Yep! We have solicited and received funding from Open Philanthropy’s Effective Altruism (Global Health and Wellbeing) program. We most recently worked together with them on an Effective Giving Summit earlier this year (funded by them and organized by our Partner Events team).
We have discussed whether they or other OP teams (other than GCRCB) would be interested in funding CEA. While I don’t want to speak for them, my (briefly summarized) understanding of why we have had more success with GCRCB is because they have a higher willingness to pay for talent.
Thanks for clarifying this! I agree with Jason’s point that the percentage of CEA’s funding coming from OP’s GCRCB team is high enough that the exact figure doesn’t really change the incentives much. But I’m very glad that CEA has made the effort to try and diversify OP’s funding.
I do want to flag that if your understanding is correct, it seems quite bad/weird that the incentives/priorities/strategies of the most important EA community building organization are significantly (mainly?) influenced by differences in “willingness to pay for talent” between OP’s GCRCB and GHWCR teams.
Yep! We have solicited and received funding from Open Philanthropy’s Effective Altruism (Global Health and Wellbeing) program. We most recently worked together with them on an Effective Giving Summit earlier this year (funded by them and organized by our Partner Events team).
We have discussed whether they or other OP teams (other than GCRCB) would be interested in funding CEA. While I don’t want to speak for them, my (briefly summarized) understanding of why we have had more success with GCRCB is because they have a higher willingness to pay for talent.
Thanks for clarifying this! I agree with Jason’s point that the percentage of CEA’s funding coming from OP’s GCRCB team is high enough that the exact figure doesn’t really change the incentives much. But I’m very glad that CEA has made the effort to try and diversify OP’s funding.
I do want to flag that if your understanding is correct, it seems quite bad/weird that the incentives/priorities/strategies of the most important EA community building organization are significantly (mainly?) influenced by differences in “willingness to pay for talent” between OP’s GCRCB and GHWCR teams.