Given that community groups are much more homogenous funding targets than EA projects in-general, it makes perfect sense that we allocate one CEA team to evaluating them, while we allocate a few teams to evaluating other small-scale EA projects.
This homogeneity might well be bad—in particular by excluding valuable but less standard types of community building. If so this problem would be mitigated by having more funding sources.
My understanding is that there is a blurry line between “community groups” and EA projects in general. And there do seem to be different approaches among groups.
Given that community groups are much more homogenous funding targets than EA projects in-general, it makes perfect sense that we allocate one CEA team to evaluating them, while we allocate a few teams to evaluating other small-scale EA projects.
This homogeneity might well be bad—in particular by excluding valuable but less standard types of community building. If so this problem would be mitigated by having more funding sources.
My understanding is that there is a blurry line between “community groups” and EA projects in general. And there do seem to be different approaches among groups.