University Chapters

Use the chapter launch workspace

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Build a term plan below. The fictional example supplies six sessions with timed agendas, readings and concrete outputs, plus launch tasks and role descriptions. Add your own dates, access arrangements and decision rules. Save each form, then export a complete Markdown kit containing the plan, a draft constitution, invitation and handover prompts. JSON restores the editable workspace; CSV opens the saved records in a spreadsheet.

The kit does not register a chapter, obtain university approval or submit anything publicly. Keep private contact details elsewhere and check your institution’s rules. The network and adoption goals below remain proposals.

What it is

A University Chapter would be a student club that studies charitology and does some of its work. Chapters would be open to any student in any field, whatever their views on giving. They wouldn’t raise, hold or direct money in Charitology’s name.

How it works

Each chapter would start from a free chapter kit: a term of sessions that need no outside speakers and no budget.

1. Values night. Members take the Values Compass, compare results and talk about where their frameworks part ways.
2. Story and scale. Members compare an appeal built around one person with an appeal built around the size of a problem, then discuss which they would fund and why.
3. Depth coding. Members code a sample of organizations on the depth scale from public filings and submit the results to the Depth Census.
4. Forecast night. Members add forecasts to open questions on the Forecasting Platform.
5. Red-team night. Members pick a claim on this site, try to break it and file what they find.
6. Reading group. One chapter of the Principles of Charitology at a time.

Chapters would publish what they learn but never ratings of named charities.

Why it matters for the system

The Missing Profession starts with people. A chapter would give students a place to learn the craft before their careers and giving habits are set, and the kit would make their meetings count as real contributions to the field.

The second session would treat the Story Bias. Reading about the bias is one thing. Feeling its pull yourself, and then talking it through with friends, is another. Noticing a bias doesn’t switch it off, as Open Problem 7 points out, but it gives a giver a moment to check a decision against the size of the need.

Risks and limits

Student clubs rise and fall with their founders. The full kit would be written so a new organizer can run any session straight from the page, and chapters would share notes so a session that works in one place spreads to the rest.

What success looks like

Within five years, chapters at 25 universities on several continents run the kit every year, and their depth coding is a meaningful part of the Depth Census.