Jeff Kaufman 🔸 comments on Has your organisation lost funding due to the Good Ventures funding shift? Have you managed to replace it?

[Jeff Kaufman 🔸]

Thanks for trying this!

Reviewing its judgements:

• I think YIMBY is not very left or right. Here’s how Claude put it:

  JK: Where does the YIMBY movement fall on the left-right spectrum in the US? The YIMBY (Yes In My Backyard) movement tends to fall on the center-left to center-right of the political spectrum in the US. YIMBYs generally support increasing housing supply and density to address housing affordability, which aligns with liberal/​progressive goals. However, their support for market-based solutions and property rights puts them at odds with some further left positions. Overall, YIMBY is considered a centrist or “third way” approach to housing and urban development issues.

• I don’t know much about the CHAI or ASG, but given that they were founded by politicians on the US left it seems reasonable to guess they’re left of center. Like, I think if OP were recommending grants to equivalent international orgs founded by US right politicians we’d count that the other way? Though I think “political think tank or organization within the United States” doesn’t really apply.

• It seems like it thinks animal advocacy and global health are left coded, which on one hand isn’t totally wrong (I expect global health and animal advocates to be pretty left on average), but on the other isn’t really what we’re trying to get at here.