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Research & Updates
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June 2023
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(Request for Information) Evaluation of Germicidal Far-UVC: Safety, Efficacy, Technology, and Adoption
Date
June 09, 2023
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
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April 2023
Title
12 tentative ideas for US AI policy
Date
April 17, 2023
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
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December 2018
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2018 Allocation to GiveWell Top Charities
Date
December 12, 2018
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
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December 2019
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2019 Allocation to GiveWell Top Charities
Date
December 06, 2019
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
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December 2020
Title
2020 Allocation to GiveWell Top Charities
Date
December 11, 2020
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
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November 2021
Title
2021 Allocation to GiveWell Top Charities: Why We’re Giving More Going Forward
Date
November 19, 2021
Focus Area
GiveWell-Recommended Charities
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February 2012
September 2017
Title
Aftereffects: In the U.S., Evidence Says Doing More Time Typically Leads to More Crime After
Date
September 25, 2017
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
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July 2023
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Alexander Berger is now sole CEO of Open Philanthropy
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July 27, 2023
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February 2016
Title
America’s Recently Heralded Urban “Crime Wave” May Already Have Peaked
Date
February 02, 2016
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
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March 2018
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An Update to How We’re Thinking About Grant Check-Ins
Date
March 09, 2018
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Content Type
September 2011
January 2023
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Announcing the awardees for our $150M Regranting Challenge
Date
January 12, 2023
Focus Area
Global Health & Wellbeing
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June 2022
March 2023
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Announcing the Open Philanthropy AI Worldviews Contest
Date
March 10, 2023
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
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September 2023
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Announcing the Winners of the 2023 Open Philanthropy AI Worldviews Contest
Date
September 29, 2023
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
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February 2016
April 2015
Title
Breakthrough Fundamental Science
Date
April 14, 2015
Focus Area
Scientific Research
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September 2022
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Cause Exploration Prizes: Announcing our prizes
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September 09, 2022
Focus Area
Global Health & Wellbeing
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April 2013
September 2014
August 2015
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Change in our Fundraising Policy for the Open Philanthropy Project
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August 17, 2015
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November 2019
April 2015
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Co-funding Partnership with Kaitlyn Trigger and Mike Krieger
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April 23, 2015
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August 2015
Title
Coming Down to Earth: What if a Big Geomagnetic Storm Does Hit?
Date
August 21, 2015
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
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June 2016
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Concrete Problems in AI Safety
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June 22, 2016
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
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July 2015
September 2014
Title
David Roodman’s Draft Writeup on Immigration and Current Residents’ Wages
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September 03, 2014
Focus Area
Immigration Policy
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October 2013
September 2017
Title
Deterrence Is De Minimis
Date
September 24, 2017
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
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September 2015
Title
Differential Technological Development: Some Early Thinking
Date
September 30, 2015
Focus Area
Scientific Research
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November 2022
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Does putting kids in school now put money in their pockets later? Revisiting a natural experiment in Indonesia
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November 23, 2022
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
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October 2016
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Efforts to Improve the Accuracy of Our Judgments and Forecasts
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October 25, 2016
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July 2013
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Empowerment and Catastrophic Risk
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July 18, 2013
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
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October 2014
June 2019
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Explaining Our Bet on Sherlock Biosciences’ Innovations in Viral Diagnostics
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June 10, 2019
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Scientific Research
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January 2014
Title
Exploring Life Sciences Funding
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January 07, 2014
Focus Area
Scientific Research
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October 2013
Title
Exploring Policy-Oriented Philanthropy
Date
October 24, 2013
Focus Area
Global Health & Wellbeing
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April 2014
Title
Finding Giving Opportunities in Malaria Control/Elimination
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April 30, 2014
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January 2018
Title
Fish: The Forgotten Farm Animal
Date
January 18, 2018
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
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March 2020
Title
Forecasting the COVID-19 Pandemic
Date
March 17, 2020
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
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May 2015
October 2013
June 2015
Title
Geomagnetic Storms: An Introduction to the Risk
Date
June 29, 2015
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
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July 2015
Title
Geomagnetic Storms: History’s Surprising, if Tentative, Reassurance
Date
July 02, 2015
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
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July 2015
Title
Geomagnetic Storms: Using Extreme Value Theory to Gauge the Risk
Date
July 13, 2015
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
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June 2012
March 2014
Title
GiveWell Labs – Progress in 2013 and Plans for 2014
Date
March 05, 2014
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September 2013
April 2013
May 2012
October 2011
Title
GiveWell Labs: Our Criteria for Giving Opportunities
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October 11, 2011
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September 2011
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GiveWell Labs: Plans for Our Process and Transparency
Date
September 20, 2011
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April 2013
Title
GiveWell’s History of Philanthropy/Philanthropy Journalism Project
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April 09, 2013
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February 2012
Title
GiveWell’s Plan for 2012: Specifics of Research
Date
February 22, 2012
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February 2012
February 2013
July 2019
Title
GiveWell’s Top Charities Are (Increasingly) Hard to Beat
Date
July 09, 2019
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
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February 2017
Title
Giving Suggestions Pertaining to Recent Executive Actions
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February 09, 2017
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December 2016
Title
Good Ventures and Giving Now vs. Later (2016 Update)
Date
December 28, 2016
Focus Area
GiveWell-Recommended Charities
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July 2013
January 2018
Title
History of Philanthropy Case Study: Clinton Health Access Initiative’s Role in Global Price Drops for Antiretroviral Drugs
Date
January 10, 2018
Focus Area
History of Philanthropy
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May 2015
Title
History of Philanthropy Case Study: Pew and Drug Safety Legislation
Date
May 15, 2015
Focus Area
History of Philanthropy
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September 2018
Title
History of Philanthropy Case Study: The Campaign for Marriage Equality
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September 20, 2018
Focus Area
History of Philanthropy
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February 2018
Title
History of Philanthropy Case Study: The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities and State EITC Programs
Date
February 02, 2018
Focus Area
History of Philanthropy
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June 2016
Title
History of Philanthropy Case Study: The Founding of the Center for Global Development
Date
June 15, 2016
Focus Area
History of Philanthropy
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May 2016
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History of Philanthropy Case Study: The Founding of the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
Date
May 20, 2016
Focus Area
History of Philanthropy
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September 2015
Title
History of Philanthropy Case Study: The Impact of Philanthropy on the Passage of the Affordable Care Act
Date
September 02, 2015
Focus Area
History of Philanthropy
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April 2019
Title
History of Philanthropy Literature Review: Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs
Date
April 08, 2019
Focus Area
History of Philanthropy
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April 2016
June 2022
October 2019
Title
How Feasible Is Long-range Forecasting?
Date
October 10, 2019
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
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November 2013
Title
How to Approach Policy-Oriented Philanthropy
Date
November 21, 2013
Focus Area
Global Health & Wellbeing
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August 2020
Title
How to Lower the Price of Plant-Based Meat
Date
August 12, 2020
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
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September 2017
Title
Incapacitation: How Much Does Putting People Inside Prison Cut Crime Outside?
Date
September 24, 2017
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
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June 2015
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Incoming Program Officer for Criminal Justice Reform: Chloe Cockburn
Date
June 16, 2015
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
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July 2022
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Incoming Program Officer for Effective Altruism Community Growth (Global Health and Wellbeing): James Snowden
Date
July 21, 2022
Focus Area
Effective Altruism (Global Health and Wellbeing)
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September 2015
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Incoming Program Officer: Lewis Bollard
Date
September 11, 2015
Focus Area
Global Health & Wellbeing
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January 2022
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Incoming Program Officers for South Asian Air Quality and Global Aid Policy
Date
January 03, 2022
Focus Area
Global Aid Policy
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March 2016
Title
Initial Grants to Support Corporate Cage-free Reforms
Date
March 31, 2016
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
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March 2015
Title
Investigating Neglected Goals in Scientific Research
Date
March 26, 2015
Focus Area
Scientific Research
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June 2015
Title
Key Questions about Philanthropy, Part 1: What is the Role of a Funder?
Date
June 23, 2015
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July 2015
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Key Questions about Philanthropy, Part 2: Choosing Focus Areas and Hiring Program Staff
Date
July 09, 2015
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July 2015
Title
Key Questions about Philanthropy, Part 3: Making and Evaluating Grants
Date
July 22, 2015
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March 2018
September 2016
Title
Maybe the Murder Rate Levelled Off This Year?
Date
September 26, 2016
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
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June 2012
April 2014
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Meta-Research Innovation Center at Stanford (METRICS)
Date
April 23, 2014
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June 2013
June 2020
May 2014
Title
Narrowing down U.S. Policy Areas
Date
May 22, 2014
Focus Area
Global Health & Wellbeing
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June 2013
February 2022
Title
New grantmaking program: supporting the effective altruism community around Global Health and Wellbeing
Date
February 22, 2022
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
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February 2018
June 2017
April 2017
Title
New Report on Early Field Growth
Date
April 26, 2017
Focus Area
History of Philanthropy
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September 2020
Title
New Report on How Much Computational Power It Takes to Match the Human Brain
Date
September 08, 2020
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
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September 2017
Title
New Report on the Welfare Differences Between Cage and Cage-Free Housing
Date
September 15, 2017
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
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June 2021
Title
New Roles in Global Health and Wellbeing
Date
June 29, 2021
Focus Area
Global Health & Wellbeing
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September 2023