CFAR - Grant from Open Philanthropy Project
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This announcement documents Open Philanthropy's early funding of CFAR, relevant to understanding how rationality training organizations were supported within the AI safety and EA ecosystem circa 2016.
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The Center for Applied Rationality (CFAR) received a $1,035,000 two-year grant from the Open Philanthropy Project to improve organizational infrastructure, fund scholarships for effective altruists attending workshops, and support SPARC and EuroSPARC programs. The grant reflects Open Philanthropy's interest in supporting rationality training as part of the broader AI safety and EA ecosystem.
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- •Open Philanthropy Project granted CFAR $1,035,000 over two years for organizational development and program support.
- •Funds designated for improving internal systems (accounting, staff roles), EA scholarships to CFAR workshops, and SPARC/EuroSPARC programs.
- •CFAR aimed to transition from 'scrappy early-stage nonprofit' to a more mature, institutionally sound organization.
- •EuroSPARC was already run using the first portion of this grant before the announcement went public.
- •Reflects broader EA/AI safety community investment in rationality training as a talent pipeline.
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Grant from Open Philanthropy Project | Center for Applied Rationality The Open Philanthropy Project recently announced a grant to CFAR for $1,035,000 across the next two years, earmarked toward a combination of improving our organizational competence, providing scholarships for promising effective altruists and similar folk to attend CFAR workshops, and assisting with SPARC and EuroSPARC. We very much appreciate the grant, and we are looking forward to putting it to work improving CFAR and streamlining SPARC operations. (We recently ran EuroSPARC, with funding from the first portion of this Open Philanthropy grant, but the grant only became public just now.) When applying for the grant, we worked out a one-year plan to improve our organizational competence that we are excited about implementing over the coming year. It includes hiring contractors, clarifying staff roles, and spending the time to replace our kluge-y systems for accounting and financial reporting -- and more generally working to shift from “scrappy early stage nonprofit” to “streamlined midstage organization with well-functioning internal institutions”. We suspect we should have done some of this work before; and we are grateful for Open Philanthropy Project’s assistance in doing it now. More details at the link . Cheers! Find out more about our Workshops Or donate to CFAR
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