EA Funds offers pay to grantmakers (~$60/h which I think should be fairly competitive with people’s nonprofit counterfactuals); most people have other day jobs however.
I don’t think pay is the limiting factor for people, who usually have day jobs and also try to do what they consider to be the highest impact (plus other personal factors).
Though I can imagine there might be some sufficiently high numbers to cause part-time grantmakers to prioritize grantmaking highly, but a) this might result in a misallocation of resources, b) isn’t necessarily sustainable, and c) might have pretty bad incentives.
Great point about the reliability overall though. I do think it’d be hard to make real promises of the form “we’ll definitely get back to you by X date” for various factors, including practical/structural ones.
It wouldn’t surprise me if there was no good way to speed up grantmaking, given the existing constraints. If that’s true, I’d love to shift the system to something that recognizes that and plans around it (through bridge loans, or big enough grants that people can plan around delays, or something that looks more like employment), rather than hope that next year is the year that will be different for unspecified reasons.
EA Funds offers pay to grantmakers (~$60/h which I think should be fairly competitive with people’s nonprofit counterfactuals); most people have other day jobs however.
I don’t think pay is the limiting factor for people, who usually have day jobs and also try to do what they consider to be the highest impact (plus other personal factors).
Though I can imagine there might be some sufficiently high numbers to cause part-time grantmakers to prioritize grantmaking highly, but a) this might result in a misallocation of resources, b) isn’t necessarily sustainable, and c) might have pretty bad incentives.
Great point about the reliability overall though. I do think it’d be hard to make real promises of the form “we’ll definitely get back to you by X date” for various factors, including practical/structural ones.
It wouldn’t surprise me if there was no good way to speed up grantmaking, given the existing constraints. If that’s true, I’d love to shift the system to something that recognizes that and plans around it (through bridge loans, or big enough grants that people can plan around delays, or something that looks more like employment), rather than hope that next year is the year that will be different for unspecified reasons.