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University Organizer Fellowship

  • Focus Area: Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
  • Amount: $6,798,374

  • Award Date: September 2022

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    This page was last updated in May 2025, and includes grants from the years 2022-2024.

    Open Philanthropy has recommended approximately $6,798,374 to the members of our University Organizer Fellowship — individuals who direct or support university student groups focused on topics relevant to improving the long-term future, including effective altruism, longtermism, rationality, or specific cause areas.

    We made grants to support organizers at various universities, and in other places. Locations where we’ve supported groups include:

    • Aalto University
    • Amherst College
    • Ateneo de Manila University
    • Australian National University
    • Bern University
    • Boğaziçi University
    • Brown University
    • Bryn Mawr College
    • California Institute of Technology
    • Cambridge University
    • Carnegie Mellon University
    • Chalmers University of Technology
    • Claremont McKenna College
    • College of William & Mary
    • Columbia University
    • Cornell University
    • Delft University of Technology
    • Duke University
    • Durham University
    • École normale supérieure
    • Effective Altruism Albuquerque
    • Effective Altruism Edinburgh
    • Effective Altruism Lausanne
    • Effective Altruism Leipzig
    • Effective Altruism Munich
    • Effective Altruism Utrecht
    • Eindhoven University of Technology
    • Erasmus University Rotterdam (Positive Impact Society Erasmus)
    • ETH Zurich
    • Freie Universität Berlin
    • Fundação Getulio Vargas University
    • George Washington University
    • Georgetown University
    • Georgia Institute of Technology
    • Hanoi University of Science and Technology
    • Harvard University
    • Harvey Mudd College
    • Haverford College
    • Heidelberg University
    • Hunter College
    • IIT Delhi
    • Imperial College London
    • Jagiellonian University 
    • Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology
    • Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
    • King’s College London
    • Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology
    • Leiden University
    • London Interdisciplinary School
    • London School of Economics
    • Louisiana State University
    • Lund University
    • Lupane State University
    • Maastricht University
    • Manchester University
    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    • McGill University (Faculty of Law)
    • McMaster University
    • National Taiwan University
    • National University of Singapore
    • New York University Abu Dhabi
    • Northeastern University London
    • Northwestern University
    • Oxford AI Society
    • Paris Institute of Political Studies
    • Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
    • Princeton University
    • Radboud University Nijmegen
    • Rheinisch Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen
    • Rutgers University
    • Scripps College
    • Stanford Law School
    • Stanford University
    • Stockholm University
    • Swarthmore College
    • Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne
    • Tel Aviv University
    • The Claremont Colleges
    • The Hague Effective Altruism 
    • The Hague University of Applied Sciences
    • The University of Edinburgh
    • Tucson Effective Altruism
    • Tufts University
    • Universidad de Buenos Aires
    • Universidad de los Andes
    • University College London
    • University of Arizona
    • University of Auckland
    • University of Bergen
    • University of Bonn
    • University of Bristol
    • University of California, Berkeley
    • University of California, Irvine
    • University of California, Los Angeles
    • University of Cambridge
    • University of Cape Town
    • University of Chicago
    • University of Connecticut
    • University of Delhi
    • University of Durham
    • University of Edinburgh
    • University of Groningen (AI Safety Initiative Groningen)
    • University of Maastricht
    • University of Manchester
    • University of Melbourne
    • University of Michigan
    • University of Milan
    • University of Nigeria
    • University of Oslo
    • University of Oxford
    • University of Pennsylvania
    • University of Pisa
    • University of Regensburg
    • University of Rotterdam
    • University of Southern California
    • University of Sussex
    • University of St. Andrews
    • University of Sydney
    • University of Texas at Austin
    • University of Tokyo
    • University of Tromsø
    • University of Twente
    • University of Utah
    • University of Virginia
    • University of Warwick
    • University of Waterloo
    • University of Wisconsin, Madison
    • Uppsala University
    • Utrecht University
    • Vanderbilt University
    • Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
    • Wageningen University and Research
    • Washington University in St. Louis
    • Wiliams College
    • Yale University

    This falls within our focus area of growing and empowering the community of people focused on global catastrophic risk reduction.

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