In what situations does it seem like a good idea to start a new (initially small) charity rather than supporting existing efforts?
(E.g. looking at the outside at Malaria work in 2005 one might have felt like this was a huge area with a lot of attention from big global health organisations and it would be surprising if a new small organisation could be able to bring something different / useful that existing organisations couldn’t)
Bit of context—I’ve just started a TB charity and am curious about this for TB too!
In what situations does it seem like a good idea to start a new (initially small) charity rather than supporting existing efforts?
(E.g. looking at the outside at Malaria work in 2005 one might have felt like this was a huge area with a lot of attention from big global health organisations and it would be surprising if a new small organisation could be able to bring something different / useful that existing organisations couldn’t)
Bit of context—I’ve just started a TB charity and am curious about this for TB too!
Relatedly:
Do you think the Effective Altruism community could/should be doing more to start new projects vs funding / staffing existing projects?