Hi Nathan, thank you for the suggestion. I actually asked whether it was a good fit and the initial answer was that their grantees usually do not fund things like this (that makes sense because our project is very unusual). I have asked follow up questions but I suspect it is because they want it to be more longtermist. You could argue that changing the capitalist business model so that profits are used to tackle important problems (by donating them or investing in effective organisations) would be longtermist, because it’s a sustainable way to generate funding in the future, without relying on voluntary philanthropy (something that has caused EA much suffering the last year).
I will see what they say and we might put our project on there.
Hi Nathan, thank you for the suggestion. I actually asked whether it was a good fit and the initial answer was that their grantees usually do not fund things like this (that makes sense because our project is very unusual). I have asked follow up questions but I suspect it is because they want it to be more longtermist. You could argue that changing the capitalist business model so that profits are used to tackle important problems (by donating them or investing in effective organisations) would be longtermist, because it’s a sustainable way to generate funding in the future, without relying on voluntary philanthropy (something that has caused EA much suffering the last year).
I will see what they say and we might put our project on there.
FYI it’s now live on manifund (I was encouraged to push it live there): https://manifund.org/projects/investment-in-boas-to-generate-5-10k-monthly-sales-to-secure-full-investment