Grant investigator: Committee for Effective Altruism Support
This page was reviewed but not written by members of the committee. 80,000 Hours staff also reviewed this page prior to publication.
The Open Philanthropy Project recommended a grant of $4,795,803 over two years to 80,000 Hours for general support. 80,000 Hours aims to solve skill bottlenecks for career paths in what it considers to be the world’s most pressing problems. It does this by providing online research, in-person advice, and support with the goal of helping talented graduates age 20-40 enter high-impact careers.
This grant follows our February 2018 support and falls within our focus area of growing and empowering the community of people focused on global catastrophic risk reduction. While we see the basic pros and cons of this support similarly to what we’ve presented in past writeups on the matter, our ultimate grant figure was set by the aggregated judgments of our committee for effective altruism support, described in more detail here.