If we don’t find more potential founders we may not be able to launch charities in Tobacco Taxation and Fish Welfare
This is apparently a pattern
In recent years we have had more charity ideas than we have been able to find founders for.
Seems pretty plausible they value a marginal new charity at $100k, or even $1m, given the amount of staff time and seed funding that go into each participant.
I also suspect they’re more limited by applicant quality than number of spaces.
That post further says
it is true that we get a lot of applicants (~3 thousand). But, and it’s a big but, ~80% of the applications are speculative, from people outside the EA community and don’t even really understand what we do. Of the 300 relevant candidates we receive, maybe 20 or so will make it onto the program.
If you assume that the late applicants recruited by posting on EAF are in the “relevant” pool, those aren’t terrible odds.[1] And they provide feedback even to first round applicants, which is a real service to applicants and cost to CE.
I don’t know if they’re doing the ideal thing here, but they are doing way better than I imagined from your comment.
I don’t love treating relevant and “within EA” as synonyms, but my guess is this that the real point is “don’t even really understand what we do”, and EA is a shorthand for the group that does.
That post says opens with
This is apparently a pattern
Seems pretty plausible they value a marginal new charity at $100k, or even $1m, given the amount of staff time and seed funding that go into each participant.
I also suspect they’re more limited by applicant quality than number of spaces.
That post further says
If you assume that the late applicants recruited by posting on EAF are in the “relevant” pool, those aren’t terrible odds.[1] And they provide feedback even to first round applicants, which is a real service to applicants and cost to CE.
I don’t know if they’re doing the ideal thing here, but they are doing way better than I imagined from your comment.
I don’t love treating relevant and “within EA” as synonyms, but my guess is this that the real point is “don’t even really understand what we do”, and EA is a shorthand for the group that does.
Yep after walking through it in my head plus re- reading the post, doesn’t seem egregious to me.