• Rethink Charity Forward 2018 year in review



• ACE with a review of 2018



• A review of fundraising activities of the Effective Altruism Foundation in 2018



• MIRI 2018 year in review



• The Life You Can Save are launching the Giving Games Platform and new facilitator tools

Grants

• Open Phil have made 10+ grants recently, including $18,451,000 on global health, $7,660,000 on farm animal welfare, $5,168,000 on scientific research, $4,796,000 to 80,000 Hours, $2,756,000 to the Centre for Effective Altruism, $1,015,000 on global catastrophic risks, $255,000 on criminal justice reform and $150,000 on land use reform



• The Gates Foundation with a $180,000,000 grant in support of the Child Health and Mortality Prevention Surveillance (CHAMPS) network . CHAMPS collects and analyses data that is used to help identify the causes of death among children under the age of 5 in seven countries where child mortality rates are the highest



• A $150,000,000 gift to the University of Oxford to serve as a dynamic hub dedicated to the humanities and also to house the Institute for Ethics in AI



• Open Phil explaining their $17,500,000 bet on Sherlock Biosciences’ innovations in viral diagnostics



• ACE are funding grants for animal advocacy projects , especially for newer organisations focused on farmed animals. Closing on July 14th



• GiveWell explaining their decision to allocate $4,700,000 to the Against Malaria Foundation



• The EA Fund for Global Development has granted $60,000 to Instiglio , an organisation which assists in the technical design of results-based financing mechanisms



Research

• Zach Groff with an update on a foundational result on how much wild animals suffer , suggesting that suffering doesn't necessarily dominate enjoyment in nature



• Luisa Rodriguez with the first in a series of posts on nuclear risks, looking at which plausible nuclear exchange scenarios should worry us the most

• Karolina Sarek with research looking into whether corporate campaigns in the US have any counterfactual impact





• An overview of the rising threat of dengue , the world’s fastest-growing mosquito-borne virus



• 3ie with a post warning about the dangers of relying on single studies to inform policy making



• Kim Cuddington with research into various ways of understanding life history classification of animals



• Research into the health impact of snakebites , with over 120,000 people being killed each year and 400,000 people with life changing disabilities



• Daniela R. Waldhorn with research into whether invertebrates have the capacity to experience pain and pleasure in a morally significant way



• Peter Hurford looking at

• A report from What Works Wellbeing on what an individual would be willing to pay for an additional year of healthy life (average = £25,000)



Miscellaneous

• A new organisation, the Happier Lives Institute , has been created to look into "the best ways to help others live happier lives"



• An interview with Ben Delo and Natalie Cargill on why they are prioritising the long-term future at Effective Giving



• Vishal Maini with an artificial intelligence reading list for newcomers

• Victoria Krakovna with an overview of the International Conference on Learning Representations Safe Machine Learning workshop



• Jamie Harris looking into whether effective animal advocacy movement building is a neglected opportunity



• Hauke Hillebrandt with a post looking into whether corporations could be global catastrophic risks

• Claire Zabel and Luke Muehlhauser with a post summarising the potential areas and personal fit for information security careers for global catastrophic risk reduction and why it may be an impactful career path



• BBC Future with an article looking into the risks of anthrax and nuclear waste being released by melting Arctic ice



• Helen Toner from Center for Security and Emerging Technology and Jeffrey Ding from the Center for the Governance of AI testifying at the US Senate before the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission on “ U.S.-China Competition in Artificial Intelligence "



• Simon Beard from the Centre for the Study of Existential Risk writing for the BBC Deep Civilisation series on the long term quest to decide right from wrong



• Hilary Greaves with a collective study on effective altruism , released later this year with contributors including William MacAskill and Toby Ord



• GFI report on the state of China's plant-based meat industry



• CSER researcher Luke Kemp with a chapter on conflict resolution in climate diplomacy



• A post on how two centuries of rapid population growth is about to come to an end



• An overview of the Bangladesh Priorities project looking at how to do the most good per taka spent



• A new online game for people to test their knowledge of historical data trends



• Jeremiah Johnson on why they've decided to donate a kidney to a stranger



• Clearer Thinking with a set of ' Life-Changing questions ' that they claim are practical, yet rarely-asked and 83% of people reported were valuable for them to answer



• Our World in Data with visualisations on which countries achieved economic growth and why this matters



Vox

• A look into whether climate change is an existential or catastrophic risk and why this could matter



• What are lethal autonomous weapons and should they be banned?



• What is the case for adding more and more people to earth ?



• How librarians, pirates, and funders are liberating the world’s academic research from paywalls



Podcasts

• Philip Tetlock on why accurately predicting the future is "central to absolutely everything"



• Future Perfect podcast with Jaan Tallinn and Kelsey Piper looking at risks from AI



• Cass Sunstein on how social change happens



• Pushmeet Kohli on 80,000 Hours talking about DeepMind’s plan to make AI systems robust & reliable



• Dylan Matthews on Rationally Speaking talking about various EA related areas



• Future Perfect looking at how foundations like Ford and Rockefeller pushed hard to control India's population with sterilisation and how India's government expanded that practice into a massive atrocity



• Rob Wiblin on the Neoliberal podcast discussing 80,000 Hours



• Dr Diana Fleischman discussing how the EA movement is redefining animal suffering



Effective altruism in media & blogs

• CSER researchers with an article in the Metro on artificial diseases



• A new book by Tom Chivers about AI Safety and the community around this area



• Devex with an article on how GiveWell is exploring giving opportunities that are more difficult to measure



• A Christian book review of The Most Good You Can Do



• Inside Philanthropy looking at whether new donors transforming the global aid industry is a good thing



• Recording of the 2019 Liffman Lecture on ethical philanthropy featuring Peter Singer



• Paul Niehaus from GiveDirectly and Ellie Hassenfeld from GiveWell with recordings of their talks at the Data, Decisions and Public Policy lectures



Good news roundup

• Kenya and Ghana are rolling out a malaria vaccine to 360,000 children

