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Research & Updates
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February 2016
February 2016
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Ady Barkan, Director of Fed Up, Center for Popular Democracy
Date
February 12, 2016
Focus Area
Macroeconomic Stabilization Policy
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February 2016
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Supporting the Launch of the Alliance for Safety and Justice
Date
February 10, 2016
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
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February 2016
February 2016
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Josh Morrison, Co-Founder and Executive Director, WaitList Zero
Date
February 05, 2016
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Other Areas
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February 2016
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Milan Vaishnav, Associate, South Asia Program, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and Lea Kenig, Deputy chief development officer, Carnegie
Date
February 05, 2016
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
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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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February 2016
Title
December 2015 Update on IOM Haiti Grant
Date
February 01, 2016
Focus Area
Global Health & Wellbeing
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January 2016
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Paul Haenle, Director, Carnegie-Tsinghua Center for Global Policy, part of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Date
January 25, 2016
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
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January 2016
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Dr. Aaron Kesselheim, Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School/Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Date
January 21, 2016
Focus Area
Scientific Research
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January 2016
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Update on Co-Funding Grant to Population Services International Myanmar – January 2016
Date
January 12, 2016
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
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January 2016
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Arti Rai, Elvin R. Latty Professor of Law, Duke University, and Co-Director, Duke Law Center for Innovation Policy
Date
January 06, 2016
Focus Area
Scientific Research
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December 2015
Title
Thoughts on 3-bromopyruvate as a Potential Cancer Treatment by Chris Somerville, Scientific Advisor, Open Philanthropy Project and Philomathia Professor of Alternative Energy and EBI Director, University of California, Berkeley
Date
December 29, 2015
Focus Area
Scientific Research
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December 2015
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Suggestions for Individual Donors from Open Philanthropy Project Staff
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December 23, 2015
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December 2015
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Joel Hektner, Professor, Department of Human Development and Family Science, North Dakota State University
Date
December 17, 2015
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Other Areas
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December 2015
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Valerie Mizrahi, Director, Institute of Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine, University of Cape Town
Date
December 16, 2015
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Scientific Research
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December 2015
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Dr. Bavesh Kana, Senior Researcher, University of the Witwatersrand
Date
December 16, 2015
Focus Area
Scientific Research
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December 2015
December 2015
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Dr. Michael Clemens, Senior Fellow, Center for Global Development (CGD) and Cynthia Rathinasamy, Program Coordinator, Migration and Development Team (CGD)
Date
December 15, 2015
Focus Area
Immigration Policy
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December 2015
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Dr. Todd Moss, Chief Operating Officer and Senior Fellow, Center for Global Development and Kathy Smith, Director, Institutional Advancement, Center for Global Development
Date
December 15, 2015
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
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December 2015
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Sonja Lyubomirsky, Professor, Department of Psychology, University of California, Riverside
Date
December 15, 2015
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Other Areas
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December 2015
Title
David Bier, Director of Immigration Policy, The Niskanen Center
Date
December 14, 2015
Focus Area
Immigration Policy
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December 2015
Title
Animal Product Alternatives
Date
December 13, 2015
Focus Area
Scientific Research
Content Type
December 2015
Title
Informal Writeup on DRACOs as Potential Antiviral Treatment
Date
December 10, 2015
Focus Area
Scientific Research
Content Type
December 2015
Title
Ady Barkan, Campaign Director of the Fed Up campaign and Co-Director of Local Progress, Center for Popular Democracy
Date
December 08, 2015
Focus Area
Macroeconomic Stabilization Policy
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December 2015
Title
The Financial Times: The power and efficacy of effective altruism
Date
December 03, 2015
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
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December 2015
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Chronicle of Philanthropy: Wringing the Most Good Out of a Facebook Fortune
Date
December 01, 2015
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November 2015
Title
Louis Tay, Assistant Professor of Industrial-Organizational Psychology, Purdue University
Date
November 30, 2015
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Other Areas
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November 2015
Title
Should the Open Philanthropy Project be Recommending More/Larger Grants?
Date
November 17, 2015
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November 2015
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Robert Heimer, Professor of Epidemiology and of Pharmacology, Yale University School of Medicine
Date
November 16, 2015
Focus Area
Scientific Research
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October 2015
Title
Why a New Study of the Mariel Boatlift Has Not Changed Our Views on the Benefits of Immigration
Date
October 21, 2015
Focus Area
Immigration Policy
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October 2015
Title
Jared Bernstein, Senior Fellow, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities and Ben Spielberg, Research Assistant, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
Date
October 21, 2015
Focus Area
Macroeconomic Stabilization Policy
Content Type
October 2015
Title
What Do We Know about AI Timelines?
Date
October 12, 2015
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
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October 2015
Title
Steve Oh, Phd, Principal Scientist, Bioprocessing Technology Institute
Date
October 07, 2015
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
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October 2015
Title
David Alpert, Founder, Greater Greater Washington
Date
October 05, 2015
Focus Area
Land Use Reform
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October 2015
October 2015
Title
Governance of Solar Radiation Management
Date
October 01, 2015
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
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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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September 2015
September 2015
Title
Josh Morrison, Executive Director, Waitlist Zero
Date
September 15, 2015
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Other Areas
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September 2015
Title
Professor Nestor Kapusta, Associate Professor, Suicide Research Group, Department of Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy, Medical University of Vienna
Date
September 14, 2015
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Other Areas
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September 2015
Title
Nuclear Weapons Policy
Date
September 13, 2015
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
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September 2015
Title
Incoming Program Officer: Lewis Bollard
Date
September 11, 2015
Focus Area
Global Health & Wellbeing
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September 2015
Title
The Process of Hiring our First Cause-Specific Program Officer
Date
September 03, 2015
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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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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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August 2015
Title
Jacob Steinhardt, Graduate Student in Artificial Intelligence, Stanford University and Science Advisor, Open Philanthropy Project
Date
August 19, 2015
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
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August 2015
Title
Alan Durning, Founder and Executive Director, Sightline Institute
Date
August 18, 2015
Focus Area
Land Use Reform
Content Type
August 2015
Title
Change in our Fundraising Policy for the Open Philanthropy Project
Date
August 17, 2015
Focus Area
Content Type
August 2015
Title
The Long-Term Significance of Reducing Global Catastrophic Risks
Date
August 13, 2015
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
Content Type
August 2015
Title
Potential Risks from Advanced Artificial Intelligence
Date
August 11, 2015
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
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August 2015
Title
Dr. Peter Eckersley, Chief Computer Scientist, Electronic Frontier Foundation
Date
August 04, 2015
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
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August 2015
Title
Peter Gollwitzer, Professor of Psychology, New York University
Date
August 03, 2015
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Other Areas
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August 2015
Title
Excerpts from emails about ARNOVA grant
Date
August 01, 2015
Focus Area
History of Philanthropy
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July 2015
July 2015
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Russell Stewart, PhD Student, Stanford University
Date
July 29, 2015
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
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July 2015
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Daniel Greene, Researcher, Project for Education Research That Scales and Lytics Lab, Stanford University
Date
July 28, 2015
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Other Areas
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July 2015
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Piers Steel, Professor and Distinguished Research Chair, Human Resources and Organizational Dynamics, Haskayne School of Business, University of Calgary
Date
July 25, 2015
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Other Areas
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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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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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July 2015
Title
Key Questions about Philanthropy, Part 2: Choosing Focus Areas and Hiring Program Staff
Date
July 09, 2015
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July 2015
Title
Paul Haenle, Director, Carnegie-Tsinghua Center for Global Policy
Date
July 08, 2015
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
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July 2015
Title
Building Capacity to Promote Freer Global Mobility, a CGD-Open Philanthropy Project Workshop
Date
July 07, 2015
Focus Area
Immigration Policy
Content Type
July 2015
July 2015
Title
Geomagnetic Storms: History’s Surprising, if Tentative, Reassurance
Date
July 02, 2015
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
Content Type
June 2015
Title
Taynin Kopanos, DNP, NP, Vice President of State Government Affairs, American Association of Nurse Practitioners
Date
June 30, 2015
Focus Area
Other Areas
Content Type
June 2015
Title
Geomagnetic Storms: An Introduction to the Risk
Date
June 29, 2015
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
Content Type
June 2015
Title
Dr. Allison DeFoor, Chairman, Florida State University Project on Accountable Justice (PAJ), and Deborrah Brodsky, Director, PAJ
Date
June 26, 2015
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Content Type
June 2015
Title
Milan Vaishnav, Associate, South Asia Program, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Date
June 25, 2015
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
Content Type
June 2015
Title
Angela Geiger, Chief Strategy Officer, Alzheimer’s Association, and Dr. Dean Hartley, Director of Science Initiatives, Alzheimer’s Association
Date
June 23, 2015
Focus Area
Scientific Research
Content Type
June 2015
Title
A conversation with staff from the International Organization for Migration, Protect the People, and the Center for Global Development
Date
June 23, 2015
Focus Area
Immigration Policy
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June 2015
Title
Key Questions about Philanthropy, Part 1: What is the Role of a Funder?
Date
June 23, 2015
Focus Area
Content Type
June 2015
Title
A Conversation with Members of the Effective Altruists of Berkeley at UC Berkeley – a Student Group –
Date
June 19, 2015
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Content Type
June 2015
Title
Incoming Program Officer for Criminal Justice Reform: Chloe Cockburn
Date
June 16, 2015
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Content Type
June 2015
Title
The Atlantic: The Greatest Good
Date
June 15, 2015
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Content Type
June 2015
Title
Diana Shineman, Director for Scientific Affairs, Alzheimer’s Drug Discovery Foundation
Date
June 08, 2015
Focus Area
Scientific Research
Content Type
June 2015
Title
David Bier, Immigration Policy Analyst, Niskanen Center
Date
June 05, 2015
Focus Area
Immigration Policy
Content Type
June 2015
Title
Risks from Atomically Precise Manufacturing
Date
June 05, 2015
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
Content Type
June 2015
June 2015
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Scott Sumner, Director, Program on Monetary Policy, the Mercatus Center at George Mason University
Date
June 03, 2015
Focus Area
Macroeconomic Stabilization Policy
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June 2015
Title
Jared Bernstein, Senior Fellow, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
Date
June 03, 2015
Focus Area
Macroeconomic Stabilization Policy
Content Type
May 2015
Title
Dr. Peter Eckersley, Chief Computer Scientist, Electronic Frontier Foundation
Date
May 27, 2015
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
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May 2015
Title
David Udell, Executive Director, National Center for Access to Justice, and Visiting Professor from Practice, Cardozo Law School
Date
May 25, 2015
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Other Areas
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May 2015
Title
Edward Timmons, Assistant Professor of Economics, Saint Francis University
Date
May 25, 2015
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Other Areas
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May 2015
Title
Barak Richman, Edgar P. and Elizabeth C. Bartlett Professor of Law and Professor of Business Administration, Duke University School of Law
Date
May 22, 2015
Focus Area
Other Areas
Content Type
May 2015
Title
History of Philanthropy Case Study: Pew and Drug Safety Legislation
Date
May 15, 2015
Focus Area
History of Philanthropy
Content Type
May 2015
Title
Ady Barkan, Campaign Director of Fed Up, and Co-Director of Local Progress, the Center for Popular Democracy
Date
May 14, 2015
Focus Area
Macroeconomic Stabilization Policy
Content Type
May 2015
May 2015
May 2015
Title
Our Updated Agenda for Science Philanthropy
Date
May 06, 2015
Focus Area
Scientific Research
Content Type
May 2015
Title
Peter Morin, Professor, Deparment of Ecology, Evolution, and Natural Resources, Rutgers University
Date
May 05, 2015
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
Content Type
May 2015
Title
Nick Bostrom, Director, Future of Humanity Institute, Oxford Martin School, University of Oxford
Date
May 04, 2015
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
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May 2015
Title
Paul Christiano, PhD Student, Theory of Computing Group, University of California at Berkeley
Date
May 02, 2015
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Content Type
May 2015
Title
David Holtzman, Andrew B. and Gretchen P. Jones Prof. and Chairman of Neurology; Prof. of Developmental Biology; and Associate Director of the Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center, Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine
Date
May 01, 2015
Focus Area
Scientific Research
Content Type
April 2015
Title
Mark Wilson, CEO; David Tovey, Editor in Chief; Kathelene Weiss, Trusts and Foundations Fundraiser
Date
April 30, 2015
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
Content Type
April 2015
Title
Bruce Miller, A.W. and Mary Margaret Clausen Distinguished Professor of Neurology, University of California at San Francisco
Date
April 28, 2015
Focus Area
Scientific Research
Content Type
April 2015
Title
Vox: You have $8 billion. You want to do as much good as possible. What do you do?
Date
April 24, 2015
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Content Type
April 2015
Title
A Scientist with 18 Years Experience in the Tissue Engineering Industry
Date
April 23, 2015
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Content Type
April 2015
Title
Statement from Kaitlyn Trigger & Mike Krieger: Why We’re Partnering with the Open Philanthropy Project
Date
April 23, 2015
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Content Type
April 2015