Amongst friends and colleagues working in the forecasting space, I am also noticing that there is an incentive towards creating new organizations, rather than taking part in organizations that already exist. I think this might be because it sounds more prestigious to lead one’s own small organization and because one can otherwise capture a larger share of the value that one creates. But I think that creating many micro-organizations creates less value overall because the operations burden is greater.
+1. It seems like an instance of the general problem non-profit organisations get started too frequently and closed down too infrequently (compared to for-profits). Of course we do want small new projects to be started, and to compete with one another when they are genuinely scalable. I suppose the appropriate solution to incentivise all of this is to increase salaries at these orgs, and to make the grantmaking more sensitive to scale and impact...
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+1. It seems like an instance of the general problem non-profit organisations get started too frequently and closed down too infrequently (compared to for-profits). Of course we do want small new projects to be started, and to compete with one another when they are genuinely scalable. I suppose the appropriate solution to incentivise all of this is to increase salaries at these orgs, and to make the grantmaking more sensitive to scale and impact...
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