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Institution Outreach Email Templates

Short Outreach Copy For Recruiting An Initiating Host

Keywords

war-on-disease, 1-percent-treaty, medical-research, public-health, peace-dividend, decentralized-trials, dfda, dih, victory-bonds, health-economics, cost-benefit-analysis, clinical-trials, drug-development, regulatory-reform, military-spending, peace-economics, decentralized-governance, wishocracy, blockchain-governance, impact-investing

Note

Document Type: Outreach templates
Best use: Email + memo + pilot brief
Goal: Get a short conversation or forwarding path inside a target institution

Cold Email: Short Version

Subject options

  1. Would [Institution] host a 90-day pilot to stress-test a plan for ending war and disease?
  2. A small ask with a large denominator
  3. Proposal: host the first Earth Optimization Prize152 pilot

Email

Hi [Name],

I built a public coordination system called the Earth Optimization Prize. It is an open contest, scoreboard, and referral mechanism for discovering better plans for redirecting humanity’s resources from destruction to medicine. Most of the software already exists publicly through Optimitron and its open-source repository.

I am not asking [Institution] to endorse the plan. I am asking something smaller: would [Institution] host a 90-day pilot that publishes the contest rules, convenes a review panel, funds red-team bounties, and launches the first public scoreboard?

The host starts the process. The host does not own it. The whole thing is designed to be forked and replaced by anyone who finds something better.

If this is worth a conversation, I can send a one-page brief and a 90-day pilot proposal, or do a short call.

Best, [Name]

Cold Email: Slightly Longer Version

Hi [Name],

The project is called the Earth Optimization Prize. Short version: it is a public contest for discovering better plans to redirect resources from war to medicine, with a scoreboard, red-team review, and a referral mechanism that makes public support visible.

The reason it matters: the destructive economy153 (military spending plus cybercrime plus related extraction) is already 11.5% of GDP and growing faster than the productive economy. The modeled upside of changing course is $3.48 million (95% CI: $1.05 million-$9.82 million) to $47.2 million (95% CI: $13.9 million-$286 million) in lifetime income per person. The bottleneck is not ideas. It is the absence of any public process that can compare plans, test them against critics, and make support countable.

I am not asking [Institution] to endorse the current draft. I am asking whether [Institution] would host a 90-day pilot:

  1. publish the contest rules,
  2. convene a credible review panel,
  3. fund red-team bounties,
  4. launch the first public scoreboard,
  5. admit the first serious submissions.

Most of the software already exists publicly:

So this is not a request to fund a concept. It is a request to host the first credible public review of something already built.

If useful, I can send:

  1. a one-page brief,
  2. the initiating-host memo,
  3. the 90-day pilot proposal.

Best, [Name]

Warm Introduction Version

Hi [Name],

[Mutual contact] suggested I reach out. I think this fits what [Institution] cares about.

I built a system called the Earth Optimization Prize: a public contest for discovering better plans to shift resources from destruction to medicine. Live components are already public through Optimitron and its open-source repository.

The ask: would [Institution] host a 90-day pilot? That means publishing the contest, convening the panel, funding red-team review, and launching the first public scoreboard. It does not mean endorsing the plan or becoming the permanent owner of anything.

If that sounds worth a conversation, I can send a short brief or do a quick call.

Best, [Name]

Follow-Up Email

Hi [Name],

Following up on the note below in case the pilot-host role is relevant for [Institution].

The short version is:

  1. the project already has a substantial implementation base,
  2. the ask is a bounded 90-day pilot,
  3. the host starts the process but does not own it.

If it helps, the two shortest background docs are:

Happy to send a cleaner PDF version or adjust for your internal review process.

Best,
[Name]

Suggested Attachments

If you send an outreach email, attach or link these in this order:

  1. Why Your Institution Should Be The Initiating Node
  2. The Initiating Node Memo
  3. Earth Optimization Prize 90-Day Pilot
  4. The Earth Optimization Prize

Call Goal

The first call is successful if it produces one of these:

  1. a request for the pilot package,
  2. an internal forward to the right program lead,
  3. a request for a tailored version of the brief,
  4. a clear no with reasons specific enough to improve the next approach.