Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of AUD 60,000 (approximately $38,052 at the time of conversion) to the Lancefield Society to support the 2025 Lancefield International Symposium on Streptococci and Streptococcal Diseases. This grant will help support travel awards for attendees from low- and middle-income countries, as well as provide general support for the conference.
This falls within our focus area of global health R&D.
Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of $219,133 to Oxford Future Impact Group to support its research mentorship program for topics in AI safety, AI policy, and other areas.
This falls within our focus area of Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building.
Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of $754,525 over two years to the University of Pretoria to support a study on how much far-UVC light is needed to stop the transmission of tuberculosis from human patients to susceptible guinea pigs. If successful, far-UVC light could become a highly effective tool for reducing disease transmission in many settings.
This falls within our focus area of biosecurity and pandemic preparedness.
Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of $100,000 to the UC Berkeley to support an AI red-teaming bootcamp in summer 2025, led by Professor Andrew Reddie at the Berkeley Risk and Security Lab. The bootcamp is aimed at postdocs and early career professionals from backgrounds other than machine learning; its goal is to give participants a better understanding of how AI systems work, how they fail, and how those failures can be detected.
This falls within our focus area of potential risks from advanced artificial intelligence.
Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of $45,000 over two years to the Nova School of Business and Economics to support research to estimate the persistence of benefits derived from development interventions, led by professors Duncan Webb and Eva Vivalt.
This falls within our work on global health and wellbeing.
Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of $35,000 to Faunalytics to support projects to compile and visualize datasets relevant to farm animal welfare. Projects may include analyzing data on the environmental impacts of aquaculture, or extending Faunalytics’ Animal Product Impact Scales research to nations beyond the U.S.
This follows our August 2022 support and falls within our focus area of farm animal welfare.
Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of $2,306,098 over five years to the University of Manitoba to support research on human colostrum’s ability to reduce the incidence of neonatal sepsis.
Colostrum is produced in the mammary glands early in lactation, prior to mature milk production. This grant will support an analysis of colostrum components to identify the mechanism by which it protects newborns from infection. This is one of two grants we are making to support this work.
This falls within our focus area of scientific research.
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Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of up to $109,000 to Effektiv Spenden to support a two-year lease for an office in Berlin. This grant will provide a coworking space for individuals working in fields related to effective altruism, and will also be used for related events.
This falls within our focus area of Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building.
Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of $5,058,550 to GiveWell for general support. GiveWell is a nonprofit that evaluates global health and development programs, makes recommendations to donors, and directs funding to promising, highly cost-effective programs that save and improve lives. Read more about Open Philanthropy’s relationship to GiveWell here.
This follows our December 2023 support and falls within our focus area of global health and development.
Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of $500,000 over two years to Food Frontier to support its work on alternative protein policy advocacy and corporate engagement in Australia and New Zealand.
This follows our August 2022 support and falls within our focus area of farm animal welfare, specifically within our interest in alternatives to animal products.