EA Organization Updates: September 2025

By Toby Tremlett🔹, Dane Valerie @ 2025-09-15T08:04 (+25)

If you would like to see EA Organization Updates as soon as they come out, consider subscribing to this tag.

Some of the opportunities and job listings we feature in this update have (very) pressing deadlines: Sentient Future’s Prioritizing Neglected Learners’ program (September 15th), Mental Health Funding Circle’s grants (15th September), the Fauna Connections conference (September 18th), Content Associate for 80,000 Hours (15th September) and three roles at the Lead Exposure Elimination Project (September 21st).

Opportunities and jobs

Opportunities

Consider also checking out opportunities listed on the EA Opportunities Board and the Opportunities to Take Action tag.

Upcoming EA conferences

Job listings

​​Consider also exploring jobs listed on the Job listing (open) tag. For even more roles, see the 80,000 Hours Job Board.

80,000 Hours

Effective Thesis

Evidence Action

Givewell

Lead Exposure Elimination Project

SecureBio

UC Berkeley

Zurich AI Safety

Organization updates

The organization updates are in alphabetical order (0-A-Z).

80,000 Hours

80,000 Hours announced the launch of their new Substack newsletter, where they’ll be posting some of their best all-time articles over the coming weeks.

They also published an article on early warning signs that AI systems might seek power.

On The 80,000 Hours Podcast, Luisa interviewed Kyle Fish on the most bizarre findings from 5 AI welfare experiments.

Animal Charity Evaluators

ACE awarded $1.84M to their 2024 Recommended Charities back in February  â€”  their second-largest disbursement ever. Read what ACE’s Recommended Charities have been up to.

Ambitious Impact

Joey Savoie, co-founder and CEO of Ambitious Impact, is hosting a personal AMA on the EA Forum — ask him anything here. From the new Impactful Philanthropy round of the Charity Entrepreneurship Incubation Program, to his learnings from co-founding, building and leading AIM, to impactful careers, and cause-plurality vs cause prioritisation — and more.

Faunalytics

A new meta-analysis on the small body problem from Faunalytics and Bryant Research finds no overall evidence that meat reduction campaigns push people toward eating more chickens or fish, but results vary by intervention. The report highlights choice architecture as a promising approach and calls for more targeted research.

Faunalytics has updated its Research Library with articles on a variety of topics, including Common Assumptions Undermine Insect Farming Research, as well as a guest blog AI Model Selection: An Animal Advocacy Case Study. There’s also a new addition to their Tactics in Practice series: The Impact Of Vegan Documentary And Video.

Fish Welfare Initiative

Fish Welfare Initiative (FWI) recently published a post outlining changes in their ammonia measurement protocol in their farm programme. Ammonia is one of the water quality values they measure at the ~180 farms in their programme in India, and a critical parameter for fish welfare.

Givewell

In GiveWell’s latest podcast episode, CEO and co-founder Elie Hassenfeld speaks with Dr Neil Buddy Shah, CEO of the Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI). They talk about how these  cuts are affecting vital programmes, what it takes to build a strategic response, and how this pivotal moment could shape the future of global health. Subscribe here for the latest updates.

A key source of global health data, the Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS), recently had its primary funding from USAID discontinued. In a recent podcast episode, Elie Hassenfeld and Senior Researcher Adam Salisbury discuss how the DHS program works, why it’s essential for informed decision making, and how GiveWell is responding to the growing limitations of public health data.

GiveWell has published its 2024 Metrics Report. In 2024, it directed $397 million through 55 grants, which it estimates will reach around 34 million people and save 74,000 lives. Read the summary on the GiveWell blog.

The Good Food Institute

GFI Europe is cited more than 80 times in a report by the Scientific Advisory Board of the German Ministry of Agriculture and Food that calls for increased research and scaling funding for alternative proteins, with eight GFI Europe resources included in the official reference list (English summary).

GFI Brazil released a report based on its work with Brazilian scientists, industry and government to lay the groundwork for targeted R&D that positions Brazil as a leader in soy research and production for plant-based meat.

GFI launched a refreshed design of its alternative protein ecosystem map, which features three new data types: courses, networks and research centres. Combined with existing data on companies, researchers and university student groups, the updated map makes it easy to visualize and interact with geographical “hot spots” of alternative protein activity across the globe.

GFI Europe published a new web page (in English and German) on the state of the alternative protein research ecosystem in Germany, Austria and Switzerland, mirroring a similar page recently published covering the Nordics.

GFI APAC published a new global patent data analysis, showing that of the top 20 cultivated meat patent applicants, eight are from China, four are from Israel, and three each from Europe, South Korea and the United States. China’s applicants include multiple universities and public institutions, underscoring a broader national effort to build a comprehensive innovation ecosystem around cellular agriculture.

Happier Lives Institute

The Happier Lives Institute asks how to best buy happiness, and looks at topics that are often left out of the discussion.

The Life You Can Save

The Life You Can Save recommends a new nonprofit: Food4Education (F4E) is transforming the landscape of school feeding in Kenya through innovation, local ownership and a sustainable co-investment model. F4E partners with local governments and communities to provide nutritious, low-cost meals to children in public schools, ensuring that no child has to learn on an empty stomach.

Open Philanthropy

Open Philanthropy and its staff have published several articles recently, covering a case study on corporate campaigns for farm animal welfare, how grantee the Institute for Replication is making social science more robust and reliable, the AI talent development space, central bank independence and China's underconsumption.

Lewis Bollard, who leads Open Philanthropy’s farm animal welfare program, gave a TED Talk about factory farming (read the associated blog post here).

Jacob Trefethen, program director in Global Health & Wellbeing, released the second episode of his new podcast, Hard Drugs.

Oliver Kim wrote about measuring GDP in the ancient world for Asterisk Magazine and Inside Philanthropy covered Open Philanthropy’s work on abundance.

Wild Animal Initiative

Wild Animal Initiative has selected 15 research projects to receive a total of $711,309 in grants this year, including its first projects in Costa Rica, Italy, Serbia and Tanzania. Its Grants Program funds academic research on high-priority questions in wild animal welfare science. Learn about each of the projects and why they were selected on WAI’s blog.

Katalina Hernandez @ 2025-09-15T08:17 (+2)

Thank you for helping us spread awareness of the Law-a-thon!