New grantmaking program: supporting the effective altruism community around...
We are searching for a program officer to help us launch a new grantmaking program. The program would support projects and organizations in the effective altruism community (EA) with a focus on...
View ArticleOur Progress in 2021 and Plans for 2022
This post compares our progress with the goals we set forth a year ago, and lays out our plans for the coming year. In brief: We recommended over $400 million worth of grants in 2021. The bulk of this...
View ArticleOpen Philanthropy’s Cause Exploration Prizes
Update: We’ve now announced the recipients of these prizes. At Open Philanthropy, we aim to give as effectively as we can. To find the best opportunities, we’ve looked at many different causes, some of...
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How accurate are our predictions?
When investigating a grant, Open Philanthropy staff often make probabilistic predictions about grant-related outcomes they care about, e.g. “I’m 70% confident the grantee will achieve milestone #1...
View ArticleReport on Social Returns to Productivity Growth
Historically, economic growth has had huge social benefits, lifting billions out of poverty and improving health outcomes around the world. This leads some to argue that accelerating economic growth,...
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Incoming Program Officer for Effective Altruism Community Building (Global...
Earlier this year, I wrote that Open Philanthropy was looking for someone to help us direct funding for our newest cause area: We are searching for a program officer to help us launch a new grantmaking...
View ArticleNew Shallow Investigations: Telecommunications and Civil Conflict Reduction
We recently published two shallow investigations on potential focus areas to the Effective Altruism Forum. Shallow investigations, which are part of our cause selection process, are mainly intended as...
View ArticleCause Exploration Prizes: Announcing our prizes
We were gratified to receive over 150 good-faith submissions to Open Philanthropy’s Cause Exploration Prizes, where we invited people to suggest a new area for us to support or respond to our suggested...
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Does putting kids in school now put money in their pockets later? Revisiting...
Open Philanthropy’s Global Health and Wellbeing team continues to investigate potential areas for grantmaking. One of those is education in poorer countries. These countries have massively expanded...
View ArticleAnnouncing the awardees for our $150M Regranting Challenge
In February, we launched the Regranting Challenge, aiming to add $150 million in funding to the budgets of outstanding grantmakers at other foundations. We saw the Challenge as an opportunity to...
View ArticleAn update from Good Ventures
We are writing to share that while we generally plan to continue increasing our grantmaking in our existing focus areas via our partner Open Philanthropy, we have decided to exit a handful of...
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Takeaways from the Metaculus AI Progress Tournament
This post was originally shared on the Effective Altruism Forum. You can see further discussion on the original post. In 2019, Open Philanthropy commissioned a set of forecasts on AI progress from...
View ArticleAlexander Berger is Now Sole CEO of Open Philanthropy
On behalf of Open Philanthropy’s board, I’m excited to announce that Alexander Berger is now sole CEO of Open Philanthropy! Alexander has served as co-CEO since 2021 and has run the organization during...
View ArticleOur Planned Allocation to GiveWell’s Recommendations for the Next Few Years
Last year, we committed $350 million to GiveWell’s evidence-backed, cost-effective recommendations in global health and development. This year, we’re committing $300M to support GiveWell’s...
View ArticleSuggestions for Individual Donors from Open Philanthropy Staff – 2023
In past years, we sometimes published suggestions for individual donors looking for organizations to support. This post shares new suggestions from Open Philanthropy program staff who chose to provide...
View ArticleIntroducing Open Philanthropy’s New Leadership Team
Since Holden formally stepped down as co-CEO of Open Philanthropy last July, I’ve been working to build out our new leadership team. This post introduces the folks joining me (CEO) and Cari Tuna...
View ArticleOur Progress in 2023 and Plans for 2024
Like many organizations, Open Philanthropy has had multiple founding moments. Depending on how you count, we will be either seven, ten, or thirteen years old this year. Regardless of when you start the...
View ArticleDevelopment through Economic Growth
Open Philanthropy commissioned a report from Stefan Dercon on economic growth as the main driver of poverty reduction. In the report, Dercon highlights a set of overlooked policies that can help boost...
View ArticleHolden Karnofsky is Leaving Open Phil for the Carnegie Endowment for...
I have bittersweet news to announce: Holden Karnofsky, who cofounded Open Philanthropy and helped to run it through July 2023, is leaving to become a Visiting Scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for...
View ArticleExploring Cause Prioritization in the Journal of Economic Perspectives
Emily Oehlsen, our Managing Director for Global Health and Wellbeing (GHW), recently published a paper in the Journal of Economic Perspectives that explains Open Philanthropy’s approach to cause...
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