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| 2018 || {{dts|October}}{{snd}}{{dts|November}} || Leadership || Around this time, Duncan Sabien transitions from his full-time and key role in CFAR to a part-time role. His involvement would reduce to zero by April 2019.<ref>{{cite web|url = https://www.facebook.com/duncan.sabien/posts/2483881418313227|title = Hey, everyone, just a quick status update: my part-time professional involvement with CFAR has now gone to zero.|date = April 21, 2019|accessdate = September 14, 2019|last = Sabien|first = Duncan}}</ref> In May 2019, Sabien would say that the CFAR of 2019 and 2020, under Telleen-Lawton, would look quite different from the CFAR shaped by Sabien in the last few years.<ref>{{cite web|url = https://www.facebook.com/duncan.sabien/posts/2519421394759229|title = I predict that the Center for Applied Rationality of 2019 and 2020 and beyond will be not-at-all "Duncan shaped."|last = Sabien|first = Duncan|date = May 12, 2019|accessdate = September 14, 2019}}</ref> Sabien's treatment of the Brent Dill affair had attracted controversy, and CFAR's post on its mistakes regarding the affair mentioned Sabien.<ref name=cfars-mistakes-regarding-brent>{{cite web|url = https://www.rationality.org/resources/updates/2019/cfars-mistakes-regarding-brent|title = CFAR's Mistakes Regarding Brent|date = March 21, 2019|accessdate = September 14, 2019|publisher = Center for Applied Rationality|last = Telleen-Lawton|first = Timothy}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url = https://jbeshir.tumblr.com/post/178335220773/responses-to-the-brent-dill-affair|title = Responses To The Brent Dill Affair|last = Beshir|first = John|date = September 22, 2018|accessdate = September 14, 2019}}</ref> According to CFAR leadership, Sabien's transition to part-time and later eventual departure was unrelated to the Brent Dill controversy.<ref>{{cite web|url = https://files.vipulnaik.com/correspondence/anna-salamon-email-about-duncan-sabien.txt|title = Anna Salamon email about Duncan Sabien (reproduced with permission)|date = April 10, 2020|accessdate = April 17, 2020|last = Salamon|first = Anna}}</ref>
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| 2019 || {{dts|March 21}} || Brent Dill controversy || CFAR Executive Director Timothy Telleen-Lawton publishes a postmortem of the controversy from the previous year surrrounding surrounding Brent Dill.<ref name=cfars-mistakes-regarding-brent/>
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| 2019 || {{dts|April 23}} || Financial || The Long Term Future Fund (one of the four Effective Altruism Funds) grants $150,000 to CFAR. The main grant investigator is Oliver Habryka. Habryka explains in the grant write-up that CFAR has a funding shortfall because of their decision not to run a fundraiser in 2018 in the wake of the Brent Dill controversy, so this $150,000 grant helps them get through the next few months without having to make major cuts.<ref>{{cite web|url = https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/CJJDwgyqT4gXktq6g/long-term-future-fund-april-2019-grant-decisions#CFAR___150_000_|title = CFAR ($150,000)|last = Habryka|first = Oliver|date = April 23, 2019|accessdate = September 14, 2019|publisher = Effective Altruism Forum}}</ref>
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