Thanks for sharing this, I have been really enjoying reading the comms coming from EAIF/LTFF lately! Here are some observations/feedback on the post:
Below is a fictionalized list of grants the Long-term Future Fund (LTFF) narrowly rejected or accepted in the last 6 months. We aim to broadly convey which grants we barely rejected, while anonymizing any individual one. [...] As the grants we’ve fictionalized are grants LTFF narrowly accepted or rejected
After reading the post, I feel like I really miss knowing which of these did or did not pass your bar. I understand that these are fictional examples that are all very close to the bar, but I think others might feel the same way. If you think it might be worth spelling out why you don’t think it makes sense to give explicit verdicts.
The above fictionalized examples illustrate grants that are at or just below our current funding threshold
Or perhaps this means all of them were rejected? (It might just be my English, but it’s not clear to me if something is at your funding bar, then you would accept or reject it)
On a related note, if all of these grants were rejected, would the applicants asking for 10-25% less funding would make them pass your bar? Do you often end up funding the “MVP” version of a project as opposed to the “mainline budget” they propose?
Thanks for sharing this, I have been really enjoying reading the comms coming from EAIF/LTFF lately! Here are some observations/feedback on the post:
After reading the post, I feel like I really miss knowing which of these did or did not pass your bar. I understand that these are fictional examples that are all very close to the bar, but I think others might feel the same way. If you think it might be worth spelling out why you don’t think it makes sense to give explicit verdicts.
Or perhaps this means all of them were rejected? (It might just be my English, but it’s not clear to me if something is at your funding bar, then you would accept or reject it)
On a related note, if all of these grants were rejected, would the applicants asking for 10-25% less funding would make them pass your bar? Do you often end up funding the “MVP” version of a project as opposed to the “mainline budget” they propose?