This is great to hear! Any reason why “major grantmakers have significantly more to deploy than they did a few years ago — the EA Animal Welfare Fund alone has had more funding allocated to it in the past six months than in the previous six years”?
I don’t have much visibility into this, but I think (a) some foundations have decided to spend down their funds faster, and in the case of EA Animal Welfare Fund (b) I think there has both been a greater investment in attracting funders (through investing in the product, i.e. grantmaking capacity so it’s more attractive to donate to, and doing more active outreach to donors) and (c) a number of E2Gers have come into a lot of money through their equity in AI-labs and investments in businesses correlated with the AI industry
This is great to hear! Any reason why “major grantmakers have significantly more to deploy than they did a few years ago — the EA Animal Welfare Fund alone has had more funding allocated to it in the past six months than in the previous six years”?
I don’t have much visibility into this, but I think (a) some foundations have decided to spend down their funds faster, and in the case of EA Animal Welfare Fund (b) I think there has both been a greater investment in attracting funders (through investing in the product, i.e. grantmaking capacity so it’s more attractive to donate to, and doing more active outreach to donors) and (c) a number of E2Gers have come into a lot of money through their equity in AI-labs and investments in businesses correlated with the AI industry