"Better health through philanthropy"
"GIH does not give grants or provide assistance in finding grants. For more information on funding opportunities, visit the Foundation Center."
I was at their office once a long time ago in NYC. Worth looking into more.
I am interested in models beyond "grants" facilitated by organizations. Or more innovative, 21st century forms of these.
This organization has a promising mission statement, but looking at their focus, it's missing key things we want to and can work on.
"How can we accomplish as much good as possible?
The Open Philanthropy Project’s mission is to give as effectively as we can and share our findings openly so that anyone can build on our work. Through research and grantmaking, we hope to learn how to make philanthropy go especially far in terms of improving lives. We’re passionate about maximizing the impact of our giving, and we’re excited to connect with other donors who share our passion."
The Open Philanthropy Project’s mission is to give as effectively as we can and share our findings openly so that anyone can build on our work. Through research and grantmaking, we hope to learn how to make philanthropy go especially far in terms of improving lives. We’re passionate about maximizing the impact of our giving, and we’re excited to connect with other donors who share our passion."
"The advice we heard most often when we started giving was “focus on something you’re passionate about.” In our case, we’re passionate about improving others’ lives as much as we can, and our level of excitement about an issue depends on how much good we believe we’ll accomplish by working on it.
So, instead of starting with a predefined set of focus areas, we’re considering a wide variety of causes where our philanthropy could help to improve others’ lives. We’re prioritizing based on three criteria: importance, neglectedness, and tractability."
So, instead of starting with a predefined set of focus areas, we’re considering a wide variety of causes where our philanthropy could help to improve others’ lives. We’re prioritizing based on three criteria: importance, neglectedness, and tractability."
Their thinking looks amazing, but their focus areas neglect the areas we want to work on.
1. U.S. policy (immigrtion, criminal justice reform, climate change)
2. global catastrophic risks
3. scientific research
4. global health & development (mass issues like like)
2. global catastrophic risks
3. scientific research
4. global health & development (mass issues like like)
But they have an Other category
https://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/other-areas
https://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/other-areas
Open Philanthropy
Other areas
Some of our grantmaking priorities fall outside of our four main categories. These include: History of Philanthropy We want to learn about what philanthropy has accomplished in the past, and where
Effective Altruism
We try to consider a broad range of possible approaches to doing good, with the ultimate aim of improving others’ lives as much as we can. The community around effective altruism stresses a broadly similar endeavor. We therefore think of the Open Philanthropy Project as an effective altruist organization (while knowing that this term is subject to multiple interpretations, not all of which apply to us).
We’re interested in supporting organizations that seek to introduce people to the idea of doing as much good as possible, provide them with guidance in doing so, connect them with each other, and generally grow and empower the effective altruism community. To date, we believe that these organizations have increased the number of people donating to outstanding charities, and have also raised the profile of outstanding causes including farm animal welfare and important global catastrophic risks. Further work and community growth could lead to a greater number of people who are seeking to do as much good as possible while considering a broad range of possible approaches.
We try to consider a broad range of possible approaches to doing good, with the ultimate aim of improving others’ lives as much as we can. The community around effective altruism stresses a broadly similar endeavor. We therefore think of the Open Philanthropy Project as an effective altruist organization (while knowing that this term is subject to multiple interpretations, not all of which apply to us).
We’re interested in supporting organizations that seek to introduce people to the idea of doing as much good as possible, provide them with guidance in doing so, connect them with each other, and generally grow and empower the effective altruism community. To date, we believe that these organizations have increased the number of people donating to outstanding charities, and have also raised the profile of outstanding causes including farm animal welfare and important global catastrophic risks. Further work and community growth could lead to a greater number of people who are seeking to do as much good as possible while considering a broad range of possible approaches.
"In practice, most people in the effective altruist movement have prioritized global poverty, animal welfare, and risks to the survival and flourishing of humanity and its descendants over the long-term future."