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Scaling the personal grantmaking sector · Molly Mielke
If philanthropy is pluralistic – and, like any idea marketplace, that is one of its virtues – then there is no single school of thought that can “solve” complex social questions, because everyone has a different vision for the world. If you’re pro-pluralism in startups, you should also be pro-pluralism in philanthropy.
Nadia Asparouhova • Idea Machines
Advice on starting a microgrant program
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Effective altruism’s strength lies in its infrastructure, which we can use to better understand how other idea machines work, what their impact will be, and what’s needed to make them more effective.
Nadia Asparouhova • Idea Machines
In the business world, organisations can become huge and change the world directly as their goods or services become mainstream. In civil society, this is much rarer, partly because capital is so much harder to raise, partly because of the challenges of ethos and culture, and partly because love and compassion are much harder to scale up than cars
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Moth is a fund focused on enabling exceptional individuals early using both grants and investment dollars. My goal is to establish a replicable funding model that aligns the economics to incentivize supporting individuals from exploration all the way through to world-shaping company.
Molly Mielke • Manifesto · Moth Fund
EV likes to emphasise its search for “moonshot” projects – high-impact ways of changing the world. Take, for example, Recidiviz, a criminal-justice non-profit that Cowen funded. It has helped free 70,000 parole-eligible people, using data tools, who would otherwise have remained under supervision. Yet if you browse the winning projects, it becomes ... See more