Idea: Create index of Bay Area nonprofits. Filter on longevity and existing funding by top public + private grants. Distribute donor funds proportional to room for funding. Don't ask questions. This dumb approach might work better than some "smart" ones.https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/05/silicon-valley-community-foundation-philanthropy/560216/ …
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Replying to @immunoglobulin
How do you define room for funding without asking questions?
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More specifically, how do you avoid adverse selection bias (most room for more funding could imply lowest quality/ability to convince donors) and grossly inefficient nonprofits?
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Good point re: adverse selection. A lower-risk approach would be to distribute funds in direct proportion to the existing high-quality grants they're already receiving. AKA the "Lift All Boats" approach.
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I think this idea could work well. Just FWIW @ProjAlloy defines our own room-for-funding as a multiple of our current budget — ie, trying to get at how much more we could capitalize at our current size before hitting a scaling step (those are discrete for us)
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