I strongly agree with @lexande’s critical comments about the general strategy behind this fund.
A further point I am rather confused about concerns the following paragraph:
To respond to the current surge of interest and momentum among both the general public in Germany and our donors, we feel a responsibility to share our initial findings—with all their limitations—in order to guide donors interested in supporting promising interventions that can make a difference in the short term in the specific German context. Therefore, we have launched a new fund called “Defending Democracy” on effektiv-spenden.org.
I’m not sure I can follow the logic here: Feeling a “(...) responsibility to share (...) initial findings—with all their limitations—in order to guide donors (...)” is an argument for publishing those findings, and it’s hard for me to see how this necessitates the launch of the fund itself. Could maybe one of the authors give some context on the reasons behind going for a fund instead of solely publishing (preliminary) findings?
I’m not in the lead with regard to the research but one advantage of the fund is that we can take room for more funding into account. E.g. we think very highly of CORRECTIV but since they recently got a lot of (well deserved) attention their room to use additional funds might be limited very soon (might already be the case).
I strongly agree with @lexande’s critical comments about the general strategy behind this fund.
A further point I am rather confused about concerns the following paragraph:
I’m not sure I can follow the logic here: Feeling a “(...) responsibility to share (...) initial findings—with all their limitations—in order to guide donors (...)” is an argument for publishing those findings, and it’s hard for me to see how this necessitates the launch of the fund itself. Could maybe one of the authors give some context on the reasons behind going for a fund instead of solely publishing (preliminary) findings?
I’m not in the lead with regard to the research but one advantage of the fund is that we can take room for more funding into account. E.g. we think very highly of CORRECTIV but since they recently got a lot of (well deserved) attention their room to use additional funds might be limited very soon (might already be the case).