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  • Focus Area: Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
  • Organization Name: Brown Institute for Media Innovation
  • Amount: $15,000

  • Award Date: April 2020

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    Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of $15,000 to the Brown Institute for Media Innovation (the Brown Institute) at Columbia University to support rapid micro-grants for work that aims to inform the public about the COVID-19 virus. This funding enabled the Brown Institute to award five micro-grants to journalists, technologists, health researchers, data scientists, social scientists, and others.

    This falls within our focus area of biosecurity and pandemic preparedness.

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