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| 2019 || {{dts|November}} || Financial || The Survival and Flourishing Fund makes a $150,000 grant to CFAR in its Q4 2019 "S-process" grant round.<ref name=donations-portal-sff/><ref>{{cite web|url = http://survivalandflourishing.fund/sff-2019-q4|title = SFF-2019-Q4 S-process Recommendations Announcement|publisher = Survival and Flourishing Fund|accessdate = April 18, 2020}}</ref>
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| 2019 || {{dts|November 15}} || Controversy (Jack Lasota) || Four people (Jack Lasota, Gwen Danielson, Emma Borhanian, and Alexander Leatham) wearing Guy Fawkes masks show up to protest a planned CFAR alumni reunion at the Westminster Woods camp on Bohemian Highway. As children nearby get scared, SWAT teams are called in and police shut down miles of highway. The individuals are arrested, and the alumni reunion resumes the next day.<ref>{{cite web|url = https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Mystery-in-Sonoma-County-after-kidnap-arrests-of-14844155.php|title = Mystery in Sonoma County after arrests of protesters in Guy Fawkes masks and robes|last = Gafni|first = Matthias|date = November 18, 2019|accessdate = April 18, 2020|publisher = San Francisco Chronicle}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url = https://sfist.com/2019/11/19/four-people-in-guy-fawkes-masks-scare-sonoma-retreat/|title = Four People In Guy Fawkes Masks Arrested After Scaring Families At West Sonoma Self-Help Retreat|date = November 19, 2019|last = Barmann|first = Jay|date = November 19, 2019|accessdate = April 18, 2020}}</ref> One of the individuals present at the scene would summarize the incident in a Google Doc.<ref>{{cite web|url = https://docs.google.com/document/d/1CJPdj0eBg-lII9KKkCAImxkg7x4-Kc4XxfrZTnVfS5c/edit|title = Elizabeth's Account of Reunion Day 1|accessdate = April 18, 2020}}</ref>This is a public manifestation of an ongoing series of accusations against CFAR leadership over the months;<ref>{{cite web|url = https://sinceriously.fyi/|title = Sinceriously|accessdate = April 18, 2020}}</ref> in December, Pete Michaud, former Executive Director of CFAR, would pen on Facebook "a full throated, shameless defense of Anna, my friend and colleague, against untrue and ungrounded accusations."<ref>{{cite web|url = https://www.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10157804747854806&id=549224805|title = I’ll preface by saying outright that what follows is a full throated, shameless defense of Anna, my friend and colleague, against untrue and ungrounded accusations. It’s not at all meant to be a sober assessment of verifiable facts, even though it includes some of that.|date = December 19, 2019|accessdate = April 18, 2020|last = Michaud|first = Pete}}</ref> Jack and Gwen would also be banned from commenting on LessWrong for hostile comments on the CFAR AMA.<ref>{{cite web|url = https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/96N8BT9tJvybLbn5z/we-run-the-center-for-applied-rationality-ama-happening-now#5W86zzFy48WiLcSg6|title = Moderator note: I've deleted six comments on this thread by users Ziz and Gwen_|date = December 19, 2019|accessdate = April 18, 2020|publisher = LessWrong|last = Habryka|first = Oliver}}</ref>
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| 2019 || {{dts|December 18}}{{snd}}January 15 || Financial || CFAR runs its December fundraiser over this time period. The fundraiser raises $225,552 USD compared to a target of $200,000 and a stretch goal of $650,000.<ref>{{cite web|url = https://rationality.org/fundraiser|title = 2019 CFAR Fundraiser|accessdate = April 18, 2020|publisher = Center for Applied Rationality}}</ref>

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