The Open Philanthropy Project’s mission is to give as effectively as we can and share our findings openly so that anyone can build on our work.

Open Philanthropy is looking to hire an In-House Counsel to help manage legal issues related to grantmaking, contracts, and various aspects of operations. More new staff are joining soon, and I will be introducing them in coming months. We’re interested in feedback on this format. They have investigated many potential focus areas, and are prioritizing based on three criteria: importance, neglectedness and tractability.The Open Philanthropy Project believes that philanthropy could have a greater impact by sharing more information. How much should we care about people who will live far in theIn arriving at our funding priorities---including criminal justice reform, farm animal welfare, pandemic preparedness, health-related science, and artificial intelligence safety---Open Philanthropy has pondered profound questions.
The bulk of these came from our major current focus areas: potential risks of advanced AI, biosecurity andThis post compares our progress with the goals we set forth a year ago, and lays out our plans for the coming year.

Applications are now open for individuals who want to pursue careers in New blog post explores the high bar set by the best global health and development interventions, and what we’re learning about the relative performance of some of our other grantmaking areas: Scientific Research Program Officers Heather Youngs and Chris Somerville explain our grant and investment to Sherlock Biosciences to develop a diagnostic to quickly, easily, and inexpensively identify any human virus. In this post, I’d like to introduce the new members of our team. Instead of starting with a predefined set of focus areas, the Open Philanthropy Project considers a wide variety of causes where philanthropy could help to improve others’ lives. In brief: We recommended well over $100 million worth of grants in 2018. I am hoping that inWe believe that every life has equal value — and that philanthropic dollars can go particularly far by helping those who are living in poverty by global standards. They envision a world in which philanthropists increasingly document and share their research, reasoning, results and mistakes to help each other learn more quickly and serve others more effectively.The Open Philanthropy Project recommends over $100 million of grants each year. This year, we are repeating the practice and publishing updated suggestions from Open Philanthropy program staff who chose toLast year, the year before, the year before that, and the year before that, we published a set of suggestions for individual donors looking for organizations to support. In his Giving Pledge letter, Ben said his ambition is to do the most good possible with his wealth, in particular by funding work toNote: This post originally appeared in the monthly farm animal welfare newsletter written by our farm animal welfare team. More new staff are joining soon, and I will be introducing them in coming months. Sign up here to receive regular email updates with research and insights into a farm animal advocacy research topic. The bulk of these came from our major current focus areas: potential risks of advanced AI, biosecurity andThis post compares our progress with the goals we set forth a year ago, and lays out our plans for the coming year. We’re interested in feedback on this format. Through research and grantmaking, we hope to learn how to make philanthropy go especially far in terms of improving lives. But. To better understand philanthropy’s role in it, we commissioned Benjamin Soskis, whose work we've funded via our history of philanthropy project, to produce a literature review and case studyThe campaign for marriage equality in the U.S. over the past couple decades is a remarkable success story. When we first started making grants, we tended to assume that would mean conducting and publishing in-depth reviews of the performance of each grant. This post explores one aspect of that: the high bar set by the best global health and development interventions, and what we’re learning about the relative performance of some of our other grantmaking are...Note: This is an experiment with a different style of blog post, aiming to more casually share thoughts from a broader set of staff. This year, we explored the high bar set by the best global health and development interventions. We decided to cross-post this one because we thought it wasNote: This post originally appeared in the monthly farm animal welfare newsletter written by our farm animal welfare team. This was one of our top priorities for 2018. Open about their work. Our staff of ~40 currently gives away over $150 million per year with the aim of doing as much good as we can per dollar, in causes like criminal justice reform, farm animalOpen Philanthropy is aiming to hire a Finance Associate (title flexible) to oversee our bookkeeping and finance operations.
The bulk of these came from our major current focus areas: potential risks of advanced AI, biosecurity andWe have had a lot of new staff join Open Philanthropy over the last year. The Open Philanthropy Project is also woefully naive in overstating the comforts of “cage-free” life to be provided by a greedy industry under no pressure of inspection, no enforcement of any standards. I am hoping that inIn February 2018, Open Philanthropy announced new openings for "generalist" Research Analyst (RA) roles, and we have since hired 5 applicants from that hiring round. In this post I summarize our process and some lessons learned.