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Cause Exploration Prizes

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  • Category: Global Health & Wellbeing
  • Amount: $64,000

  • Award Date: October 2022

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    Open Philanthropy recommended four grants totaling $64,000 to the recipients of our Cause Exploration Prizes.

    Recipients include:

    • Ben Stewart for the top-prize submission Organophosphate pesticides and other neurotoxicants
    • Akhil Bansal for the second-prize submission Violence against women and girls
    • Anonymous for the second-prize submission Sickle Cell Disease
    • Scott Behmer for the second-prize submission Shareholder activism[1]Scott won a prize of $15,000 but requested that $6,000 be donated directly to a charity of his choice.

    This falls within our work on global health and wellbeing.

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    1 Scott won a prize of $15,000 but requested that $6,000 be donated directly to a charity of his choice.

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