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.
- 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.
- 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.
In the news
Grantmaking
Open Philanthropy announced several grants, including (but not limited to):
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- In Global Catastrophic Risks: Rutgers University to support research on the potential effects of large nuclear conflicts.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
For the full list of grant recommendations, visit our public database.
Jobs and other opportunities
Best,
Gabriela Romero
www.openphilanthropy.org
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