I have a question about the structure of future oracular funding. For the last round, a project had to be funded by investors in order to qualify for impact certificates. Will that still be the case next year do you think?
I have an idea that I would feel bad taking investor/grant money for (because it's very unlikely to succeed), but I would probably do if, in its success case, I could plausibly sell the impact grant. (No one is harmed if it fails). Could I just do it myself (unfunded) and then sell the impact certificate?
Sorry if I missed, but how much of the funding is reserved as retrofunding incentive for the impact market as opposed to prospective grant funding? Is there a minimum or a maximum? Thanks!
>A group of lawyers who sue factory farms under animal cruelty laws.
Look, if you and everyone else with $250,000 to spare wants to buy cage-free eggs and humanely-sourced beef, go ahead, but don't make dinner more expensive for the rest of us due to your misplaced compassion.
I hope I haven't asked this before, but who owns the IP developed with one of these grants, or with a project with an impact certificate? If a grant funds software or website development, do you require the software or website to be made freely available, even ad-free, or even open-source? Most government research grants for software development have some requirement like that, with the result that the software developed with grants is seldom maintained after it's built.
Just nipping in to say that I like that Ulysses S. Grant is the patron (saint) of the ACX Grants Scheme 😀
Also in philanthropy news: the funeral of "Chuck" Feeney who gave away most of his $8 billion fortune. Effective? That depends on whether you think the causes were worthwhile. But certainly altruistic, and he did a heck of a lot for Ireland:
"The quiet giant of Irish philanthropy made his fortune in duty-free shopping and, in 1982, set up Atlantic Philanthropies. He visited Ireland in the late 1980s and decided to finance education; at the time, Irish third level institutions were suffering from chronic under- funding. The University of Limerick became a particular success story. In the late ’80s, Feeney’s funding, along with other partners such as Shannon Development, transformed the National Institute for Higher Education in Limerick, with a student body of 735, into a university serving 11,000 students.
Atlantic has distributed $6.2 billion in capital investments in Vietnam, Cuba, the US, Northern Ireland, South Africa, Australia, and the Republic of Ireland. Feeney’s philanthropy was anonymous until a court case in the ’90s threatened to disclose the disposal of his fortune and he decided to pre-empt it by going public."
The court case is interesting; I wondered about that, and Wikipedia tells me:
"The concept of "duty-free shopping"—offering high-end concessions to travelers, free of import taxes—was in its infancy when Feeney and his college classmate Robert Warren Miller started selling duty-free liquor to American servicemen in Asia in the 1950s. They later expanded to selling cars and tobacco, and founded the Duty Free Shoppers Group (DFS Group) in 1960.
...In 1996, Feeney and a partner sold their stakes in DFS to the French luxury conglomerate Louis Vuitton Moët Hennessy. Miller opposed the sale, and before a presumptive lawsuit could reveal that Feeney's stake was owned not in fact by him but by the Atlantic Philanthropies, Feeney outed himself in a New York Times article. Atlantic made $1.63 billion from the sale."
On the one hand, it was a clever stroke; it's hard to go to court to portray your former business partner as trying to cheat you, motivated by money-grubbing avariciousness, when it's revealed that all the money is going to charity, on the other hand, Feeney doesn't seem to have publicised his philanthropy before that or used it to get social credit, so if the story was going to come out anyway, best to control how it happens by revealing it yourself.
And it also sounds as if he had something like impact certificates in mind! Feeney, through his foundation, invests in some charitable activity anonymously, then someone else may come along and donate as well so they can get the bragging rights to "John Johnson Johnston's Clean Water Pump Fund".
"In 1982, Feeney created the Atlantic Philanthropies, and in 1984, secretly transferred his entire 38.75% stake in DFS, then worth about $500 million, to the foundation. Not even his business partners knew that he no longer personally owned any part of DFS. Feeney expanded Atlantic's assets with investments in Facebook, Priceline, E-Trade, Alibaba, and Legent. For years, Atlantic gave away money in secret, requiring recipients to not reveal the source of their donations. Quoting the president of Atlantic, The New York Times writes, "Beyond Mr. Feeney's reticence about blowing his own horn, 'it was also a way to leverage more donations—some other individual might contribute to get the naming rights.'"
Hey Scott, my company matches 2:1 for donations and gives $50/hour (to that org) for volunteer service. Is this charity listed in benevity.org? I searched for ACX but see something unrelated.
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"If you’re an individual, you’ll have to pay taxes on it at your usual tax rate."
It is actually possible for a private foundation (which is a specific IRS category of grantmaking organization) to relieve individual grantees of the need to pay taxes on grants that are for specific projects/purposes. See
It seems likely that your microgrants would qualify there. And then the "procedure approved by the IRS" part is not onerous, though could be slow just because the IRS has been hollowed out and has hardly any staff left for its regulating-of-nonprofits functions. The question would be whether Manifund qualifies for that procedural approval, or (even better) perhaps has already obtained it.
What is the broad structure of these fundings? Lets say I put in a proposal for a relatively small sum (say $1000), and it's accepted/funded. What is the reporting/credit/input requirements tied to that? Obviously in any publications affected the funding would be disclosed, but would you/the funders have input in how the project proceeds?
Since there's no confirmation email, could you confirm that you received my application? I'm a little worried it didn't go through. My email is toasterlightning@gmail.com
I'm just came across this and have a short proposal ready to go around progress and demographic change.
Specifically my aim is to "establish a network to research and promote new and emerging practices to create societies that thrive and progress amid rapid demographic aging and immigration, providing alternatives to dominant short-term narratives around demographic aging and fear-mongering around immigration. "
I work in futures / strategic foresight with UN and other organisations, and so have the the network to help see this through.
I understand the grant is closed, but are any of your colleagues interested? I'd be happy to share my submission ASAP.
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I have a question about the structure of future oracular funding. For the last round, a project had to be funded by investors in order to qualify for impact certificates. Will that still be the case next year do you think?
I have an idea that I would feel bad taking investor/grant money for (because it's very unlikely to succeed), but I would probably do if, in its success case, I could plausibly sell the impact grant. (No one is harmed if it fails). Could I just do it myself (unfunded) and then sell the impact certificate?
Sorry if I missed, but how much of the funding is reserved as retrofunding incentive for the impact market as opposed to prospective grant funding? Is there a minimum or a maximum? Thanks!
Is the post about Neoreaction going to become available for non-subscribers as well?
>A group of lawyers who sue factory farms under animal cruelty laws.
Look, if you and everyone else with $250,000 to spare wants to buy cage-free eggs and humanely-sourced beef, go ahead, but don't make dinner more expensive for the rest of us due to your misplaced compassion.
I hope I haven't asked this before, but who owns the IP developed with one of these grants, or with a project with an impact certificate? If a grant funds software or website development, do you require the software or website to be made freely available, even ad-free, or even open-source? Most government research grants for software development have some requirement like that, with the result that the software developed with grants is seldom maintained after it's built.
Why is funding EA community building dangerous?
Just nipping in to say that I like that Ulysses S. Grant is the patron (saint) of the ACX Grants Scheme 😀
Also in philanthropy news: the funeral of "Chuck" Feeney who gave away most of his $8 billion fortune. Effective? That depends on whether you think the causes were worthwhile. But certainly altruistic, and he did a heck of a lot for Ireland:
https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-41286595.html
A feature on him from 2015:
https://www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/commentanalysis/arid-20372557.html
"The quiet giant of Irish philanthropy made his fortune in duty-free shopping and, in 1982, set up Atlantic Philanthropies. He visited Ireland in the late 1980s and decided to finance education; at the time, Irish third level institutions were suffering from chronic under- funding. The University of Limerick became a particular success story. In the late ’80s, Feeney’s funding, along with other partners such as Shannon Development, transformed the National Institute for Higher Education in Limerick, with a student body of 735, into a university serving 11,000 students.
Atlantic has distributed $6.2 billion in capital investments in Vietnam, Cuba, the US, Northern Ireland, South Africa, Australia, and the Republic of Ireland. Feeney’s philanthropy was anonymous until a court case in the ’90s threatened to disclose the disposal of his fortune and he decided to pre-empt it by going public."
The court case is interesting; I wondered about that, and Wikipedia tells me:
"The concept of "duty-free shopping"—offering high-end concessions to travelers, free of import taxes—was in its infancy when Feeney and his college classmate Robert Warren Miller started selling duty-free liquor to American servicemen in Asia in the 1950s. They later expanded to selling cars and tobacco, and founded the Duty Free Shoppers Group (DFS Group) in 1960.
...In 1996, Feeney and a partner sold their stakes in DFS to the French luxury conglomerate Louis Vuitton Moët Hennessy. Miller opposed the sale, and before a presumptive lawsuit could reveal that Feeney's stake was owned not in fact by him but by the Atlantic Philanthropies, Feeney outed himself in a New York Times article. Atlantic made $1.63 billion from the sale."
On the one hand, it was a clever stroke; it's hard to go to court to portray your former business partner as trying to cheat you, motivated by money-grubbing avariciousness, when it's revealed that all the money is going to charity, on the other hand, Feeney doesn't seem to have publicised his philanthropy before that or used it to get social credit, so if the story was going to come out anyway, best to control how it happens by revealing it yourself.
And it also sounds as if he had something like impact certificates in mind! Feeney, through his foundation, invests in some charitable activity anonymously, then someone else may come along and donate as well so they can get the bragging rights to "John Johnson Johnston's Clean Water Pump Fund".
"In 1982, Feeney created the Atlantic Philanthropies, and in 1984, secretly transferred his entire 38.75% stake in DFS, then worth about $500 million, to the foundation. Not even his business partners knew that he no longer personally owned any part of DFS. Feeney expanded Atlantic's assets with investments in Facebook, Priceline, E-Trade, Alibaba, and Legent. For years, Atlantic gave away money in secret, requiring recipients to not reveal the source of their donations. Quoting the president of Atlantic, The New York Times writes, "Beyond Mr. Feeney's reticence about blowing his own horn, 'it was also a way to leverage more donations—some other individual might contribute to get the naming rights.'"
Hey Scott, my company matches 2:1 for donations and gives $50/hour (to that org) for volunteer service. Is this charity listed in benevity.org? I searched for ACX but see something unrelated.
@Scott this is _completely_ off topic, but are you aware that https://astralcodexten.com is not properly forwarding to www.astralcodexten.com? You just get a "Test website - Please ignore" page. Your DNS zones settings need some tweaking.
"If you’re an individual, you’ll have to pay taxes on it at your usual tax rate."
It is actually possible for a private foundation (which is a specific IRS category of grantmaking organization) to relieve individual grantees of the need to pay taxes on grants that are for specific projects/purposes. See
https://www.irs.gov/charities-non-profits/private-foundations/grants-to-individuals
It seems likely that your microgrants would qualify there. And then the "procedure approved by the IRS" part is not onerous, though could be slow just because the IRS has been hollowed out and has hardly any staff left for its regulating-of-nonprofits functions. The question would be whether Manifund qualifies for that procedural approval, or (even better) perhaps has already obtained it.
If one has more than a single project that might be of interest to the ACX programme, can one submit multiple applications?
What is the broad structure of these fundings? Lets say I put in a proposal for a relatively small sum (say $1000), and it's accepted/funded. What is the reporting/credit/input requirements tied to that? Obviously in any publications affected the funding would be disclosed, but would you/the funders have input in how the project proceeds?
Did other people get an email confirmation of their application? I submitted two, but I haven't received anything.
Is there any chance of shifting the deadline later? 29th is very tight to apply, especially in December.
"Describe why you think you're qualified to work on this
Include references if you have them, but don't worry if you don't."
references as in publications / prior work or colleagues?
When is the exact deadline? Like 11:59pm Dec 29th which timezone?
Since there's no confirmation email, could you confirm that you received my application? I'm a little worried it didn't go through. My email is toasterlightning@gmail.com
I'm just came across this and have a short proposal ready to go around progress and demographic change.
Specifically my aim is to "establish a network to research and promote new and emerging practices to create societies that thrive and progress amid rapid demographic aging and immigration, providing alternatives to dominant short-term narratives around demographic aging and fear-mongering around immigration. "
I work in futures / strategic foresight with UN and other organisations, and so have the the network to help see this through.
I understand the grant is closed, but are any of your colleagues interested? I'd be happy to share my submission ASAP.
Any update on the results of the applications? Will we be notified whether our proposals are accepted or not?
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