We’ve announced the awardees of our Regranting Challenge!
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Recent Writings
* We’ve announced the awardees ([link removed]) of our Regranting Challenge! We will be regranting $150 million to several excellent grantmakers — Development Innovation Ventures, the Eleanor Crook Foundation, the Global Education and Global Health Innovation programs at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and Tara Climate Foundation. You can read more about these grantmakers on the Challenge’s dedicated website ([link removed]) .
* Senior Advisor David Roodman wrote a research post ([link removed]) analyzing and revisiting Nobel Economics Prize winner Esther Duflo's paper on whether a wave of school construction in Indonesia increased students' wages in adulthood.
* We published a shallow cause investigation on Tobacco Control ([link removed]) , written by our Cause Prioritization intern Helen Kissel.
In the News
* Holden Karnofsky appeared on The Gray Area ([link removed]) , a podcast from Vox Media, to discuss effective altruism, utilitarianism, and ways the EA movement could change in the future.
Grantmaking
Photo courtesy of Legal Impact for Chickens
We announced a number of grants, including (but not limited to):
In Biosecurity and Pandemics:
* The Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security ([link removed]) to support their degree program for students pursuing careers in biosecurity.
In Effective Altruism Community Growth:
* Our University Organizer Fellows ([link removed]) to support their work organizing university student groups focused on effective altruism and improving the long-term future.
In Farm Animal Welfare:
* Catalyst ([link removed]) to support their work on farm animal welfare in Thailand, including corporate campaigns and movement building.
* Legal Impact for Chickens ([link removed]) to support their work on lawsuits against companies that violate animal cruelty laws and animal welfare pledges.
In Global Health and Development:
* The Clinton Health Access Initiative ([link removed]) to support their program to incubate cost-effective and scalable health interventions.
* The Center for Global Development Europe ([link removed]) to support their long run follow ups of randomized controlled trials of education interventions.
In Scientific Research:
* The University of Georgia ([link removed]) and Yale University ([link removed]) to support a joint research project testing a possible vaccine against malaria.
In Potential Risks from AI:
* Northeastern University ([link removed]) to support interpretability research for large language models.
Jobs and other opportunities
* A Senior Program Associate - Forecasting ([link removed]) to support our forecasting grantmaking and internal forecasting processes
* Cause Prioritization Interns ([link removed]) to help us research new causes this summer
* Business Operations Generalists ([link removed]) for our Business Operations team to support Open Philanthropy’s office needs and help make us more efficient and productive
* Finance Operations Associate / Assistant ([link removed]) to help with our finance operations
* Generalist and Longtermist Grants Associates ([link removed]) for our Grants Management team
* A variety of funding opportunities ([link removed]) , including fellowships, scholarships, funding for community organizing, and support for effective altruism-related translation projects ([link removed])
Best,
Josh You
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