Career Development and Transition Funding

Career Development and Transition Funding

Open Philanthropy
Opportunity type
Funding
Recurring opportunity
Cause areas
Building Effective Altruism
Global Priorities Research
AI Safety & Policy
Information Security
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
International Security & Cooperation
Institutional Decision-making
Nuclear Security
Global Health & Development
Animal Welfare
Climate Change
Mental Health & Wellbeing
Other (pressing)
Routes to impact
💡 Direct/Increased Engagement with EA
📈 Skill-Building & Building Career Capital
📖 Learning about Important Cause Areas
🧪 Testing Your Fit for a Certain Career Path
Relevant aptitudes
Academia
Conceptual & Empirical Research
Entrepreneur
Organization Building, Boosting & Running
Political & Bureaucratic
Communicator
Community Building
Software Engineering
Information Security
Forecasting
Location
Anywhere
Description
This program aims to provide support – in the form of funding for graduate study, unpaid internships, self-study, career transition and exploration periods, and other activities relevant to building career capital – for individuals at any career stage who want to pursue careers that could help to reduce global catastrophic risks or otherwise improve the long-term future. [Apply here.]
We’re especially interested in supporting individuals who want to pursue careers that are in some way related to mitigating potential risks posed by future advances in artificial intelligence or global catastrophic biological risks.
Applications are open until further notice and will be assessed on a rolling basis.
Generally speaking, we aim to review proposals within 6 weeks of receiving them, although this may not prove possible for all applications. Candidates who require more timely decisions can indicate this in their application forms, and we may be able to expedite the decision process in such cases.
Until recently, this program was known as the “early-career funding program”, but we’ve decided to broaden its scope to explicitly include later-career individuals.
Join 60k subscribers and sign up for the EA Newsletter, a monthly email with the latest ideas and opportunities