New blog posts, news coverage, grant announcements, and job openings from July, August, and September 2020. 

On the blog
* Joseph Carlsmith investigated how much computational power it takes to match the human brain’s capabilities ([link removed]).

In the news
* The Atlantic highlighted the work of Michael Mina, an Open Philanthropy grantee, as part of an article about the role widespread COVID-19 testing could play in mitigating the spread of the virus ([link removed]).
* Forbes featured Open Philanthropy grantee David Baker, who recently won a 2021 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences for his work computationally designing proteins to treat and prevent a number of diseases, including COVID-19 ([link removed]).
* Philanthropy Now, a podcast produced by the Silicon Valley Community Foundation, interviewed program officer Chloe Cockburn about how donors and philanthropists can support criminal justice reform ([link removed]).
* The Washington Post Magazine published a piece on effective altruism, a movement that has influenced Open Philanthropy’s mission to give as effectively as we can ([link removed]).

Grantmaking

Open Philanthropy announced several grants, including (but not limited to) ([link removed]):
* In Biosecurity and Pandemic Preparedness: Open Philanthropy’s early-career funding for work on global catastrophic risks and the Nuclear Threat Initiative to support its biosecurity program ([link removed]) ([link removed]) ([link removed]).
* In Criminal Justice Reform: The Movement Voter Project to support its work on criminal justice reform, VOCAL-NY and Southsiders Organized for Unity and Liberation to support work on prosecutor accountability, and Project NIA to support Mariame Kaba’s work on transformative justice ([link removed]) ([link removed]) ([link removed]) ([link removed]) ([link removed]).
* In Farm Animal Welfare: The Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals to support work to advance farm animal welfare in Asia, Eurogroup for Animals to support EU advocacy work for layer hen and broiler chicken welfare, We Animals Media to continue documenting the lives and experiences of farm animals, and the Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research to support research on optimizing plant
protein for use in plant-based meat ([link removed]) ([link removed]) ([link removed]) ([link removed]) ([link removed]).
* In Global Catastrophic Risks: The Future of Humanity Institute to hire future scholars to the Research Scholars Programme ([link removed]) ([link removed]).
* In Macroeconomic Stabilization Policy: Employ America for general support and the Center for Popular Democracy to support the “Fed Up” campaign ([link removed]) ([link removed]) ([link removed]).
* In Potential Risks from Advanced Artificial Intelligence: The Wilson Center to organize additional AI policy seminars and the Centre for the Governance of AI for general support ([link removed]) ([link removed]) ([link removed]).
* In Scientific Research: Stanford University to support work to test an antiviral drug candidate against COVID-19 and other viruses, VST Bio to support the development of a novel treatment for stroke and traumatic brain disease, and Kainomyx to support the development and production of a new antimalarial drug ([link removed]) ([link removed]) ([link removed]) ([link removed]).
* In other areas: The Global Priorities Institute for general support ([link removed]) ([link removed]).

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

Jobs and other opportunities ([link removed])

* A Recruiter to help us attract the talent we need to achieve our ambitious goals ([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


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