Thanks for posting this—I like these ideas. Whose job is it to actually make these things happen—who has to take these ideas to donors? Is that responsibility entirely with high net worth advisors? Should there be a megaprojects team within CEA given how much money is on the table?
This perspective strikes me as as extremely low agentiness.
Donors aren’t this wildly unreachable class of people, they read EA forum, they have public emails, etc. Anyone, including you, can take one of these ideas, scope it out more rigorously, and write up a report. It’s nobody’s job right now, but it could be yours.
haha that’s fair! there is of course a tragedy of the commons risk here though—of people discussing these ideas and it not being anyone’s job to make them happen
There’s a group of us (former partners at a multi-billion dollar PE fund, global edtech founders/operators, EA community builders, etc.) who’ve been actively working on setting up a large global scholarship EA foundation and an ‘EA University’ over this past year.
We’ve been coordinating with major EA donors and will be launching relatively soon.
In case anyone woud like to be kept in the loop once we launch, or if there’s ways you’d like to potentially get involved, feel free to dm me or reach out at affectivealtruist@outlook.com :)
Thanks for posting this—I like these ideas. Whose job is it to actually make these things happen—who has to take these ideas to donors? Is that responsibility entirely with high net worth advisors? Should there be a megaprojects team within CEA given how much money is on the table?
This perspective strikes me as as extremely low agentiness.
Donors aren’t this wildly unreachable class of people, they read EA forum, they have public emails, etc. Anyone, including you, can take one of these ideas, scope it out more rigorously, and write up a report. It’s nobody’s job right now, but it could be yours.
haha that’s fair! there is of course a tragedy of the commons risk here though—of people discussing these ideas and it not being anyone’s job to make them happen
There’s a group of us (former partners at a multi-billion dollar PE fund, global edtech founders/operators, EA community builders, etc.) who’ve been actively working on setting up a large global scholarship EA foundation and an ‘EA University’ over this past year.
We’ve been coordinating with major EA donors and will be launching relatively soon.
In case anyone woud like to be kept in the loop once we launch, or if there’s ways you’d like to potentially get involved, feel free to dm me or reach out at affectivealtruist@outlook.com :)