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Lead Exposure Elimination Project (LEEP)
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Open Philanthropy
Suvita
The Good Food Institute
The organization updates are in alphabetical order (0-A-Z).
80,000 Hours announced that they are shifting their strategic focus to put more proactive effort towards helping people work on safely navigating the transition to a world with AGI, while keeping their existing content available.
They also launched the summary and first part of their upcoming AI career guide:
80,000 Hours also published blog posts about when experts expect AGI to arrive and understanding trends in their AI job postings.
The 80,000 Hours Podcast:
CEA published an updated strategy for stewardship of EA, focusing in 2025 and 2026 on growing the EA community, improving the EA brand, and diversifying EA funding. Read the full strategy here.
Faunalytics released a new study, The Economic Impacts Of A Plant-Based Transition: Exploring Two Growth Scenarios. A transition toward a more plant-based food system is often highlighted for its environmental and public health benefits, but what about its economic impact? Their latest study, in collaboration with economists at BW Research Partnership, finds that increasing the production and consumption of plant-based foods could boost the U.S. economy.
Additionally, Faunalytics has updated their Research Library with articles on a variety of animal advocacy topics including Automated Pain Detection In Farmed Animals: Promises And Problems. The organization also added two blog posts in celebration of their 25th anniversary last month: 25 Years Of Effective Animal Advocacy and 25 Years, 10 Lessons: Insights From Faunalytics’ Founder Che Green.
Fish Welfare Initiative recently published a post announcing their new farm programme dashboard, as well as their revised monitoring and evaluation plan.
GiveWell recently launched a webpage that provides an overview of how it is responding to recent cuts to US government foreign assistance, summaries of grants it has made, and information on how donors can help.
GiveWell has also started recording a series of conversations with its research team that share timely snapshots of the rapidly evolving global health aid situation. The first episode (released on March 19, 2025) provides a broad overview of the impacts of US government aid cuts and GiveWell’s initial response. The second episode (released on April 3, 2025) zooms in on a specific case, focusing on grants GiveWell has made to support urgent funding gaps for seasonal malaria chemoprevention. Listen to the latest episodes and subscribe here.
Since 2017, GiveWell has made approximately $29 million in grants to iron fortification and supplementation programmes. GiveWell’s cross-cutting research team recently engaged in a “red-teaming” exercise to identify potential flaws in their iron research before considering $10 million to $20 million in additional grants for 2025.
The first global comparison finds some charities are 100x, even 1,000x, better than others.
The Happier Lives Institute recently contributed a chapter to the World Happiness Report 2025. This is the first global analysis of how much happiness different charities produce per dollar (featured in Vox).
HLI’s review found charity cost-effectiveness varies enormously. The best charities (which tackle issues like lead poisoning, malnutrition, and depression in low-income countries) were around 1,000 times more impactful than the least-good ones, and around 150 times better than the average UK charity assessed.
It was able to compare across different interventions because the charities were assessed in Wellbeing-Years – WELLBYs – a standardised metric for assessing both charities and policies, endorsed by the UK Treasury.
Michael Plant, HLI Director, said:
“This is a milestone in our understanding of how to make people’s lives better. There was no wellbeing cost-effectiveness research six years ago, when we started. Now there are multiple teams working on this, and we have global comparisons with major implications. We hope this is a wake-up call to donors and policymakers that they can and should take happiness seriously – and to researchers to carry the work forward.”
Check out this recent podcast where Dr. Plant discusses the chapter with Peter Singer and Kasia de Lazari-Radek.
You can donate to HLI’s top recommended charities, or directly to research, here. HLI is now also offering consultancy: tailored research for maximum impact.
New Incentives plans to provide ORSZ during immunization sessions at the government clinics where it operates in northern Nigeria in order to treat childhood diarrhea.
Matt Clancy, Research Fellow in Abundance and Growth, wrote about the value of technological progress for Works in Progress: The Value of Technological Progress.
Alex Lawsen, Senior Program Associate in Potential Risks from Advanced AI, wrote about the design of whistleblower policy as it relates to AI safety: Having a Whistleblowing Function.
Martin Gould, Senior Program Associate in Farm Animal Welfare, wrote a guest post about farm animal economics for Lewis Bollard’s newsletter: Five Insights from Farm Animal Economics.
Deena Mousa, Chief of Staff in Global Health & Wellbeing, wrote about Ghibli filters, dopamine apps, and frictionless AI in her newsletter, Under Development: Entering the Experience Machine.
Joe Carlsmith, Senior Research Analyst in GCR Worldview Investigations, released part five of his series, “How do we solve the alignment problem?” (archive).
Last month, THL launched its fifth annual Eggsposé, evaluating major food corporations on their progress toward transitioning to 100% cage-free. Focused on restaurants and convenience stores in the US, THL is leveraging the report to pressure companies to report progress on their cage-free commitments during the most pivotal year yet in the global shift to cage-free. As a result, seven major companies including Golden Corral, BJ’s Restaurants, and the Campbell’s Company have reported on their commitments to spare more than 1,000,000 hens from cages, and based on their progress, THL estimates they spared over 500,000 hens this year.
Globally, 18 major companies reported on their commitments to spare more than 11,600,000 hens from cages annually. THL estimates these companies have spared over 800,000 hens from suffering this year.
