Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of $5,300,000 to the Good Food Institute for general support, including its work promoting plant-based alternatives to animal products.
This follows our September 2023 support and falls within our focus area of farm animal welfare.
Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of $200,000 to the Joep Lange Institute to support “Debt to Health” (D2H) advocacy. D2H aims to increase domestic health spending by converting debt repayment into public health investment.
This falls within our focus area of global aid policy.
Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of $323,000 over two years to The Task Force for Global Health to support the Global Funders Consortium for Universal Influenza Vaccine Development, a nonprofit that coordinates and shares information about influenza research.
This falls within our focus area of scientific research.
Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of $863,143 to Princeton University to support a project led by Professor Arvind Narayanan to develop an AI R&D capabilities benchmark.
This grant was funded via a request for proposals for projects benchmarking LLM agents on consequential real-world tasks. This falls within our focus area of potential risks from advanced artificial intelligence.
Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of $189,000 to Carreras con Impacto to support a mentorship program and Spanish-language online courses focused on global catastrophic risks.
This falls within our focus area of Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building.
Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of $7,615,867 to the Coalition for Global Hepatitis Elimination to support the establishment of a coordination center focused on hepatitis B in low and middle-income countries. The center will oversee operational research, mobilize resources, and develop policies, with an immediate focus on conducting three initial research studies.
This follows our October 2022 support and falls within our focus area of global health R&D.
Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of $1,721,079 over two years to the University of Maryland to support work led by Professor Yizheng Chen to develop a benchmark to assess the cybersecurity capabilities of large language models.
This grant was funded via a request for proposals for projects benchmarking LLM agents on consequential real-world tasks. This falls within our focus area of potential risks from advanced artificial intelligence.
Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of $180,000 to the Summer Program on Applied Rationality and Cognition (SPARC) for general support. SPARC is a two-week summer program for talented high school students to develop quantitative and applied reasoning skills.
This follows our August 2022 support and falls within our focus area of Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building. It represents an “exit grant” that will provide SPARC with operational support.
Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of $240,000 to Animal Ask to support its research aimed at helping animal welfare organizations maximize the impact of their fish campaigns and advocacy efforts in Europe.
This follows our January 2023 support and falls within our focus area of farm animal welfare.
Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of $250,000 to Founders Pledge to support a match campaign to drive additional pledger donations to highly effective charities.
This falls within our focus area of empowering people to use their careers and donations to help others as much as possible.