Would it be a good idea to create an EA Fund for U.S. criminal justice?
Open Phil’s Chloe Cockburn has a fund for external donors. See Open Phil’s recent blog post:
Chloe Cockburn leads our work in this area, and as such has led our outreach to other donors. To date, we estimate that her advice to other donors (i.e., other than Dustin and Cari) has resulted in donations moved (in the same sense as the metric GiveWell tracks) that amount to a reasonable fraction (>25%) of the giving she has managed for Open Philanthropy.
It appears that interest in her recommendations has been growing, and we have recently decided to support the creation of a separate vehicle—the Accountable Justice Action Fund—to make it easier for donors interested in criminal justice reform to make donations to a pool of funds overseen by Chloe. The Fund is organized as a 501(c)(4) organization; those interested in contributing to AJAF should contact us.
I don’t know, you could email and ask. If Chloe wanted to take only large donations one could use a donor lottery to turn a small donation into a chance of a large one.
Open Phil’s Chloe Cockburn has a fund for external donors. See Open Phil’s recent blog post:
Do you know if it’s just a fund for other large donors? It seems unusual to require small donors to send an email in order to donate.
If the fund is open to small donors, I hope CEA will consider mentioning it on the EA Funds website and the GWWC website.
I don’t know, you could email and ask. If Chloe wanted to take only large donations one could use a donor lottery to turn a small donation into a chance of a large one.