New blog posts, news coverage, and grant announcements from January, February, and March 2020. 

We hope this newsletter finds you and your family safe. Open Philanthropy is continuing to explore opportunities to respond to the coronavirus pandemic. We wanted to share this regular update about our work in that area, as well some of our work that predated the outbreak.

On the blog
* We announced our contract with Good Judgement Inc. to expand its efforts to aggregate, publish, and track forecasts about the COVID-19 pandemic, with the hope that these forecasts can help improve planning by health security professionals and the broader public, limit the spread of the virus, and save lives ([link removed]).

In the news
* Barron's Penta highlighted Open Philanthropy's biosecurity and pandemic preparedness work as part of an article about how philanthropic organizations are working to slow the spread of the COVID-19 virus ([link removed]).
* Nature featured Brian Toon and Alan Robock's work modeling the global impact of nuclear winter, a project that Open Philanthropy has supported ([link removed]) ([link removed]).
* The Chronicle of Philanthropy examined grantmaking strategies within criminal justice reform and featured a number of Open Philanthropy's grantees ([link removed]).
* Philanthropy Daily profiled Benjamin Soskis, a research associate at the Urban Institute who has produced case studies for our history of philanthropy project ([link removed]) ([link removed]) ([link removed]).

Grantmaking

Open Philanthropy announced several grants, including (but not limited to) ([link removed]):
* In Biosecurity and Pandemic Preparedness: The Bipartisan Commission on Biodefense to support improvements to U.S. biodefense policy, the Georgetown Center for Global Health Science and Security to support project activities on deliberate events and global health security, and the Center for Global Development to support the development of COVID-19 response guidelines for local leaders ([link removed]) ([link removed]) ([link removed])([link removed]).
* In Criminal Justice Reform: Essie Justice Group to support its work organizing women with incarcerated loved ones for criminal justice reform, the National Council for Incarcerated and Formerly Incarcerated Women and Girls for general support, and the Working Families Organization to support its work on prosecutor accountability and criminal justice reform ([link removed]) ([link removed]) ([link removed]) ([link removed]).
* In Farm Animal Welfare: The Good Food Institute to support its international work, Animal Equality to support cage-free and broiler welfare, the Global Animal Partnership to support its farm animal welfare work, and theguardian.com to support journalism on factory farming and animal cruelty ([link removed]) ([link removed]) ([link removed]) ([link removed]) ([link removed]).
* In Global Health and Development: Grants to GiveWell top charities included the Malaria Consortium to support seasonal malaria chemoprevention programs, Helen Keller International to support vitamin A supplementation work, Sightsavers to support deworming programs, and GiveDirectly for general operating support ([link removed]) ([link removed]) ([link removed]) ([link removed]) ([link removed]).
* In Potential Risks from Advanced Artificial Intelligence: Ought to support research on factored cognition and UC Berkeley to support research relevant to potential risks from advanced artificial intelligence and machine learning ([link removed]) ([link removed]) ([link removed]).
* In Scientific Research: The Broad Institute to support exploratory research on new technologies for genome editing ([link removed]) ([link removed]).
* In other areas: The Centre for Effective Altruism and 80,000 Hours for general support ([link removed]) ([link removed]) ([link removed]).

For the full list of grant recommendations, visit our public database ([link removed]).

Jobs and other opportunities
* A general application to let us know you'd be interested in working at Open Philanthropy ([link removed]).

Best,

Gabriela Romero
www.openphilanthropy.org ([link removed])


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