- What are the wheel reinventing things to avoid in this? Possible methods: - Microgrants - just smallish $ for Xyz - Seed grants - I organise funding matching for people or they go out and look for funding - Microfinance? - loans repaid with other grants? Possible outputs: - Manufacturing career capital (e.g. practice, credentialling...) - Tangible public goods (e.g. research) - Specific benefits (e.g. multiplied donations, community building...) Why would you / wouldn't you - Evidence for: - Inside knowledge - Personal fit - Neglectedness / alpha - Evidence against: - Scale - Scale of research/due diligence - Range of opportunities / expected value Context - Bradley's idea - cooler on this now, more interested in e.g. Manifund Research questions - What wheels should I avoid reinventing? - What is the current landscape? - What are components of the landscape I should plug in to, versus break from? - What is/should be the theory of change? - What are the decision criteria for doing this? - What does good grantmaking look like? People to maybe talk to - CE / AIM - What "support" would you be excited to see? - What would you be excited to see among applicants? - What is your theory of change? How much impact is first-order vs second-order?