New blog posts, news coverage, and grant announcements from October, November, and December 2019.

On the blog
* As in past years, we published a set of suggestions from Open Philanthropy staff for individual donors looking for organizations to support ([link removed]). This year's suggestions are in the focus areas of criminal justice reform, farm animal welfare, other policy, and scientific research, as well as other assorted recommendations.
* We allocated $54.6 million to GiveWell's top charities: charities that focus on programs with a strong track record and excellent cost-effectiveness, can use additional funding to expand their core programs, and are exceptionally transparent ([link removed]) ([link removed]).
* We announced a new co-funding partnership with Ben Delo, co-founder of the cryptocurrency trading platform BitMEX and recent Giving Pledge signatory ([link removed]) ([link removed]). Ben is providing funds for Open Philanthropy's long-termist grantmaking.
* We evaluated the feasibility of long-range forecasting, examining historical long-range forecasting exercises and the challenges to learning from such exercises ([link removed]). We plan to continue to make and learn from our own long-range quantified forecasts.

In the news
* The Chronicle of Philanthropy profiled Rashad Robinson, president of Color of Change ([link removed]). Open Philanthropy has supported Color of Change's criminal justice reform work ([link removed]).
* Inside Philanthropy named Open Philanthropy as the "most transparent grantmaker" as part of its 2019 Philanthropy Awards ([link removed]).

Grantmaking

Open Philanthropy announced several grants, including (but not limited to) ([link removed]):
* In Criminal Justice Reform: The Texas Organizing Project to support the expansion of its criminal justice reform and prosecutor accountability work; Color of Change to support its work on prosecutorial reform; the criminal justice reform work of Real Justice PAC and Citizen Action of New York; and LatinoJustice to support the Criminal Justice Reform Policy and Practice Center ([link removed]) ([link removed]) ([link removed]) ([link removed]) ([link removed])
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* In Farm Animal Welfare: Compassion in World Farming to support work on fish welfare and ending the use of cages in farming; Anima International to support chicken welfare campaigns; the International Cooperation Committee of Animal Welfare to support farm animal welfare work in Asia; and the Alternative Meats Lab at UC Berkeley to support the development of alternatives to animal products ([link removed]) ([link removed])
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* In Global Catastrophic Risks: The Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative to support continued work with the Center for Human-Compatible AI; the Centre for Effective Altruism, a central organization within the effective altruism community; and the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security to support work on global catastrophic risks posed by pathogens ([link removed])
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* In Scientific Research: Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center to augment the National Institute of Health's studies on the infant immunome and influenza ([link removed])([link removed]).

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

Jobs and other opportunities
* A Staff Assistant to help support our farm animal welfare and AI safety teams ([link removed]). (We are accepting applications until Friday, January 10th at noon Pacific Time.)
* A general application to let us know you'd be interested in working at Open Philanthropy ([link removed]).

Best,

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

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