“Open Philanthropy: Our Progress in 2024 and Plans for 2025” by Open Philanthropy

This is a link post. 2024 marked 10 years since we launched Open Philanthropy. We spent our first decade learning (about grantmaking, cause selection, and the history of philanthropy), and growing our team and expertise to be able to effectively deploy billions of dollars from Good Ventures, our main funder. Our early grants — and some grantees we’ve helped get started — are now old enough that we can see material signs of our impact in the world. The start of our second decade also marked a major change in our direction. With Good Ventures approaching the level of spending consistent with its founders’ ambition to spend down in their lifetimes, we finally began to execute at scale on our long-held ambition to support other funders, and found a surprising degree of early success. I expect that our ambition to serve additional partners will guide much of our second decade. [...] --- First published: March 6th, 2025 Source: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/oG5AYRhp268JeQnxP/open-philanthropy-our-progress-in-2024-and-plans-for-2025 --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.