The Commercial Development Fund is interested in acquiring discounted residential housing from the Federal Government through HUD, FHA, and other Loan Sales to provide long-term leased affordable housing opportunities to households earning less than or equal to 80 percent of the Area Median Family Income.
The Long-Term Future Fund aims to positively influence the long-term trajectory of civilization by making grants that address global catastrophic risks, especially potential risks from advanced artificial intelligence and pandemics. In addition, we seek to promote, implement, and advocate for longtermist ideas, and to otherwise increase the likelihood that future generations will flourish.
We are seeking proposals from applicants interested in growing the community of people motivated to improve the long-term future via the kinds of projects described below.
This program aims to provide grant support to academics for the development of new university courses (including online courses). At present, we are looking to fund the development of courses on a range of topics that are relevant to certain areas of Open Philanthropy’s grantmaking that form part of our work to improve the long-term future (potential risks from advanced AI, biosecurity and pandemic preparedness, other global catastrophic risks), or to issues that are of cross-cutting relevance to our work. We are primarily looking to fund the development of new courses, but we are also accepting proposals from applicants who are looking for funding to turn courses they have already taught in an in-person setting into freely-available online courses.
This program aims to provide support - primarily in the form of funding for graduate study, but also for other types of one-off career capital-building activities - for early-career individuals who want to pursue careers that help improve the long-term future and who don’t qualify for our existing program focused on careers related to biosecurity and pandemic preparedness.
Eliezer Yudkowsky continues to claim that anybody who comes to him with a really good AGI alignment idea can and will be funded.
Our work on GiveWell Incubation Grants involves considering organizations for support at any point in their development, with the hope of identifying additional future top charities to recommend to our donors.
We are interested in funding Incubation Grants in the following categories:
We have a dedicated fund to support promising projects and individuals. The Center on Long-Term Risk Fund (CLR Fund) operates in line with our mission to build a global community of researchers and professionals working to do the most good in terms of reducing suffering.
The Global Health and Development Fund aims to improve the health or economic empowerment of people around the world as effectively as possible.
The Animal Welfare Fund aims to effectively improve the well-being of nonhuman animals, by making grants that focus on one or more of the following:
The Effective Altruism Infrastructure Fund aims to increase the impact of projects that use the principles of effective altruism, by increasing their access to talent, capital, and knowledge.
We make grants to individuals and charities in the form of providing free or subsidised serviced accommodation and board, and a moderate stipend for other living expenses, at our hotel in Blackpool, UK.
The Wild Animal Initiative periodically issue calls for proposals on key topics, funds PhD and postdoctoral positions for mission-aligned researchers and funds exceptionally promising projects on an ad-hoc basis.
Funding to pay for part- and full-time organisers for city, national and university EA groups through CEA's Community Building Grant programme
Faculty members can receive free funding for their postdocs and graduate students via our Vitalik Buterin Fellowships program. All members are eligible to apply for hassle-free "minigrants" (typically $1k-$10k) with high funding probability by simply filling out a short web form.
Launched with $1 million grant from the Thiel Foundation, the mission is to jumpstart high-risk, high-reward ideas that advance prosperity, opportunity, and wellbeing. The fellowship provides participants with the short-term resources and support to quickly develop and test their ideas.
If you run a student group and need fast funding for productivity software, books, events, or other things - we're interested in potentially funding you.
Group Support Funding can cover a group's running expenses or fund a specific group project.
The Global Health and Development Fund aims to improve the health or economic empowerment of people around the world as effectively as possible.
"This fellowship provides funding for individuals who want to direct or support university student groups focused on topics relevant to improving the long-term future, including effective altruism, longtermism, rationality, or specific cause areas. Individuals are eligible for funding at any university and may apply without a particular university in mind."
"We are open to receiving unsolicited short pre-proposals at science@openphilanthropy.org. We try to consider all proposals but are unable to respond in most cases."