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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.”
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.”
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.”
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.”
03/11/2025 In the Media
Bloomberg: Open Philanthropy Launches $120 Million Fund To Support YIMBY Reforms

“With support from the philanthropic foundation Good Ventures, Stripe CEO and founder Patrick Collison and other donors, this new Abundance and Growth Fund will drive advocacy, research and policies to reduce burdensome regulatory barriers to infrastructure and housing construction, among other subjects. The foundation is hiring a new program lead to direct the fund.”
02/28/2025 In the Media
Slate: Cracking the Code: One man’s quest to fix the way we build

“[…] Smith, advised by a three-person board and funded by a grant from Open Philanthropy, now works under the Center for Building in North America. It is an effort to improve the way the country builds by dissecting what Smith estimates is over 100,000 pages of technical specifications, and determining which parts might be doing more harm than good.”

“Pressure is mounting on U.S. building codes from all sides. Advocates for flagging downtowns would like to change the rules to make it easier to convert office buildings into apartments. California is grappling with how stringent codes might be impeding the recovery from the Los Angeles wildfires (and how lax rules might have caused the disaster in the first place). Conservatives are furious over energy-efficiency updates, and some red states have sued the federal government over their enforcement. Modular construction companies are grappling with the country’s fragmented code landscape, in which rules can vary between states and cities.”
02/27/2025 In the Media
Devex: Cracking the code on what’s poisoning millions of children

Some of the biggest players in global health have teamed up to tackle lead — a poison that kills nearly 1 million people every year, but has been largely overlooked in global health priorities.

The Partnership for a Lead-Free Future — which was launched in 2024 by the U.S. Agency for International Development and UNICEF, with financial backing from philanthropic donors such as Open Philanthropy and the Gates Foundation — aims to raise global attention, leadership, and resources to support low- and middle-income countries to end childhood lead poisoning by 2040. It currently involves 30 governments and 36 civil society organizations, foundations, multilateral and private organizations. Their plan: support country-led initiatives to phase out lead in consumer products, promote safe industrial practices, and protect communities vulnerable to lead poisoning through knowledge sharing, evidence gathering, and policy change.
11/01/2024 In the Media
Inside Philanthropy: Open Philanthropy Tackles the “Low-Hanging Fruit” in Public Health

“[Dr. Olufemi] Adewole’s research team is just one of the recipients of a global health and wellbeing grant in 2023 from Open Philanthropy, a foundation established according to the principles of effective altruism — that is, tackling important neglected problems with evidence-based solutions that can save a high number of lives.”

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“Other grantees in the foundation’s global health and wellness portfolio, which totaled roughly $358 million in 2023, include what Open Philanthropy CEO and cofounder Alexander Berger describes as “low-hanging fruit.” “If you look at where deaths from preventable causes, especially easily preventable causes, happen around the world, they’re happening very disproportionately in low- and middle-income countries, especially to young kids,” said Berger.”
09/11/2024 In the Media
Vanity Fair: 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.”

“You can really see how her experience as a journalist has informed her approach,” French Gates says of Tuna. “She’s rigorous about looking at the data and figuring out how to be as effective as possible.” Once connected with GiveWell, she launched Open Philanthropy, a grant-making and philanthropic advisory organization.”
08/05/2024 In the Media
Inside Philanthropy: What a Facebook Cofounder’s Latest $1.9 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 also 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.”