I don’t think there is a public writeup. So here is a quick summary:
Only one grant was ever rejected by CEA, which was the grant to Lauren Lee (after a round of logistical obstacles to the grant) with the reasoning of “it is outside of the historical scope of the fund”
The grant to give out HPMOR’s to IMO winners was urgent and CEA couldn’t complete the due-diligence process before the money was required, so a private donor ended up filling it before it was made
The $150k recommendation to CFAR was being reviewed by the CEA board, who had some concerns about the grant, but a private donor ended up filling the request before the board reached consensus on a decision
There are also some other cases of grants that we recommended, but that never even made it into our writeups because the relevant grantees decided they didn’t actually want to pursue the project they specified in their applications.
I was somewhat confused by the discussion of LTFF grants being rejected by CEA; is there a public writeup of which grants were rejected?
I don’t think there is a public writeup. So here is a quick summary:
Only one grant was ever rejected by CEA, which was the grant to Lauren Lee (after a round of logistical obstacles to the grant) with the reasoning of “it is outside of the historical scope of the fund”
The grant to give out HPMOR’s to IMO winners was urgent and CEA couldn’t complete the due-diligence process before the money was required, so a private donor ended up filling it before it was made
The $150k recommendation to CFAR was being reviewed by the CEA board, who had some concerns about the grant, but a private donor ended up filling the request before the board reached consensus on a decision
There are also some other cases of grants that we recommended, but that never even made it into our writeups because the relevant grantees decided they didn’t actually want to pursue the project they specified in their applications.