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EA Organization Updates: August 2023
9 min readAug 14, 2023
We’re featuring some opportunities and job listings at the top of this post. Some have (very) pressing deadlines.
You can see previous updates on the "EA Organization Updates (monthly series)" topic page, or in our repository of past newsletters. Notice that there’s also an “org update” tag, where you can find more news and updates that are not part of this consolidated series.
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Centre for the Governance of AI
Epoch
Family Empowerment Media
Fish Welfare Initiative
GiveWell
IDinsight
Open Philanthropy
This month on The 80,000 Hours Podcast, Rob interviewed:
And Luisa interviewed:
80,000 Hours also re-released an updated version of a classic three-part article series written by Gregory Lewis, exploring how many lives a doctor saves. They also updated their article on working in US AI policy.
Animal Charity Evaluators (ACE) has announced its 2023 Movement Grants recipients.
BERI is once again accepting applications from university-affiliated research groups and individual academics interested in receiving support and services. For more information about BERI’s trial collaborations, see this one-pager or their FAQ. Applications are due August 31st.
CEA published a new and improved public dashboard presenting key metrics from the Events, Online, and Groups teams. The dashboard launch was accompanied by a midyear update.
Charity Entrepreneurship is on the lookout for individuals that, with training, could start our new CE top intervention ideas through the upcoming February-March 2024 and August-September 2024 Incubation Programs. In February-March 2024, you can launch
You can also apply for the August-September 2024 program that will focus on the most cost-effective interventions targeting the Sustainable Development Goals, and organophosphate pesticides and other neurotoxicants. Concrete ideas will be announced in 2024.
Applications are now open, with the deadline on September 30, 2023.
FEM has published a new blog post reviewing their last year and a half. The post also shares their current work, which includes preparing for a randomized controlled trial of their intervention.
On September 14th Faunalytics will host Fauna Connections, a free, remote research symposium for animal advocates. Academics and scientists from the social and behavioral sciences and related disciplines will present original research that discusses the real-life implications and recommendations for animal advocacy.
Faunalytics is hiring a Data Analyst & Visual Coordinator. This part-time, remote position will play an integral role in bringing new research and visual resources to the animal protection community, ultimately increasing our impact for animals. The application deadline is August 20th.
The organization has also published their mid-year report, an update on their pro bono support program results, and an impact review of the first year of their Research Ambassador Outreach Project.
For more information and an in-depth discussion of the current process and limitations of how FWI currently helps fish, see their recent quarterly update.
Founders Pledge launched its new website, complete with more easily navigable versions of How We Think About Charity Evaluation and our list of recommendations.
FP also published a significant new guide to nuclear philanthropy by Senior Researcher Christian Ruhl who, along with Longview’s Matthew Gentzel, also published a piece in Vox called “It’s Time For a New Atomic Altruism.” Christian manages FP’s Global Catastrophic Risks Fund, which is seeking donations to enable expanded active grantmaking on nuclear security, international cooperation on AI, and more.
FP’s research team is also expanding and recently hired Aishwarya Saxena and Nicolaj Thor.
GiveWell has published pages about the following grants it recommended:
Giving What We Can welcomes Alana Horowitz Friedman, their new Research Communicator, to the team!
Grace Adams, Head of Marketing at GWWC, published a project she had been working on with One for World, a Guide to Safe and Inclusive Events on the EA Forum.
The research team are now focused on working on their evaluate the evaluators project.
GCRI has launched its 2023 Advising and Collaboration Program. They invite anyone interested in advancing their work on global catastrophic risk to apply. They have also published a new research paper, Public Health and Nuclear Winter: Addressing a Catastrophic Threat.
The Humane League’s Animal Policy Alliance (APA) had their first and second legislative wins since launching just last year! In Connecticut, the coalition helped defeat a bill that would have legalized the factory farming of rabbits across the state. And in New Jersey, the APA supported the Animal Protection League of New Jersey in passing legislation to ban gestation and veal crates.
New Jersey is now the 15th state to ban one or more of the main forms of extreme confinement for animals. Read more about these victories and more in The Humane League’s recently published Q2 Progress Report.
In July, New Incentives expanded to two new states in northern Nigeria: Kaduna and Kebbi. As of July 31st, 544,534 infants have been enrolled in the program this year and over 7 million vaccinations have been encouraged through cash incentives.
This new blog post goes into detail on how New Incentives builds demand for the program and childhood vaccinations through awareness activities.
Open Philanthropy announced several personnel changes:
Holden Karnofsky appeared on the 80,000 Hours podcast to discuss how AI could take control of the world from humans even without “superintelligence”, as well as his playbook for AI risk reduction.
The Survey and Data Analysis team (David Moss, Willem Sleegers, Jamie Elsey) published the following posts as a part of the 2022 EA Survey sequence:
The organization also researched questions such as:
See results and analysis from the 2022 Effective Animal Advocacy Forum Survey by Laura Duffy.
See an overview of WHO-PQ by Aisling Leow, James Hu, and Tom Hird as well as a report on WHO’s Essential Medicines List by Jenny Kudymowa.
Rethink Priorities recently offered several opportunities to learn more about the impacts of their work, including their public research and behind-the-scenes efforts:
Thaks for sharing!
Nice to have these data publicly available!