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Animal Advocacy Careers
Animal Policy International (API)
Anthropic
BlueDot Impact
EA for Jews
GiveWell
Magnify Mentoring
METR (formerly "ARC Evals")
MIT FutureTech
Non-Trivial
Open Philanthropy
The Good Food Institute (GFI)
The organization updates are in alphabetical order (O-Z, 0-A-N).
Frank Fredericks was named as One for the World's next Executive Director in May.
He joins the team from Accenture, where he was Senior Entrepreneur and served as Lead for the Social Innovators Accelerator. Previously, Frank founded World Faith, a global nonprofit working to end religious violence, and Mean Communications, a digital agency for social good. Frank has written for the Huffington Post, Washington Post, and Sojourners. Frank is a graduate of NYU and received his MBA from the Saïd Business School at Oxford University as a Global Shaper Scholar.
Rethink Priorities published a pair of reports on wild animal welfare. “Three preconditions for helping wild animals at scale” offers a conceptual backdrop and argues that valid measurement, technical ability, and stakeholder buy-in are necessary for helping wild animals at scale. “A landscape analysis of wild animal welfare” provides an overview of five organizations that dedicate substantial effort to improving wild animal welfare. The research team identified commonalities in their approaches, as well as gaps that other organizations could fill.
The one-on-one advising team at 80,000 Hours has launched a referral programme. Anyone who refers two or more people who are accepted to career advising will have a chance to win full travel and admission reimbursement to a professional conference of their choice.
And on the 80,000 Hours Podcast, Luisa interviewed:
80,000 Hours also published a blog post by their president and cofounder Benjamin Todd about the most interesting startup idea he’s seen recently: AI for epistemics.
BlueDot Impact is hiring highly skilled and motivated Product Managers and Software Engineers. Successful candidates will identify critical challenges students face on their path to impact, prototype and implement solutions, and build robust infrastructure so the organization can scale from running 3 courses in 2024 to 10+ in 2025.
The Center on Long-term Risk (CLR) is excited to welcome Harry Day to the team as their new Director of Operations.
Fish Welfare Initiative (FWI) seeks people who are interested in working on their China program. For those interested, please complete their China Expression of Interest Form (and share widely!).
GiveWell is changing their blog to make it more readable. Read recent posts, including one on the launch of a Research Council and one by Philanthropy Advisor Maggie Lloydhauser on how fundraising for GiveWell is different from fundraising for most other nonprofits.
IDinsight’s Dignity initiative announced an opportunity for social sector organizations interested in quantitatively studying dignity-focused program interventions. They seek a values-aligned, data-driven, and dynamic partner to look inward and evaluate their work through a dignity lens. The goal is to help lay the groundwork for a global movement that advocates for an evidence-based, dignified approach to development.
Magnify Mentoring applications are now open for women, non-binary, and trans people of all genders who are looking to pursue high impact careers.
