Recent writings

• We announced our intention to launch a new grantmaking program to support projects in the effective altruism community, with a focus on improving global health and wellbeing.
• We launched a $150 million Regranting Challenge, with the goal of adding funding to the grantmaking budgets of outstanding programs at other foundations.
• Anya Hunt published a post on our hiring plans for 2022, alongside an offer to pay $5,000 to anyone who refers us to a candidate we end up hiring.
• Claire Zabel shared an update on the work of our Longtermist EA Movement Building team.
• Luke Muehlhauser published two new posts: "Tips for conducting worldview investigations" and "Features that make a report especially helpful to me".

In the news

• Vox interviewed Santosh Harish, who leads our new South Asian Air Quality program, for an article on improving air quality in developing-world cities.
• PMLive covered the launch of Pandemic Antiviral Discovery, a collaboration between Open Philanthropy, the Gates Foundation, and the Novo Nordisk Foundation. PAD is aimed at funding the discovery and early development of antiviral medicines for future pandemics.
• Inside Philanthropy referenced our giving in an article on efforts to create a universal flu vaccine.

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

• In Biosecurity and Pandemic Preparedness: The Nigerian Institute of Medical Research to support immunogenicity trials of fractional doses of the Moderna, AstraZeneca, and J&J COVID vaccines in Nigeria.
• In Farm Animal Welfare: Eurogroup for Animals to support their efforts to insert language around farm animal welfare into EU trade agreements.
• In Global Health and Development: PATH to support ministries of health in Ghana, Kenya, and Malawi in the implementation of the RTS,S malaria vaccine; the Center for Global Development to support early access to COVID antivirals in low- and middle-income countries.
• In Macroeconomic Stabilization Policy: Employ America to support their advocacy for policies that encourage full employment.
• In Potential Risks from Advanced Artificial Intelligence: The Massachusetts Institute of Technology to support research led by Neil Thompson on modeling the trends and impacts of AI and computing; Hofvarpnir Studios to support the creation of a compute cluster for AI safety research.
• In Scientific Research: The University of Victoria to support work led by Caroline Cameron to develop an improved diagnostic for syphilis.
• In other areas: The Atlas Fellowship to support a summer program and scholarship funding for talented high school students; Probably Good to support their work to help people find highly impactful careers.

Jobs and other opportunities

• Three different roles with our farm animal welfare team.
• One or more recruiters/senior recruiters to help scale our work.
• A general application to let us know you'd be interested in working at Open Philanthropy.

Aaron Gertler
www.openphilanthropy.org