I can only speak for my experience of applying for and being offered funding for independent research by the EA Infrastructure Fund. I intend to write a full post about this in the near future but my impression is that this is an option more recent graduates (and other people early in their careers) should consider.
I think EA Funds are more open to applications for small grants to people without a large base of experience than I expected before applying. I don’t think my application was particularly exceptional on any level and so I think it’s reasonable that many other people could find this a viable avenue for building skills and testing out potentially high-impact ideas.
This dashboard only gives payout amounts, so I’m not sure what’s happened to # of grants or acceptance rate, but the huge increase in sheer cumulative donation from last year to this one is encouraging.
I can only speak for my experience of applying for and being offered funding for independent research by the EA Infrastructure Fund.
I intend to write a full post about this in the near future but my impression is that this is an option more recent graduates (and other people early in their careers) should consider.
I think EA Funds are more open to applications for small grants to people without a large base of experience than I expected before applying. I don’t think my application was particularly exceptional on any level and so I think it’s reasonable that many other people could find this a viable avenue for building skills and testing out potentially high-impact ideas.
EA Funds is also just way bigger than it used to be https://funds.effectivealtruism.org/stats/overview
This dashboard only gives payout amounts, so I’m not sure what’s happened to # of grants or acceptance rate, but the huge increase in sheer cumulative donation from last year to this one is encouraging.