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Research & Updates
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July 2012
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Some History Behind Our Shifting Approach to Research
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July 20, 2012
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December 2015
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Sonja Lyubomirsky, Professor, Department of Psychology, University of California, Riverside
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December 15, 2015
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Other Areas
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August 2016
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Sonja Trauss, Co-Founder and Co-Executive Director, California Renters Legal Advocacy and Education Fund
Date
August 29, 2016
Focus Area
Land Use Reform
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March 2017
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Sonja Trauss, Co-founder, California Renters Legal Advocacy and Education Fund (CaRLA)
Date
March 06, 2017
Focus Area
Land Use Reform
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June 2021
December 2017
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Staff Members’ Personal Donations for Giving Season 2017
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December 18, 2017
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October 2020
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Stanford Medicine News Center: Jeffrey Glenn Granted $14.3 Million to Develop Broad Spectrum Drug
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October 05, 2020
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Scientific Research
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May 2018
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Stanford Social Innovation Review: Giving in the Light of Reason
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May 17, 2018
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March 2013
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Stanley Young, Assistant Director of Bioinformatics, National Institute of Statistical Science
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March 18, 2013
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Scientific Research
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January 2019
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STAT: ‘Taste of the future’: New microscopy technique captures stunning images of a fly’s brain
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January 17, 2019
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Scientific Research
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December 2021
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STAT: For an antiviral researcher, Covid brings a flood of attention — and opportunity
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December 20, 2021
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Scientific Research
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September 2018
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STAT: For the first time, researchers will release genetically engineered mosquitoes in Africa
Date
September 05, 2018
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Scientific Research
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April 2015
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Statement from Kaitlyn Trigger & Mike Krieger: Why We’re Partnering with the Open Philanthropy Project
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April 23, 2015
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March 2014
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Stephen Smith, Infrastructure Reporter, Next City; Contributor, Market Urbanism
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March 13, 2014
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Land Use Reform
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April 2013
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Stephen Sparks, Professor, University of Bristol
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April 16, 2013
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
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October 2015
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Steve Oh, Phd, Principal Scientist, Bioprocessing Technology Institute
Date
October 07, 2015
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Farm Animal Welfare
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November 2013
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Steve Riskin, Senior Program Officer, United States Institute of Peace
Date
November 26, 2013
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Global Health & Development
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May 2012
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Steven Goodman, Associate Dean of Clinical and Translational Medicine at Stanford University
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May 31, 2012
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Global Health & Development
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March 2016
June 2013
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Steven Teles, Associate Professor of Political Science, John Hopkins University
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June 12, 2013
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Immigration Policy
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May 2012
May 2013
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Strobe Talbott, President and Kimberly Churches, Vice President for Development, The Brookings Institution
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May 21, 2013
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Global Health & Wellbeing
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February 2014
July 2013
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Sue Chinn, Campaign Manager, and Marielena Hincapié, Co-Founder, Alliance for Citizenship
Date
July 11, 2013
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Immigration Policy
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August 2012
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Sue Kinn, Team Leader and Research Manager at the Department for International Development (DFID)
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August 21, 2012
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Global Health & Development
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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 2016
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Suggestions for Individual Donors from Open Philanthropy Project Staff – 2016
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December 14, 2016
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December 2017
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Suggestions for Individual Donors from Open Philanthropy Project Staff – 2017
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December 22, 2017
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December 2018
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Suggestions for Individual Donors from Open Philanthropy Project Staff – 2018
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December 20, 2018
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December 2019
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Suggestions for Individual Donors from Open Philanthropy Staff – 2019
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December 18, 2019
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November 2020
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Suggestions for Individual Donors from Open Philanthropy Staff – 2020
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November 23, 2020
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February 2019
Title
Supporting a New Technology Security Policy Think Tank
Date
February 28, 2019
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
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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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September 2013
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Susan Urahn, Executive Vice President and Brian Hill, Senior Associate, The Pew Charitable Trusts
Date
September 25, 2013
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Global Health & Wellbeing
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August 2013
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T. Bella Dinh-Zarr, Director of Road Safety, FIA Foundation for the Automobile and Society
Date
August 02, 2013
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
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July 2023
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Takeaways from the Metaculus AI Progress Tournament
Date
July 27, 2023
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Potential Risks from Advanced AI
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March 2016
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Tamar Jacoby, President & CEO, ImmigrationWorks USA
Date
March 31, 2016
Focus Area
Immigration Policy
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January 2015
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Tamar Jacoby, President and CEO, ImmigrationWorks USA
Date
January 14, 2015
Focus Area
Immigration Policy
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May 2014
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Tamar Jacoby, President and CEO, ImmigrationWorks USA
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May 12, 2014
Focus Area
Immigration Policy
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June 2015
Title
Taynin Kopanos, DNP, NP, Vice President of State Government Affairs, American Association of Nurse Practitioners
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June 30, 2015
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Other Areas
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March 2017
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Technical and Philosophical Questions That Might Affect Our Grantmaking
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March 02, 2017
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November 2021
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Technical Updates to Our Global Health and Wellbeing Cause Prioritization Framework
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November 18, 2021
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Global Health & Wellbeing
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October 2022
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Telecommunications in LMICs
Date
October 06, 2022
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
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December 2021
Title
Ten Big Wins for Farm Animals in 2021
Date
December 24, 2021
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Farm Animal Welfare
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June 2015
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The Atlantic: The Greatest Good
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June 15, 2015
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Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
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August 2020
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The Atlantic: The Plan That Could Give Us Our Lives Back
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August 14, 2020
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Scientific Research
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April 2021
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The Brussels Times: European Citizens’ initiative to end the use of cages in animal farming in EU on the right track
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April 18, 2021
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Farm Animal Welfare in Europe
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October 2015
October 2023
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The Chronicle of Philanthropy: Does Alternative Meat Need Philanthropy to Take It Beyond?
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October 16, 2023
Focus Area
Alternatives to Animal Products
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July 2017
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The Economist: A promising means of pest control meets some evolutionary truths
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July 22, 2017
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Scientific Research
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June 2018
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The Economist: Can “effective altruism” maximise the bang for each charitable buck?
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June 02, 2018
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
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January 2019
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The Economist: How chicken became the rich world’s most popular meat
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January 19, 2019
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
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November 2018
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The Economist: The promise and peril of gene drives
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November 08, 2018
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Scientific Research
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October 2021
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The Ezra Klein Show, The New York Times: Warning: This Episode Gets Really Weird About How Much Good You Can Do
Date
October 28, 2021
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
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December 2015
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The Financial Times: The power and efficacy of effective altruism
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December 03, 2015
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
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March 2014
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The First Case Study from Our History of Philanthropy Project
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March 25, 2014
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August 2019
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The Guardian: Campaigners demand end to fish tethering ‘torture’ in Taiwan
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August 19, 2019
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Farm Animal Welfare
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May 2014
October 2023
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The Indian Express: Bihar to tackle air pollution with better monitoring
Date
October 11, 2023
Focus Area
South Asian Air Quality
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August 2015
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The Long-Term Significance of Reducing Global Catastrophic Risks
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August 13, 2015
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
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July 2014
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The Moral Value of the Far Future
Date
July 03, 2014
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
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May 2021
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The New Republic: The Progressive Trio Shaping Biden’s Ambitious Economic Policy
Date
May 04, 2021
Focus Area
Macroeconomic Stabilization Policy
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April 2019
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The New York Times: Behold the Beefless ‘Impossible Whopper’
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April 01, 2019
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
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May 2021
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The New York Times: Biden Aims to Rebuild and Expand Legal Immigration
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May 31, 2021
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Immigration Policy
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December 2020
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The New York Times: California’s Housing Crisis: How a Bureaucrat Pushed to Build
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December 13, 2020
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Land Use Reform
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October 2016
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The New York Times: Competing Views on How to Regulate Illegal Migration
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October 30, 2016
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Immigration Policy
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December 2018
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The New York Times: Forget Trinkets. These Gifts Change Lives.
Date
December 01, 2018
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Global Health & Development
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June 2017
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The New York Times: New Electrical Brain Stimulation Technique Shows Promise in Mice
Date
June 15, 2017
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Scientific Research
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December 2017
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The New York Times: Scientists Are Designing Artisanal Proteins for Your Body
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December 15, 2017
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Scientific Research
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February 2021
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The New York Times: Scientists Are Trying to Spot New Viruses Before They Cause Pandemics
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February 15, 2021
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Scientific Research
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May 2021
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The New York Times: The Future of Virus Tracking Can Be Found on This College Campus
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May 05, 2021
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Scientific Research
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April 2015
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The New York Times: The Trader Who Donates Half His Pay
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April 04, 2015
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
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June 2019
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The New York Times: Trump Isn’t Alone. These Millennials on the Left Want Low Interest Rates, Too
Date
June 12, 2019
Focus Area
Macroeconomic Stabilization Policy
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March 2021
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The New York Times: Unlocking the Covid Code
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March 12, 2021
Focus Area
Scientific Research
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December 2021
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The New York Times: We Will Look Back on This Age of Cruelty to Animals in Horror
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December 16, 2021
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
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May 2023
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The New York Times: What if There Was Never a Pandemic Again?
Date
May 28, 2023
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Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
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December 2020
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The New York Times: Who Gets to Breathe Clean Air in New Delhi?
Date
December 17, 2020
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South Asian Air Quality
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June 2017
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The Open Philanthropy Project Is Now an Independent Organization
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June 12, 2017
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February 2015
Title
The Path to Biomedical Progress
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February 27, 2015
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Scientific Research
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September 2015
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The Process of Hiring our First Cause-Specific Program Officer
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September 03, 2015
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May 2021
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The Promise and Perils of Insect Farming
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May 10, 2021
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Farm Animal Welfare
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October 2013
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The Role of Philanthropic Funding in Politics
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October 30, 2013
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Global Health & Wellbeing
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April 2019
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The Sacramento Bee: The answer to opioid crisis? UC Davis researcher will soon test his non-addictive pain drug
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April 15, 2019
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Scientific Research
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March 2017
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The Scientist: Pathway to Polio Virulence Revealed
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March 23, 2017
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Scientific Research
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September 2017
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The Scientist: Scientists Look to Epigenetics to Thwart Viruses
Date
September 01, 2017
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Scientific Research
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November 2013
Title
The Track Record of Policy-Oriented Philanthropy
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November 06, 2013
Focus Area
History of Philanthropy
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May 2020
August 2018
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The War on Animal Product Alternatives
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August 15, 2018
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
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August 2022
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The war on meat and milk alternatives
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August 29, 2022
Focus Area
Alternatives to Animal Products
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June 2021
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The Washington Post: As grocery prices rise, alt-meat takes a bigger bite of Big Meat’s burger
Date
June 08, 2021
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
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December 2014
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The Washington Post: Cari Tuna and Dustin Moskovitz: Young Silicon Valley billionaires pioneer new approach to philanthropy
Date
December 26, 2014
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April 2021
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The Washington Post: Epicurious drops beef recipes, drawing ire from the pro-burger crowd — and some food activists
Date
April 27, 2021
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
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February 2019
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The Washington Post: Georgetown launches think tank on security and emerging technology
Date
February 28, 2019
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
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March 2021
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The Washington Post: Money can’t buy criminal justice reform. But it can fuel a movement.
Date
March 16, 2021
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
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September 2020
Title
The Washington Post: The Rise of the Rational Do-Gooders
Date
September 23, 2020
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
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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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February 2015
Title
Thoughts on the Sandler Foundation
Date
February 24, 2015
Focus Area
History of Philanthropy
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September 2016
January 2023
November 2013