EA - Our Progress in 2022 and Plans for 2023 by Open Philanthropy

Link to original articleWelcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Our Progress in 2022 and Plans for 2023, published by Open Philanthropy on May 12, 2023 on The Effective Altruism Forum.2022 was a big year for Open Philanthropy:We recommended over $650 million in grants — more, by far, than in any other year of our history. [More]We hired our first program officers for three new focus areas in our Global Health and Wellbeing portfolio. [More]Within our Longtermism portfolio, we significantly expanded our grantmaking and used a series of open calls to identify hundreds of promising grants to individuals and small projects. [More]We ran the Regranting Challenge, a novel experiment which allocated $150 million to outstanding programs at other grantmaking organizations. [More]We nearly doubled the size of our team. [More]This post compares our progress with the goals we set forth a year ago, and lays out our plans for the coming year, including:A significant update on how we handle allocating our grantmaking across causes. [More]A potential leadership transition. [More]Continued growth in grantmaking and staff. [More]Continued grantmakingLast year, we wrote:We aim to roughly double the amount [of funding] we recommend [in 2022] relative to [2021], and triple it by 2025.In 2022, we recommended over $650 million in grants (up from roughly $400 million in 2021).We changed our plans midway through the year, due to a stock market decline[ref]This just reflects a decline in the market; our main donors are still planning to give away virtually all of their wealth within their lifetimes.[/ref] that reduced our available assets and led us to adjust the cost-effectiveness bar we use for our spending on global health and wellbeing. When we wrote last year’s post, we had tentatively planned to allocate $500 million to GiveWell’s recommended charities; the actual allocation wound up being $350 million (up from $300 million in 2021).Currently, we expect to recommend over $700 million in grants in 2023, and no longer have a definite grantmaking goal for 2024 and 2025.Highlights from this year’s grantmakingThis section outlines some of the major grants we made across our program areas.In grants to charities recommended by GiveWell:$10.4 million to the Clinton Health Access Initiative to support their Incubator program, which looks for cost-effective and scalable health interventions.$13.7 million to New Incentives for conditional cash transfers to boost vaccination rates in Nigeria.$4.4 million to Evidence Action to support their in-line chlorination program in Malawi.We also made a $48.8 million grant to the same program with funds from our 2021 allocation.Many other grants we haven’t listed here (see our full list of GiveWell-recommended grants).In potential risks from advanced AI:Redwood Research to support their research on aligning AI systems.Center for a New American Security to support their work on AI policy and governance.A number of projects related to understanding and aligning deep learning systems.In biosecurity and pandemic preparedness:Columbia University to support research on far-UVC light to reduce airborne disease transmission.Bipartisan Commission on Biodefense to support work on biodefense policy in the US.The Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security to support their degree program for students pursuing careers in biosecurity.In effective altruism community growth (with a focus on longtermism):80,000 Hours (marketing and general support) for its work to help people have more impact with their careers.Support for the translation of effective altruism-related content into non-English languages.Bluedot Impact to run courses related to several of our priority cause areas.Asterisk to publish a quarterly journal focused on topics related to effective altruism, among others.A program open to applicat...