We want to maximize the impact of our portfolio.

We’re open to supporting safe bets, like direct cash transfers to the world’s poorest people, as well as high-risk, high-reward projects, like minimizing risks from potentially world-changing science and technology. Read more about how we choose what to fund here.

Topics

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  1. Brookings Institution — Research on Marijuana Policy Change

    Award Date:
    03/2014
    Amount:
    $212,500
    Drug Policy Reform

  2. Center for Global Development — Labor Mobility Research

    Award Date:
    03/2014
    Amount:
    $1,184,720
    Immigration Policy

  3. Service Delivery Indicators Project

    Award Date:
    03/2014
    Amount:
    $500,000
    Global Health & Development

  4. Freedom to Marry — General Support

    Award Date:
    03/2014
    Amount:
    $200,000
    Marriage Equality

  5. New Incentives — General Support

    Award Date:
    01/2014
    Amount:
    $100,000
    Global Health & Development

  6. GiveDirectly — General Support

    Award Date:
    01/2014
    Amount:
    $7,000,000
    Global Health & Development

  7. BetaGov

    Award Date:
    12/2013
    Amount:
    $200,000
    Criminal Justice Reform

  8. Research on crime, incarceration and cannabis regulation

    Award Date:
    12/2013
    Amount:
    $245,000
    Criminal Justice Reform

  9. Deworm the World Initiative — General Support

    Award Date:
    12/2013
    Amount:
    $1,500,000
    Global Health & Development

  10. Schistosomiasis Control Initiative — General Support

    Award Date:
    12/2013
    Amount:
    $750,000
    Global Health & Development