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This post presents the executive summary from Giving What We Can’s impact evaluation for 2025. At the end of this post we share links to more information, including the full report and...
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Three of the most exciting projects to come out of EA in recent years are, in a vague sense, CEA spinouts:
* Kairos is directly a spinout of CEA and now handles most support for university AI safety groups. Basically everyone I've found who knows them is really excited about what they do
* NEST is an opinionated ideas-fi...
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Why do you need a legal entity? Maybe you could describe the project/website in more concrete terms – that would make it easier to give concrete recommendations.
As to why I need liability assistance: Honestly. I don't know. Which is why it's important. I don't want to catch myself in a situation where I don't know about some ridiculously obscure tax or business law and it screws me over.
It has nothing to do with the project. If I was doing a project for a non-altruistic purpose I'd be asking the exact same thing.
In general I am very uncomfortable with paperwork. I don't know how to fill something out when every response is not applicable. Usually I just find someone who knows how to interpret paperwork and they figure out what the best response is.
I'm asking the most effective way to start a website-based nonprofit without having CEO-responsibilities meanwhile keeping the project's integrity.
I'm asking because fiscal sponsorships seem to require almost an equal amount of effort as just starting an organization myself. Which is not realistic for me to complete paperwork and taxes by myself.