“Upcoming changes to Open Philanthropy’s university group funding” by Eli Rose

Open Philanthropy's GCR Capacity Building team is planning two substantial changes to our funding for university groups at the end of this year. After December 31, 2024, we will no longer be accepting applications for funding for effective altruism-focused groups through our University Group Organizer Fellowship program. This applies to both stipends for organizer time, and for other types of group expense funding (e.g. funding for posters, food for events, and group retreats). The Centre for Effective Altruism (CEA) will be taking on these applications instead, as they did before 2022; we encourage relevant groups to apply to their group support funding program (and to consider CEA's other group support programs). We will continue to accept applications for other types of university groups, such as groups focused on AI safety. After December 31, 2024, we will no longer offer stipends to new applications for student organizers through our University Group [...] ---Outline:(01:44) Why are we making these changes?(01:48) Passing EA group funding to CEA(04:11) Funding for AI safety groups remains at Open Phil(04:36) Why end stipend funding for student organizers?(07:01) The impact of university organizingThe original text contained 8 footnotes which were omitted from this narration. --- First published: December 10th, 2024 Source: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/u66W5XKCgur2CFLmv/upcoming-changes-to-open-philanthropy-s-university-group --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.