Open Philanthropy recommended a contract of $600,000 over two years with Data for India to support the analysis and dissemination of public health and development data about India.
This falls within our work on global health and wellbeing.
This project was supported through a contractor agreement. While we typically do not publish pages for contractor agreements, we occasionally opt to do so.
Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of $154,200 over two years to User-Friendly Marketing to support its work helping farm animal welfare groups around the world to improve their corporate outreach strategies. The project is being led by Amy Odene, who has extensive experience working on corporate farm animal welfare campaigns.
This follows our November 2023 support and falls within our focus area of farm animal welfare.
Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of $597,557 over two years to the University of Cape Town to support preclinical development and testing of a tuberculosis (TB) vaccine, led by Dr. Thomas Scriba.
The approach to the vaccine follows a 2022 study by Musvosvi et al. that identified four TB proteins associated with natural clearance of the infection. The proposed research aims to support preclinical analysis of these four proteins in human cell and mouse assays to evaluate their potential as vaccine candidates. This is one of three grants we’re making to support this work.
This falls within our focus area of scientific research.
Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of $7,644,020 to the the Effective Ventures Foundation USA (EVF USA) to support a five-year lease and refurbishment for an office located in Harvard Square.
This follows our August 2022 support and falls within our focus area of growing and empowering the community of people focused on global catastrophic risk reduction. (Both grants went to the same organization; the Centre for Effective Altruism changed its name to Effective Ventures in the interim.)
Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of $300,000 to the Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI) to support the Global AI Risks Initiative, a project within CIGI that fosters international cooperation to address global-scale risks from artificial intelligence. Duncan Cass-Beggs is Executive Director of the Initiative.
This falls within our focus area of potential risks from advanced artificial intelligence.
Open Philanthropy recommended a gift of $1,976,562 over three years to the Georgia Institute of Technology to support work led by Professor Saad Bhamla to develop a cheap and portable Raman spectrometer, and then test it as a tuberculosis diagnostic tool.
This follows our October 2022 support and falls within our focus area of scientific research, specifically within our interest in advancing human health and wellbeing.
Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of $662,378 to the Talos Network for general support. The Talos Network is a talent development organization for careers in European AI policy.
This falls within our focus area of potential risks from advanced artificial intelligence.
Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of $321,338 to High Impact Medicine to support its work building a community to help medical students and doctors do more good with their careers.
This follows our January 2023 support and falls within our focus area of empowering people to use their careers and donations to help others as much as possible.
Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of $1,233,000 over two years to World Animal Protection (WAP) to support re-granting to farm animal groups in Southeast Asia. Our farm animal welfare team has been impressed by WAP’s re-granting work so far, and believes this is a way to support movement-building in countries with many farmed animals but relatively fewer organizations dedicated to farmed animal welfare.
This follows our March 2022 support and falls within our focus area of farm animal welfare, specifically within our interest in farm animal welfare in Asia.
Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of $750,000 to the University of Pennsylvania to support the VEuPATH database, a comprehensive bioinformatics resource center for eukaryotic pathogens, vectors, and hosts. This project is led by Professor David Roos.
This falls within our focus area of scientific research.