This year, we received a $1.6M matching grant from the Survival and Flourishing Fund, which means that the first $1.6M we receive in donations before December 31st will be matched 1:1. We will only receive the grant funds if it can be matched by donations.
Does anyone know (i.e. actually know, not just have a speculative guess) why SFF does this sort of thing? Naively it seems like a weird way to operate from a perspective of maximizing the good done by their donations. Is the reasoning something like “if other people donate to MIRI, that increases our estimate of how valuable MIRI is, and so we want to donate more to it”?
this is an experiment to incentivise/help applicants to fundraise more widely, as SFF funds are getting ridiculously contested. also, TBC, this is an option the applicants are free to ignore. more here: https://survivalandflourishing.fund/matching-pledges.
Does anyone know (i.e. actually know, not just have a speculative guess) why SFF does this sort of thing? Naively it seems like a weird way to operate from a perspective of maximizing the good done by their donations. Is the reasoning something like “if other people donate to MIRI, that increases our estimate of how valuable MIRI is, and so we want to donate more to it”?
this is an experiment to incentivise/help applicants to fundraise more widely, as SFF funds are getting ridiculously contested. also, TBC, this is an option the applicants are free to ignore. more here: https://survivalandflourishing.fund/matching-pledges.