What if you limited it to an Open Phil-selected list of organizations (e.g. Open Phil and EA Fund grantees) and set organization maximums (either uniformly or based on past budgets/revenue, say)? Of course, that may defeat some of the purpose because it rules out a lot, but still gives the community more say in relative priority between Open Phil’s priorities. You could also set maximums per cause area (also defined by Open Phil) to prevent it from almost all going to a small number of causes.
Instead of voting, you could do donation matching with individual maximums to make sure people have some skin in the game. Basically like Double Up Drive, but with many more options.
Or just directly give EA org employees regranting funds, with no need for them to donate their own money to regrant them. However, requiring some donation, maybe matching at a high rate, e.g. 5:1, gets them to take on at least some personal cost to direct funding.
What if you limited it to an Open Phil-selected list of organizations (e.g. Open Phil and EA Fund grantees) and set organization maximums (either uniformly or based on past budgets/revenue, say)? Of course, that may defeat some of the purpose because it rules out a lot, but still gives the community more say in relative priority between Open Phil’s priorities. You could also set maximums per cause area (also defined by Open Phil) to prevent it from almost all going to a small number of causes.
Instead of voting, you could do donation matching with individual maximums to make sure people have some skin in the game. Basically like Double Up Drive, but with many more options.
EDIT: AndrewDoris suggested employee donation matching at EA orgs here: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/zuqpqqFoue5LyutTv/the-ea-community-does-not-own-its-donors-money?commentId=hDmQarAwpZLyRTCD7
That’s something Open Phil could earmark money to EA orgs for, and that would allow donations to organizations not already on Open Phil’s radar.
Or just directly give EA org employees regranting funds, with no need for them to donate their own money to regrant them. However, requiring some donation, maybe matching at a high rate, e.g. 5:1, gets them to take on at least some personal cost to direct funding.