Many meta organisations report having significant funding insecurity; animal welfare is still significantly neglected given the scale of the problem; promising cause areas like mental health are operating on a shoestring; and there is a scattered and uneven pipeline of funding available to new ideas and organisations. For evidence of this, we can look to well-reasoned arguments that resources are misallocated; the small budgets of Charity Entrepreneurship start ups (typically <$200k); and the views of EA entrepreneurs.
If anyone is running an organization with significant funding insecurity, running on a shoestring, or suffering from a small budget I’d like to know and see what I can do to help. I’m on the EA Infrastructure Fund and helping fund more neartermist ideas get funded is one of my biggest projects for the fund. You can contact me at peter@rethinkpriorities.org to discuss further (though note that my grantmaking on the EAIF is not a part of my work at Rethink Priorities).
(Though even if I can help using the resources of the EA Funds or other funders, I do agree that the lack of diversity of funders, the small number of gatekeepers, and the exposure of EA to a small number of volatile assets are all important issues worth addressing.)
Hi Peter—thanks for this. To your/their credit, I think EAIF is doing a really good job of filling some of these gaps. As you say, though, the gatekeepers and funder diversity issues do remain.
I’m also conscious that the current EAIF committee has made some really positive changes—but also that I guess the next committee could plausibly feel differently!
If anyone is running an organization with significant funding insecurity, running on a shoestring, or suffering from a small budget I’d like to know and see what I can do to help. I’m on the EA Infrastructure Fund and helping fund more neartermist ideas get funded is one of my biggest projects for the fund. You can contact me at peter@rethinkpriorities.org to discuss further (though note that my grantmaking on the EAIF is not a part of my work at Rethink Priorities).
(Though even if I can help using the resources of the EA Funds or other funders, I do agree that the lack of diversity of funders, the small number of gatekeepers, and the exposure of EA to a small number of volatile assets are all important issues worth addressing.)
Hi Peter—thanks for this. To your/their credit, I think EAIF is doing a really good job of filling some of these gaps. As you say, though, the gatekeepers and funder diversity issues do remain.
I’m also conscious that the current EAIF committee has made some really positive changes—but also that I guess the next committee could plausibly feel differently!