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Jack Lewars

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Founder of Ultra Philanthropy, an independent advisory that helps major donors—increasingly from tech and AI—give for maximum impact; fund manager of its mid-stage global health fund; Chair of Trustees at High Impact Athletes.

GiveWell just an­nounced the biggest grant in its his­tory. Here’s what it means for your giv­ing.

Jack Lewars28 Aug 2026 16:01 UTC
24 points
0 comments6 min readEA link
(open.substack.com)

Donors should push an­i­mal welfare and global health char­i­ties to have more ro­bust scal­ing plans

Jack Lewars26 Aug 2026 16:47 UTC
22 points
1 comment8 min readEA link
(open.substack.com)

AI gov­er­nance work needs much bet­ter monitoring

Jack Lewars11 Aug 2026 17:39 UTC
17 points
4 comments8 min readEA link
(fundinganthropalypse.com)

Most donors get risk wrong

Jack Lewars4 Aug 2026 20:34 UTC
36 points
5 comments10 min readEA link
(open.substack.com)

Coeffi­cient Giv­ing just gave GiveWell $1 billion. Where should other donors give now?

Jack Lewars24 Jul 2026 15:37 UTC
41 points
5 comments2 min readEA link
(fundinganthropalypse.com)

Two Coeffi­cient Giv­ings beat one twice as big

Jack Lewars22 Jul 2026 13:26 UTC
41 points
5 comments11 min readEA link

How (not) to fundraise from An­thropic staff

Jack Lewars16 Jul 2026 8:08 UTC
73 points
11 comments5 min readEA link

Open Board re­cruit­ment should be a norm

Jack Lewars23 Jun 2023 13:12 UTC
86 points
14 comments1 min readEA link

EA Giv­ing Tues­day Hibernation

phgubbins9 Feb 2023 2:04 UTC
104 points
9 comments1 min readEA link

What might FTX mean for effec­tive giv­ing and EA funding

Jack Lewars15 Nov 2022 13:24 UTC
204 points
26 comments9 min readEA link

Changes to EA Giv­ing Tues­day for 2022

Giving What We Can🔸13 Oct 2022 23:37 UTC
79 points
4 comments1 min readEA link

Book a cor­po­rate event for Giv­ing Season

Jack Lewars11 Oct 2022 9:44 UTC
93 points
3 comments2 min readEA link

[Question] Would you like to host an effec­tive giv­ing talk in your work­place this Giv­ing Sea­son?

Jack Lewars6 Sep 2022 11:04 UTC
9 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

EA in the main­stream me­dia: if you’re not at the table, you’re on the menu

Jack Lewars30 Jul 2022 16:55 UTC
200 points
57 comments2 min readEA link

FTX/​CEA—show us your num­bers!

Jack Lewars18 Apr 2022 12:05 UTC
159 points
109 comments2 min readEA link

Les­sons and re­sults from work­place giv­ing talks

Jack Lewars10 Mar 2022 10:26 UTC
44 points
1 comment7 min readEA link

Why your EA group should pro­mote effec­tive giv­ing (and how)

Jack Lewars17 Feb 2022 16:02 UTC
132 points
29 comments11 min readEA link

Join our col­lab­o­ra­tion for high qual­ity EA out­reach events (OFTW + GWWC + EA Com­mu­nity)

Jack Lewars23 Feb 2021 2:49 UTC
62 points
3 comments7 min readEA link

One for the World—Jan­uary 2021 update

Jack Lewars12 Feb 2021 5:14 UTC
17 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.1fortheworld.org)

How we pro­moted EA at a large tech com­pany (v2.0)

Jack Lewars12 Jan 2021 3:15 UTC
54 points
4 comments8 min readEA link