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Nadia Asparouhova | Doing good and being quiet

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I sent an email to the Helium Grant mailing list about why I’m keeping grantees’ identities private, and I realized it’s an important topic I want to discuss more publicly, as well. Quick background: I’ve got a side project where I give out $1,000 grants that enable people to take risks on whatever they want. I originally intended to do it as a one-time experiment last year, but it got such a positive response that I decided to make it into a recurring grant program. I just wrapped up the last round of grantees, during which I had to tackle this question of: how much do I want to promote the identity of grantees and sponsors? At first blush, the answer seems obvious. It seems so obvious, in fact, that that’s why (at the suggestion of others) I named these “Helium Grants” in the first place, rather than “Nadia doing a weird experiment on the internet”. Naming the grants gives people a more coherent idea to rally around. Given that less than 2% of applications get funded, grantees probab

Nadia Asparouhova | Doing good and being quiet Doing good and being quiet | Nadia Asparouhova Nadia Asparouhova projects newsletter twitter <-- home Doing good and being quiet July 17, 2018 I sent an email to the Helium Grant mailing list about why I’m keeping grantees’ identities private, and I realized it’s an important topic I want to discuss more publicly, as well. Quick background: I’ve got a side project where I give out $1,000 grants that enable people to take risks on whatever they want. I originally intended to do it as a one-time experiment last year, but it got such a positive respo

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