The Future Fund regrantors are approaching their deadline (September 31st) to fund projects and I'm guessing some of them are scrambling to find stuff to fund due to deadline pressure, so I'm posting this question as a public good for them to look for opportunities. Post individual suggestions as top-level comments if you want people to upvote them, or make it a list if you have a lot of suggestions. I recommend taking a minute to think through your social network (did you meet anyone at EAG?) who has a project that could be evaluated for funding.
Hi friends,
I am part of a newly-formed Lab/think-tank whose purpose is to come up with great EA ideas, source for funds for them and execute them. Here is one of the ideas we have that need funding:
IDEA: To Establish a Co-ordination Center/Regional Hub for EA activities and research to cover states in the Southern region of Nigeria and Sub-Saharan Africa.
Potential Impacted Population
Relevance of the Project
This Project aligns with multiple areas of interest and suggested project ideas of Future Fund as listed on their website here -> https://ftxfuturefund.org/projects/ and here -> https://ftxfuturefund.org/area-of-interest/
With this single project, we can kill numerous birds with one stone (figuratively speaking, of course!) which is a highly effective way to go.
Below is a list of some of the aims of this project:
Execution
This will require major actions like setting up a main office and some smaller outposts, registering a legal non-profit entity, obtaining operational licenses, hiring permanent staff (up to 10), purchasing equipment and vehicles amongst others.
We will be happy to provide any more details on request. Any interested donor please DM me