EA Organizations
80,000 Hours – Does research into how people can have greater impact with their careers. Also maintains a high impact jobs board and produces a podcast.
Centre for Effective Altruism (CEA) – Helps to grow and support the EA community.
Charity Entrepreneurship – Does research into the most effective interventions and incubates charities to implement these interventions.
Founders Pledge – A community of entrepreneurs who have pledged to give a percentage of the proceeds they make when they exit their company to charity. Researchers at Founders Pledge provide advice on the most high impact giving opportunities to the pledgers.
GiveWell – Evaluates and recommends the most effective charities in global health.
Giving What We Can (GWWC) – A community which encourages people to pledge to donate a percentage of their income to effective charities.
Global Priorities Institute (GPI) – An interdisciplinary research centre at the University of Oxford which conducts foundational research (particularly in philosophy and economics) to inform the decision-making of individuals and institutions seeking to do as much good as possible.
Open Philanthropy Project – Aims to help philanthropy improve lives effectively through research and grantmaking. Makes grants in areas including U.S. policy, farm animal welfare and global catastrophic risks.
Rethink Priorities – A think tank dedicated to figuring out the best ways to make the world a better place, initially founded as a project of Rethink Charity. Their research is focused on improving the welfare of nonhuman animals, but they also work on existential risks such as nuclear war.
One for the World – Educates students and young professionals about effective giving and encourages them to donate at least 1% of their income to effective charities. Organises ‘chapters’ which are groups run by volunteers to spread the message at their universities/churches/businesses.
WANBAM – Aims to inspire and support women, trans people of any gender, and non-binary people who are pursuing high-impact career paths by matching them with mentors.
Animal Advocacy
Animal Advocacy Careers – Seeks to address the career and talent bottlenecks in the animal advocacy movement, especially the farmed animal movement, by providing career services and advice. Incubated by Charity Entrepreneurship.
Animal Charity Evaluators (ACE) – Evaluates and recommends the most effective animal charities.
Albert Schweitzer Foundation – An ACE recommended charity which conducts corporate and vegetarian outreach campaigns.
The Good Food Institute – An ACE recommended charity which promotes and develops competitive alternatives to animal-based meat, dairy, and eggs.
The Humane League – An ACE recommended charity which runs a variety of programs that advocate for farmed animals including corporate outreach, online veg advertising, and individual outreach.
Wild Animal Initiative – Does research to understand and improve the lives of wild animals.
Global Health and Poverty
Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) – Aims to reduce poverty by ensuring that policy is informed by scientific evidence. They do this through research, policy outreach, and training.
GiveDirectly – A GiveWell recommended charity working on cash transfers.
Happier Lives Institute (HLI) – Researches the best ways to increase global wellbeing. This includes theoretical research on wellbeing measurement as well as practical research into effective interventions. Incubated by Charity Entrepreneurship.
IDInsight - A global advisory, data analytics, and research organisation that helps development leaders maximize their social impact. Tailors a range of data and evidence tools, including randomized evaluations and machine learning, to help decision-makers design effective programs and rigorously test what works to support communities.
Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA) – A research and policy non-profit that discovers and promotes effective solutions to global poverty problems. Brings together researchers and decision-makers to design, rigorously evaluate, and refine these solutions and their applications, ensuring that the evidence created is used to improve the lives of the world’s poor.
GiveWell Recommended Charities
Malaria Consortium – A GiveWell recommended charity working to prevent malaria.
Helen Keller International (Vitamin A supplementation programme) – GiveWell recommends their Vitamin A supplementation programme.
Against Malaria Foundation (AMF) – A GiveWell recommended charity working to prevent malaria.
END Fund (deworming programme) – GiveWell recommends their deworming programme.
Evidence Action (Deworm the World Initiative programme) – GiveWell recommends their Deworm the World Initiative programme.
SCI Foundation – A GiveWell recommended charity working on deworming.
Sightsavers (deworming programme) – GiveWell recommends their deworming programme.
Far Future
Alliance to Feed the Earth in Disasters (ALLFED) – Does research into threats to global food security and ways in which we could feed the world if global food production were significantly threatened.
All-Party Parliamentary Group for Future Generations – An informal cross-party group of members of Parliament in the UK. Raises awareness of long-term issues, explores ways to internalise longer-term considerations into decision-making processes, and creates space for dialogue on combating short-termism in policymaking.
Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative (BERI) – Provides support to the ‘x-risk ecosystem’ (organisations such as FHI and CHAI) by providing funding, staff time and administrative support.
Centre for Human-Compatible AI (CHAI) – Aims to reorient the general thrust of AI research away from the capability to achieve arbitrary objectives and towards the ability to generate provably beneficial behaviour.
Centre on Long-term Risk (CLR) – A project of EAF. Does research, awards grants and scholarships, and hosts workshops, with a focus on advancing the safety and governance of artificial intelligence as well as understanding other long-term risks.
Centre for the Study of Existential Risks (CSER) - An interdisciplinary research centre within the University of Cambridge working on the study and mitigation of existential risks.
Future of Humanity Institute (FHI) – a multidisciplinary research institute at the University of Oxford led by Nick Bostrom. Academics at FHI use the tools of mathematics, philosophy, and social sciences to tackle big-picture questions about humanity and its prospects.
Future of Life Institute (FLI) – A non-profit seeking to improve the long-term future of humanity on a global scale. Focused on making sure that artificial intelligence is beneficial and reducing risks from nuclear weapons and biotechnology.
Global Catastrophic Risk Institute (GCRI) – A think tank that analyses risks to the survival of human civilisation.
Machine Intelligence Research Institute (MIRI) – Does foundational mathematical research to ensure smarter-than-human artificial intelligence has a positive impact.
The Centre for Election Science (CES) - Empowers voters through voting methods that strengthen democracy. CES accomplishes its mission through research and collaborating to pass ballot initiatives for approval voting. CES maintains that approval voting elects more consensus-style candidates and is more likely to maintain governmental stability over a long time frame in addition to providing near-term benefit.
The Forethought Foundation for Global Priorities Research - Promotes academic work that addresses the question of how to use our resources to improve the world by as much as possible, especially in the domain of the long-term future. Is planning to offer scholarships and fellowships to students in global priorities research and research grants for established scholars. It is a project of CEA.
Other
Centre for Applied Rationality (CFAR) – Does research into methods to improve human rationality and delivers workshops to teach these skills to high-promise individuals.
Our World in Data – Researches, analyses, and presents data on their website about the world’s most pressing problems. Aims to make knowledge about these problems accessible and understandable.
The Legal Priorities Project - Conducts legal research that tackles the world’s most pressing problems. Currently focusing on artificial intelligence, synthetic biology, climate change and institutional design.