>It seems that a central bottleneck for the fund is that a few key people are decision-makers, and they are very busy, which makes it hard to operate quickly at scale and be transparent.
I think this is at least somewhat true. We have tried out having more junior managers on the fund with mixed success. The EAIF currently has “assistant fund managers” which I think was a good experiment for us to run, and I think it’s generally gone well.
My impression is that SoGive gave out something like $300k and had 26 applicants so it doesn’t seem super comparable to me to the LTFF (I think last year we had ~1000 applications), and I’d guess that your methods don’t scale particularly well to the kind of grantmaking the LTFF does (but I could be wrong).
I also somewhat disagree with Asya re our transparency, I think that we are falling short of where I’d like us to be, but if you compare us to other grantmaking programs that have existed for more than 1 year I think we look pretty good transparency wise (e.g. Longview, Effective Giving, Open Phil) though plausibly they don’t need to be as transparent as they are raising less from the public.
>It seems that a central bottleneck for the fund is that a few key people are decision-makers, and they are very busy, which makes it hard to operate quickly at scale and be transparent.
I think this is at least somewhat true. We have tried out having more junior managers on the fund with mixed success. The EAIF currently has “assistant fund managers” which I think was a good experiment for us to run, and I think it’s generally gone well.
My impression is that SoGive gave out something like $300k and had 26 applicants so it doesn’t seem super comparable to me to the LTFF (I think last year we had ~1000 applications), and I’d guess that your methods don’t scale particularly well to the kind of grantmaking the LTFF does (but I could be wrong).
I also somewhat disagree with Asya re our transparency, I think that we are falling short of where I’d like us to be, but if you compare us to other grantmaking programs that have existed for more than 1 year I think we look pretty good transparency wise (e.g. Longview, Effective Giving, Open Phil) though plausibly they don’t need to be as transparent as they are raising less from the public.