As someone who has applied for and recieved funding from BERI, the EA Community Building Fund, and the EA Meta Fund, I agree that more collaboration and communication between the various groups would be beneficial. It’s been fairly unclear when to apply to which group, and I’ve had to answer different prompts from each. I’ve also run into timing issues, where I needed to make decisions about signing leases, etc before finding out if or how much I’ll be receiving in grants. I’ve mostly dealt with this by setting up a Patreon account so that small donors can chip in on a monthly basis, but that might not make sense for others.
As someone who has applied for and recieved funding from BERI, the EA Community Building Fund, and the EA Meta Fund, I agree that more collaboration and communication between the various groups would be beneficial. It’s been fairly unclear when to apply to which group, and I’ve had to answer different prompts from each. I’ve also run into timing issues, where I needed to make decisions about signing leases, etc before finding out if or how much I’ll be receiving in grants. I’ve mostly dealt with this by setting up a Patreon account so that small donors can chip in on a monthly basis, but that might not make sense for others.