This is the third in a sequence of posts taken from my recent report: Why Did Environmentalism Become Partisan?
Summary
Rising partisanship did not make environmentalism more popular or politically effective. Instead, it saw flat or falling overall public opinion, fewer major legislative achievements, and fluctuating executive actions.
Public Opinion...
This post presents the executive summary from Giving What We Can’s impact evaluation for 2025. At the end of this post we share links to more information, including the full report and...
Why building and backing Welfare Tech companies may be one of the most promising things we can do for billions of animals.
I used AI to assist in writing this post, but I’ve rewritten it extensively and endorse it.
* Announcing the launch of Spring Innovation Fund, a not-for-profit venture philanthropy studio and fund built specifical...
Note 1: We will be running final eligibility checks in the next few days, so a few candidates may be removed from the list. I won’t post publicly about removing specific candidates because eligibility in the Donation Election shouldn’t affect your decision on whether to donate to them or not — eligibility is mostly based on whether the charity has the right kind of legal charitable status in the UK or US.
Note 2: Summaries of marginal funding posts are courtesy of ChatGPT- take them with a pinch of salt and let me know if they are wrong.
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ARMoR (Alliance for Reducing Microbial Resistance)
A program that trains local communities to provide mental health care for depression in Latin America.
Individual Support: $233 per person to sponsor participants through the 8-week group interpersonal therapy program, particularly helping vulnerable populations access mental health care
Staff Expansion: $9,600 annually per group facilitator to hire and maintain trained staff who can each manage up to eight therapy groups
Geographic Growth: $50,000 to expand beyond Quito and Otavalo into more rural areas, including recruitment and training of new facilitators to reach their goal of 2,000 people by 2025
A nonprofit incubated by Charity Entrepreneurship focused on reducing depression among youth in India through a guided self-help program delivered via WhatsApp.
Scale the digital-only guided self-help program to reach more Hindi-speaking populations in India
Enhance technology infrastructure to incorporate LLM support alongside human guides
Expand partnerships with WHO and governments to implement the mental health intervention more broadly
Their mission is to alleviate the suffering of non-human animals globally through effective grantmaking.
Fund more high-impact grant applications ($1.5M) and scale up successful past grantees ($1M), particularly in areas like cage-free campaigns and welfare research
Fill funding gaps created by Good Ventures/Open Philanthropy's exit from key areas ($1.75M), especially in shrimp welfare, farmed insects, and wild animal welfare
Expand active grantmaking ($2M) to support strategic initiatives like coordinated fish welfare work and corporate cage-free accountability campaigns in neglected regions
A nonprofit organization that conducts research on ways to improve fish welfare—especially the welfare of farmed fish—and implements interventions based on this research.
Expand remote monitoring capabilities through 1-2 studies on satellite/drone-based water quality monitoring
Scale up the Alliance for Responsible Aquaculture farm program to improve 1M fishes' lives and evaluate water quality improvement methods
Launch China operations by hiring first full-time local staff member to develop species-specific standards and continue field-building work
A nonprofit that works to improve animal welfare standards through corporate outreach, media outreach, and grassroots campaigns.
Expand the Open Wing Alliance (OWA) with $8 million to build regional teams, hire more campaigners, and provide $2-2.4 million in annual grants to member organizations working on cage-free campaigns globally
Grow the Animal Policy Alliance (APA) with $1.5 million to expand from 23 to 30 members and provide up to $750k in grants to support US-based animal advocacy groups
Scale up core support teams (Operations, Communications, Development) to meet the expanded needs of both OWA and APA programs
A nonprofit organization dedicated to advocating for animal rights and promoting a better world for animals, primarily by working towards ending factory farming.
Allocate $20,000 for marketing contractors, social media ads, and video content to grow the platform to 10,000+ users within 12 months.
Dedicate $10,000–$20,000 to hire a fundraising contractor to develop a sustainable funding model and secure diverse revenue streams.
Invest in expert contractors to address critical gaps in marketing and fundraising, enabling long-term growth and impact.
A global community for farmed animal advocates whose mission is to connect advocates across regions to amplify their impact, working towards a vision of ending animal suffering.
Maintain current capacity by funding 2 additional FTE positions ($100,000) to match 2024's staffing levels of 4.5 FTE
Expand operations with 3 part-time regional ambassadors ($40,000) to bridge language and cultural gaps in neglected regions like Africa, Asia, and Latin America
Increase program capacity by upgrading part-time roles to full-time ($35,000) for communications, events, and individual fundraising initiatives
A reader-supported news outlet whose primary mission is to increase public awareness of the welfare of sentient beings, the health of the planet, and human longevity.
Hire a rural reporter ($65,000-$75,000 salary) to expand local news coverage and connect with farming communities
Sustain current operations including fact-checked journalism and disinformation debunking
Support ongoing Public News Service partnership to convert articles into audio content reaching rural audiences
A nonprofit focused on animal and vegan advocacy, aiming to create a world where animals are removed from the food system and other human uses.
Fund Travel Awards to bring 60-100 additional advocates to the Brazil Summit, prioritizing farm animal advocates from underrepresented regions who earn under $30k/year
Improve conference quality through professional public speaking workshops for speakers and enhanced recording quality for YouTube content
Expand the Travel Award Program to increase accessibility for diverse advocates, particularly those from organizations with budgets under $250k
A nonprofit that works to understand and improve wild animal welfare.
Increase annual grantmaking budget back to $2 million, enabling more research funding for wild animal welfare science projects
Pursue additional partnership opportunities with organizations like Conservation X Labs, NYU Wild Animal Welfare program, and various universities (potentially up to 5 or more partnerships)
Expand research output and community-building activities, including developing more scientific publications, hosting workshops, and growing their academic research community
An organization that aims to prevent global catastrophic biological risks by detecting novel agents spreading in the human population or environment.
Hire additional staff, particularly computational researchers to develop detection methods and a partnerships manager to build external relationships
Expand their pilot biosurveillance system to detect engineered threats before 1% of population infection (currently requires ~$470k more annually for wastewater sequencing)
Maintain flexible funding reserves to quickly pursue new promising approaches without needing to raise specific grants first
A non-profit organization focused on ensuring the safety and alignment of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies.
Improve accessibility and outreach with $7k–$25k for a professional website redesign and public release of internal resources, enabling greater global participation in AI safety research.
Expand conference attendance with $20k, supporting additional team members to present and engage with the AI safety community at key events.
Continue critical research projects with $15k–$30k, including AI evaluation methodology advancements and extending work on LLM benchmark testing and risk assessments.
A nonprofit research organization based in Fairfax, Vermont, dedicated to advancing scientific research with a focus on ushering in a 21st-century scientific revolution.
Hire consultants and assistants to accelerate model building
Enable faster literature review and research analysis
Encourages Americans to help bring about an indefinite, global pause on frontier AI development – until we can be confident that the technology is safe for humanity – through education of all stakeholders, including the public and professionals in the industry.
Salaries ($260k/year) to maintain core team of Executive Director, Operations Director, and Organizing Director
Event costs ($7.5-15k/year) for quarterly protests, monthly flyering, and community events
Operating expenses ($24k/year) covering bookkeeping, software, insurance, and payroll tax
A nonprofit dedicated to ensuring that people have enough to eat in the event of a global catastrophe, through research on resilient food, policy engagement, and technology development.
Launch policy advocacy campaigns ($100-250K per country) targeting nuclear winter preparedness in specific countries like Norway, Sweden, Finland, Switzerland, Singapore, New Zealand, or Brazil
Build a refrigerated greenhouse in Australia ($200-400K) to simulate and study nuclear winter conditions for crop viability research
Develop emergency response technologies, including a satellite communications system ($300K) and vital services protection for extreme pandemics ($300K)
A charity that investigates science policy opportunities to improve the management of GCRs in Spanish speaking countries.
Support pandemic preparedness initiatives ($85K-140K total) including hospital protocol analysis with IMSS Mexico, Biological Weapons Convention training paper, and North American trade agreement research
Fund food security projects during sunlight reduction scenarios ($95K-145K total) covering Brazil's vulnerability report and Argentina's tabletop exercises
Develop OECD Emerging Risks Strategy handbook ($100K-150K) to improve government risk management systems and international coordination
An organization that aims to educate students and young professionals about effective giving and encourages them to pledge to donate at least 1% of their income to effective charities.
Hire a fourth full-time employee focused on implementing the growth strategy
Expand corporate workplace events program, which is their fastest-growing source of pledges
Invest in community and partnership events as a new growth opportunity
A think tank dedicated to informing decisions made by high-impact organisations and funders.
Allocate $30,000 to identify policy levers for advancing shrimp welfare in Europe, focusing on pathways to influence EU regulations protecting crustaceans.
Dedicate $100,000 to empirical studies on humane pesticides, aiming to reduce suffering for common agricultural insect species if sentient.
Invest $140,000 in research on cost-effective interventions at the intersection of global health and climate change, targeting donors interested in cross-causal impacts.
A nonprofit set up to study forecasting and epistemics.
Allocate $200,000 to maintain the two-person team and cover operational expenses, ensuring continued development of tools like Squiggle and Squiggle Hub.
Expand efforts in education and outreach within the EA and AI safety ecosystems, leveraging a backlog of product updates and new tools to engage users.
Focus on AI-driven cost-effectiveness modeling, improving automation for simple models and advancing epistemic tools for guiding AI safety efforts.
An organisation that works to organize and fund public journal-independent feedback, rating, and evaluation of hosted papers and dynamically-presented research projects.
Extend baseline operations by 6 months to evaluate ~20 additional research papers ($150,000)
Fund new initiatives including interactive LLM tools ($10k-50k), Pivotal Questions project ($50k), and hire part-time communications director ($30k-60k)
Expand evaluation capacity through increased evaluator compensation ($40k/year), additional research fellows ($10k-20k per role), and support for live events ($5k-10k per event)
Some marginal funding posts are from organisations who haven't applied to be part of the donation election. You can read those here and here.
