Collective financing for EA products Movement building, coordination, coincidence of wants problems
As shown by crowdfunding platforms, collective financing has many benefits. For instance, it allows individuals to collectively fund projects that they could not fund as individuals and for projects to start and scale when they would not otherwise exist. We would therefore like to fund projects to support collective financing with the EA community. For instance, this could involve allowing individuals to commit to providing a project or service (e.g., a detailed review of the arguments for and against X) if offered x funding, or to commit to provide x% funding for a project being offered if a threshold is reached. Larger funders could elect to fund projects if the revealed community need was sufficiently high.
Collective financing for EA products
Movement building, coordination, coincidence of wants problems
As shown by crowdfunding platforms, collective financing has many benefits. For instance, it allows individuals to collectively fund projects that they could not fund as individuals and for projects to start and scale when they would not otherwise exist. We would therefore like to fund projects to support collective financing with the EA community. For instance, this could involve allowing individuals to commit to providing a project or service (e.g., a detailed review of the arguments for and against X) if offered x funding, or to commit to provide x% funding for a project being offered if a threshold is reached. Larger funders could elect to fund projects if the revealed community need was sufficiently high.