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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November 18, 2021
Title
Technical Updates to Our Global Health and Wellbeing Cause Prioritization Framework
Date
November 2021
Focus Area
Global Health & Wellbeing
Author
Peter Favaloro and Alexander Berger
November 19, 2021
Title
2021 Allocation to GiveWell Top Charities: Why We’re Giving More Going Forward
Date
November 2021
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
Author
Alexander Berger
January 03, 2022
Title
Incoming Program Officers for South Asian Air Quality and Global Aid Policy
Date
January 2022
Focus Area
Global Aid Policy
Author
Otis Reid
February 01, 2022
Title
Open Philanthropy’s Regranting Challenge
Date
February 2022
Focus Area
Author
Alexander Berger, Emily Oehlsen, and Chris Smith
February 22, 2022
Title
New Grantmaking Program: Supporting the Effective Altruism Community around Global Health and Wellbeing
Date
February 2022
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Author
Zachary Robinson
May 12, 2022
Title
Request for Proposals: Help Open Philanthropy Quantify Biological Risk
Date
May 2022
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Author
Damon Binder and Andrew Snyder-Beattie
May 12, 2022
Title
Our Progress in 2021 and Plans for 2022
Date
May 2022
Focus Area
Author
Holden Karnofsky and Alexander Berger
May 25, 2022
Title
Open Philanthropy’s Cause Exploration Prizes
Date
May 2022
Focus Area
Author
Aaron Gertler, Chris Smith
June 07, 2022
June 16, 2022
July 05, 2022
Title
Update on Our Planned Allocation to GiveWell’s Recommended Charities in 2022
Date
July 2022
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
Author
Alexander Berger, Peter Favaloro
July 15, 2022
Title
Report on Social Returns to Productivity Growth
Date
July 2022
Focus Area
Global Health & Wellbeing
Author
Tom Davidson
July 21, 2022
Title
Incoming Program Officer for Effective Altruism Community Growth (Global Health and Wellbeing): James Snowden
Date
July 2022
Focus Area
Effective Altruism (Global Health and Wellbeing)
Author
Zachary Robinson
July 25, 2022
Title
New Shallow Investigations: Telecommunications and Civil Conflict Reduction
Date
July 2022
Focus Area
Global Health & Wellbeing
Author
Josh You
September 09, 2022
Title
Cause Exploration Prizes: Announcing Our Prizes
Date
September 2022
Focus Area
Global Health & Wellbeing
Author
Chris Smith
November 23, 2022
Title
Does Putting Kids in School Now Put Money in Their Pockets Later? Revisiting a Natural Experiment in Indonesia
Date
November 2022
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
Author
David Roodman
January 12, 2023
Title
Announcing the Awardees for Our $150M Regranting Challenge
Date
January 2023
Focus Area
Global Health & Wellbeing
Author
Chris Smith, Emily Oehlsen, Alexander Berger
March 10, 2023
Title
Announcing the Open Philanthropy AI Worldviews Contest
Date
March 2023
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Author
Jason Schukraft, Peter Favaloro
April 17, 2023
Title
12 Tentative Ideas for US AI Policy
Date
April 2023
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Author
Luke Muehlhauser
May 10, 2023
June 09, 2023
Title
(Request for Information) Evaluation of Germicidal Far-UVC: Safety, Efficacy, Technology, and Adoption
Date
June 2023
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Author
July 27, 2023
Title
Alexander Berger is Now Sole CEO of Open Philanthropy
Date
July 2023
Focus Area
Author
Holden Karnofsky
July 27, 2023
Title
Takeaways from the Metaculus AI Progress Tournament
Date
July 2023
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Author
Javier Prieto
September 26, 2023
Title
New Roles on Our Global Catastrophic Risks Team
Date
September 2023
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
Author
September 29, 2023