The page for the Century Fellowship outlines some things that fellows could do, which are much broader than just university group organizing:
When assessing applications, we will primarily be evaluating the candidate rather than their planned activities, but we imagine a hypothetical Century Fellow may want to:
Start an organization that teaches critical thinking skills to talented young people
Run an international contest for tools that let us trace where synthetic biological agents were first engineered
Conduct research on questions that could help us understand how to to make the future go better
Establish a publishing company that makes it easier for authors to print and distribute books on important topics
Partly this comment exists just to give readers a better impression of the range of things that the century fellowship could be used for. For example, as far as I can tell, the fellowship is currently one of very few options for people who want to pursue fairly independent longtermist research and who want help with getting work authorization in the UK or US.
But I’m also curious if you have any comments on the extent to which you expect the century fellowship to take on community organizers vs researchers vs ~entrepeneurs. (Is the focus on community organizing in this post indicative, or just a consequence of the century fellowship being mentioned in a post that’s otherwise about community organizing?)
When we were originally thinking about the fellowship, one of the cases for impact was making community building a more viable career (hence the emphasis in this post), but it’s definitely intended more broadly for people working on the long-term future. I’m pretty unsure how the fellowship will shake out in terms of community organizers vs researchers vs entrepreneurs long-term – we’ve funded a mix so far (including several people who I’m not sure how to categorize / are still unsure about what they want to do).
The page for the Century Fellowship outlines some things that fellows could do, which are much broader than just university group organizing:
Partly this comment exists just to give readers a better impression of the range of things that the century fellowship could be used for. For example, as far as I can tell, the fellowship is currently one of very few options for people who want to pursue fairly independent longtermist research and who want help with getting work authorization in the UK or US.
But I’m also curious if you have any comments on the extent to which you expect the century fellowship to take on community organizers vs researchers vs ~entrepeneurs. (Is the focus on community organizing in this post indicative, or just a consequence of the century fellowship being mentioned in a post that’s otherwise about community organizing?)
When we were originally thinking about the fellowship, one of the cases for impact was making community building a more viable career (hence the emphasis in this post), but it’s definitely intended more broadly for people working on the long-term future. I’m pretty unsure how the fellowship will shake out in terms of community organizers vs researchers vs entrepreneurs long-term – we’ve funded a mix so far (including several people who I’m not sure how to categorize / are still unsure about what they want to do).