The Nonlinear Library EA - EA Infrastructure Fund Ask Us Anything (January 2024) by Tom Barnes
Jan 17, 2024
03:34
Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: EA Infrastructure Fund Ask Us Anything (January 2024), published by Tom Barnes on January 17, 2024 on The Effective Altruism Forum.
The EA Infrastructure Fund (EAIF) is running an Ask Us Anything! This is a time where EAIF grantmakers have set aside some time to answer questions on the Forum. I (Tom) will aim to answer most questions next weekend (~January 20th), so please submit questions by the 19th.
Please note: We believe the next three weeks are an especially good time to donate to EAIF, because:
We continue to face signficant funding constraints, leading to many great projects going either unfunded or underfunded
Your donation will be matched at a 2:1 ratio until Feb 2. EAIF has ~$2m remaining in available matching funds, meaning that (unlike LTFF) this match is unlikely to be utilised without your support
If you agree, you can donate to us
here.
About the Fund
The EA Infrastructure Fund aims to increase the impact of projects that use the principles of effective altruism, by increasing their access to talent, capital, and knowledge.
Over 2022 and H1 2023,
we made
347 grants totalling $13.4m in dispersement. You can see our public grants database here.
Related posts
EA Infrastructure Fund's Plan to Focus on Principles-First EA
LTFF and EAIF are unusually funding-constrained right now
EA Funds organizational update: Open Philanthropy matching and distancing
EA Infrastructure Fund: June 2023 grant recommendations
What do Marginal Grants at EAIF Look Like? Funding Priorities and Grantmaking Thresholds at the EA Infrastructure Fund
About the Team
Tom Barnes: Tom is currently a Guest Fund Manager at EA Infrastructure Fund (previously an Assistant Fund Manager since ~Oct 2022). He also works as an Applied Researcher at Founders Pledge, currently on secondment to the UK Government to work on AI policy. Previously, he was a visiting fellow at Rethink Priorities, and was involved in EA uni group organizing.
Caleb Parikh: Caleb is the project lead of EA Funds. Caleb has previously worked on global priorities research as a research assistant at GPI, EA community building (as a contractor to the community health team at CEA), and global health policy. Caleb currently leads EAIF as interim chair.
Linchuan Zhang: Linchuan (Linch) Zhang currnetly works full-time at EA Funds. He was previously a Senior Researcher at Rethink Priorities working on existential security research. Before joining RP, he worked on time-sensitive forecasting projects around COVID-19. Previously, he programmed for Impossible Foods and Google and has led several EA local groups.
Ask Us Anything
We're happy to answer any questions - marginal uses of money, how we approach grants, questions/critiques/concerns you have in general, what reservations you have as a potential donor or applicant, etc.
There's no hard deadline for questions, but I would recommend submitting by the 19th January as I aim to respond from the 20th
As a reminder, we remain
funding-constrained, and your donation will be matched (for every $1 you donate, EAIF will receive $3). Please consider
donating!
If you have projects relevant to builiding up the EA community's infrastructure, you can also
apply for funding here.
Thanks for listening. To help us out with The Nonlinear Library or to learn more, please visit nonlinear.org
The EA Infrastructure Fund (EAIF) is running an Ask Us Anything! This is a time where EAIF grantmakers have set aside some time to answer questions on the Forum. I (Tom) will aim to answer most questions next weekend (~January 20th), so please submit questions by the 19th.
Please note: We believe the next three weeks are an especially good time to donate to EAIF, because:
We continue to face signficant funding constraints, leading to many great projects going either unfunded or underfunded
Your donation will be matched at a 2:1 ratio until Feb 2. EAIF has ~$2m remaining in available matching funds, meaning that (unlike LTFF) this match is unlikely to be utilised without your support
If you agree, you can donate to us
here.
About the Fund
The EA Infrastructure Fund aims to increase the impact of projects that use the principles of effective altruism, by increasing their access to talent, capital, and knowledge.
Over 2022 and H1 2023,
we made
347 grants totalling $13.4m in dispersement. You can see our public grants database here.
Related posts
EA Infrastructure Fund's Plan to Focus on Principles-First EA
LTFF and EAIF are unusually funding-constrained right now
EA Funds organizational update: Open Philanthropy matching and distancing
EA Infrastructure Fund: June 2023 grant recommendations
What do Marginal Grants at EAIF Look Like? Funding Priorities and Grantmaking Thresholds at the EA Infrastructure Fund
About the Team
Tom Barnes: Tom is currently a Guest Fund Manager at EA Infrastructure Fund (previously an Assistant Fund Manager since ~Oct 2022). He also works as an Applied Researcher at Founders Pledge, currently on secondment to the UK Government to work on AI policy. Previously, he was a visiting fellow at Rethink Priorities, and was involved in EA uni group organizing.
Caleb Parikh: Caleb is the project lead of EA Funds. Caleb has previously worked on global priorities research as a research assistant at GPI, EA community building (as a contractor to the community health team at CEA), and global health policy. Caleb currently leads EAIF as interim chair.
Linchuan Zhang: Linchuan (Linch) Zhang currnetly works full-time at EA Funds. He was previously a Senior Researcher at Rethink Priorities working on existential security research. Before joining RP, he worked on time-sensitive forecasting projects around COVID-19. Previously, he programmed for Impossible Foods and Google and has led several EA local groups.
Ask Us Anything
We're happy to answer any questions - marginal uses of money, how we approach grants, questions/critiques/concerns you have in general, what reservations you have as a potential donor or applicant, etc.
There's no hard deadline for questions, but I would recommend submitting by the 19th January as I aim to respond from the 20th
As a reminder, we remain
funding-constrained, and your donation will be matched (for every $1 you donate, EAIF will receive $3). Please consider
donating!
If you have projects relevant to builiding up the EA community's infrastructure, you can also
apply for funding here.
Thanks for listening. To help us out with The Nonlinear Library or to learn more, please visit nonlinear.org