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A Year of Wins for Farmed Animals
This post originally appeared in the monthly farm animal welfare newsletter written by Lewis Bollard, program officer for farm animal welfare. Sign up here to receive an email each month with Lewis’...
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Cool Things Our GHW Grantees Have Done in 2023
Open Philanthropy’s Global Health and Wellbeing (GHW) portfolio now spans eight different programs working to improve health, raise incomes, and reduce suffering around the world. Our most recent...
View ArticleAnnouncing the Winners of the 2023 Open Philanthropy AI Worldviews Contest
In March 2023, we launched the Open Philanthropy AI Worldviews Contest. The goal of the contest was to surface novel considerations that could affect our views on the timeline to transformative AI and...
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Tobacco Control
1. Preamble This post is a shallow investigation, as described here. As we noted in the civil conflict investigation and telecommunications in LMICs investigation we shared earlier this year, we have...
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A Case Study on Insecticide-Treated Bednets
Both GiveWell and Open Philanthropy (OP) have been longtime supporters of charities that distribute long-lasting insecticide-treated bednets (LLINs), such as the Against Malaria Foundation. Open...
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A Year of Wins for Farmed Animals
This post originally appeared in the monthly farm animal welfare newsletter written by Lewis Bollard, program officer for farm animal welfare. Sign up here to receive an email each month with Lewis’...
View ArticleNew Grantmaking Program: Forecasting
We are happy to announce that we have added forecasting as an official grantmaking focus area. As of January 2024, the forecasting team comprises two full-time employees: myself and Javier Prieto. In...
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How the Open Wing Alliance has helped free hundreds of millions of chickens...
It’s September 2016, and Aaron Ross is in the quiet Parisian suburb of Massy, sitting in a sleek conference room at Carrefour’s headquarters. Carrefour is either the largest or second-largest retailer...
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How Platinum Helps Draw Attention to Japan’s Role in Global Health Funding
Japan spent more than $19.6 billion on overseas development assistance (ODA) in 2023, making it the third largest single-country donor behind the US and Germany. Open Philanthropy’s Global Aid Policy...
View ArticleAnnouncing the Lead Exposure Action Fund
As with many of our blog posts, this is a cross-post from Open Philanthropy, our partner organization. It’s a slightly unusual cross-post because we weren’t the sole funder for the initiative; many...
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How Neil King and David Baker are using AI to create more effective vaccines
In October, our longtime grantee David Baker won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for groundbreaking work in protein design. We wanted to take the opportunity to highlight his work and some of its...
View ArticleSuggestions for Individual Donors from Open Philanthropy Staff – 2024
As with many of our blog posts, this is a cross-post from Open Philanthropy, our partner organization. As we enter the holiday giving season, we’re continuing our tradition of sharing a list of...
View ArticleFive Highlights from our Scientific Research Portfolio
As with many of our blog posts, this is a cross-post from Open Philanthropy, our partner organization. Since 2016, Open Philanthropy’s Scientific Research team has supported hundreds of projects...
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