EA - SFF Speculation Grants as an expedited funding source by Andrew Critch

Link to original articleWelcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: SFF Speculation Grants as an expedited funding source, published by Andrew Critch on December 3, 2022 on The Effective Altruism Forum.Hi everyone, SFF has received numerous emails recently from organizations interested in expedited funding. I believe a number of people here already know about SFF Speculation Grants, but since we've never actually announced our existence on the EA Forum before:The Survival and Flourishing Fund has a means of expediting funding requests at any time of year, via applications to our Speculation Grants program:SFF Speculation Grants are expedited grants organized by SFF outside of our biannual grant-recommendation process (the S-process). “Speculation Grantors” are volunteers with budgets to make these grants. Each Speculation Grantor’s budget grows or increases with the settlement of budget adjustments that we call “impact futures” (explained further below). Currently, we have a total of ~20 Speculation Grantors, with a combined budget of approximately $4MM. Our process and software infrastructure for funding these grants were co-designed by Andrew Critch and Oliver Habryka.For instructions on how to apply, please visit the link above.For general information about the Survival and Flourishing Fund, see:Thanks for listening. To help us out with The Nonlinear Library or to learn more, please visit nonlinear.org.