VoxDev Development Economics
S4 Ep26: Maximising impact: Open Philanthropy's approach to choosing causes
Jul 3, 2024
Guest Emily Oehlsen from Open Philanthropy explains how they choose causes to maximize impact, including diversification in health interventions, successful lead contamination reduction project in Bangladesh, maximizing health and economic benefits, estimating health benefits with DALYs, and setting impact bars in philanthropy grant-making.
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- Open Philanthropy aims to maximize impact without fixed preferences by allocating funds to various promising causes.
- Using the INT framework, Open Philanthropy evaluates cause areas based on importance, neglectedness, and tractability to make impactful grant decisions.
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Open Philanthropy's Unusual Approach to Cause Prioritization
Open Philanthropy, unlike traditional grant makers, is cause neutral and aims to maximize impact without fixed preferences. By allocating funds to various areas such as health interventions, scientific research, global prosperity, and factory farming improvements, it seeks to support the most promising causes. Through dedicated research teams focused on cause prioritization, they aim to make impactful decisions that can have 10x or 100x differences in potential impact compared to traditional philanthropy.
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