I agree with all of this Will. I’ll just add that I also think individuals who earn to give can fund some projects that large philanthropic groups like OpenPhil can’t because they are: i) very new/small; ii) very risky, iii) look too strange to the public. This is another way in which we can’t put all our eggs in one basket: we need a diversity of funders and funding strategies to ensure good things aren’t missed. Individuals can play a role filling gaps left by others, though we may not need that many of them.
I agree with all of this Will. I’ll just add that I also think individuals who earn to give can fund some projects that large philanthropic groups like OpenPhil can’t because they are: i) very new/small; ii) very risky, iii) look too strange to the public. This is another way in which we can’t put all our eggs in one basket: we need a diversity of funders and funding strategies to ensure good things aren’t missed. Individuals can play a role filling gaps left by others, though we may not need that many of them.