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Funding that can be renewed or withheld
PauseAI’s small-grant programme for organizing and related work, with named approvers and specified deliverables.
Published rules describe typical awards below €2,000, decisions by the CEO and Organizing Director, a grant letter before payment, and reports and receipts afterwards. Individual awarded letters were not obtained.
Published rules connect future microgrant eligibility to completion and reporting on earlier awards. Award letters and applicant records would show how this condition is applied in practice; they were not obtained in this pass.
PauseAI Global / Stichting PauseAI → PauseAI microgrant programme
Checked 12 September 2026
Published rules assign approval to CEO and Organizing Director, with grant letters specifying purpose, deliverables and schedule.
PauseAI Global / Stichting PauseAI → PauseAI microgrant programme
Checked 12 September 2026
Published microgrant rules connect future support to completion and reporting of agreed outputs.
Jaan Tallinn: funding and the division of labor in AI politics ↗
Compare a documented route into government guidance with PauseAI’s declared division of labor.
Open diagram →Multi-year philanthropy supports policy capacity; recurring organizing support has its own published conditions.
Open diagram →PauseAI Global / Stichting PauseAI → Approves small grants and deliverables → PauseAI microgrant programme
Checked 12 September 2026
Published rules assign approval to CEO and Organizing Director, with grant letters specifying purpose, deliverables and schedule.
PauseAI Global / Stichting PauseAI → Makes future grants conditional on delivery → PauseAI microgrant programme
Checked 12 September 2026
Published microgrant rules connect future support to completion and reporting of agreed outputs. Different from a donor exercising control over PauseAI; awarded agreements not obtained.