Field-building refers to influencing existing fields of research or advocacy or developing new ones, through advocacy, creating organisations, or funding people to work in the field.

Examples of field-building activities include scholarships and teaching buyouts (e.g. Forethought Foundation, several grantmakers); Charity Entrepreneurship’s Incubation Program;^[1] Future of Humanity Institute’s Research Scholars Programme;^[2] and conferences (such as Effective Altruism Global).