Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of $1,500,000 to the Center for Global Development (CGD) for general support. CGD is a think tank that researches and promotes policy to improve the health and wellbeing of people in developing countries, such as economic research on the impact of wealthy countries’ official development assistance.
This follows our November 2023 support and falls within our focus area of global aid policy.
Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of $3,430,000 to SecureBio to support its Nucleic Acid Observatory (NAO) program. NAO will use the funds to scale up its sequencing efforts and conduct R&D on pandemic early warning systems.
This follows our August 2023 support and falls within our focus area of biosecurity and pandemic preparedness.
Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of $500,000 over two years to the Center for Building in North America to support work to reform multi-family building codes.
This follows our December 2022 support and falls within our focus area of Abundance & Growth.
Open Philanthropy recommended a gift of $3,600,000 to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to support research led by Neil Thompson on modeling the trends and impacts of AI and computing.
This follows our July 2023 support and falls within our focus area of potential risks from advanced artificial intelligence.
Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of $4,000,000 over four years to Stanford University to support research led by Dr. Bali Pulendran on the factors that determine how long vaccines provide protection.
Vaccine durability varies widely. Dr. Pulendran’s research aims to better understand the mechanistic reasons for these differences.
This falls within our focus area of scientific research.
Open Philanthropy recommended a gift of $4,703,785 over two years to the University of Oxford to support the manufacturing of blood-stage vaccines (Rh5 and R78C) to enable rapid clinical evaluation in combination with the R21 malaria vaccine. The project will be led by Professor Simon Draper; this is one of two recent gifts we’ve made to support his work.
This falls within our focus area of global health R&D.
Open Philanthropy recommended a gift of $4,296,130 over five years to the University of Oxford to support Professor Simon Draper‘s team and accelerate their program to develop an improved first-generation malaria vaccine (R21/Rh5/R78C). This is one of two recent gifts we’ve made to support Draper’s work.
This falls within our focus area of global health R&D.
Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of $300,000 over two years to the Asociación para el Rescate y Bienestar de los Animales (ARBA) to support its work on farm animal welfare in Peru. ARBA will use this funding to conduct corporate and producer outreach for cage-free reforms and advocate for legislation to improve farm animal welfare.
This follows our December 2022 support and falls within our focus area of farm animal welfare.
Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of £14,500 (approximately $18,309 at the time of conversion) to the Oxford AI Safety Initiative to cover access fees for a shared office space in Oxford.
This falls within our focus area of Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building.
Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of $55,000 to Animal Nepal to support its advocacy work on poultry and buffalo welfare.
This follows our August 2022 support and falls within our focus area of farm animal welfare. It represents an “exit grant” that will provide Animal Nepal with operational support.