Thanks Vasco. We actually used to share grantees’ applications (with their permission) by default. I suspect you can still find them linked on the older grant pages.
My experience was that this significantly limited the information grantees were willing to share in their application, or forced them to create a second application just for sharing. I was also frustrated at how often these were taken out of context. For example, the meat industry used the Guardian’s proposal to us to fund content on factory farming (which we posted) as evidence that the Guardian was biased and just in this for the money.
I’m not sure if GiveWell should share less info. But I’d note that they’re in a very different position to Open Phil, in that their aim (as I understand it) is to influence individual donors through rigorous analysis. If I thought we could positively influence the donations of lots of individual donors through longer write-ups, I’d probably think it was worth us doing them.
Thanks Vasco. We actually used to share grantees’ applications (with their permission) by default. I suspect you can still find them linked on the older grant pages.
My experience was that this significantly limited the information grantees were willing to share in their application, or forced them to create a second application just for sharing. I was also frustrated at how often these were taken out of context. For example, the meat industry used the Guardian’s proposal to us to fund content on factory farming (which we posted) as evidence that the Guardian was biased and just in this for the money.
I’m not sure if GiveWell should share less info. But I’d note that they’re in a very different position to Open Phil, in that their aim (as I understand it) is to influence individual donors through rigorous analysis. If I thought we could positively influence the donations of lots of individual donors through longer write-ups, I’d probably think it was worth us doing them.