FAQ

• We are assisting organizations directly to open up bandwidth. People need bandwidth, so we are giving them bandwidth. 

  • This is achieved primarily through Anti Entropy's consulting service and through our SparkWell program.

• Building tools and resources. People need things, so we are building them things. 

  • Resource building focuses on Anti Entropy's Resource Portal. 

  • This includes documenting the resources that we build or are already out there. People are looking for things, so we are creating a way for them to find things. 

• Effective Altruism is moving very quickly. In many cases, organizations are scaling up faster than they can establish the foundation of their operations. 

• EA organizations have had a bottleneck for several years that is not resolving as fast as it could. 

• EA organizations keep reinventing the wheel. Stop doing that. 

• If we can reduce disorder well enough, the universe should stop expanding and possibly start shrinking. This would bring more resources back into our light cone, increasing humankind’s potential.

The Anti Entropy Resource Portal is a knowledge base to house needed resources such as compliance guidance, standard templates, and shared best practices.

It is essentially a place to store the repetitive tasks that people at impact organizations we work with keep doing over and over again, or spend too much time researching when they should be focusing on the impactful work they initially intended to do. 

• We are typically given a project or a set of tasks for our team to focus on solving. 

• Our hope is that we have already developed a tool or resource for you to use. It is then a matter of implementing or training to establish the resource. 

• We try to do as much of the heavy lifting as possible in order for the client's team to focus on the tasks and impacts where they are most valuable.

No. Not even slightly. 

Most of it will likely be donated or recycled. We don't want to be known as a hoarders.