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Field-building

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Field-building refers to influencing existing fields of research or advocacy or developing new ones, through advocacy, creating organisations, or funding people to work in the field.

Examples of field-building activities include scholarships and teaching buyouts (e.g. Forethought Foundation, several grantmakers); Charity Entrepreneurship’s Incubation Program;[1] Future of Humanity Institute’s Research Scholars Programme;[2] and conferences (such as Effective Altruism Global).

Further reading

Muehlhauser, Luke (2017) Some case studies in early field growth, Open Philanthropy, August.

Vaughan, Kerry (2016) What the EA community can learn from the rise of the neoliberals, Effective Altruism, December 5.

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    Charity Entrepreneurship (2021) Incubation Program, Charity Entrepreneurship.

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