“Open Philanthropy is providing $150 million to four fellow grant-makers, including the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, to boost funding for what it views as high-impact programs in health care, climate change, and other areas of global development.”
“Influential research and grant-making organization Open Philanthropy announced this week that it has hired lead officers for its first ‘new causes’ in more than five years: South Asian air quality and global aid advocacy. The group expects the two programs to support its efforts to cost-effectively direct millions of dollars toward grants aimed at boosting incomes or increasing the years of healthy life for the world’s lowest-income people.”
“On average you’d expect about one in a million centuries there would be a dinosaur killer–scale asteroid impact. And if you ask, ‘Well, how bad would it be if our civilization was laid waste by an asteroid?’ Then you can say, well it’s probably worth more than one year of GDP.”
“Holden Karnofsky helped create two of the most influential organisations in the effective philanthropy world. So when he outlines a different perspective on career advice than the one we present at 80,000 Hours — we take it seriously…Holden prefers to focus on ‘aptitudes’ that you can build in all sorts of different roles and cause areas, which can later be applied more directly.”
“Holden Karnofsky — founder of charity evaluator GiveWell and foundation Open Philanthropy — hopes to lay out part of the worldview that’s driving the strategy and grantmaking of Open Philanthropy’s longtermist team, and encourage more people to join his efforts to positively shape humanity’s future.”
“Today’s guest, Alexander Berger, leads Open Philanthropy’s ‘Global Health and Wellbeing’ programme, where he oversees around $175 million in grants each year, and ultimately aspires to disburse billions in the most impactful ways he and his team can identify. This programme is the flagship effort representing one major effective altruist approach: try to improve the health and wellbeing of humans and animals that are alive today, in clearly identifiable ways, applying an especially analytical and empirical mindset.”