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Back to Episodes“Cross-Cause Fund: our first distribution round” by Rethink Priorities, Maja Nenadov Webster
Description
As you might know, we’ve recently launched the Rethink Priorities Cross-Cause Fund (CCF), a pooled fund that allocates donations across high-impact giving opportunities in Global Health and Development, Animal Welfare, and Global Catastrophic Risks. Thanks to generous donors and supporters, we have now completed our first distribution round, allocating more than $700,000 across the funds in our model, following its current recommended split.
A quick recap
The CCF exists because cross-cause prioritization - comparing giving opportunities across different causes on a single scale - remains underdeveloped in effective giving. Rather than dividing funding by cause area first and optimizing within each one separately, the CCF uses an explicit model to evaluate specific funds directly against one another, so that a marginal dollar goes where it is likely to do the most good, all things considered, regardless of cause area. For the full rationale behind the fund, please read our launch announcement.
Our first distribution
In the first round, we distributed more than $700,000 across the funds included in our model, following the current recommended allocation that you can follow on our website. The table below shows how this round's distribution broke down by fund:
We are grateful to the [...]
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Outline:
(00:39) A quick recap
(01:15) Our first distribution
(01:56) How have we made this decision
(04:21) Work in progress
(05:07) Contribute to the CCF
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First published:
July 29th, 2026
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Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.
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