The following funding application may be submitted at any time:
Applications will be reviewed when a S-Process Grant Round is organized to review them, as announced on the SFF homepage.
Applicants must be awarded a Speculation Grant in order to be guaranteed eligibility for consideration in an SFF S-Process Grant Round. To learn more about Speculation Grants, including how to expedite a funding request before an S-Process Grant Round is concluded, please refer to the Speculation Grants webpage.
For reviewing funding applications, the SFF team uses an algorithm along with a recurring meeting structure that we call “The S-Process”, co-developed by Andrew Critch, Jaan Tallinn, Oliver Habryka, Kevin Arlin, and Jason Moggridge. “S” stands for “Simulation”, because we use a grant-making simulation app to aid in discussions and final decisions. SFF’s current S-Process implementation is managed by Survival and Flourishing Corp.
In each S-Process Grant Round, our Funders agree on a set of four to twelve “Recommenders” to read the incoming grant applications, and the Recommenders and Funders work together on our grant recommendation app over a series of meetings until SFF’s final recommended grant amounts are decided. Funders always have final say over whether to implement our recommendations.
See the following presentation for an illustration of how the app works and some of the philosophy behind it: