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Good Ventures Grant to 80,000 Hours – General Support 2020

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This is a grant record from Good Ventures showing a 2020 general support grant to 80,000 Hours, an organization that promotes AI safety careers and effective altruism career advice, relevant to understanding philanthropic funding flows in the AI safety ecosystem.

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This page documents a 2020 general support grant from Good Ventures to 80,000 Hours, an organization focused on helping people pursue high-impact careers including in AI safety. The broader page also describes Good Ventures' philanthropic portfolio spanning global health, biosecurity, and other cause areas. It reflects the philanthropic infrastructure supporting the AI safety and effective altruism communities.

Key Points

  • •Good Ventures provided general support funding to 80,000 Hours in 2020, an organization that directs talent toward AI safety and other high-impact careers.
  • •Good Ventures has distributed over $5B to grantees across cause areas including biosecurity, global health, and economic growth.
  • •The portfolio includes biosecurity grants relevant to AI safety-adjacent risks, such as SecureBio and Blueprint Biosecurity.
  • •This grant reflects the philanthropic ecosystem (Open Philanthropy/Good Ventures) that substantially funds AI safety research and career pipeline organizations.
  • •80,000 Hours is a key organization in directing researchers and professionals toward AI alignment and governance work.

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 Pure Earth works on reducing lead exposure in low- and middle-income countries
 
 
 
 
 
 We support ideas and institutions that make the world safer, healthier, and more prosperous for all. W e’ve researched hundreds of causes and chosen our focus areas based on where we think more funding will help others the most. 

 This has led us to a diverse portfolio of causes, from proven programs that save lives in low-income countries and reduce animal suffering, to ambitious bets on potentially transformative innovations. We’re committed to using the best evidence we can find and approaching our work with rigor, curiosity, and compassion. 

 

 
 
 
 
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 Global Health & Development
 

 

 
 
 Supporting interventions that save and improve lives in low- and middle-income countries, from proven treatments to policy reforms.  

 

 
 
 
 
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 GiveWell-recommended charities : GiveWell estimates our funding has saved  over 100,000 lives through interventions like medicine to prevent malaria, childhood vaccination programs, and vitamin A supplementation. 

 Lead Exposure Action Fund : This collaborative fund — with partners like the Gates Foundation — works to eliminate lead poisoning, which causes irreparable harm to 1 in 2 children in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). Grantees work to reduce lead exposure from sources like paint, cosmetics, and cookware. 

 Air Quality : We support organizations working to reduce particulate air pollution in South Asia through policy advocacy, cleaner technologies, and better monitoring programs in some of the world’s most polluted cities. 

 Global Growth : We’re exploring promising approaches to accelerate economic growth in LMICs, building on decades of research in development economics. 

 
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 Abundance & Growth
 

 

 
 
 Accelerating economic growth and removing barriers to prosperity, primarily in the United States. 

 

 
 
 
 
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 Institute for Progress: IFP publishes research and advocates for policy reforms to increase the pace of scientific, technological, and industrial progress in the United States.  

 California YIMBY: This advocacy organization helped advance SB 79, a landmark housing reform that was signed into law in 2025. The law created an estimated 16 million new units of zoned capacity — if just 5% are built, that would add 800,000 homes to a state facing a severe housing shortage. 

 Institute for Replication: I4R runs replication workshops and works with journals to identify errors and publication bias in economics and other fields, encouraging transparency and improving trust in social science research. 

 
 Learn more at Coefficient Giv

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