I thought about this briefly a few months ago and came up with these ideas.
CEA—incubate CBG groups as team members until they are registered as separate organisations with their own operations staff
CEA but for professional EA network building (EA Consulting network, High Impact Engineers, Hi-Med, etc). They are even more isolated than CBGs which have some support from CEA
Rethink Priorities—One of the incubated orgs could do similar work to EV Ops (which is maybe what the special projects team is doing already, but it might be good to have something more separate from RP, or a cause specific support org (animal advocacy/AI safety, biosecurity)
EV Ops—Spin out 80k/GWWC to increase capacity for other smaller orgs
Open Phil—Some of their programs might work better with project managers rather than individuals getting grants (e.g. the century fellowship)
Also looking at local groups, there is some coordination on the groups slack and some retreats but there is still a lot of duplication and a high rate of turnover which limits any sustained institutional knowledge.
I directionally agree with this, but am generally averse to putting medium-risk-or-above projects inside a big organization without a sufficiently clear upside to the risk.
As relevant here, turning CBG grantees into CEA employees could potentially create a lot of exposure for CEA for various things that happen in the groups that these people lead. I’d be much more comfortable with spinning off community building into relatively asset-light, special-purpose organizations, e.g., “EA Community Builders of the Bay Area / UK / Etc.” I think you get many of the benefits of centralization that way without exposing the balance sheets of projects that need significant operating capital (and creating a potentially more attractive target for that reason).
I thought about this briefly a few months ago and came up with these ideas.
CEA—incubate CBG groups as team members until they are registered as separate organisations with their own operations staff
CEA but for professional EA network building (EA Consulting network, High Impact Engineers, Hi-Med, etc). They are even more isolated than CBGs which have some support from CEA
Rethink Priorities—One of the incubated orgs could do similar work to EV Ops (which is maybe what the special projects team is doing already, but it might be good to have something more separate from RP, or a cause specific support org (animal advocacy/AI safety, biosecurity)
EV Ops—Spin out 80k/GWWC to increase capacity for other smaller orgs
Open Phil—Some of their programs might work better with project managers rather than individuals getting grants (e.g. the century fellowship)
Also looking at local groups, there is some coordination on the groups slack and some retreats but there is still a lot of duplication and a high rate of turnover which limits any sustained institutional knowledge.
I directionally agree with this, but am generally averse to putting medium-risk-or-above projects inside a big organization without a sufficiently clear upside to the risk.
As relevant here, turning CBG grantees into CEA employees could potentially create a lot of exposure for CEA for various things that happen in the groups that these people lead. I’d be much more comfortable with spinning off community building into relatively asset-light, special-purpose organizations, e.g., “EA Community Builders of the Bay Area / UK / Etc.” I think you get many of the benefits of centralization that way without exposing the balance sheets of projects that need significant operating capital (and creating a potentially more attractive target for that reason).
A separate organisation just for CBGs would have been useful too rather than a lot of one and two person teams with constant turnover.