Thanks for the question! We do research informed by input from funders, organizations, and researchers that we think will help funders make better grants and help direct work organizations do to higher impact work.
So our plans for distribution vary by the audience in question. For funders and particular researchers we make direct efforts to share our work with them. Additionally, we try to regularly have discussions about our work and priorities with the relevant existing research EA communities (researchers themselves and org leaders). However, as we’ve said recently in our impact and strategy update, we think we can do a better job of this type of communication going forward.
For the wider EA community, we haven’t undertaken significant efforts to drive more discussion on posts but this is something potentially worth considering. I’d say one driver of whether we’d actually decide to do this would be if we came to believe more work here would potentially increase the chances we hit the goals I mentioned above.
I don’t actually know if engagement, is important (maybe it is an indicator of either your thoroughness, as there are few followups, or just that you all are the experts, so most people on the forum aren’t going to weigh in). Sharing with funders makes a lot of sense. Thanks!
Thanks for the question! We do research informed by input from funders, organizations, and researchers that we think will help funders make better grants and help direct work organizations do to higher impact work.
So our plans for distribution vary by the audience in question. For funders and particular researchers we make direct efforts to share our work with them. Additionally, we try to regularly have discussions about our work and priorities with the relevant existing research EA communities (researchers themselves and org leaders). However, as we’ve said recently in our impact and strategy update, we think we can do a better job of this type of communication going forward.
For the wider EA community, we haven’t undertaken significant efforts to drive more discussion on posts but this is something potentially worth considering. I’d say one driver of whether we’d actually decide to do this would be if we came to believe more work here would potentially increase the chances we hit the goals I mentioned above.
I don’t actually know if engagement, is important (maybe it is an indicator of either your thoroughness, as there are few followups, or just that you all are the experts, so most people on the forum aren’t going to weigh in). Sharing with funders makes a lot of sense. Thanks!