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       Title   Date   Author       Forecasting the COVID-19 Pandemic   March 18, 2020   Luke Muehlhauser     Suggestions for Individual Donors from Open Philanthropy Staff - 2019   December 18, 2019   Holden Karnofsky     2019 Allocation to GiveWell Top Charities   December 10, 2019   Holden Karnofsky     Co-funding Partnership with Ben Delo   November 11, 2019   Holden Karnofsky     How Feasible Is Long-range Forecasting?   October 10, 2019   Luke Muehlhauser     Will Companies Make Good on Cage-Free Pledges?   August 20, 2019   Lewis Bollard     Questions We Ask Ourselves Before Making a Grant   August 6, 2019   Michael Levine     GiveWell's Top Charities Are (Increasingly) Hard to Beat   July 9, 2019   Alexander Berger     Explaining Our Bet on Sherlock Biosciences' Innovations in Viral Diagnostics   June 10, 2019   Heather Youngs and Chris Somerville     Our Progress in 2018 and Plans for 2019   April 15, 2019   Holden Karnofsky     New Staff in Operations, Programs, and Research   April 10, 2019   Michael Levine     History of Philanthropy Literature Review: Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs   April 8, 2019   Holden Karnofsky     Reflections on Our 2018 Generalist Research Analyst Recruiting   March 7, 2019   Luke Muehlhauser     Supporting a New Technology Security Policy Think Tank   February 28, 2019   Luke Muehlhauser     Suggestions for Individual Donors from Open Philanthropy Project Staff - 2018   December 20, 2018   Holden Karnofsky     New web app for calibration training   December 14, 2018   Luke Muehlhauser     2018 Allocation to GiveWell Top Charities   December 12, 2018   Holden Karnofsky     October 2018 Open Thread   October 15, 2018   Michael Levine     History of Philanthropy Case Study: The Campaign for Marriage Equality   September 20, 2018   Holden Karnofsky     Update on Partnerships with External Donors   May 16, 2018   Holden Karnofsky      April 2018 Open Thread   April 17, 2018   Holden Karnofsky     Managing Funder-Grantee Dynamics Responsibly   March 30, 2018   Michael Levine     Our Progress in 2017 and Plans for 2018   March 20, 2018   Holden Karnofsky     An Update to How We’re Thinking About Grant Check-Ins   March 9, 2018   Morgan Davis     New Job Opportunities   February 14, 2018   Holden Karnofsky     History of Philanthropy Case Study: The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities and State EITC Programs   February 2, 2018   Luke Muehlhauser     Update on Cause Prioritization at Open Philanthropy   January 26, 2018   Holden Karnofsky     Fish: The Forgotten Farm Animal   January 18, 2018   Lewis Bollard     History of Philanthropy Case Study: Clinton Health Access Initiative’s Role in Global Price Drops for Antiretroviral Drugs   January 10, 2018   Holden Karnofsky     Suggestions for Individual Donors from Open Philanthropy Project Staff - 2017   December 21, 2017   Holden Karnofsky     Our ‘Second Chance’ Program for NIH Transformative Research Applicants   December 20, 2017   Heather Youngs     Staff Members’ Personal Donations for Giving Season 2017   December 18, 2017   Holden Karnofsky     Update on Investigating Neglected Goals in Biological Research   November 30, 2017   Nick Beckstead     October 2017 Open Thread   October 16, 2017   Holden Karnofsky     Reasonable Doubt: A New Look at Whether Prison Growth Cuts Crime   September 25, 2017   David Roodman      Deterrence Is De Minimis   September 24, 2017   David Roodman     Incapacitation: How Much Does Putting People Inside Prison Cut Crime Outside?   September 23, 2017   David Roodman     Aftereffects: In the U.S., Evidence Says Doing More Time Typically Leads to More Crime After   September 22, 2017   David Roodman     New Report on the Welfare Differences Between Cage and Cage-Free Housing   September 15, 2017   Ajeya Cotra     Projects, People and Processes   June 26, 2017   Holden Karnofsky     Updating My Risk Estimate for the Geomagnetic "Big One"   June 21, 2017   David Roodman     The Open Philanthropy Project Is Now an Independent Organization   June 12, 2017   Holden Karnofsky     New Report on Consciousness and Moral Patienthood   June 6, 2017   Luke Muehlhauser     New Report on Early Field Growth   April 26, 2017   Luke Muehlhauser     Why Are the US Corporate Cage-Free Campaigns Succeeding?   April 11, 2017   Lewis Bollard     March 2017 Open Thread   March 20, 2017   Holden Karnofsky     Our Progress in 2016 and Plans for 2017   March 14, 2017   Holden Karnofsky     Technical and Philosophical Questions That Might Affect Our Grantmaking   March 2, 2017   Luke Muehlhauser     Radical Empathy   February 16, 2017   Holden Karnofsky     Giving Suggestions Pertaining to Recent Executive Actions   February 9, 2017   Holden Karnofsky     Good Ventures and Giving Now vs. Later (2016 Update)   December 28, 2016   Holden Karnofsky     Suggestions for Individual Donors from Open Philanthropy Project Staff - 2016   December 14, 2016   Holden Karnofsky     Worldview Diversification   December 13, 2016   Holden Karnofsky     Efforts to Improve the Accuracy of Our Judgments and Forecasts   October 25, 2016   Luke Muehlhauser     Maybe the Murder Rate Levelled Off This Year?   September 26, 2016   David Roodman     September 2016 Open Thread   September 20, 2016   Holden Karnofsky     Update on How We're Thinking about Openness and Information Sharing   September 16, 2016   Holden Karnofsky     Three Key Issues I've Changed My Mind About   September 6, 2016   Holden Karnofsky     New Team Members   July 15, 2016   Holden Karnofsky     Concrete Problems in AI Safety   June 23, 2016   Holden Karnofsky     History of Philanthropy Case Study: The Founding of the Center for Global Development   June 15, 2016   Holden Karnofsky     History of Philanthropy Case Study: The Founding of the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities   May 20, 2016   Holden Karnofsky     Potential Risks from Advanced Artificial Intelligence: The Philanthropic Opportunity   May 6, 2016   Holden Karnofsky     Some Background on Our Views Regarding Advanced Artificial Intelligence   May 6, 2016   Holden Karnofsky     Our Progress in 2015 and Plans for 2016   April 29, 2016   Holden Karnofsky     Hits-based Giving   April 4, 2016   Holden Karnofsky     Initial Grants to Support Corporate Cage-free Reforms   March 31, 2016   Lewis Bollard     March 2016 Open Thread   March 15, 2016   Catherine Hollander     Annual Review and Plan Will be Delayed   February 23, 2016   Holden Karnofsky     Supporting the Launch of the Alliance for Safety and Justice   February 10, 2016   Helen Toner     Our Grantmaking So Far: Approach and Process   February 9, 2016   Helen Toner     America's Recently Heralded Urban "Crime Wave" May Already Have Peaked   February 2, 2016   David Roodman     Suggestions for Individual Donors from Open Philanthropy Project Staff   December 23, 2015   Holden Karnofsky     Should the Open Philanthropy Project be Recommending More/Larger Grants?   November 17, 2015   Holden Karnofsky     Why a New Study of the Mariel Boatlift Has Not Changed Our Views on the Benefits of Immigration   October 21, 2015   David Roodman     Differential Technological Development: Some Early Thinking   September 30, 2015   Nick Beckstead     Open Philanthropy Project Update   September 17, 2015   Holden Karnofsky     Incoming Program Officer: Lewis Bollard   September 11, 2015   Holden Karnofsky     The Process of Hiring our First Cause-Specific Program Officer   September 3, 2015   Holden Karnofsky     History of Philanthropy Case Study: The Impact of Philanthropy on the Passage of the Affordable Care Act   September 2, 2015   Milan Griffes     Coming Down to Earth: What if a Big Geomagnetic Storm Does Hit?    August 21, 2015   David Roodman     Change in our Fundraising Policy for the Open Philanthropy Project   August 17, 2015   Elie Hassenfeld     The Long-Term Significance of Reducing Global Catastrophic Risks   August 13, 2015   Nick Beckstead     Could Raising Alcohol Taxes Save Lives?   July 30, 2015   David Roodman     Key Questions about Philanthropy, Part 3: Making and Evaluating Grants   July 22, 2015   Holden Karnofsky     Geomagnetic Storms: Using Extreme Value Theory to Gauge the Risk   July 13, 2015   David Roodman     Key Questions about Philanthropy, Part 2: Choosing Focus Areas and Hiring Program Staff   July 9, 2015   Holden Karnofsky     Geomagnetic Storms: History's Surprising, if Tentative, Reassurance   July 2, 2015   David Roodman     Geomagnetic Storms: An Introduction to the Risk   June 29, 2015   David Roodman     Key Questions about Philanthropy, Part 1: What is the Role of a Funder?   June 23, 2015   Holden Karnofsky     Incoming Program Officer for Criminal Justice Reform: Chloe Cockburn   June 16, 2015   Holden Karnofsky     History of Philanthropy Case Study: Pew and Drug Safety Legislation   May 15, 2015   Elie Hassenfeld     Funder-Initiated Startups   May 14, 2015   Holden Karnofsky     Our Updated Agenda for Science Philanthropy   May 6, 2015   Holden Karnofsky     Co-funding Partnership with Kaitlyn Trigger and Mike Krieger    April 21, 2015   Holden Karnofsky     Science Policy and Infrastructure   April 21, 2015   Holden Karnofsky     Statement from Kaitlyn Trigger & Mike Krieger: Why We're Partnering with the Open Philanthropy Project   April 21, 2015   Kaitlyn & Mike Krieger     Breakthrough Fundamental Science   April 14, 2015   Holden Karnofsky     Translational Science and the "Valley of Death"   April 9, 2015   Holden Karnofsky     Investigating Neglected Goals in Scientific Research   March 26, 2015   Holden Karnofsky     Open Philanthropy Project: Progress in 2014 and Plans for 2015   March 12, 2015   Holden Karnofsky     Open Philanthropy Project Update: Global Catastrophic Risks   March 11, 2015   Holden Karnofsky     Open Philanthropy Project Update: U.S. Policy   March 10, 2015   Holden Karnofsky     The Path to Biomedical Progress   February 27, 2015   Holden Karnofsky     Thoughts on the Sandler Foundation   February 24, 2015   Holden Karnofsky     Notes from November Convening on Our Policy Priorities   February 19, 2015   Holden Karnofsky     Update on Open Philanthropy Project   October 30, 2014   Holden Karnofsky     Expert Philanthropy vs. Broad Philanthropy   October 16, 2014   Holden Karnofsky     Challenges of Transparency   September 11, 2014   Holden Karnofsky     David Roodman's Draft Writeup on Immigration and Current Residents' Wages   September 3, 2014   Holden Karnofsky     Open Philanthropy Project (formerly GiveWell Labs)   August 20, 2014    Holden Karnofsky     Partnership with The Pew Charitable Trusts   July 24, 2014   Holden Karnofsky     The Moral Value of the Far Future   July 3, 2014   Holden Karnofsky     Potential Global Catastrophic Risk Focus Areas   June 26, 2014   Alexander Berger     Potential U.S. Policy Focus Areas    May 29, 2014   Holden Karnofsky     Narrowing down U.S. Policy Areas   May 22, 2014   Holden Karnofsky     The Importance of Committing to Causes   May 14, 2014   Holden Karnofsky     Our Writeup on Criminal Justice Reform   May 6, 2014   Holden Karnofsky     Finding Giving Opportunities in Malaria Control/Elimination   April 30, 2014   Elie Hassenfeld     Meta-Research Innovation Center at Stanford (METRICS)   April 23, 2014   Holden Karnofsky     The First Case Study from Our History of Philanthropy Project   March 25, 2014   Elie Hassenfeld     GiveWell Labs - Progress in 2013 and Plans for 2014   March 5, 2014   Holden Karnofsky     Returns to Life Sciences Funding   January 15, 2014   Holden Karnofsky     Exploring Life Sciences Funding   January 7, 2014   Holden Karnofsky     Scientific Research Funding   December 26, 2013   Holden Karnofsky     How to Approach Policy-Oriented Philanthropy   November 21, 2013   Holden Karnofsky     The Track Record of Policy-Oriented Philanthropy    November 6, 2013   Holden Karnofsky     The Role of Philanthropic Funding in Politics   October 30, 2013   Holden Karnofsky     Exploring Policy-Oriented Philanthropy   October 24, 2013   Holden Karnofsky     Geoengineering Research   October 16, 2013   Holden Karnofsky     Deep Investigations of New Causes   October 10, 2013   Holden Karnofsky     GiveWell Labs Update   September 26, 2013   Holden Karnofsky     Empowerment and Catastrophic Risk   July 18, 2013   Holden Karnofsky     Our Landscape of the Open Science Community   July 11, 2013   Holden Karnofsky     Grant to Center for Global Development (CGD)   July 3, 2013   Holden Karnofsky     Near-Term Grantmaking   June 20, 2013   Holden Karnofsky     Meta-Research Update   June 6, 2013   Holden Karnofsky     Refining the Goals of GiveWell Labs   May 30, 2013   Holden Karnofsky     Possible Global Catastrophic Risks   May 23, 2013   Holden Karnofsky     GiveWell Labs Update   April 24, 2013   Holden Karnofsky     Challenges of Passive Funding   April 18, 2013   Holden Karnofsky     GiveWell's History of Philanthropy/Philanthropy Journalism Project   April 9, 2013   Elie Hassenfeld     Update on GiveWell's Plans for 2013   March 14, 2013   Holden Karnofsky     GiveWell's Plan for 2013: A Top-Level Decision   February 21, 2013   Holden Karnofsky     US Cochrane Center (USCC) Gets Our First "Quick Grant" Recommendation   September 27, 2012   Holden Karnofsky     Recent Board Meeting on GiveWell's Evolution   September 21, 2012   Holden Karnofsky     Some History Behind Our Shifting Approach to Research   July 20, 2012   Holden Karnofsky     GiveWell and Good Ventures   June 28, 2012   Holden Karnofsky     Objections and Concerns About Our New Direction   June 22, 2012   Holden Karnofsky     Meta-Research   June 11, 2012   Holden Karnofsky     GiveWell Labs Update and Priority Causes   May 9, 2012   Holden Karnofsky     What Large-Scale Philanthropy Focuses On Today   May 8, 2012   Holden Karnofsky     Strategic Cause Selection   May 2, 2012   Holden Karnofsky     Philanthropy's Success Stories   March 1, 2012   Holden Karnofsky     GiveWell's Plan for 2012: Specifics of Research    February 22, 2012   Holden Karnofsky     GiveWell's Plan for 2012: Top-Level Priorities   February 21, 2012   Holden Karnofsky     Accountability in Philanthropy   February 3, 2012   Holden Karnofsky     Trading Off Upside vs. Track Record    January 19, 2012   Holden Karnofsky     GiveWell Labs: Our Criteria for Giving Opportunities    October 11, 2011   Holden Karnofsky     GiveWell Labs: Plans for Our Process and Transparency   September 20, 2011   Holden Karnofsky     Why GiveWell Labs?   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