“Longview’s Emerging Challenges Fund can effectively absorb marginal funding” by Longview Philanthropy

What is the ECF? Longview operates a public fund: the Emerging Challenges Fund. It is focused on global catastrophic risks from emerging technology such as AI. We recently released our 2025 ECF Annual Report, which provides a top-level overview of the fund and grants made in 2025. Through the ECF, we offer anyone the opportunity to contribute to a pooled fund that will be disbursed by our expert grantmakers. Our grantmakers can track the evolving risk and funding landscapes in real time to fill strategic gaps, launch new projects and requests for proposals backed by a pre-capitalized fund, and move on time-sensitive opportunities within days. By contributing to the ECF, you can support impactful organizations without needing to investigate individual organizations’ budgets, track record, and counterfactual likelihood of funding. Consider donating to the ECF today. What will the ECF do with marginal funding? Longview will allocate marginal ECF funding to organizations we investigate in 2026. To understand our worldview and the sort of grants we typically make, you can read our 2025 ECF Annual Report. In general, our investigations focus on the projects’ impact on reducing global catastrophic risks. For ECF grants, we consider two additional [...] ---Outline:(00:12) What is the ECF?(01:12) What will the ECF do with marginal funding?(02:51) Longview in 2025 --- First published: November 19th, 2025 Source: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/ZuRmENHzmivjxNafG/longview-s-emerging-challenges-fund-can-effectively-absorb --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.