I’m sympathetic to this view, though I think the EA funds have some EA-Ventures-like properties; charities in each of the fund areas presumably can pitch themselves to the people running the funds if they so choose.
One difference that has been pointed out to me in the past is that for (e.g.) EA Ventures you have to put a lot of up-front work into your actual proposal. That’s time-consuming and costly if you don’t get anything out of it. That’s somewhat different to handing some trustworthy EA an unconditional income and saying ‘I trust your commitment and your judgment, go and do whatever seems most worthwhile for 6/​12/​24 months’. It’s plausible to me that the latter involves less work on both donor and recipient side for some (small) set of potential recipients.
With that all said, better communication of credible proposals still feels like the relatively higher priority to me.
I’m sympathetic to this view, though I think the EA funds have some EA-Ventures-like properties; charities in each of the fund areas presumably can pitch themselves to the people running the funds if they so choose.
One difference that has been pointed out to me in the past is that for (e.g.) EA Ventures you have to put a lot of up-front work into your actual proposal. That’s time-consuming and costly if you don’t get anything out of it. That’s somewhat different to handing some trustworthy EA an unconditional income and saying ‘I trust your commitment and your judgment, go and do whatever seems most worthwhile for 6/​12/​24 months’. It’s plausible to me that the latter involves less work on both donor and recipient side for some (small) set of potential recipients.
With that all said, better communication of credible proposals still feels like the relatively higher priority to me.
Agreed!