I don’t think it is actually possible to 10x our impact with the same staff, funding, and other resources—hence our desire to hire and fundraise more. If it was possible, we’d certainly try to do that!
The best answer I can think of is Goodharting—we certainly could influence more total dollars if we cared less about the quality of our influence and the quality of those dollars. We also could exaggerate our claims about what “influence” means, taking credit for decisions that likely would’ve been made the same anyway.
Let’s say your research directly determined the allocation of $X of funding in 2021.
Let’s say you have to grow that amount by 10 times in 2022, but keep the same number of staff, funding, and other resources.
What would you change first in your current campaigns, internal operations, etc.?
I don’t think it is actually possible to 10x our impact with the same staff, funding, and other resources—hence our desire to hire and fundraise more. If it was possible, we’d certainly try to do that!
The best answer I can think of is Goodharting—we certainly could influence more total dollars if we cared less about the quality of our influence and the quality of those dollars. We also could exaggerate our claims about what “influence” means, taking credit for decisions that likely would’ve been made the same anyway.