Rethink Priorities

“Yes - our charitable purposes and mission were updated (to the version outlined above), as were rules on board member compensation (to allow us to pay a board member up to a few hours a week to help administer to duties of the board).”

“The board of directors will electronically review Form 990 and audited financial statements prior to submission. Submission will only occur upon majority vote by the board of directors.”

“All staff and board members declare conflicts of interest annually. Prior to financial decisions and programmatic decisions, conflicts are reviewed and adressed as relevant. Restrictions include TDOKEs recusing themselves from decision making processes.”

“Salaries for comparable roles at all levels of RP's title structure were pulled from similar organizations. RP uses a formula for setting most compensation, and exec compensation was compared to these salaries, with a target of salaries falling between the 25th and 75th percentile. Executive salaries are independently reviewed and approved by the board. This process occurred in 2023.”

“Salaries for comparable roles at all levels of RP's title structure were pulled from similar organizations. RP uses a formula for setting most compensation, and staff compensation was compared to these salaries, with a target of salaries falling between the 25th and 75th percentile. This process occurred in 2023.”

“Governing documents and the conflict of interest policy are available upon request. Financial statements are available on the organization's website.”

“OTHER PROGRAM SERVICES 4: Surveys and Data Analysis: Rethink Priorities' (RP's) Surveys and Data Analysis Department supported work in a variety of high priority causes in 2023 through conducting surveys, polling, other forms of psychological and behavioral experiments and focus groups, and data analysis. In the last two years, the team has completed over 100 projects in total, including small-scale consultations and analyses (more than 60 in 2023 alone). Of these, 42 were survey projects (some involving multiple surveys), 47 were data analysis projects, and 17 were private consultations on statistics or methodology. Some highlights include: Polling public attitudes towards important contemporary issues, such as risks associated with Frontier AI systems; Message testing to examine which messages, frames, and brandings lead to the highest levels of support for different causes among different groups; Running experiments for a number of different orgs to assess the effectiveness of different advertisements; Analyzing data for various organizations to help them have a higher impact; Conducting and consulting on academic research projects on topics such as wild animal welfare and human challenge trials. In 2023, RP published 15 reports online, sharing the results of several survey and data analysis projects. The team also supported some of RP's internal work in global health and development and animal welfare. OTHER PROGRAM SERVICES 5: Global Health and Development: Rethink Priorities' (RP's) Global Health and Development (GHD) Department conducts high quality research on important global health, international development, and climate issues and uses its research to influence relevant stakeholders, such that they move resources towards more cost-effective interventions to ultimately increase wellbeing in lower- and middle- income countries (LMICs). GHD completed ~30 reports in 2023 on topics such as mental health, climate change, and medicine in the developing world. GHD also significantly expanded its work with GiveWell in 2023 as well as formally launched its consulting services work. The GHD team also hosted a global health and development strategy forum, an event which brought together ~20 different stakeholders from the EA GHD community, and they hosted a series of roundtable discussions with other EA organizations doing work in the climate space. OTHER PROGRAM SERVICES 6: Special Projects: RP's Special Projects (SP) team supports priority projects that RP fiscally sponsors, incubates, or directly launches. Since the SP program launched in July 2022, some notable achievements include: 71 fiscal sponsorship expressions of interest received; 12 projects supported; $5.1m total direct costs of supported projects in 2023 alone; 7 sponsee hiring rounds completed; 71 sponsee staff onboarded (total) of which 42 sponsee staff recruited directly by SP; 20 visa sponsorship applications (UK & US); 8 in-person events; 23 days of on-site event support; and 219 total event attendees. In 2023, the following projects were fiscally sponsored or incubated at RP: Epoch, Existential Risk Alliance (ERA), Apollo Research, Effective Altruism Consulting Network (EACN), Quantified Uncertainty Research Institute (QURI), Condor Camp, The Insect Institute, and Insect Welfare Research Society. The SP team also supported founder search for field building for AI Policy and provided event planning services to the Cooperative AI Foundation. OTHER PROGRAM SERVICES 7: Worldview Investigations - Rethink Priorities' (RP's) Worldview Investigations Team (WIT) exists to improve resource allocation by focusing on tractable, high-impact questions that bear on philanthropic priorities. WIT builds on RP's work as a multi-cause, stakeholder-driven research organization and aims to take action-relevant philosophical, methodological, and strategic problems and turn them into manageable, modelable problems. RP formally launched WIT in January 2023. Some of the research rep”