If this seems like a bad idea, try the reversal test: do you think EA orgs should become more integrated?
For what it’s worth, this does seem good to me: even the largest EA organizations are tiny compared to for-profit companies, and we miss out on a bunch of economies of scale as a result. There are reasonable criticisms to be made of how EVF (my employer) has done fiscal sponsorship (e.g. perhaps more stuff should have been based in the US instead of the UK) but I would still encourage any new organization to get fiscal sponsorship (from someone besides EVF, if they want) instead of being independent.
I’d be interested to hear your response to my most recent questions about alternatives here, as well as Brendon’s response.
My current sense from that thread is still that having to set up an org without fiscal sponsorship is a cost that could be substantially reduced by being provided as a service, and that unifying the organisations has large and subtle costs that aren’t being sufficiently acknowledged.
For what it’s worth, this does seem good to me: even the largest EA organizations are tiny compared to for-profit companies, and we miss out on a bunch of economies of scale as a result. There are reasonable criticisms to be made of how EVF (my employer) has done fiscal sponsorship (e.g. perhaps more stuff should have been based in the US instead of the UK) but I would still encourage any new organization to get fiscal sponsorship (from someone besides EVF, if they want) instead of being independent.
I’d be interested to hear your response to my most recent questions about alternatives here, as well as Brendon’s response.
My current sense from that thread is still that having to set up an org without fiscal sponsorship is a cost that could be substantially reduced by being provided as a service, and that unifying the organisations has large and subtle costs that aren’t being sufficiently acknowledged.