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Philanthropic foundations bias heavily towards granting large $ amounts exclusively to organizations (not individuals), meaning there are few existing avenues to fund promising people.

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Where Open Phil staff are making personal donations in 2024 | Open Philanthropy

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The Reluctant Prophet of Effective Altruism

Gideon Lewis-Kraus newyorker.com

I’m moving $1B of my Square equity (~28% of my wealth) to #startsmall LLC to fund global COVID-19 relief. After we disarm this pandemic, the focus will shift to girl’s health and education, and UBI. It will operate transparently, all flows tracked here: https://t.co/hVkUczDQmz

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It seemed really natural to give more funding to people who could do more with it and to find great deals for people who had money but didn’t have differentiated or interesting portfolios.

Arlan Hamilton • It's About Damn Time: How to Turn Being Underestimated into Your Greatest Advantage

GitCoin Grants, connect sponsors (small donors and grants) using a "plural funding" formula that accounts not just for the total funding received, but also the diversity of its source across individual contributors and connected social groups.

Audrey Tang • ⿻ 數位 Plurality: The Future of Collaborative Technology and Democracy

Public people with resources to fund things often feel it's 1) too risky for their reputation to openly fund individuals and 2) distributing small amounts isn’t worth their time because it doesn’t make a dent in the large sum of $ they're aiming to distribute.