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[MichaelA🔸]

Nonlinear Support Fund: Productivity grants for people working in AI safety

Get up to $10,000 a year for therapy, coaching, consulting, tutoring, education, or childcare

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You automatically qualify for up to $10,000 a year if:

• You work full time on something helping with AI safety

  • Technical research

  • Governance

  • Graduate studies

  • Meta (>30% of beneficiaries must work in AI safety)

• You or your organization received >$40,000 of funding to do the above work from any one of these funders in the last 365 days

  • Open Philanthropy

  • The EA Funds (Infrastructure or Long-term)

  • The Survival and Flourishing Fund

  • Longview Philanthropy

• Your organization does not pay for these services already

• (Only if you’re applying for therapy or child care) You make less than $100,000. There are no income qualifiers for any other services we provide.

As long as you meet these criteria, you will qualify. Funding is given out in the order the applications were received. (For more details about how the fund works and why we made it read here)

What services can you apply for?

• Therapy (only if you make less than $100,000)

• Coaching

• Consultants* (e.g. management, operations, IT, marketing, etc)

• Childcare (only if you make less than $100,000)

• Tutors (e.g. ML, CS, English, etc)

• Meditation classes

• Mental health apps

• Books (either for your mental health or that’s relevant to your work)

• Anything educational that helps you do better at your work (e.g. classes, books, workshops, etc)

*Consultant can mean a lot of things. In the context of the Nonlinear Support Fund, it refers to people who give you advice on how to do better at your work. It does not refer to people who are more like contract hires, who actually go and do the work for you.