This seems not to be true? CEA posted annual reviews for 2019 and 2020, but the most recent update post I see is for Q2 2021. Of course that was before the name change, so it was what we would now call an EVF update, but I can’t see that EVF has ever made an equivalent post.
There is also nothing (I can find) more up-to-date on CEA’s own website or EVF’s own website. In fact, the best public source of information about EVF appear to be its statutory filings, which are extremely thorough, but still only run to 30 June 2021 (the filing for 2021⁄2 won’t be due for about 4 months). In a sense, that’s the system working as intended, but it does seem that an organisation commited to transparency might make some information available both more prominently and timelier.
Is the problem a lack of transparency, or a lack of timely information? They aren’t able to reveal it before the decision is made, and there is a very high cost to rapid turnaround.
I had practically finished this post before Claire Zabel’s comment. And since the purchase was was made a while back I was of the opinion EVF should’ve already written something about it. But since it’s through Open Phil and only finalized this year plus with delay in grant publishing, that changes things. It still comes across as a ‘failure’ (I don’t want to sound this harsh) that there is so much delay, but perhaps there are good reasons for it. Still, I hope this post has some usefulness so I decided to publish it anyway, as I would still like to see more transparency and clearer reasoning. But the case is potentially less strong as I preciously thought. I’ll add this info to the post.
“CEA posts an annual update on the forum.”
This seems not to be true? CEA posted annual reviews for 2019 and 2020, but the most recent update post I see is for Q2 2021. Of course that was before the name change, so it was what we would now call an EVF update, but I can’t see that EVF has ever made an equivalent post.
There is also nothing (I can find) more up-to-date on CEA’s own website or EVF’s own website. In fact, the best public source of information about EVF appear to be its statutory filings, which are extremely thorough, but still only run to 30 June 2021 (the filing for 2021⁄2 won’t be due for about 4 months). In a sense, that’s the system working as intended, but it does seem that an organisation commited to transparency might make some information available both more prominently and timelier.
FYI we just posted our annual review here.
Is the problem a lack of transparency, or a lack of timely information? They aren’t able to reveal it before the decision is made, and there is a very high cost to rapid turnaround.
I had practically finished this post before Claire Zabel’s comment. And since the purchase was was made a while back I was of the opinion EVF should’ve already written something about it. But since it’s through Open Phil and only finalized this year plus with delay in grant publishing, that changes things. It still comes across as a ‘failure’ (I don’t want to sound this harsh) that there is so much delay, but perhaps there are good reasons for it. Still, I hope this post has some usefulness so I decided to publish it anyway, as I would still like to see more transparency and clearer reasoning. But the case is potentially less strong as I preciously thought. I’ll add this info to the post.