Diversification is good and it’s really hard to cover an entire space (even if you do not get bottlenecked by funding). I think competition creates useful positive incentives.
GFI is great but also does tons of things and it’s pretty hard to restrict donations to a sub-area of a charity so if you thought some activities were higher impact than others and this was one of the higher impact things to do, it could make sense to support a charity that focuses directly on that.
AIM charities tend to run smaller and more cost-effectively than the comparable incumbents—it’s pretty typical for our charities to do things at about half the price of larger organizations so insofar as a person is willing to trade cost-effectiveness for risk, small orgs tend to overperform.
Thanks for your reply! These are general points for big org vs. small org, I do wonder about the evidence base for GFI vs. prospective new org specifically, but I’ll save my nitty gritty questions for the interview if I make it that far through the IP process. Thanks again!
Few different perspectives here:
Diversification is good and it’s really hard to cover an entire space (even if you do not get bottlenecked by funding). I think competition creates useful positive incentives.
GFI is great but also does tons of things and it’s pretty hard to restrict donations to a sub-area of a charity so if you thought some activities were higher impact than others and this was one of the higher impact things to do, it could make sense to support a charity that focuses directly on that.
AIM charities tend to run smaller and more cost-effectively than the comparable incumbents—it’s pretty typical for our charities to do things at about half the price of larger organizations so insofar as a person is willing to trade cost-effectiveness for risk, small orgs tend to overperform.
Thanks for your reply! These are general points for big org vs. small org, I do wonder about the evidence base for GFI vs. prospective new org specifically, but I’ll save my nitty gritty questions for the interview if I make it that far through the IP process. Thanks again!