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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Date
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Focus Area
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Author(s)
February 14, 2018
December 21, 2023
Title
New Positions on our Cause Prioritization Team (Global Health and Wellbeing)
Date
December 2023
Focus Area
Global Health & Wellbeing
Author
Will Sorflaten
June 06, 2017
Title
New Report on Consciousness and Moral Patienthood
Date
June 2017
Focus Area
Author
Luke Muehlhauser
April 26, 2017
Title
New Report on Early Field Growth
Date
April 2017
Focus Area
History of Philanthropy
Author
Luke Muehlhauser
September 08, 2020
Title
New Report on How Much Computational Power It Takes to Match the Human Brain
Date
September 2020
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Author
Joseph Carlsmith
September 15, 2017
Title
New Report on the Welfare Differences Between Cage and Cage-Free Housing
Date
September 2017
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Author
Ajeya Cotra
June 29, 2021
Title
New Roles in Global Health and Wellbeing
Date
June 2021
Focus Area
Global Health & Wellbeing
Author
Otis Reid
September 26, 2023
Title
New Roles on Our Global Catastrophic Risks Team
Date
September 2023
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
Author
July 25, 2022
Title
New Shallow Investigations: Telecommunications and Civil Conflict Reduction
Date
July 2022
Focus Area
Global Health & Wellbeing
Author
Josh You
May 08, 2020
Title
New Staff in Communications, Grants, Operations, Programs, and Research (2020)
Date
May 2020
Focus Area
Author
Michael Levine
April 09, 2019
Title
New Staff in Operations, Programs, and Research
Date
April 2019
Focus Area
Author
Michael Levine
June 03, 2021
Title
New Staff in Operations, Programs, and Research (2021)
Date
June 2021
Focus Area
Author
Gabriela Romero
July 15, 2016
December 14, 2018
February 19, 2015
Title
Notes from November Convening on Our Policy Priorities
Date
February 2015
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
Author
Holden Karnofsky
June 22, 2012
Title
Objections and Concerns About Our New Direction
Date
June 2012
Focus Area
Author
Holden Karnofsky
August 20, 2014
Title
Open Philanthropy Project (formerly GiveWell Labs)
Date
August 2014
Focus Area
Author
Holden Karnofsky
September 17, 2015
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
March 12, 2015
Title
Open Philanthropy Project: Progress in 2014 and Plans for 2015
Date
March 2015
Focus Area
Author
Holden Karnofsky
May 25, 2022
Title
Open Philanthropy’s Cause Exploration Prizes
Date
May 2022
Focus Area
Author
Aaron Gertler, Chris Smith
June 15, 2021
February 01, 2022
Title
Open Philanthropy’s Regranting Challenge
Date
February 2022
Focus Area
Author
Alexander Berger, Emily Oehlsen, and Chris Smith
December 05, 2017
Title
Our ‘Second Chance’ Program for NIH Transformative Research Applicants
Date
December 2017
Focus Area
Scientific Research
Author
Heather Youngs
December 08, 2020
Title
Our AI Governance Grantmaking So Far
Date
December 2020
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Author
Luke Muehlhauser
January 05, 2021
November 16, 2021
Title
Our Criminal Justice Reform Program Is Now an Independent Organization: Just Impact
Date
November 2021
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Author
Zachary Robinson and Alexander Berger
February 09, 2016
July 11, 2013
Title
Our Landscape of the Open Science Community
Date
July 2013
Focus Area
Scientific Research
Author
Holden Karnofsky
October 05, 2023
Title
Our Planned Allocation to GiveWell’s Recommendations for the Next Few Years
Date
October 2023
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
Author
Alexander Berger, Emily Oehlsen
April 29, 2016
March 14, 2017
March 20, 2018
April 08, 2019
May 01, 2020
April 23, 2021
May 12, 2022
Title
Our Progress in 2021 and Plans for 2022
Date
May 2022
Focus Area
Author
Holden Karnofsky and Alexander Berger
May 10, 2023
March 27, 2024
May 06, 2015
Title
Our Updated Agenda for Science Philanthropy
Date
May 2015
Focus Area
Scientific Research
Author
Holden Karnofsky
May 06, 2014
Title
Our Writeup on Criminal Justice Reform
Date
May 2014
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Author
Holden Karnofsky
July 24, 2014
Title
Partnership with The Pew Charitable Trusts
Date
July 2014
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Author
Holden Karnofsky
March 01, 2012
Title
Philanthropy’s Success Stories
Date
March 2012
Focus Area
History of Philanthropy
Author
Holden Karnofsky
May 23, 2013
Title
Possible Global Catastrophic Risks
Date
May 2013
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 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
May 29, 2014
Title
Potential U.S. Policy Focus Areas
Date
May 2014
Focus Area
Global Health & Wellbeing
Author
Holden Karnofsky
June 26, 2017
August 06, 2019