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Grants
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Grant
Title -
Organization
Name -
Focus
Area -
Amount
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Date
January 2021
Grant Title
Dan Lahav – EA Debate Tournament
Organization Name
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$2,000
Date
January 2021
April 2021
Grant Title
International Conference on Learning Representations — Security and Safety in Machine Learning Systems Workshop
Organization Name
International Conference on Learning Representations
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$3,000
Date
April 2021
July 2021
Grant Title
Elle Pfeffer — Dissertation Research
Organization Name
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$5,000
Date
July 2021
January 2021
Grant Title
Effective Altruism Debate Championship — General Support
Organization Name
Effective Altruism Debate Championship
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$5,915
Date
January 2021
May 2021
Grant Title
iGEM — Support for Team ABSI_Kenya’s Project
Organization Name
International Genetically Engineered Machine Foundation
Focus Area
Human Health and Wellbeing
Amount
$8,500
Date
May 2021
March 2021
Grant Title
Duke University — COVID-19 Antiviral Studies (Timothy Haystead)
Organization Name
Duke University
Focus Area
Science Supporting Biosecurity and Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$14,355
Date
March 2021
March 2021
Grant Title
Faunalytics — Farm Animal Welfare Goal Setting and Impact Tracking
Organization Name
Faunalytics
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Amount
$15,000
Date
March 2021
December 2021
Grant Title
William D’Alessandro — Course Development Support
Organization Name
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$19,000
Date
December 2021
May 2021
Grant Title
Jennifer Dodd — Machine Learning Self-Study
Organization Name
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$19,200
Date
May 2021
March 2021
Grant Title
Tampere University — Work on Global Catastrophic Risks (2021)
Organization Name
Tampere University
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$20,000
Date
March 2021
May 2021
Grant Title
Stanford Existential Risks Initiative — Distribution of The Precipice
Organization Name
Stanford Existential Risk Initiative
Focus Area
Other Areas
Amount
$24,000
Date
May 2021
July 2021
Grant Title
Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity — AI Standards (2021)
Organization Name
University of California, Berkeley
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$25,000
Date
July 2021
May 2021
Grant Title
POWER — Voter Engagement on Criminal Justice Reform
Organization Name
POWER
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$25,000
Date
May 2021
December 2021
Grant Title
Cate Hall — Self-Study for Career Transition
Organization Name
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$25,000
Date
December 2021
April 2021
Grant Title
Health Alliance for Violence Intervention — General Support
Organization Name
Health Alliance for Violence Intervention
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$25,000
Date
April 2021
January 2021
Grant Title
Mount Kenya University — Farm Animal Welfare Science Masters Program
Organization Name
Mount Kenya University
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Amount
$29,886
Date
January 2021
August 2021
Grant Title
Future of Humanity Institute — Economist Survey
Organization Name
Future of Humanity Institute
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
Amount
$30,000
Date
August 2021
October 2021
Grant Title
University of Southern California — Course Development Support (Jake Nebel)
Organization Name
University of Southern California
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$33,000
Date
October 2021
October 2021
Grant Title
International Rescue Committee – Treatment of Malnutrition (October 2021)
Organization Name
International Rescue Committee
Focus Area
GiveWell-Recommended Charities
Amount
$42,000
Date
October 2021
June 2021
Grant Title
Center for Global Development — Malaria Reduction
Organization Name
Center for Global Development
Focus Area
Human Health and Wellbeing
Amount
$50,000
Date
June 2021
February 2021
Grant Title
San Francisco Rising — Criminal Justice Reform
Organization Name
San Francisco Rising
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$50,000
Date
February 2021
February 2021
Grant Title
Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition — Universal Salt Iodization (January 2021)
Organization Name
Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition
Focus Area
GiveWell-Recommended Charities
Amount
$50,000
Date
February 2021
November 2021
Grant Title
UC Berkeley — Research on Labor Market Outcomes
Organization Name
University of California, Berkeley
Focus Area
Land Use Reform
Amount
$50,000
Date
November 2021
July 2021
Grant Title
Kansas State University — Fungal Genetics Stock Center
Organization Name
Kansas State University
Focus Area
Human Health and Wellbeing
Amount
$50,000
Date
July 2021
December 2021
Grant Title
Gaëtan Selle — Videos About Longtermism
Organization Name
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
Amount
$50,000
Date
December 2021
August 2021
Grant Title
UC Berkeley — Course Development Support (Jacob Steinhardt)
Organization Name
University of California, Berkeley
Focus Area
Forecasting
Amount
$53,983
Date
August 2021
September 2021
Grant Title
Larissa Schiavo and Rachel Shu — COVID Response Documentary Miniseries
Organization Name
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$55,000
Date
September 2021
July 2021
Grant Title
Justice Solutions — Anne Seymour’s Crime Victims and Survivors Work (2021)
Organization Name
Justice Solutions
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$55,000
Date
July 2021
August 2021
Grant Title
Korean Animal Welfare Association — Cage-Free Layer Hen Farming
Organization Name
Korean Animal Welfare Association
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Amount
$57,000
Date
August 2021
July 2021
Grant Title
UC Berkeley — Tuberculosis Diagnosis (Adithya Cattamanchi and Sarah Stanley)
Organization Name
University of California, Berkeley
Focus Area
Scientific Research
Amount
$60,000
Date
July 2021
March 2021
Grant Title
Brian Christian — The Alignment Problem Book Promotion
Organization Name
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$60,859
Date
March 2021
May 2021
Grant Title
Action St. Louis — Prosecutor Accountability
Organization Name
Action St. Louis
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$65,000
Date
May 2021
July 2021
Grant Title
Ifakara Health Institute — Malaria Vaccine Clinical Trial (Ally Olotu)
Organization Name
Ifakara Health Institute
Focus Area
Human Health and Wellbeing
Amount
$68,184
Date
July 2021
January 2021
Grant Title
Mercy for Animals — The People’s Fund
Organization Name
Mercy For Animals
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Amount
$69,750
Date
January 2021
July 2021
Grant Title
Applied Research Laboratory for Intelligence and Security — Report on Security Clearances
Organization Name
Applied Research Laboratory for Intelligence and Security
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$70,000
Date
July 2021
July 2021
Grant Title
Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative — MineRL BASALT Competition
Organization Name
Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$70,000
Date
July 2021
February 2021
Grant Title
Crate-Free Illinois — Campaigning Against Gestation Crates (2021)
Organization Name
Crate-Free Illinois
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Amount
$70,350
Date
February 2021
January 2021
Grant Title
Positive Money Europe — Macroeconomic Policy Research and Advocacy
Organization Name
Positive Money Europe
Focus Area
Macroeconomic Stabilization Policy
Amount
$73,368
Date
January 2021
September 2021
Grant Title
Stanford University — AI Index
Organization Name
Stanford University
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$78,000
Date
September 2021
April 2021
Grant Title
Rethink Charity — Farm Animal Welfare Movement Building
Organization Name
Rethink Charity
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Amount
$79,040
Date
April 2021
July 2021
Grant Title
Chicago Community Bond Fund — Support for the Coalition to End Money Bond (2021)
Organization Name
Chicago Community Bond Fund
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$85,000
Date
July 2021
January 2021
Grant Title
People for Animals Uttarakhand — Farm Animal Welfare Fellowship
Organization Name
People for Animals Uttarakhand
Focus Area
Global Health & Wellbeing
Amount
$85,000
Date
January 2021
November 2021
Grant Title
Michael Specter — Course Development Support
Organization Name
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$85,000
Date
November 2021
August 2021
Grant Title
UC Berkeley — Adversarial Robustness Research (Aditi Raghunathan)
Organization Name
University of California, Berkeley
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$87,829
Date
August 2021
October 2021
Grant Title
Botswana-Harvard AIDS Institute – Early detection of preterm births
Organization Name
Botswana-Harvard AIDS Institute
Focus Area
Human Health and Wellbeing
Amount
$90,000
Date
October 2021
May 2021
Grant Title
SPCA Selangor — Cage-Free Campaigns
Organization Name
SPCA Selangor
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Amount
$99,000
Date
May 2021
October 2021
Grant Title
Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition — Exit Grant
Organization Name
Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition
Focus Area
GiveWell-Recommended Charities
Amount
$100,000
Date
October 2021
October 2021
Grant Title
Solar Cooling Engineering — Solar Refrigerator Testing
Organization Name
Solar Cooling Engineering
Focus Area
Human Health and Wellbeing
Amount
$100,000
Date
October 2021
December 2021
Grant Title
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai — Bat Cell Line Research
Organization Name
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Focus Area
Science Supporting Biosecurity and Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$100,000
Date
December 2021
September 2021