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Potential other leverage points: (1) go to work at an existing animal group and help it better focus on high impact approaches, (2) start a new group focused on a high impact approach and encourage imitators, (3) write pieces about higher impact approaches that could be taken, e.g. on the EA Forum.

I guess there are two pieces here. The first is the cause prioritization question of how we'll prioritize expanding farm animal welfare vs other focus areas. That's mostly above my pay grade -- it's a decision leadership will make informed by Open Phil's cause prioritization research. But I'm confident that Open Phil is committed to remaining a major funder in this space, and optimistic about our future trajectory. The  second piece is how our focus within farm animal welfare work will evolve. We're revisiting our strategy now, so I hope I'll have more to share in a few months. But I can tell you that two broad challenges are (1) weighing proven tractable interventions (e.g. corporate cage-free and broiler welfare campaigns) against more speculative and potentially larger scale work (e.g. fish welfare, expanding the movement in East Asia), and (2) weighing scaling up existing effective organizations against funding more new promising initiatives. We'll continue to do a mix of all the above -- the key Q is how we prioritize our time and funding between each of them. 

This is a good idea for a future newsletter. In the meantime, I recommend ACE's standout charity list and our grants database.

I think the EA Animal Welfare Fund is a good default option, but here are a few reasons people might prefer to give elsewhere: * You have a strong view that one approach is much more promising or relatively neglected, e.g. research on effective interventions or wild animal welfare. * You have a relationship with an effective group and enjoy the greater connection and insight into their work of supporting it directly. * You're aware of or able to fund unique opportunities that the EA Fund isn't,  e.g. political contributions or your friend's project.

A few ideas: 1. Push for a policy that's political feasible at the local level, e.g. a foie gras ban or requirement that the city's public procurement buy less meat or only welfare certified meat. 2. Coordinate with national groups to support larger campaigns, e.g. corporate campaigns. 3. Focus on building talent and political power for the movement, e.g. lots of events etc.

No worries - I've added an update in case anyone else stumbles upon this. Thanks!

Please ignore - see that the linked report has the test results.

Yeah great stuff! I'll investigate, thanks Mappy!

Jumping in here for Holden (I'm an Open Phil RA)… We would like our Research Analysts to work in the SF office most of the time, with 'partly remote' in the job ad meaning that they can occasionally work from home/different locations. Despite our policy, we aren't totally closed to the idea of hiring someone who mostly works remotely, but they'd have to meet a higher bar.