How many total donors did you have for each grantee?
For Lets-Fund.org/Better-Science we had about 50 donors with the majority of the funding being bigger donors and the Longterm future fund. Many of them were from the EA community.
For Lets-Fund.org/Clean-Energy we had about 1000 small donors, mostly from outside of the EA community, the biggest donations were $75k and $50k.
What marketing strategies did you engage in?
What were the top ways donors found out about the giving opportunities? I know you mentioned the Vox article & Bill Gates’ tweet, but I’d be interested to know how much traffic was driven through there, vs other sources
I contacted journalists about my research and then also people to retweet the coverage of the research. I write a little bit more about the strategy in a comment on the old thread if you’re interested. Most donors found out about Let’s Fund through Vox.com, New York Times and Slate Star Codex (when it still had ads).
For Lets-Fund.org/Better-Science we had about 50 donors with the majority of the funding being bigger donors and the Longterm future fund. Many of them were from the EA community.
For Lets-Fund.org/Clean-Energy we had about 1000 small donors, mostly from outside of the EA community, the biggest donations were $75k and $50k.
I contacted journalists about my research and then also people to retweet the coverage of the research. I write a little bit more about the strategy in a comment on the old thread if you’re interested. Most donors found out about Let’s Fund through Vox.com, New York Times and Slate Star Codex (when it still had ads).
Thanks for the reply and the link—I missed it when I was looking at the 2019 report. It was really interesting!