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  1. Women Making Philanthropic Strides

    In Cari Tuna’s assessment, the issues governments and companies aren’t paying enough attention to are an opening for impact. “Philanthropy, at its best, identifies society’s blind spots,” Tuna says. Originally a San Francisco–based Wall Street Journal reporter, she left the paper in 2011 to start Good Ventures, approaching her first year much like a reporter would: “I talked to hundreds of people across philanthropy, nonprofits, government, science, academia, trying to learn about the landscape.”

    Vanity Fair
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  2. What a Facebook Cofounder’s Latest $19 Billion for His Foundation Says About Philanthropy’s Future

    Good Ventures is now among the top 20 largest foundations in the country, close on the heels of another storied philanthropy from another century, the Rockefeller Foundation. Moskovitz and Tuna offer a powerful philanthropic example to other entrants on the billionaires list, not to mention legions of other young but not-quite-so-fortunate tech entrepreneurs.

    Inside Philanthropy
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  3. How Effective is Effective Altruism? A Deep Dive Into Two of Open Philanthropy’s EA-Inspired Programs

    The organization is led by a couple who were among the movement’s earliest adopters: Cari Tuna, a former reporter for the Wall Street Journal, and Dustin Moskovitz, cofounder of Facebook and Asana. After deciding to give their fortune away during their lifetimes as effectively as possible, Tuna and Moskovitz began a journey that put them at the vanguard of the movement. Today, they’re the primary funders of Open Philanthropy, which makes grants and other investments in two broad categories: global health and wellbeing, and longtermism, or the moral imperative to consider future generations.
    Inside Philanthropy
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  4. Gates, USAID Among Open Philanthropy’s $150M Regrant Contest Winners

    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. The grant-making and research organization, which was founded by billionaire couple Dustin Moskovitz and Cari Tuna, normally gives directly to charities rather than fellow grant-makers. It launched its $150 million regranting challenge last year as part of an effort to fund existing philanthropic programs rather than trying to duplicate their work.

    Devex
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  5. Open Philanthropy Launches Programs for South Asia, Global Aid Work

    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.

    Devex
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  6. Dustin Moskovitz, the Philanthropist Conquering Silicon Valley

    Inspired by The Life You Can Save, the Australian philosopher Peter Singer’s book about ethical giving, [Dustin Moskovitz and Cari Tuna] established Good Ventures in 2011 to oversee their donations and investments. Open Philanthropy, which helps advise the group, maintains a public spreadsheet ranking U.S. policy issues where it believes capital can have the greatest impact. Criminal justice reform and macroeconomic stabilization policy currently top the list.

    Financial Times
    Dustin Moskovitz speaks at a tech conference

  7. One of Philanthropy’s Biosecurity Leaders Steps Up Emergency Pandemic Giving

    Open Philanthropy (OP), which is largely funded by Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz and his wife Cari Tuna, has been one of the few grantmaking organizations in recent years with an active program in biosecurity and pandemic preparedness. That giving emerged from OP’s longstanding concern with what it terms “global catastrophic risks” that have the capacity to destabilize society to a degree sufficient to cause long-term harm to humanity, or even “lead to human extinction.” While such doomsday fears once made OP something of an odd outlier in philanthropy, they no longer seem far-fetched to anyone after the last few months of catastrophe.

    Inside Philanthropy
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  9. Open Philanthropy Project’s Cari Tuna on Funding Global Health

    Cari Tuna, along with her husband Dustin Moskovitz, 35, a co-founder of Facebook and work-management firm Asana, launched the Open Philanthropy Project with charity evaluator GiveWell in 2014. Open Phil, now independent, uses grants and catalytic investments to take risky bets, such as the $17.5 million grant it made earlier this year to Sherlock Biosciences, which is creating an inexpensive viral diagnostic tool that could reduce the threat of a pandemic.

     

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