Effective Philanthropy Network™

effective philanthropy network (epn) is an independent, philanthropic, effective altruist, and learning organization. we make grants to high-impact charities that apply evidence and reasoning in their projects and have the potential to deliver the most good with whatever resources are available. research shows that working on a cause is likely to be highly impactful to the extent that the cause is (source: center for effective altruism/80,000 hours): >great in scale (it affects many lives, by a great amount) >highly neglected (few other people are working on addressing the problem), and >highly solvable or tractable (additional resources will do a great deal to address it). on the basis of this reasoning, so far three promising cause areas are: fighting extreme poverty, animal suffering, and improving the long-term future. due to time and resource constraints, our current focus is to conduct global priorities research and to make grants to high-impact charities working on climat