I’d be very interested in joining as a regranter, though it may make sense to wait a few years, by which point I will have donated most of my crypto pool and gained a bunch of experience. You can see my current strategy at Being an individual alignment grantmaker.
Edit: Does screening for conflicts of interest mean not allowing regranters to grant to people they know? If yes, I can see the reasoning, but if I was operating under this rule it would have blocked several of my most promising grants, which I found through personal connections. I would propose having these grants marked clearly and the regranter’s reputation being more strongly staked on those grants going well, rather than outright banning them.
Edit2: Will there be a network for regranters (e.g. Discord, Slack), and would it be possible for me to join as an independent grantmaker to share knowledge and best practices? Or maybe I should just apply now as I’m keen to learn, just not confident I am ready to direct $250k+/year.
The Parable of the Talents, especially the part starting at:
Might prove reassuring. Yes, EA has lots of very smart people, but those people exist in an ecosystem which almost everyone can contribute to. People do and should give kudos to those who do the object level work required to keep the attention of the geniuses on the parts of the problems which need them.
As some examples of helpful things available to you:
Being an extra pair of hands at events
Asking someone who you think is aligned with your values and might have too much on their plate what you can help them with (if you actually have the bandwidth to follow through)
Making yourself available to on-board newcomers to the ideas in 1-on-1 conversations