Open Philanthropy recommended two grants totaling $7,500,000 to the Centre for Effective Altruism for general support. CEA is a central organization within the effective altruism (EA) community that engages in a variety of activities aimed at helping the EA community.
This follows Open Philanthropy’s January 2020 support and falls under its work aimed at growing the community of people doing research on humanity’s long-run future. While Open Philanthropy sees the basic pros and cons of this support similarly to what it has presented in past writeups on the matter, its ultimate grant figure was set by the aggregated judgments of its committee reviewing the grant proposal.
Read more:
- Open Philanthropy Grant Page
- Open Philanthropy Grant to Centre for Effective Altruism — January 2020
- Open Philanthropy Grant to Centre for Effective Altruism — September 2019
- Open Philanthropy Grant to Centre for Effective Altruism — February 2019
- Open Philanthropy Grant to Centre for Effective Altruism — June 2018
- Open Philanthropy Grant to Centre for Effective Altruism — March 2017
- Open Philanthropy Focus Area: Effective Altruism
- Centre for Effective Altruism Website