One important thing to remember is that important projects may not look very credible initially. Any early-stage EA funding body needs to ask itself “would we fund an early-stage 80k?”.
Bear in mind that before we spent any money we had: been involved in 10-20 important plan changes that would already justify significant funding; built a website with thousands of views per month; and received top level press coverage.
I think I’m thinking of funding even earlier than 80k got money, though. 80k had presumably had very many hours of volunteer labour before it got to that point—we might want to fund things earlier than that.
One important thing to remember is that important projects may not look very credible initially. Any early-stage EA funding body needs to ask itself “would we fund an early-stage 80k?”.
Bear in mind that before we spent any money we had: been involved in 10-20 important plan changes that would already justify significant funding; built a website with thousands of views per month; and received top level press coverage.
Fair!
I think I’m thinking of funding even earlier than 80k got money, though. 80k had presumably had very many hours of volunteer labour before it got to that point—we might want to fund things earlier than that.