I’ve seen surprisingly little talk about the Open Philanthropy Regranting Challenge here or on other EA discussions forums. In short, they want to give away $150 million to other foundations working on human health, economic development and climate change, to roughly double the grantmaking of other effective foundations. This seems interesting for several reasons:
It could be quite high leverage to find/recommend foundations that meet their criteria (e.g. they give over $10million/year)
It’s the first case of an EA foundation doing this and generally this seems quite rare within the grant-making space. Seems like Open Phil is really embodying their principle of hits-based giving (as well as their commitment to learning/improving).
This seems to be the biggest / first major foray that Open Phil is making into climate change to my knowledge and I’m wondering what spurred this. Seems to be coming more from a global development standpoint based on the other focus areas, as opposed to an existential risk angle. Could have been influenced by the other major donor (see below).
It’s the first time Open Phil has mentioned major donors besides Cari Tuna and Dustin Moskovitz, by saying that Lucinda Southworth was contributed to this too. Makes me think how many major donors of this size Open Phil is working with, and if it’s now part of their strategy to find more billionaire-sized donors.
What do other people think of this? Any particular foundations that people would want Open Phil to consider strongly for this?
I’ve seen surprisingly little talk about the Open Philanthropy Regranting Challenge here or on other EA discussions forums. In short, they want to give away $150 million to other foundations working on human health, economic development and climate change, to roughly double the grantmaking of other effective foundations. This seems interesting for several reasons:
It could be quite high leverage to find/recommend foundations that meet their criteria (e.g. they give over $10million/year)
It’s the first case of an EA foundation doing this and generally this seems quite rare within the grant-making space. Seems like Open Phil is really embodying their principle of hits-based giving (as well as their commitment to learning/improving).
This seems to be the biggest / first major foray that Open Phil is making into climate change to my knowledge and I’m wondering what spurred this. Seems to be coming more from a global development standpoint based on the other focus areas, as opposed to an existential risk angle. Could have been influenced by the other major donor (see below).
It’s the first time Open Phil has mentioned major donors besides Cari Tuna and Dustin Moskovitz, by saying that Lucinda Southworth was contributed to this too. Makes me think how many major donors of this size Open Phil is working with, and if it’s now part of their strategy to find more billionaire-sized donors.
What do other people think of this? Any particular foundations that people would want Open Phil to consider strongly for this?