How is EAIF performing in the value proposition that it provides to funding applicants, such as the speed of decisions, responsiveness to applicants’ questions, and applicants’ reported experiences? Historically your sister fund was pretty bad to applicants, and some were really turned off by the experience.
I don’t think our capacity has been as stretched as LTFF. We get fewer applications.
Id guess the median application wait time is around 4 weeks.
It feels somewhat uninformative to share a mean, because sometimes there are substantial delays due to:
applicants themselves being unresponsive to our own emails or saying they need several weeks to send us some follow up info
Logistical complexities on some specific applications.
I haven’t looked these things up though; let me know if you’re keen for a more precise answer.
As for applicant questions: likewise, I personally don’t get many of these. I answer them when I do, even if sometimes more briefly than I’d like to be able to. I haven’t asked Harri his experience though.
(I’m intrigued to see these things described as “the value proposition to funding applicants”. I would have seen the value proposition more as like ‘funding for EA infrastructure projects, even for small amounts’, with these other elements more as secondary parts of the ‘experience’. Of course, this still matters though.)
How is EAIF performing in the value proposition that it provides to funding applicants, such as the speed of decisions, responsiveness to applicants’ questions, and applicants’ reported experiences? Historically your sister fund was pretty bad to applicants, and some were really turned off by the experience.
I don’t think our capacity has been as stretched as LTFF. We get fewer applications.
Id guess the median application wait time is around 4 weeks.
It feels somewhat uninformative to share a mean, because sometimes there are substantial delays due to:
applicants themselves being unresponsive to our own emails or saying they need several weeks to send us some follow up info
Logistical complexities on some specific applications.
I haven’t looked these things up though; let me know if you’re keen for a more precise answer.
As for applicant questions: likewise, I personally don’t get many of these. I answer them when I do, even if sometimes more briefly than I’d like to be able to. I haven’t asked Harri his experience though.
(I’m intrigued to see these things described as “the value proposition to funding applicants”. I would have seen the value proposition more as like ‘funding for EA infrastructure projects, even for small amounts’, with these other elements more as secondary parts of the ‘experience’. Of course, this still matters though.)