers to grapple with the question "How can I make a meaningful difference?" before facing option-constraining decisions, like what to study at university. Our participants conduct impact-oriented and (importantly!) self-directed research on a topic that interests them. We support them [...] ---Outline:(00:07) Summary(00:52) About Non-Trivial(02:26) 2024 review(06:04) Track record(07:24) Outlier talent(07:51) Gender(08:15) Race/ethnicity(08:47) Program performance(09:13) Our 2025 plans(10:31) Funding gapsThe original text contained 1 footnote which was omitted from this narration. The original text contained 2 images which were described by AI. --- First published: December 17th, 2024 Source: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/yTfpbqJZpYokicQiK/2024-review-2025-plans-and-funding-gap-for-non-trivial --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO. ---Images from the article:Apple Podcasts and Spotify do not show images in the episode description. Try Pocket Casts, or another podcast app.