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Effective Altruism Infrastructure Fund
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This is the EA Infrastructure Fund page, which funds meta-level EA community building, research, and outreach. While not directly AI safety focused, it supports organizations that contribute to EA infrastructure, some of which work on existential risk and AI safety priorities.
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Summary
The EA Infrastructure Fund (formerly EA Meta Fund) recommends grants to projects that strengthen the effective altruism ecosystem by improving access to talent, capital, and knowledge. It supports meta-charities, research organizations, community building, and cause prioritization work. Grants span global wellbeing, animal welfare, longtermism, and cause-general EA infrastructure.
Key Points
- •Funds meta-level EA projects including community building, research, events, and fundraising for effective charities
- •Supports longtermist and cause-general work, including projects relevant to existential risk reduction
- •Recent grants include EA national groups, mental health programs for EAs, prioritization research, and podcasts
- •Aims to multiply the impact of direct work by strengthening the broader EA ecosystem
- •Open to grant applications from projects using EA principles across a broad range of cause areas
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Funds Effective Altruism Infrastructure Fund Effective Altruism Infrastructure Fund
The Effective Altruism 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. Donate Donate Donate on every.org Recommended for donors outside the UK or Netherlands Donate on Giving What We Can Recommended for donors in the UK or Netherlands Apply for funding Impact
The EA Infrastructure Fund has recommended several million dollars worth of grants, to a range of organizations, including: Convened a multinational strategic retreat for high-impact community builders
Read more Created a tool for cross-cause prioritization in giving portfolios
Read more Published a book on scholarship strategy promoting EA opportunities
Read more Maintained and improved an EA coworking office
Read more Created an EA-outreach massive open online course (MOOC)
Read more Strengthened a national EA group
Read more About the fund
The Effective Altruism Infrastructure Fund (EA Infrastructure Fund) recommends grants that aim to improve the work of projects using principles of effective altruism, by increasing their access to talent, capital, and knowledge.
The EA Infrastructure Fund has historically attempted to make strategic grants to incubate and grow projects that attempt to use reason and evidence to do as much good as possible. These include meta-charities that fundraise for highly effective charities doing direct work on important problems, research organizations that improve our understanding of how to do good more effectively, and projects that promote principles of effective altruism in contexts like academia.
The EA Infrastructure Fund was formerly named the Effective Altruism Meta Fund. Focus areas
The Effective Altruism Infrastructure Fund recommends grants that aim to improve the work of projects that use the principles of effective altruism, by increasing their access to talent, capital, and knowledge. While the other three Funds support direct work on various causes, this Fund supports work that could multiply the impact of direct work, including projects that provide intellectual infrastructure for the effective altruism community, run events, disseminate information, or fundraise for effective charities. This will be achieved by supporting projects that:
Directly increase the number of people who are exposed to principles of effective altruism, or develop, refine or present such principles
Support the recruitment of talented people who can use their skills to make progress on important problems
Aim to build a global community of people who use principles of effective altruism as a core part of their decision-making process when deciding how they can have a positive impact on the world
Conduct research into prioritizing between or within different cause areas
Raise funds or otherwise support other highly-effective projects
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