Recent press about our work

  1. 07/01/2025 In the Media

    Politico: Meet science’s new fraud fighter

    “The Medical Evidence Project will operate on two levels: Whistleblowers can use a tip line to alert Heathers’ team to problematic research and the team will build digital infrastructure to vet research more efficiently.

     

    The project is funded through a two-year $900,000 grant from Open Philanthropy. The nonprofit Center for Scientific Integrity, the parent organization of Retraction Watch, a blog that tracks retractions in scientific publications, is running the initiative.”

  2. 07/01/2025 In the Media

    Boston Globe: An NIH stop-work order threatened the lives of monkeys involved in a Harvard-led study. Then came a $500,000 donation.

    “Much to the relief of a Harvard University researcher, a California-based philanthropic group is getting into the monkey business.

     

    Open Philanthropy, a grant advisor and funder, told the Globe on Friday that it authorized a $500,000 grant to allow researchers at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine to complete an ongoing tuberculosis vaccine study that was abruptly cut off from its National Institutes of Health funding earlier this week, imperiling the lives of its rhesus macaque test subjects.”

  3. 07/01/2025 In the Media

    Inside Philanthropy: Philanthropy’s Most Powerful People Under 40

    “A former Wall Street Journal reporter, Tuna cofounded Good Ventures and is one of the main funders of Open Philanthropy along with her husband, Dustin Moskovitz. Moskovitz, whose fortune Forbes pegs at around $15 billion and is only 40 years old himself, was a cofounder and ‘marathon coder’ at Facebook.”

  4. 07/01/2025 In the Media

    New York Times: A Killer Within Easy Reach

    “Pesticides are among the leading means of suicide in agricultural areas of developing nations, implicated in more than 100,000 deaths annually. Yet for years, their threat has been largely overlooked.

    Now, a handful of researchers and philanthropists are pushing to change that,     arguing that restricting access to the most lethal pesticides could be one of the simplest, most cost-effective ways to save lives.”

  5. 07/01/2025 In the Media

    TIME100 Philanthropy 2025: Cari Tuna and Dustin Moskovitz

    “Former Wall Street Journal reporter Cari Tuna and husband Dustin Moskovitz, co-founder of Facebook and the productivity platform Asana, launched their foundation Good Ventures in 2011 with an ambitious mission to ‘improve as many lives as possible, as much as possible’ in an effort to help humanity ‘thrive.’ The couple, both Giving Pledge signatories, are also among the founders of Open Philanthropy, a grantmaker that advises major donors, including Tuna and Moskovitz, on how to maximize the impact of their giving.”

  6. 03/23/2025 In the Media

    Philanthropy News Digest: Open Philanthropy launches $120 million fund to promote abundance

    “Support for the fund includes a $60 million investment from Moskovitz and Tuna’s Good Ventures foundation, with matching support from Stripe founder Patrick Collison and other donors. Good Ventures activities are closely associated with the effective altruism movement, which advocates for a cost-benefit approach to philanthropy in order to produce the greatest good. Open Philanthropy—which supports the Yes In My Backyard housing development movement—identifies governmental regulation and ‘institutional sclerosis’ as the key drivers of scarcity, rising costs, slow economic growth, and stifled innovation.”