Depends who chose the regrantors? If the two humans most behind Manifund chose them, I agree it’s odd/bad that they chose themselves (independent of their relationship). If donors chose them that seems surprising but fine.
Edit: oh they say “We chose regrantors.” Hmm. I think choosing themselves is a mistake.
The $400k regrantors were nominated by our anonymous donor; the $50k ones were chosen by the Manifund team. We chose ourselves mainly to be able to dogfood the regranting process. (I would also note that the default at every EA grantmaking org is for the team themselves to make the grants)
Cool, thanks. It wasn’t obvious to me that you saw yourselves as grantmakers in addition to people who build infrastructure/tools for grantmakers. If your donors also saw you as grantmakers then there’s no issue I think; if they would be surprised that you chose yourselves that seems bad.
Tbh I see myself as a person who build infrastructure, but also as said in my other comment, being a regrantor helps me do that much better. And yes we told our primary donor we were doing this in advance.
Depends who chose the regrantors? If the two humans most behind Manifund chose them, I agree it’s odd/bad that they chose themselves (independent of their relationship). If donors chose them that seems surprising but fine.
Edit: oh they say “We chose regrantors.” Hmm. I think choosing themselves is a mistake.
The $400k regrantors were nominated by our anonymous donor; the $50k ones were chosen by the Manifund team. We chose ourselves mainly to be able to dogfood the regranting process. (I would also note that the default at every EA grantmaking org is for the team themselves to make the grants)
Cool, thanks. It wasn’t obvious to me that you saw yourselves as grantmakers in addition to people who build infrastructure/tools for grantmakers. If your donors also saw you as grantmakers then there’s no issue I think; if they would be surprised that you chose yourselves that seems bad.
Tbh I see myself as a person who build infrastructure, but also as said in my other comment, being a regrantor helps me do that much better. And yes we told our primary donor we were doing this in advance.