We envision a world in which philanthropists increasingly document and share their research, reasoning, results, and mistakes to help each other learn more quickly and serve others more effectively.
In this space, we often cross-post items from the blog of our partner, the Open Philanthropy Project, to give readers a fuller picture of the reasoning behind our work.
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Heather Youngs discusses our search for projects within scientific research through a request for proposals to NIH transformative research applicants.
Topics: Scientific Research, Open Philanthropy ProjectNick Beckstead gives an update on Open Philanthropy's work investigating biological research, an area it believes is underfunded.
Topics: Scientific Research, Open Philanthropy ProjectPart one of David Roodman's summary of his review of the evidence on the impacts of incarceration on crime for the Open Philanthropy Project.
Topics: Criminal Justice Reform, Policy, Open Philanthropy ProjectAjeya Cotra re-examines the evidence on hen welfare in different housing systems.
Topics: Farm Animal Welfare, Policy, Open Philanthropy ProjectThe Open Philanthropy Project and Good Ventures support the most promising work according to different perspectives.
Topics: Open Philanthropy Project
The Open Philanthropy Project and Good Ventures try to maximize our impact by taking risks and learning from failure.
Topics: Open Philanthropy ProjectHolden Karnofsky discusses project-based, people-based, and process-based approaches to delegating the task of finding giving opportunities.
Topics: Open Philanthropy Project
Lewis Bollard reflects on the success of US corporate cage-free campaigns.
Topics: Farm Animal Welfare, Policy, Open Philanthropy ProjectA review of the Open Philanthropy Project's progress in 2016 and its plans for 2017.
Topics: Open Philanthropy Project, Global Catastrophic Risks, Global Health & Development, Policy, Scientific Research
Holden Karnofsky discusses the Open Philanthropy Project's views on empathy and moral concern.
Topics: Open Philanthropy Project