i’ve been working at manifund for the last couple months, figured i’d respond where austin hasn’t (yet)
here’s a grant application for the meta charity funders circle that we submitted a few weeks ago, which i think is broadly representative of who we are & what we’re raising for.
tldr of that application:
core ops
staff salaries
misc things (software, etc)
programs like regranting, impact certificates, etc, for us to run how we think is best[1]
additionally, if a funder was particularly interested in a specific funding program, we’re also happy to provide them with infrastructure. e.g. we’re currently facilitating the ACX grants, we’re probably (70%) going to run a prize round for dwarkesh patel, and we’d be excited about building/hosting the infrastructure for similar funding/prize/impact cert/etc programs. this wouldn’t really look like [funding manifund core ops, where the money goes to manifund], but rather [running a funding round on manifund, where the funding mostly[2] goes to object-level projects that aren’t manifund].
i’ll also add that we’re a less funding-crunched than when austin first commented; we’ll be running another regranting round, for which we’ll be paid another $75k in commission. this was new info between his comment and this comment. (details of this are very rough/subject to change/not firm.)
i’m keeping this section intentionally vague. what we want is [sufficient funding to be able to run the programs we think are best, iterate & adjust quickly, etc] not [this specific particular program in this specific particular way that we’re tying ourselves down to]. we have experimentation built into our bones, and having strings attached breaks our ability to experiment fast.
i’ve been working at manifund for the last couple months, figured i’d respond where austin hasn’t (yet)
here’s a grant application for the meta charity funders circle that we submitted a few weeks ago, which i think is broadly representative of who we are & what we’re raising for.
tldr of that application:
core ops
staff salaries
misc things (software, etc)
programs like regranting, impact certificates, etc, for us to run how we think is best[1]
additionally, if a funder was particularly interested in a specific funding program, we’re also happy to provide them with infrastructure. e.g. we’re currently facilitating the ACX grants, we’re probably (70%) going to run a prize round for dwarkesh patel, and we’d be excited about building/hosting the infrastructure for similar funding/prize/impact cert/etc programs. this wouldn’t really look like [funding manifund core ops, where the money goes to manifund], but rather [running a funding round on manifund, where the funding mostly[2] goes to object-level projects that aren’t manifund].
i’ll also add that we’re a less funding-crunched than when austin first commented; we’ll be running another regranting round, for which we’ll be paid another $75k in commission. this was new info between his comment and this comment. (details of this are very rough/subject to change/not firm.)
i’m keeping this section intentionally vague. what we want is [sufficient funding to be able to run the programs we think are best, iterate & adjust quickly, etc] not [this specific particular program in this specific particular way that we’re tying ourselves down to]. we have experimentation built into our bones, and having strings attached breaks our ability to experiment fast.
we often charge a fee of 5% of the total funding; we’ve been paid $75k in commission to run the $1.5mm regranting round last year.