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- You can now apply for a grant anytime. We have removed the previous round-based system, and now aim to evaluate most grants within 21 days of submission (and all grants within 42 days), regardless of when they have been submitted. If you indicate that your application is time-sensitive, we will aim to get back to you more quickly (potentially within just a few days). Apply now.
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- We fund student scholarships, career exploration, local groups, entrepreneurial projects, academic teaching buy-outs, top-up funding for poorly paid academics, and many other things. We can make anonymous grants without public reporting. We will consider grants as low as $1,000 or as high as $500,000 (or more in some cases). As a reminder, EA Funds is more flexible than you might think.
- The LTFF is managed by Asya Bergal (chairperson), Adam Gleave, Evan Hubinger (newly appointed), and Oliver Habryka. For the coming months, they will be joined by Luisa Rodriguez as a guest manager. See its recent payout report.
- The EAIF is managed by
myself (interim/acting chairperson),Max Daniel (chairperson), Buck Shlegeris, and Michelle Hutchinson. For the coming months, Linh Chi Nguyen and Michael Aird will join as guest managers. See its recent payout report and AMA. - The Animal Welfare Fund will continue on a round-based system. For recent updates, see Request For Proposals: EA Animal Welfare Fund and Animal Welfare Fund: Ask us anything!
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I would expect that most grantmakers (including ones with different perspectives) would agree with this and would find it hard to spend money in useful ways (e.g., I suspect that Nuño might say something similar if he were running the LTFF, though not sure). So while I think your framing is overall slightly more accurate, I feel like it's okay to phrase it the way I did.
I don't think this characterization is accurate. I think we're funding a lot of independent researchers, and often think that's great use of money. In fact, the (I think) LTFF's highest-rated grant ever was an independent research grant. I think the LTFF managers are saying something more like "doing independent research is really hard (psychologically and intellectually)", and we want to avoid funding people for independent research when they might do much better in an organization.
The context of that (NIH grants) seems very different; I don't think this supports the thesis "EA Funds grantmakers have different preferences from EA Funds grantseekers".
I haven't read Nuño's post yet (just discovered it now through your comment).