“$100 million dollar grant funding opportunity for EA” by Jack Kelly

The MacArthur foundation is giving away a grant of $100 million dollars to “fund a single proposal that promises real and measurable progress in solving a critical problem of our time”. A key requirement is that “Your budget must be a minimum of $100 million to be considered” so it's go big or go home. Obviously given this scale, only existing (and likely relatively large) organizations would be meaningful contenders. Unfortunately, the deadline to register in order to be able to apply for this cycle has already closed (It was August 15th). Despite it being too late to apply for the 2024 grant cycle, this is the third time they have conducted this grant competition (with the prior rounds being in 2017 and 2021) and so I expect they will do so again in the near future (probably next 3-4 years based on previous rounds). Therefore, I [...] --- First published: April 11th, 2025 Source: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/7ng6GfR9vtsyc7rgr/usd100-million-dollar-grant-funding-opportunity-for-ea --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.