This wasn’t clear, but I don’t think any of the three make sense as solutions. You can’t really tell donors that they don’t get to make decisions about what to fund, having multiple orgs creates duplication and overlap which is really costly and wasteful—and if the organizations coordinate you haven’t really helped, and lastly, sure, I’d love for there to be more donors, but it’s not really actionable, other than to tell more EAs to make lots of money. (And they probably should. EA was, is, and will be funding constrained.)
I think the first 2 options make some sense and I don’t think the donor diversity question is simple, with simple answers
On the first option, of course people can give money where they want, but I think any smart big donor could respond to a good argument for diversification of giving. It’s not about telling anyone to do anything, but about figuring out what is actually the best way to do philanthropy in the EA community in the long term.
I don’t think having multiple orgs are necessarily costly and wasteful. Even if donors co-ordinate to some degree, having a donor board with no major COI could make more uncompromised and rational decisions, and also avoid controversy both from within and outside the movement..
Charity entrepreneurship have invested in foundation entrepreneurship, and make a number of good arguments why it can good to have more funding orgs out there, even if smaller. These benefits includemore exploration of different cause areas and potential access to different pools of funding and different donors.
As a side note (although I know it wasn’t intentional) don’t think it’s a great conversation technique on a forum to suggest 3 possible solutions which seemed to be in good faith, and then turn around and say that they don’t make sense in the next comment. This would work in an in person discussion I think, but it makes it hard to have a discussion on a forum.
This wasn’t clear, but I don’t think any of the three make sense as solutions. You can’t really tell donors that they don’t get to make decisions about what to fund, having multiple orgs creates duplication and overlap which is really costly and wasteful—and if the organizations coordinate you haven’t really helped, and lastly, sure, I’d love for there to be more donors, but it’s not really actionable, other than to tell more EAs to make lots of money. (And they probably should. EA was, is, and will be funding constrained.)
I think the first 2 options make some sense and I don’t think the donor diversity question is simple, with simple answers
On the first option, of course people can give money where they want, but I think any smart big donor could respond to a good argument for diversification of giving. It’s not about telling anyone to do anything, but about figuring out what is actually the best way to do philanthropy in the EA community in the long term.
I don’t think having multiple orgs are necessarily costly and wasteful. Even if donors co-ordinate to some degree, having a donor board with no major COI could make more uncompromised and rational decisions, and also avoid controversy both from within and outside the movement..
Charity entrepreneurship have invested in foundation entrepreneurship, and make a number of good arguments why it can good to have more funding orgs out there, even if smaller. These benefits includemore exploration of different cause areas and potential access to different pools of funding and different donors.
As a side note (although I know it wasn’t intentional) don’t think it’s a great conversation technique on a forum to suggest 3 possible solutions which seemed to be in good faith, and then turn around and say that they don’t make sense in the next comment. This would work in an in person discussion I think, but it makes it hard to have a discussion on a forum.