Obviously I’m biased here, and there are a number of other good approaches too (funds, Eigentrust, topping up Open Phil grants, donor lotteries, etc.).
Our platform allows anyone to publish a project proposal. Soon we’ll also have a Q & A system to replace the various Google forms that are currently used for grant applications.
If there’s no prize contest going on, it’s basically a centralized platform for grant applications, like a Facebook fundraiser but more geared toward using market mechanisms to highlight particularly promising projects.
If there’s a prize contest going on, it’s a proper impact market where even profit-oriented investors can seek to seed-invest into projects where they can make a sufficiently big profit in expectation.
Our impact market platform might help with this.
Obviously I’m biased here, and there are a number of other good approaches too (funds, Eigentrust, topping up Open Phil grants, donor lotteries, etc.).
Our platform allows anyone to publish a project proposal. Soon we’ll also have a Q & A system to replace the various Google forms that are currently used for grant applications.
If there’s no prize contest going on, it’s basically a centralized platform for grant applications, like a Facebook fundraiser but more geared toward using market mechanisms to highlight particularly promising projects.
If there’s a prize contest going on, it’s a proper impact market where even profit-oriented investors can seek to seed-invest into projects where they can make a sufficiently big profit in expectation.
This is a much too condensed summary, but this article that Amber Dawn has written for us should be more accessible.