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Holden Karnofsky is an American nonprofit executive. He is a co-founder and Director of AI Strategy of the research and grantmaking organization Open Philanthropy. Karnofsky co-founded the charity evaluator GiveWell with Elie Hassenfeld in 2007 and is vice chair of its board of directors.
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History. In 2006, Holden Karnofsky and Elie Hassenfeld, who...
- Open Philanthropy
Holden Karnofsky has claimed that Open Philanthropy "is the...
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History. In 2006, Holden Karnofsky and Elie Hassenfeld, who worked at a hedge fund in Connecticut, formed an informal group with colleagues to evaluate charities based on data and performance metrics similar to those they used at the fund, and were surprised to find the data often didn't exist. [2] The next year, Karnofsky and Hassenfeld formed ...
Apr 29, 2024 · Published: April 29, 2024 | by Alexander Berger. I have bittersweet news to announce: Holden Karnofsky, who cofounded Open Philanthropy and helped to run it through July 2023, is leaving to become a Visiting Scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, effective today.
Oct 5, 2021 · Holden Karnofsky, a co-founder of GiveWell, explores the ethical questions around charitable giving. [MUSIC PLAYING] EZRA KLEIN: I’m Ezra Klein, and this is “The Ezra Klein Show.” Over the past...
Holden Karnofsky has claimed that Open Philanthropy "is the largest funder in the world of farm animal welfare", including investing in alternative proteins and animal welfare advocacy. In 2016, Open Philanthropy made an investment in Impossible Foods to support the development of non-animal meats. [23]
In 2007, two members of the group, Holden Karnofsky and Elie Hassenfeld ( bios ), left our jobs, raised $300,000 in startup funds from former coworkers who believed in us and our mission, and started GiveWell as a full-time project. The full history of our progress and business plans, detailing our efforts since then, is available on our ...
Staff Adam Salisbury | Senior Research Associate. Adam reviews the quality of GiveWell research and investigates cross-cutting questions that affect GiveWell’s grants. Before GiveWell, he worked as a research economist at the Institute for Fiscal Studies and as an ODI Fellow at the Zanzibar Ministry of Education. He holds a M.Sc. in Development Economics and a B.A. in Philosophy, Politics ...
