July 2018: Long-Term Future Fund grants

Abstract

In August 2018, $917,000 in grants were disbursed to five organizations from the Long-Term Future Fund and the EA Community Fund. The grantees were selected based on their dual focus on effective altruism and longtermism and their potential to use the funds to save the time or increase the productivity of their employees. The amounts granted to each organization were roughly proportional to the number of staff they had, with some skew towards MIRI due to greater donor interest in the Long-Term Future Fund. The grants were intended to encourage the grantees to explore ways to trade money for saving time or increasing productivity, but they were also free to use the funds for other purposes if they deemed it more appropriate. – AI-generated abstract.