Open Philanthropy Update

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. 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.
We announced a new co-funding partnership with Ben Delo, co-founder of the cryptocurrency trading platform BitMEX and recent Giving Pledge signatory. 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. 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. Open Philanthropy has supported Color of Change's criminal justice reform work.
Inside Philanthropy named Open Philanthropy as the "most transparent grantmaker" as part of its 2019 Philanthropy Awards.

Grantmaking

Open Philanthropy announced several grants, including (but not limited to):

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.
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.
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.
In Scientific Research: Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center to augment the National Institute of Health's studies on the infant immunome and influenza.

For the full list of grant recommendations, visit our public database.

Jobs and other opportunities

A Staff Assistant to help support our farm animal welfare and AI safety teams. (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.

Best,

Michael Levine
www.openphilanthropy.org

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