As part of a shallower investigation into early-stage funding opportunities, they also recommendedSuvita
(Disclaimer: I worked at Founders Pledge when these recommendations were made, and was responsible for the Suvita recommendation. I don't think either of these are as highly-vetted or as cost-effective in expectation as GiveWell's recommendations, though among randomista-style giving opportunities in India I think they're a good bet!)
I also think air quality is a really promising bet in this area. Open Philanthropy has identified some promising opportunities, and made some grants, described here.
AI Use Note: Main body text entirely human written. Claude (Opus 4.8) helped develop models of animal life histories in the appendix.
Cross-posted from Good Structures.
Executive Summary
* Animal advocates sometimes make claims like “there are X of this animal...
Summary
Back in November 2023 I posted here to launch Spiro and raise our first $198k. Two and a half years later this is an update and a fundraiser for the next step.
The short version: we've now reached over-5,900 people with TB preventive medicine, including over 3,000 children under five years old. Our early results have held up well an...
Adapted from my Substack, Funding Anthropalypse.
Short version: if you want a share of the coming Anthropic and OpenAI windfall - the $37bn+ that could be in play next year - the way in is to become 'legibly excellent', so the evaluators and donors that frontier lab staff already trust point them to yo...
Founders Pledge has recommended Bandhan's Targeting the Hardcore Poor programme.
As part of a shallower investigation into early-stage funding opportunities, they also recommended Suvita
(Disclaimer: I worked at Founders Pledge when these recommendations were made, and was responsible for the Suvita recommendation. I don't think either of these are as highly-vetted or as cost-effective in expectation as GiveWell's recommendations, though among randomista-style giving opportunities in India I think they're a good bet!)
I also think air quality is a really promising bet in this area. Open Philanthropy has identified some promising opportunities, and made some grants, described here.