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Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: EA Infrastructure Fund: September–December 2021 grant recommendations, published by Max Daniel on July 12, 2022 on The Effective Altruism Forum. Introduction The EA Infrastructure Fund made the following grants between September and December 2021: Total grants: $2,445,941 Number of grants: 68 Acceptance rate: 78.5% This was somewhat, though not massively higher than usual. E.g., in both the previous and subsequent 4-month periods the acceptance rate was just under 71%. We suspect the unusually high acceptance rate during the period covered by this report was mostly due to an unusually large fraction of applications from EA university groups, which tend to have a higher acceptance rate than other applications we receive. Payout date: September–December 2021 Report authors: Max Daniel (chair), Michelle Hutchinson, Buck Shlegeris, Emma Williamson (assistant fund manager), Michael Aird (guest manager), Chi Nguyen (guest manager) In addition, we referred 5 grants totalling an additional $261,530 to private funders. See the "Referred Grants" section below. For capacity reasons, we only provide an abbreviated strategic update that doesn’t include all relevant recent and upcoming developments at the EAIF and EA Funds more generally. A more comprehensive update will follow within the next few months. The EA Funds donation platform is moving to Giving What We Can. We are working on a new process for sharing information about the grants we are making that will reduce the delay between our grant decisions and their public reporting. Therefore, this is likely going to be the last EAIF payout report in the familiar format. We appointed Peter Wildeford as fund manager. Like other fund managers, Peter may evaluate any grant we receive, but we are especially excited about his expertise and interest in global health and wellbeing and animal welfare, which we think complements the more longtermism-focused profile of the other fund managers. Ashley Lin and Olivia Jimenez joined the EAIF as new guest managers. Chi Nguyen and Michael Aird left after their guest manager tenure, though Michael will still occasionally handle applications he is especially well placed to evaluate (for instance because he evaluated an application by the same applicant in the past). Olivia has since left as well to focus on other EA-related projects. We appointed Joan Gass and Catherine Low as fund advisers to increase coordination with the CEA Groups and Community Health teams, respectively. Joan Gass has since resigned from her role as adviser to focus on other EA-related projects, and we added Rob Gledhill and Jesse Rothman (both at CEA) as advisers instead. Would you like to get funded? Apply for funding. Highlights We continue to be very excited about the Global Challenges Project (GCP) led by Emma Abele, James Aung, and Henry Sleight. We supported GCP with $174,000 to cover the salaries of their core team as well as salaries and expenses for university groups managed by GCP. We first funded the GCP team in May 2021 and are impressed by their achievements to date, which include running an Oxford-based summer program for university group organizers, taking on EA Books Direct, and advice and other services for university groups. We were impressed with the track record, plans, and team of the Norwegian effective giving website Gi Effektivt, and supported them with a grant of $270,500 that exceeded their original ask. We funded Luca Parodi ($20,000), creator of the Instagram account School of Thinking, to produce additional Italian-language content on EA, longtermism, and rationality. We haven’t reviewed the content Luca created since we made the grant, but we were excited to fund experiments with content creation on platforms with thus far little EA-related content. Grant Recipients In addition to the grants d...