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History of Philanthropy Case Study: Pew and Drug Safety Legislation

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Elie Hassenfeld

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History of Philanthropy

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May 15, 2015

While Pew Charitable Trusts had help from industry partners, FDA officials, and key politicians in bringing about 2012 legislation to improve drug supply-chain safety, Tamara Mann Tweel finds that they played a central role. Pew brought key stakeholders together, gave them the necessary information to pursue the topic, and demonstrated the viability of actual policy.
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Funder-Initiated Startups

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Holden Karnofsky

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Reflections

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May 14, 2015

We’ve come across many cases where a funder took a leading role in creating a now-major nonprofit. This has been surprising to us: it intuitively seems that the people best suited to initiate new organizations are the people who can work full-time on conceiving an organization, fundraising for it, and doing the legwork to create it.
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Our Updated Agenda for Science Philanthropy

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Holden Karnofsky

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May 6, 2015

Editor’s note: Coefficient Giving was formerly a part of GiveWell under the name “GiveWell Labs,” and later operated as Open Philanthropy. This post originally appeared on the GiveWell Blog; uses of “we” and “our” in the below post may refer to GiveWell. Some content may be outdated; you can see...
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Co-funding Partnership with Kaitlyn Trigger and Mike Krieger

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Holden Karnofsky

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April 23, 2015

Editor’s note: Coefficient Giving was formerly a part of GiveWell under the name “GiveWell Labs,” and later operated as Open Philanthropy. This post originally appeared on the GiveWell Blog; uses of “we” and “our” in the below post may refer to GiveWell. Some content may be outdated; you can see...
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Science Policy and Infrastructure

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Holden Karnofsky

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April 21, 2015

Editor’s note: Coefficient Giving was formerly a part of GiveWell under the name “GiveWell Labs,” and later operated as Open Philanthropy. This post originally appeared on the GiveWell Blog; uses of “we” and “our” in the below post may refer to GiveWell. Some content may be outdated; you can see...
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Breakthrough Fundamental Science

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Holden Karnofsky

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Reflections

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April 14, 2015

Many of the conversations we’ve had, as I’ve interpreted them, have stressed the difficulty of securing support for attempts at breakthrough fundamental science in the current system.
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Open Philanthropy Project: Progress in 2014 and Plans for 2015

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Holden Karnofsky

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Annual Reviews

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March 12, 2015

Editor’s note: Coefficient Giving was formerly a part of GiveWell under the name “GiveWell Labs,” and later operated as Open Philanthropy. This post originally appeared on the GiveWell Blog; uses of “we” and “our” in the below post may refer to GiveWell. Some content may be outdated; you can see...
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Open Philanthropy Project Update: Global Catastrophic Risks

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Holden Karnofsky

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March 11, 2015

Editor’s note: Coefficient Giving was formerly a part of GiveWell under the name “GiveWell Labs,” and later operated as Open Philanthropy. This post originally appeared on the GiveWell Blog; uses of “we” and “our” in the below post may refer to GiveWell. Some content may be outdated; you can see...
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Open Philanthropy Project Update: U.S. Policy

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Holden Karnofsky

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March 10, 2015

Editor’s note: Coefficient Giving was formerly a part of GiveWell under the name “GiveWell Labs,” and later operated as Open Philanthropy. This post originally appeared on the GiveWell Blog; uses of “we” and “our” in the below post may refer to GiveWell. Some content may be outdated; you can see...
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