New blog posts, news coverage, and grant announcements from July, August, and September 2019.

On the blog
* We explored the high bar set by the best global health and development interventions and shared what we’re learning about the relative performance of some of our other grantmaking areas that seek to help people today ([link removed]).
* We collected a series of questions that we like to ask ourselves about potential funding opportunities and reviewed the value we get from asking these questions and some of our approaches to answering them ([link removed]).
* We evaluated U.S. food companies’ progress in following through on their pledges to eliminate battery cages for egg-laying hens and highlighted promising strategies for holding companies accountable to their pledges ([link removed]).

In the news
* Barron’s Penta asked Open Philanthropy President Cari Tuna about our approach to funding basic science in global health ([link removed]).
* Inside Philanthropy explored Open Philanthropy’s criminal justice reform strategy and concluded we’ve emerged as an ally of previously underfunded groups ([link removed]).
* Forbes examined whether Founders Pledge, which has expanded with support from Open Philanthropy, is becoming a new social movement ([link removed]).

Grantmaking

The Open Philanthropy Project announced several grants, including (but not limited to) ([link removed]):
* In Criminal Justice Reform: The Justice Collaborative, a research and strategic communications collaborative fighting for a smaller, more humane criminal justice system, the Reform Jails and Community Reinvestment Initiative and Dignity and Power Now to support a campaign related to jail facilities in Los Angeles county, and Forward Justice to support its statewide criminal justice reform organizing work in North Carolina ([link removed]) ([link removed]) ([link removed]) ([link removed]) ([link removed]).
* In Farm Animal Welfare: Mercy for Animals to support corporate engagement on animal welfare and capacity building, Global Food Partners to help companies implement animal welfare commitments in Asia, Albert Schweitzer Foundation to continue to pursue animal welfare reforms across Europe, Humane Society International:India to support public policy change, organizing, and the work of People for Animals, and Eurogroup for Animals
to work on inserting farm animal welfare language into European Union trade agreements ([link removed]) ([link removed]) ([link removed]) ([link removed]) ([link removed]) ([link removed]).
* In Global Health and Development: The Center for Global Development, a think tank that conducts research on and promotes improvements to rich-world policies that affect the global poor ([link removed]) ([link removed]).
* In Scientific Research: Kyushu University and the University of Pennsylvania to support research on mammalian reproduction, California Institute of Technology to support research on reproductive biology, Research Institute of Industrial Economics to support the Social Science Genetic Association Consortium, and Engineers Without Borders USA to support the Affordable Off-Grid Refrigeration Challenge ([link removed]) ([link removed]) ([link removed]) ([link removed]) ([link removed]) ([link removed]).
* In other areas: California YIMBY (short for “yes-in-my-back-yard”) to push for more housing, Effective Altruism Foundation to support some aspects of its research and general operations, the European Summer Program on Rationality to support a summer workshop for mathematically gifted students aged 16-19, and Altruistic Technology Labs to support its activities related to global catastrophic biological risk prevention ([link removed]) ([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
* We're seeking an Effective Altruism Program Associate to help increase our grantmaking related to effective altruism, global catastrophic risks, and longtermism ([link removed]).
* We’re also providing funding for study and training related to AI policy careers and accepting applications for the Open Phil AI Fellowship ([link removed]) ([link removed]).

Best,

Michael Levine
www.openphilanthropy.org ([link removed])

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