We occasionally publish blog posts to explain our general philosophy on giving, reflect on our progress thus far, announce our plans for the future, and more.
Blog Posts
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Focus Area
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June 22, 2016
Title
Concrete Problems in AI Safety
Date
June 2016
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Author
Holden Karnofsky
June 15, 2016
Title
History of Philanthropy Case Study: The Founding of the Center for Global Development
Date
June 2016
Focus Area
History of Philanthropy
Author
Holden Karnofsky
May 20, 2016
Title
History of Philanthropy Case Study: The Founding of the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
Date
May 2016
Focus Area
History of Philanthropy
Author
Holden Karnofsky
May 06, 2016
Title
Some Background on Our Views Regarding Advanced Artificial Intelligence
Date
May 2016
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Author
Holden Karnofsky
May 06, 2016
Title
Potential Risks from Advanced Artificial Intelligence: The Philanthropic Opportunity
Date
May 2016
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Author
Holden Karnofsky
April 29, 2016
April 04, 2016
March 31, 2016
Title
Initial Grants to Support Corporate Cage-free Reforms
Date
March 2016
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Author
Lewis Bollard
February 23, 2016
February 10, 2016
Title
Supporting the Launch of the Alliance for Safety and Justice
Date
February 2016
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Author
Helen Toner
February 09, 2016
February 02, 2016
Title
America’s Recently Heralded Urban “Crime Wave” May Already Have Peaked
Date
February 2016
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Author
David Roodman
December 23, 2015
Title
Suggestions for Individual Donors from Open Philanthropy Project Staff
Date
December 2015
Focus Area
Author
Holden Karnofsky
November 17, 2015
Title
Should the Open Philanthropy Project be Recommending More/Larger Grants?
Date
November 2015
Focus Area
Author
Holden Karnofsky
October 21, 2015
Title
Why a New Study of the Mariel Boatlift Has Not Changed Our Views on the Benefits of Immigration
Date
October 2015
Focus Area
Immigration Policy
Author
David Roodman
September 30, 2015
Title
Differential Technological Development: Some Early Thinking
Date
September 2015
Focus Area
Scientific Research
Author
Nick Beckstead
September 17, 2015
September 11, 2015
Title
Incoming Program Officer: Lewis Bollard
Date
September 2015
Focus Area
Global Health & Wellbeing
Author
Holden Karnofsky
September 03, 2015
Title
The Process of Hiring our First Cause-Specific Program Officer
Date
September 2015
Focus Area
Author
Holden Karnofsky
September 02, 2015
Title
History of Philanthropy Case Study: The Impact of Philanthropy on the Passage of the Affordable Care Act
Date
September 2015
Focus Area
History of Philanthropy
Author
Milan Griffes
August 21, 2015
Title
Coming Down to Earth: What if a Big Geomagnetic Storm Does Hit?
Date
August 2015
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
Author
David Roodman
August 17, 2015
Title
Change in our Fundraising Policy for the Open Philanthropy Project
Date
August 2015
Focus Area
Author
Elie Hassenfeld
August 13, 2015
Title
The Long-Term Significance of Reducing Global Catastrophic Risks
Date
August 2015
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
Author
Nick Beckstead
July 30, 2015
July 22, 2015
Title
Key Questions about Philanthropy, Part 3: Making and Evaluating Grants
Date
July 2015
Focus Area
Author
Holden Karnofsky
July 13, 2015
Title
Geomagnetic Storms: Using Extreme Value Theory to Gauge the Risk
Date
July 2015
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
Author
David Roodman
July 09, 2015
Title
Key Questions about Philanthropy, Part 2: Choosing Focus Areas and Hiring Program Staff
Date
July 2015
Focus Area
Author
Holden Karnofsky
July 02, 2015
Title
Geomagnetic Storms: History’s Surprising, if Tentative, Reassurance
Date
July 2015
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
Author
David Roodman
June 29, 2015
Title
Geomagnetic Storms: An Introduction to the Risk
Date
June 2015
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
Author
David Roodman
June 23, 2015
Title
Key Questions about Philanthropy, Part 1: What is the Role of a Funder?
Date
June 2015
Focus Area
Author
Holden Karnofsky
June 16, 2015
Title
Incoming Program Officer for Criminal Justice Reform: Chloe Cockburn
Date
June 2015
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Author
Holden Karnofsky
May 15, 2015
Title
History of Philanthropy Case Study: Pew and Drug Safety Legislation
Date
May 2015
Focus Area
History of Philanthropy
Author
Elie Hassenfeld
May 14, 2015
Title
Funder-Initiated Startups
Date
May 2015
Focus Area
History of Philanthropy
Author
Holden Karnofsky
May 06, 2015
Title
Our Updated Agenda for Science Philanthropy
Date
May 2015
Focus Area
Scientific Research
Author
Holden Karnofsky
April 23, 2015
Title
Co-funding Partnership with Kaitlyn Trigger and Mike Krieger
Date
April 2015
Focus Area
Author
Holden Karnofsky
April 23, 2015
Title
Statement from Kaitlyn Trigger & Mike Krieger: Why We’re Partnering with the Open Philanthropy Project
Date
April 2015
Focus Area
Author
Kaitlyn and Mike Krieger
April 21, 2015
Title
Science Policy and Infrastructure
Date
April 2015
Focus Area
Scientific Research
Author
Holden Karnofsky
April 14, 2015
Title
Breakthrough Fundamental Science
Date
April 2015
Focus Area
Scientific Research
Author
Holden Karnofsky
April 09, 2015
Title
Translational Science and the “Valley of Death”
Date
April 2015
Focus Area
Scientific Research
Author
Holden Karnofsky
March 26, 2015
Title
Investigating Neglected Goals in Scientific Research
Date
March 2015
Focus Area
Scientific Research
Author
Holden Karnofsky
March 12, 2015
Title
Open Philanthropy Project: Progress in 2014 and Plans for 2015
Date
March 2015
Focus Area
Author
Holden Karnofsky
March 11, 2015
Title
Open Philanthropy Project Update: Global Catastrophic Risks
Date
March 2015
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
Author
Holden Karnofsky
March 10, 2015
Title
Open Philanthropy Project Update: U.S. Policy
Date
March 2015
Focus Area
Global Health & Wellbeing
Author
Holden Karnofsky
February 27, 2015
Title
The Path to Biomedical Progress
Date
February 2015
Focus Area
Scientific Research
Author
Holden Karnofsky
February 24, 2015
Title
Thoughts on the Sandler Foundation
Date
February 2015
Focus Area
History of Philanthropy
Author
Holden Karnofsky
February 19, 2015
Title
Notes from November Convening on Our Policy Priorities
Date
February 2015
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
Author
Holden Karnofsky
October 30, 2014
October 16, 2014
Title
Expert Philanthropy vs. Broad Philanthropy
Date
October 2014
Focus Area
Author
Holden Karnofsky
September 11, 2014
September 03, 2014
Title
David Roodman’s Draft Writeup on Immigration and Current Residents’ Wages
Date
September 2014
Focus Area
Immigration Policy
Author
Holden Karnofsky
August 20, 2014
Title
Open Philanthropy Project (formerly GiveWell Labs)
Date
August 2014
Focus Area
Author
Holden Karnofsky
July 24, 2014
Title
Partnership with The Pew Charitable Trusts
Date
July 2014
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Author
Holden Karnofsky
July 03, 2014
Title
The Moral Value of the Far Future
Date
July 2014
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
Author
Holden Karnofsky
June 26, 2014
Title
Potential Global Catastrophic Risk Focus Areas
Date
June 2014
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
Author
Alexander Berger
May 29, 2014
Title
Potential U.S. Policy Focus Areas
Date
May 2014
Focus Area
Global Health & Wellbeing
Author
Holden Karnofsky
May 22, 2014
Title
Narrowing down U.S. Policy Areas
Date
May 2014
Focus Area
Global Health & Wellbeing
Author
Holden Karnofsky
May 14, 2014
May 06, 2014
Title
Our Writeup on Criminal Justice Reform
Date
May 2014
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Author
Holden Karnofsky
April 30, 2014
Title
Finding Giving Opportunities in Malaria Control/Elimination
Date
April 2014
Focus Area
Author
Elie Hassenfeld
April 23, 2014
Title
Meta-Research Innovation Center at Stanford (METRICS)
Date
April 2014
Focus Area
Author
Holden Karnofsky
March 25, 2014
Title
The First Case Study from Our History of Philanthropy Project
Date
March 2014
Focus Area
Author
Elie Hassenfeld
March 05, 2014
Title
GiveWell Labs – Progress in 2013 and Plans for 2014
Date
March 2014
Focus Area
Author
Holden Karnofsky
January 15, 2014
Title
Returns to Life Sciences Funding
Date
January 2014
Focus Area
Scientific Research
Author
Holden Karnofsky
January 07, 2014
Title
Exploring Life Sciences Funding
Date
January 2014
Focus Area
Scientific Research
Author
Holden Karnofsky
December 26, 2013
Title
Scientific Research Funding
Date
December 2013
Focus Area
Scientific Research
Author
Holden Karnofsky
November 21, 2013
Title
How to Approach Policy-Oriented Philanthropy
Date
November 2013
Focus Area
Global Health & Wellbeing
Author
Holden Karnofsky
November 06, 2013
Title
The Track Record of Policy-Oriented Philanthropy
Date
November 2013
Focus Area
History of Philanthropy
Author
Holden Karnofsky
November 01, 2013
Title
Update on Co-Funding Grant to Population Services International Myanmar – November 2013
Date
November 2013
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
Author
October 30, 2013
Title
The Role of Philanthropic Funding in Politics
Date
October 2013
Focus Area
Global Health & Wellbeing
Author
Holden Karnofsky
October 24, 2013
Title
Exploring Policy-Oriented Philanthropy
Date
October 2013
Focus Area
Global Health & Wellbeing
Author
Holden Karnofsky
October 16, 2013
October 10, 2013
September 26, 2013
July 18, 2013
Title
Empowerment and Catastrophic Risk
Date
July 2013
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
Author
Holden Karnofsky
July 11, 2013
Title
Our Landscape of the Open Science Community
Date
July 2013
Focus Area
Scientific Research
Author
Holden Karnofsky
July 03, 2013
Title
Grant to Center for Global Development (CGD)
Date
July 2013
Focus Area
Author
Holden Karnofsky
June 20, 2013
June 06, 2013
May 30, 2013
May 23, 2013
Title
Possible Global Catastrophic Risks
Date
May 2013
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
Author
Holden Karnofsky
April 24, 2013
April 18, 2013
April 09, 2013
Title
GiveWell’s History of Philanthropy/Philanthropy Journalism Project
Date
April 2013
Focus Area
Author
Elie Hassenfeld
March 14, 2013
February 21, 2013
Title
GiveWell’s Plan for 2013: A Top-Level Decision
Date
February 2013
Focus Area
Author
Holden Karnofsky
September 27, 2012
Title
US Cochrane Center (USCC) Gets Our First “Quick Grant” Recommendation
Date
September 2012
Focus Area
Author
Holden Karnofsky
September 21, 2012
Title
Recent Board Meeting on GiveWell’s Evolution
Date
September 2012
Focus Area
Author
Holden Karnofsky
July 20, 2012
Title
Some History Behind Our Shifting Approach to Research
Date
July 2012
Focus Area
Author
Holden Karnofsky
June 28, 2012
June 22, 2012
Title
Objections and Concerns About Our New Direction
Date
June 2012
Focus Area
Author
Holden Karnofsky
June 11, 2012
May 09, 2012
May 08, 2012
Title
What Large-Scale Philanthropy Focuses On Today
Date
May 2012
Focus Area
Author
Holden Karnofsky
May 02, 2012
March 01, 2012
Title
Philanthropy’s Success Stories
Date
March 2012
Focus Area
History of Philanthropy
Author
Holden Karnofsky
February 22, 2012
Title
GiveWell’s Plan for 2012: Specifics of Research
Date
February 2012
Focus Area
Author
Holden Karnofsky
February 21, 2012
Title
GiveWell’s Plan for 2012: Top-Level Priorities
Date
February 2012
Focus Area
Author
Holden Karnofsky
February 03, 2012
January 19, 2012
October 11, 2011