Letting us know about or connecting us to stakeholders who could use our work to make better decisions
E.g., philanthropists, policy makers, policy advisers, or think tanks who could make better funding, policy, or research decisions if guided by our published work, by conversations with our researchers, or by future work we might do (partly in light of learning that it could have this additional path to impact)
Letting us know if you have areas of expertise that are relevant to our work and you’d be willing to review draft reports and/​or have conversations with us
Letting us know about or connecting us to actors who could likewise provide us with feedback, advice, etc.
Letting us know if there are projects you think it might be very valuable for us to do
We (at least the longtermism department) are already drowning in good project ideas and lacking capacity to do them all, but I think it costs little to hear an additional idea, and it’s plausible some would be better than our existing ideas or could be nicely merged with one of our existing ideas.
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Letting us know about or connecting us to stakeholders who could use our work to make better decisions
E.g., philanthropists, policy makers, policy advisers, or think tanks who could make better funding, policy, or research decisions if guided by our published work, by conversations with our researchers, or by future work we might do (partly in light of learning that it could have this additional path to impact)
Letting us know if you have areas of expertise that are relevant to our work and you’d be willing to review draft reports and/​or have conversations with us
Letting us know about or connecting us to actors who could likewise provide us with feedback, advice, etc.
Letting us know if there are projects you think it might be very valuable for us to do
We (at least the longtermism department) are already drowning in good project ideas and lacking capacity to do them all, but I think it costs little to hear an additional idea, and it’s plausible some would be better than our existing ideas or could be nicely merged with one of our existing ideas.
Testing & building fit for research management
See also Collection of collections of resources relevant to (research) management, mentorship, training, etc.
Testing & building fit for ops roles
Donating
(In all cases, I mean either doing this thing yourself or encouraging other people to do so.)