On the blog

• We announced the launch of our $150 million Regranting Challenge, which will support high-impact programs that improve human health, facilitate economic development, and/or address climate change.
• We announced that our criminal justice reform program was becoming an independent organization (Just Impact).
• Alexander Berger and Peter Favaloro shared a set of technical updates to our cause prioritization framework for Global Health and Wellbeing.
• We announced our largest-to-date support for GiveWell’s recommendations: $300 million for 2021, up from $100 million in 2020, with tentative plans to donate an additional $500 million per year in 2022 and 2023.
• We introduced our newest program officers: Santosh Harish, who will lead our new South Asian Air Quality program, and Norma Altshuler, who will lead our new Global Aid Advocacy program.

In the news

• Devex wrote about the launch of our new programs to improve air quality in South Asia and advocate for more effective global aid.
• In an interview for The Browser, Alexander Berger discussed effective giving, “what ordinary people can do to improve the world,” and other topics.
• In a podcast with Sunday Times tech correspondent Danny Fortson, Holden Karnofsky discussed AI risk, the importance of our current century, and other topics.
• Alexander Berger and Peter Favaloro presented to the Center for Global Development on our cause prioritization framework for Global Health and Wellbeing. Devex wrote up the talk (Devex Pro subscribers only).
• The Chronicle of Philanthropy wrote about our Regranting Challenge (requires Chronicle account).

Open Philanthropy announced a number of grants and investments, including (but not limited to):

• In Biosecurity and Pandemic Preparedness: Californians Against Pandemics to support work on a ballot initiative that will fund research with the goal of reducing biosecurity risks posed by novel pathogens.
• In Criminal Justice Reform: Just Impact to support the organization’s launch, and its efforts to safely reduce incarceration in the United States.
• In Farm Animal Welfare: Compassion in World Farming to support work on fish welfare and ending the use of cages in farming.
• In Global Health and Development: Pure Earth to support work on reducing lead exposure in low- and middle-income countries, and a GiveWell Incubation Grant to Malaria Consortium to study effects of its campaign to distribute long-lasting insecticide-treated nets in Ondo state, Nigeria.
• In Immigration Policy: The Federation of American Scientists to support work on high-skilled immigration policy.
• In Scientific Research: UC Davis to support a feasibility analysis of a potential test of gene drives for malaria control, and Purdue University to support the development of a computational model to translate preclinical data in mouse disease models to humans.
• In other areas: The Applied Research Laboratory for Intelligence and Security to support the development of two forecasting platforms aimed at helping policymakers answer questions.

Jobs and other opportunities

• An Operations Manager to support our growing organization.
• Multiple roles in grants, finance, operations, and recruiting, at multiple seniority levels.
• A general application to let us know you'd be interested in working at Open Philanthropy.

Aaron Gertler
www.openphilanthropy.org