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| ====== FTX Foundation ====== | ====== FTX Foundation ====== |
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| **FTX Foundation** is a private philanthropic collective associated with [[cryptocurrency]] giant [[FTX]] and its founder [[Sam Bankman-Fried]]. It issues grants and investments to "improve [[global health]], prevent [[pandemics]], reduce animal suffering, protect the climate and improve humanity's prospects of long-term survival and flourishing."((//About.// FTX Foundation. Retrieved November 17, 2022, from https://archive.ph/LQNUW)) | **FTX Foundation** was a private philanthropic collective associated with [[cryptocurrency]] giant [[FTX]] and its founder [[Sam Bankman-Fried]]. Working under the banner of [[effective altruism]], it issued grants and investments to "improve [[global health]], prevent [[pandemics]], reduce animal suffering, protect the climate and improve humanity's prospects of long-term survival and flourishing."((//About.// FTX Foundation. Retrieved November 17, 2022, from https://archive.ph/LQNUW)) |
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| | ===== Activities ===== |
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| | ==== Grants ==== |
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| | Grant recipients include:((Service, R. F. (2022, November 14). //Crypto company’s collapse strands scientists.// Science. https://web.archive.org/web/20221223104201/https://www.science.org/content/article/crypto-company-s-collapse-strands-scientists)) ((Hyatt, J. (2022, November 22). //This Climate Change Nonprofit Didn’t Ask For FTX’s Money–But Got $200,000 Anyway.// Forbes. https://web.archive.org/web/20221223200337/https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnhyatt/2022/11/22/this-climate-change-nonprofit-didnt-ask-for-ftxs-moneybut-got-200000-anyways/?sh=6e344a695e9c)) |
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| | * [[1Day Sooner]] |
| | * [[CarbonPlan]] |
| | * [[pharmaceutical_companies:HelixNano]] |
| | * [[SecureBio]] |
| | * [[pharmaceutical_companies:Sherlock Biosciences]] |
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| | ===== Organization ===== |
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| | The foundation operated several subsidiary projects including the [[Future Fund]] and [[FTX Climate]]. |
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| | The foundation was associated with the [[Clean Air Task Force]], [[Effective Altruism Global]], [[GiveWell]] and the [[Humane League]].((//Home.// FTX Foundation. Retrieved June 25, 2022, from https://web.archive.org/web/20220625130718/https://www.ftxfoundation.org/)) |
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| | ==== Funding ==== |
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| | The majority of the Foundation's funding is provided by [[Sam Bankman-Fried]] and other senior principals at [[FTX]]. FTX users and employees also support the Foundation's activities, through the FTX Giving program, by contributing to FTX Philanthropy Inc., a non-profit organization organized for tax-exempt purposes. |
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| | ==== Personnel ==== |
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| | ^ Name ^ Position ^ Affiliation(s) ^ |
| | | [[Nick Beckstead]] | CEO | [[Open Philanthropy]], [[Future of Humanity Institute]], [[Centre for Effective Altruism]] | |
| | | [[Ross Rheingans-Yoo]] | Special Project Lead((//Ross Rheingans-Yoo.// CypherHunter. Retrieved March 8, 2023, from https://web.archive.org/web/20230308005223/https://www.cypherhunter.com/en/p/ross-rheingans-yoo/)) | [[Center of Mathematical Sciences and Applications]], [[Harvard University]], [[Jane Street Capital]], [[Systems Research at Harvard]] (SYRAH) | |