Many large donors (and donation advisors) do not take general applications. This includes Open Philanthropy (“In general, we expect to identify most giving opportunities via proactive searching and networking”), Longview, REG, CERR, CLR, and the new Longtermism Fund.
Grant manager at CLR here—we take general applications to the CLR Fund and would love to get more of them. Note that our grantmaking is specifically s-risk focused.*
Copy pasting another comment of mine from another post over here:
If you or someone you know are seeking funding to reduce s-risk, please send me a message. If it’s for a smaller amount, you can also apply directly to CLR Fund. This is true even if you want funding for a very different type of project than what we’ve funded in the past.
I work for CLR on s-risk community building and on our CLR Fund, which mostly does small-scale grantmaking, but I might also be able to make large-scale funding for s-risk projects ~in the tens of $ millions (per project) happen. And if you have something more ambitious than that, I’m also always keen to hear it :)
*We also fund things that aren’t specifically targeted towards s-risk reduction but still seem beneficial to s-risk reduction. Some of our grants this year that we haven’t published yet are such grants. That said, we are often not in the best position to evaluate applications that aren’t focused on s-risk even if they would have some s-risk-reducing side effects, especially when these side effects are not clearly spelled out in the application.
Thanks Chi, this was definitely a mistake on my part and I will edit the post. I do think that your website’s “Get Involved” → “CLR Fund” might not be the clearest path for people looking for funding, but I also think I should have spent more time looking.
Grant manager at CLR here—we take general applications to the CLR Fund and would love to get more of them. Note that our grantmaking is specifically s-risk focused.*
Copy pasting another comment of mine from another post over here:
*We also fund things that aren’t specifically targeted towards s-risk reduction but still seem beneficial to s-risk reduction. Some of our grants this year that we haven’t published yet are such grants. That said, we are often not in the best position to evaluate applications that aren’t focused on s-risk even if they would have some s-risk-reducing side effects, especially when these side effects are not clearly spelled out in the application.
Thanks Chi, this was definitely a mistake on my part and I will edit the post. I do think that your website’s “Get Involved” → “CLR Fund” might not be the clearest path for people looking for funding, but I also think I should have spent more time looking.