New blog posts, news coverage, grant announcements, and job openings from April, May, and June 2020. 

On the blog
* We examined the pattern of growth of human society throughout history, with the hope that modeling future economic growth could help inform some of our future funding priorities ([link removed]).
* We compared our progress with the goals we set forth a year ago, noting a high level of grantmaking and significant progress on increasing capacity and improving operations, and laid out our plans for the coming year, including building out our impact evaluation and worldview investigation functions ([link removed]).
* We introduced new members of our team who joined in the last year, including new contributors to communications, grants, operations, research, and our biosecurity and pandemic preparedness program ([link removed]).

In the news
* Based on interviews with program officer Chloe Cockburn, Vox published a guide for individual donors looking to support the criminal justice reform movement and wrote about the idea of "room for funding" and other factors to consider when donating ([link removed]) ([link removed]).
* The Financial Times highlighted Open Phil-funded research as part of an article about philanthropy's role in accelerating the development of a vaccine against COVID-19 ([link removed]).
* Pulling from Dustin Moskovitz's Twitter thread summarizing our recent efforts to fight COVID-19, Inside Philanthropy examined how this work fits within our biosecurity and pandemic preparedness grantmaking strategy ([link removed]) ([link removed]).

Grantmaking

Open Philanthropy announced several grants, including (but not limited to) ([link removed]):
* In Biosecurity and Pandemic Preparedness: The Nuclear Threat Initiative to support its biosecurity program, Gryphon Scientific to support the generation of empirical data to fill critical gaps in biosafety, the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security to support the implementation of a Masters and PhD program, and 1Day Sooner to accelerate the development and deployment of a vaccine for COVID-19 ([link removed]) ([link removed]) ([link removed]) ([link removed]) ([link removed]).
* In Criminal Justice Reform: The Florida Rights Restoration Commission to conduct outreach to formerly incarcerated people, the National Council for Incarcerated and Formerly Incarcerated Women and Girls to organize and provide relief to members during the COVID-19 pandemic, Law for Black Lives to support its criminal justice reform work, and Truth, Reconciliation, and Reparations
for general support ([link removed]) ([link removed]) ([link removed]) ([link removed]) ([link removed]).
* In Farm Animal Welfare: Rethink Priorities to support farm animal welfare research, the fair-fish international association for general support, the Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research to support a request for proposals for research on optimizing plant protein in plant-based meat, and the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals to support broiler chicken welfare ([link removed]) ([link removed]) ([link removed]) ([link removed]) ([link removed]).
* In Global Catastrophic Risks: Rutgers University to support research on the potential effects of large nuclear conflicts ([link removed]) ([link removed]).
* In Global Health and Development: The Center for Global Development to support work to calculate the net health impacts of COVID-19 in various countries ([link removed]) ([link removed]).
* In Immigration Policy: Mercy Corps to conduct a pilot project with a randomized control trial on seasonal migration for rural Nigeriens and the Center for Global Development to support its migration program ([link removed]) ([link removed]) ([link removed]).
* In Potential Risks from Advanced Artificial Intelligence: The Machine Intelligence Research Institute for general support, the Open Phil AI Fellowship to support 10 promising machine learning researchers, and the Wilson Center to continue support for a series of in-depth AI policy seminars ([link removed]) ([link removed]) ([link removed]) ([link removed]).
* In Scientific Research: Stanford University to augment the National Institutes of Health's studies on the infant immunome and influenza, Penn State University to support research on emergency food resilience, the African Union Development Agency to support work on genetically-based vector control technologies, and Harvard University to support nationwide COVID-19 serological testing ([link removed]) ([link removed]) ([link removed]) ([link removed]) ([link removed]).
* In other areas: The University of Oxford to support a new office for a number of effective altruism organizations and the Center for Applied Rationality and LessWrong for general support ([link removed]) ([link removed]) ([link removed]) ([link removed]).

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

Jobs and other opportunities
* A Criminal Justice Reform Program Associate to assist our criminal justice reform team ([link removed]).
* A Finance Associate to oversee our bookkeeping and finance operations ([link removed]).
* An In-House Counsel to help manage legal issues related to grantmaking, contracts, and various aspects of operations ([link removed]).
* 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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