I think that the OpenPhil situation can be decent. If you have a good manager/grantmaker that you have a good relationship and a lot of trust in, then I think this could provide a lot of the benefit. You don’t have assurance, but you should have a solid understanding of what you need to accomplish in order to get funding or not—and thus, this would give you a good idea of your chances.
I think that the non-OP funders are pretty amateurish here and could improve a lot.
I think the situation now is pretty lacking. However, the most obvious/suggested fix is more like “better management and ongoing relationships”, rather than 3+ year grants. The former could basically be the latter, if desired (once you start getting funding, it’s understood to be very likely to continue, absent huge mess-ups).
Just for the record, I don’t think OP has been doing well in this respect since the collapse of FTX. My sense is few Open Phil grantees know the conditions under which they would get more funding, or when they might receive an answer. At least I don’t, and none of the Open Phil grantees I’ve talked to in the past few months about this felt like this was handled well either.
I think that the OpenPhil situation can be decent. If you have a good manager/grantmaker that you have a good relationship and a lot of trust in, then I think this could provide a lot of the benefit. You don’t have assurance, but you should have a solid understanding of what you need to accomplish in order to get funding or not—and thus, this would give you a good idea of your chances.
I think that the non-OP funders are pretty amateurish here and could improve a lot.
I think the situation now is pretty lacking. However, the most obvious/suggested fix is more like “better management and ongoing relationships”, rather than 3+ year grants. The former could basically be the latter, if desired (once you start getting funding, it’s understood to be very likely to continue, absent huge mess-ups).
Just for the record, I don’t think OP has been doing well in this respect since the collapse of FTX. My sense is few Open Phil grantees know the conditions under which they would get more funding, or when they might receive an answer. At least I don’t, and none of the Open Phil grantees I’ve talked to in the past few months about this felt like this was handled well either.