As noted there: “I strongly encourage people to consider applying for one or more of these [funding opportunities]. Given how quick applying often is and how impactful funded projects often are, applying is often worthwhile in expectation even if your odds of getting funding aren’t very high. (I think the same basic logic applies to job applications.)”
I recently collected here a bunch of active grantmaking ideas, i.e. ideas for either projects that might be worth trying to make happen or people/teams/orgs that might be worth funding to do something.
I have some thoughts on or know people/resources relevant to the following ideas from your list, so if someone is seriously considering working on one of those things, feel free to reach out to me via a Forum direct message:
Thanks, this seems like a useful collection!
Here are some other things readers might find useful:
List of EA funding opportunities
As noted there: “I strongly encourage people to consider applying for one or more of these [funding opportunities]. Given how quick applying often is and how impactful funded projects often are, applying is often worthwhile in expectation even if your odds of getting funding aren’t very high. (I think the same basic logic applies to job applications.)”
I recently collected here a bunch of active grantmaking ideas, i.e. ideas for either projects that might be worth trying to make happen or people/teams/orgs that might be worth funding to do something.
I have some thoughts on or know people/resources relevant to the following ideas from your list, so if someone is seriously considering working on one of those things, feel free to reach out to me via a Forum direct message:
“Buy a Big Newspaper”
“A Forecasting Organization”
“Purchase high impact academic journals”
“A really large think tank”
“Fund an enormous EA forecasting tournament”