• Title
  • Date
  • Focus Area
  • Author(s)

December 28, 2016

Title

Good Ventures and Giving Now vs. Later (2016 Update)

Date
Focus Area
Author

December 14, 2016

Title

Suggestions for Individual Donors from Open Philanthropy Project Staff – 2016

Date
Focus Area
Author

December 13, 2016

Title

Worldview Diversification

Date
Focus Area
Author

October 25, 2016

Title

Efforts to Improve the Accuracy of Our Judgments and Forecasts

Date
Focus Area
Author

September 26, 2016

Title

Maybe the Murder Rate Levelled Off This Year?

Date
Focus Area
Author

September 16, 2016

Title

Update on How We’re Thinking about Openness and Information Sharing

Date
Focus Area
Author

September 06, 2016

Title

Three Key Issues I’ve Changed My Mind About

Date
Focus Area
Author

July 15, 2016

Title

New Team Members

Date
Focus Area
Author

June 22, 2016

Title

Concrete Problems in AI Safety

Date
Focus Area
Author

June 15, 2016

Title

History of Philanthropy Case Study: The Founding of the Center for Global Development

Date
Focus Area
Author

May 20, 2016

Title

History of Philanthropy Case Study: The Founding of the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities

Date
Focus Area
Author

May 06, 2016

Title

Some Background on Our Views Regarding Advanced Artificial Intelligence

Date
Focus Area
Author

May 06, 2016

Title

Potential Risks from Advanced Artificial Intelligence: The Philanthropic Opportunity

Date
Focus Area
Author

April 29, 2016

Title

Our Progress in 2015 and Plans for 2016

Date
Focus Area
Author

April 04, 2016

Title

Hits-Based Giving

Date
Focus Area
Author

March 31, 2016

Title

Initial Grants to Support Corporate Cage-free Reforms

Date
Focus Area
Author

February 23, 2016

Title

Annual Review and Plan Will be Delayed

Date
Focus Area
Author

February 10, 2016

Title

Supporting the Launch of the Alliance for Safety and Justice

Date
Focus Area
Author

February 09, 2016

Title

Our Grantmaking So Far: Approach and Process

Date
Focus Area
Author

February 02, 2016

Title

America’s Recently Heralded Urban “Crime Wave” May Already Have Peaked

Date
Focus Area
Author

December 23, 2015

Title

Suggestions for Individual Donors from Open Philanthropy Project Staff

Date
Focus Area
Author

November 17, 2015

Title

Should the Open Philanthropy Project be Recommending More/Larger Grants?

Date
Focus Area
Author

October 21, 2015

Title

Why a New Study of the Mariel Boatlift Has Not Changed Our Views on the Benefits of Immigration

Date
Focus Area
Author

September 30, 2015

Title

Differential Technological Development: Some Early Thinking

Date
Focus Area
Author

September 17, 2015

Title

Open Philanthropy Project Update

Date
Focus Area
Author

September 11, 2015

Title

Incoming Program Officer: Lewis Bollard

Date
Focus Area
Author

September 03, 2015

Title

The Process of Hiring our First Cause-Specific Program Officer

Date
Focus Area
Author

September 02, 2015

Title

History of Philanthropy Case Study: The Impact of Philanthropy on the Passage of the Affordable Care Act

Date
Focus Area
Author

August 21, 2015

Title

Coming Down to Earth: What if a Big Geomagnetic Storm Does Hit?

Date
Focus Area
Author

August 17, 2015

Title

Change in our Fundraising Policy for the Open Philanthropy Project

Date
Focus Area
Author

August 13, 2015

Title

The Long-Term Significance of Reducing Global Catastrophic Risks

Date
Focus Area
Author

July 30, 2015

Title

Could Raising Alcohol Taxes Save Lives?

Date
Focus Area
Author

July 22, 2015

Title

Key Questions about Philanthropy, Part 3: Making and Evaluating Grants

Date
Focus Area
Author

July 13, 2015

Title

Geomagnetic Storms: Using Extreme Value Theory to Gauge the Risk

Date
Focus Area
Author

July 09, 2015

Title

Key Questions about Philanthropy, Part 2: Choosing Focus Areas and Hiring Program Staff

Date
Focus Area
Author

July 02, 2015

Title

Geomagnetic Storms: History’s Surprising, if Tentative, Reassurance

Date
Focus Area
Author

June 29, 2015

Title

Geomagnetic Storms: An Introduction to the Risk

Date
Focus Area
Author

June 23, 2015

Title

Key Questions about Philanthropy, Part 1: What is the Role of a Funder?

Date
Focus Area
Author

June 16, 2015

Title

Incoming Program Officer for Criminal Justice Reform: Chloe Cockburn

Date
Focus Area
Author

May 15, 2015

Title

History of Philanthropy Case Study: Pew and Drug Safety Legislation

Date
Focus Area
Author

May 14, 2015

Title

Funder-Initiated Startups

Date
Focus Area
Author

May 06, 2015

Title

Our Updated Agenda for Science Philanthropy

Date
Focus Area
Author

April 23, 2015

Title

Co-funding Partnership with Kaitlyn Trigger and Mike Krieger

Date
Focus Area
Author

April 23, 2015

Title

Statement from Kaitlyn Trigger & Mike Krieger: Why We’re Partnering with the Open Philanthropy Project

Date
Focus Area
Author

April 21, 2015

Title

Science Policy and Infrastructure

Date
Focus Area
Author

April 14, 2015

Title

Breakthrough Fundamental Science

Date
Focus Area
Author

April 09, 2015

Title

Translational Science and the “Valley of Death”

Date
Focus Area
Author

March 26, 2015

Title

Investigating Neglected Goals in Scientific Research

Date
Focus Area
Author

March 12, 2015

Title

Open Philanthropy Project: Progress in 2014 and Plans for 2015

Date
Focus Area
Author

March 11, 2015

Title

Open Philanthropy Project Update: Global Catastrophic Risks

Date
Focus Area
Author

March 10, 2015

Title

Open Philanthropy Project Update: U.S. Policy

Date
Focus Area
Author

February 27, 2015

Title

The Path to Biomedical Progress

Date
Focus Area
Author

February 24, 2015

Title

Thoughts on the Sandler Foundation

Date
Focus Area
Author

February 19, 2015

Title

Notes from November Convening on Our Policy Priorities

Date
Focus Area
Author

October 30, 2014

Title

Update on Open Philanthropy Project

Date
Focus Area
Author

October 16, 2014

Title

Expert Philanthropy vs. Broad Philanthropy

Date
Focus Area
Author

September 11, 2014

Title

Challenges of Transparency

Date
Focus Area
Author

September 03, 2014

Title

David Roodman’s Draft Writeup on Immigration and Current Residents’ Wages

Date
Focus Area
Author

August 20, 2014

Title

Open Philanthropy Project (formerly GiveWell Labs)

Date
Focus Area
Author

July 24, 2014

Title

Partnership with The Pew Charitable Trusts

Date
Focus Area
Author

July 03, 2014

Title

The Moral Value of the Far Future

Date
Focus Area
Author

June 26, 2014

Title

Potential Global Catastrophic Risk Focus Areas

Date
Focus Area
Author

May 29, 2014

Title

Potential U.S. Policy Focus Areas

Date
Focus Area
Author

May 22, 2014

Title

Narrowing down U.S. Policy Areas

Date
Focus Area
Author

May 14, 2014

Title

The Importance of Committing to Causes

Date
Focus Area
Author

May 06, 2014

Title

Our Writeup on Criminal Justice Reform

Date
Focus Area
Author

April 30, 2014

Title

Finding Giving Opportunities in Malaria Control/Elimination

Date
Focus Area
Author

April 23, 2014

Title

Meta-Research Innovation Center at Stanford (METRICS)

Date
Focus Area
Author

March 25, 2014

Title

The First Case Study from Our History of Philanthropy Project

Date
Focus Area
Author

March 05, 2014

Title

GiveWell Labs – Progress in 2013 and Plans for 2014

Date
Focus Area
Author

January 15, 2014

Title

Returns to Life Sciences Funding

Date
Focus Area
Author

January 07, 2014

Title

Exploring Life Sciences Funding

Date
Focus Area
Author

December 26, 2013

Title

Scientific Research Funding

Date
Focus Area
Author

November 21, 2013

Title

How to Approach Policy-Oriented Philanthropy

Date
Focus Area
Author

November 06, 2013

Title

The Track Record of Policy-Oriented Philanthropy

Date
Focus Area
Author

November 01, 2013

Title

Update on Co-Funding Grant to Population Services International Myanmar – November 2013

Date
Focus Area
Author

October 30, 2013

Title

The Role of Philanthropic Funding in Politics

Date
Focus Area
Author

October 24, 2013

Title

Exploring Policy-Oriented Philanthropy

Date
Focus Area
Author

October 16, 2013

Title

Geoengineering Research

Date
Focus Area
Author

October 10, 2013

Title

Deep Investigations of New Causes

Date
Focus Area
Author

September 26, 2013

Title

GiveWell Labs Update

Date
Focus Area
Author

July 18, 2013

Title

Empowerment and Catastrophic Risk

Date
Focus Area
Author

July 11, 2013

Title

Our Landscape of the Open Science Community

Date
Focus Area
Author

July 03, 2013

Title

Grant to Center for Global Development (CGD)

Date
Focus Area
Author

June 20, 2013

Title

Near-Term Grantmaking

Date
Focus Area
Author

June 06, 2013

Title

Meta-Research Update

Date
Focus Area
Author

May 30, 2013

Title

Refining the Goals of GiveWell Labs

Date
Focus Area
Author

May 23, 2013

Title

Possible Global Catastrophic Risks

Date
Focus Area
Author

April 24, 2013

Title

GiveWell Labs Update

Date
Focus Area
Author

April 18, 2013

Title

Challenges of Passive Funding

Date
Focus Area
Author

April 09, 2013

Title

GiveWell’s History of Philanthropy/Philanthropy Journalism Project

Date
Focus Area
Author

March 14, 2013

Title

Update on GiveWell’s Plans for 2013

Date
Focus Area
Author

February 21, 2013

Title

GiveWell’s Plan for 2013: A Top-Level Decision

Date
Focus Area
Author

September 27, 2012

Title

US Cochrane Center (USCC) Gets Our First “Quick Grant” Recommendation

Date
Focus Area
Author

September 21, 2012

Title

Recent Board Meeting on GiveWell’s Evolution

Date
Focus Area
Author

July 20, 2012

Title

Some History Behind Our Shifting Approach to Research

Date
Focus Area
Author

June 28, 2012

Title

GiveWell and Good Ventures

Date
Focus Area
Author

June 22, 2012

Title

Objections and Concerns About Our New Direction

Date
Focus Area
Author

June 11, 2012

Title

Meta-Research

Date
Focus Area
Author

May 09, 2012

Title

GiveWell Labs Update and Priority Causes

Date
Focus Area
Author