“Announcing the Lead Exposure Action Fund” by Alexander_Berger, Emily Oehlsen

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One of Open Philanthropy's goals for this year is to experiment with collaborating with other funders. Today, we’re excited to announce our biggest collaboration to date: the Lead Exposure Action Fund (LEAF).

Lead exposure in low- and middle-income countries is a devastating but highly neglected issue. The Global Burden of Disease study estimates 1.5 million deaths per year attributable to lead poisoning. Despite this burden, lead poisoning has only received roughly $15 million per year in philanthropic funding until recently. That is less than 1% of the funding that goes towards diseases like tuberculosis or malaria, which are themselves considered neglected. The goal of LEAF is to accelerate progress toward a world free of lead exposure by making grants to support measurement, mitigation, and mainstreaming awareness of the problem.

Our partners have already committed $104 million, and we plan for LEAF to allocate that [...]

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Outline:

(01:54) Why we chose to work on lead

(04:54) What LEAF hopes to achieve

(05:30) The LEAF team

(06:01) An experiment for Open Philanthropy

(06:49) Grantmaking so far

The original text contained 3 footnotes which were omitted from this narration.

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First published:
September 23rd, 2024

Source:
https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/z5PvTSa54pdxxw72W/announcing-the-lead-exposure-action-fund

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