“My real issue is that EA in all its forms is still so small.” …as a technical expert I couldn’t agree more.
Movements aren’t gated, like business or fundamentalism. Unspoken yet de facto elitism, applications for EAGs, all have kept the EA movement a tiny fraction of what it could be. More funding than any movement has ever known (because science nerds feel comfy here) have kept it alive. In the past the sense that, “Wow, if I wanted to do some good this group might fund me” did launch some good stuff, but far more hit all the de facto walls and shrunk off to business or trad philanthropy.
A renewal, making it great again, will only come with some new ideas and more openness. That cost effectiveness is the main thing in social entrepreneurship, the very beating heart of ascendant EA has to accommodate some new friends and be changed by them.
“My real issue is that EA in all its forms is still so small.” …as a technical expert I couldn’t agree more.
Movements aren’t gated, like business or fundamentalism. Unspoken yet de facto elitism, applications for EAGs, all have kept the EA movement a tiny fraction of what it could be. More funding than any movement has ever known (because science nerds feel comfy here) have kept it alive. In the past the sense that, “Wow, if I wanted to do some good this group might fund me” did launch some good stuff, but far more hit all the de facto walls and shrunk off to business or trad philanthropy.
A renewal, making it great again, will only come with some new ideas and more openness. That cost effectiveness is the main thing in social entrepreneurship, the very beating heart of ascendant EA has to accommodate some new friends and be changed by them.