Groups

• 80,000 Hours seems to have very accessible research available.
• Copenhagen Consensus Center
• The Open Philanthropy Project (cause reports) (formerly GiveWell labs)
  • See also certain posts on the GiveWell blog like this one on US policy (this spreadsheet contains a full list of causes in this area GiveWell has investigated or hopes to investigate). Alexander Berger(?)’s back-of-the-envelope calculations also contain a lot of information.
• The Global Priorities Project
• Arguably Foundational Research Institute
• The Cause Prioritization Wiki (this wiki)
• The Good Technology Project, focusing on technology. It has announced to EAF.
• The Oxford Prioritisation Project
• The Global Priorities Institute
• Forethought Foundation for Global Priorities Research
• Some subset of the Centre for Effective Altruism
• Long-Term World Improvement (not a very coordinated effort, but the group discusses a variety of causes and intriguing ways to improve the future)
• Priority Wiki
• UN General Assembly Open Working Group on Sustainable Development Goals¹
• Founders Pledge
• Future of Humanity Institute
• Center for Reducing Suffering

People

• Toby Ord
• Katja Grace
• Paul Christiano
• Nick Beckstead
• Carl Shulman on his blog *Reflective Disequilibrium*; see also a timeline of his publications
• Tobias Baumann
• Michael Dickens
• Owen Cotton-Barratt
• Hilary Greaves
• William MacAskill
• Gordon Irlam (Back of the Envelope Guide to Philanthropy)
• Joey Savoie and possibly others in his vicinity
• Evan Gaensbauer
• Jiwoon Hwang has several posts on his blog investigating novel cause areas

Discussion forums

• The Cause Prioritization Discussion Group, a Facebook discussion group
• Effective Altruism: New Cause Analyses
• new cause area, amirite?

Related ideas

• Requests for Startups on Ycombinator; see also this public discussion on Facebook as well as GiveWell’s version in “Charities we’d like to see”.
• YC Research
• “A Set of Public Policy Recommendations” and the discussion

See also

• List of cause prioritization tools

TODO: expand by listing some of the methodology/focus areas; see this thread

TODO: incorporate the stuff listed in this spreadsheet? Apparently this is by Katja Grace and listed in this doc? HT Edo Arad.