We’ve announced the awardees 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.
Senior Advisor David Roodman wrote a research post 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, written by our Cause Prioritization intern Helen Kissel.
In the News
Holden Karnofsky appeared on The Gray Area, 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):
Our University Organizer Fellows to support their work organizing university student groups focused on effective altruism and improving the long-term future.
In Farm Animal Welfare:
Catalyst to support their work on farm animal welfare in Thailand, including corporate campaigns and movement building.
Legal Impact for Chickens to support their work on lawsuits against companies that violate animal cruelty laws and animal welfare pledges.
A variety of funding opportunities, including fellowships, scholarships, funding for community organizing, and support for effective altruism-related translation projects.
