Investment for the long, safe future of one best kiddo and one still cooking bb

I’m praying you can find a gene cure for Anders Payne’s eyes! One of my beloved grandsons. ❤️❤️❤️

Aging is the biggest common enemy of all of us.

Open Source Endowment

Funding people or projects that aim to improve the long-term future, such as by reducing risks from AI and engineered pandemics.

*If you're in the UK or Netherlands, donate via* [*Giving What We Can*](https://www.givingwhatwecan.org/charities/long-term-future-fund?) *for tax exemption.*

The Effective Altruism Long-Term Future Fund has a broad remit to make grants that promote, implement and advocate for longtermist ideas. Many of our grants aim to address potential risks from advanced artificial intelligence and to build infrastructure and advocate for longtermist projects. However, we welcome applications related to long-term institutional reform or other global catastrophic risks (e.g., pandemics or nuclear conflict). We intend to support:

- Projects that directly contribute to reducing [existential risks](https://www.nickbostrom.com/existential/risks.html) through technical research, policy analysis, advocacy, and/or demonstration projects
- Training for researchers or practitioners who work to mitigate existential risks, or help with relevant recruitment efforts, or infrastructure for people working on longtermist projects
- Promoting [long-term thinking](https://80000hours.org/articles/future-generations/)

EA Long-Term Future Fund

Odylia Therapeutics is a nonprofit biotech working to accelerate the development of treatments for people with rare diseases.

At Odylia, we accelerate therapeutic development for people with rare diseases, changing the way treatments are brought from the lab to the clinic. We strive to bring life altering treatments to people with genetic disease regardless of prevalence or commercial interest. 
Odylia is shifting the paradigm to focus on proven science and removing traditional roadblocks. We work to lower costs, reduce development time, focus research, and continuously drive successful programs towards clinical trials and regulatory approval. Strategic collaborations with patient groups, research labs, and commercial partners facilitate our work to ensure treatments are safe, effective, and ultimately reach patients who need them.

Odylia challenges the traditional approach to drug development through:

1. Lower cost of development
Lower licensing fees to decrease development costs and ensure continued commitment to program success

2. Increase speed of development
Challenge traditional approaches through regulatory engagement

Streamline development through strategic partnerships and a platform approach to drug development

3. Enable the entire ecosystem
Provide expertise through in-house Brydge Solutions and leveraging the Odylia Board

Enable the entire ecosystem through Initiatives that impact the broader field

Odylia Therapeutics

Zig is a general-purpose programming language and toolchain for maintaining robust, optimal, and reusable software.

The Zig Software Foundation is a non-profit corporation founded in 2020 by Andrew Kelley, the creator of Zig, with the goal of supporting the development of the language. Currently, the ZSF is able to offer paid work at competitive rates to a small number of core contributors. We hope to be able to extend this offer to more core contributors in the future.

Zig Software Foundation Inc

Eliminating obstacles on the path to the comprehensive medical control of aging and age-related disease.

Longevity Escape Velocity (LEV) Foundation exists to conduct and inspire research to proactively identify and address the most challenging obstacles on the path to the widespread availability of comprehensively effective treatments to prevent and reverse human age-related disease.

Longevity Escape Velocity Foundation

Allies Against Slavery builds platforms and partnerships that accelerate data-driven solutions to human trafficking. 

Human trafficking is a hidden problem that thrives in the shadows of society. Myths and misconceptions are pervasive, and data is unreliable. As a result, victims aren’t identified, traffickers aren’t prosecuted, and solutions aren’t data-informed or well-coordinated.

But that is changing. Allies Against Slavery harnesses data to illuminate and eradicate human trafficking. Our tools help allies in the fight to identify victims, coordinate care, and take informed action. 

Our vision is clear: to ensure that every community across the United States has the data it needs to combat and prevent human trafficking. But we cannot achieve this vision alone. We need to leverage innovative, data-driven solutions and forge crucial partnerships to shine a light on trafficking and build a future where freedom and dignity are secured for all. We invite you to join us in this important mission.

Allies Against Slavery

Wezasha Impact empowers marginalized youth with skills to gain employment or start their own businesses.

Solomon and James met in 2008, working as mentors for young leaders and entrepreneurs in secondary schools. In the due course of their work, they noticed that their local communities had an under-addressed problem. Every time they walked around their childhood villages, they were struck by the high school dropout rates, unemployment, and meager incomes of youth. This was the life their parents had lived, and if nothing changed, it is the life their children will most likely live. Thousands of youths drop out of the formal school system annually and they could have been one of them.

Wezesha means “to enable” in Swahili language. Founded as a peer youth volunteer initiative in 2010, Wezesha Impact is a registered not for profit organization that started operating fully in 2014. Since then, Wezesha Impact has been dedicated to equipping youth with the essential skills and tools for entrepreneurship and work, with the aim of ensuring that they can thrive socially and economically. 

We have implemented programs across east, central, north, and southern Uganda. The organization has partnered with 100 TVETS and 25 Community Based Organisations across Uganda, including refugee-led organizations. In addition, Wezesha Impact co-leads a loose coalition of 13 grassroots NGOs under the umbrella name of the "Africa Coalition for Social Impact." The reach and impact of Wezesha Impact is significant. Between 2014 and 2024, Wezesha Impact worked with over 15,700 youth. An external impact evaluation of alumni of Wezesha Impact’s programs that was commissioned by Livelihood Impact Fund and conducted by BFA Global, found that 88% of the youth surveyed were actively participating in the labour force. In addition, graduates surveyed earned an average of USD300 more than the control group per annum. Graduates were also more likely to report that their incomes were sufficient to support themselves.

 The organization's mission is to improve entrepreneurship and employment outcomes of youth in Africa through skilling and enterprise development.

Our goal is to empower 100,000 youth over the next three years by providing market-relevant skills training and connecting entrepreneurs to market opportunities. Our model is focused on three key areas:

1.	Skills and Enterprise Academy: Offers practical learning experiences to equip young entrepreneurs with essential skills for starting, managing, and growing their businesses.

2.	Enterprise Growth Lab: Provides technical support, mentoring, and follow-up services to improve the performance and survival rates of small enterprises.

3.	Markets for Youth: Works to increase the purchasing and influencing power of rural youth in the agricultural market and facilitates connections between small enterprises and larger firms to create market opportunities.

We co-implement these interventions in partnership with formal vocational schools, non-formal training initiatives that work with Youth. These co-implementation partnerships ensure that youth receive a more holistic hard skills and soft skills education experience. Where needed, we engage the services of specialized expertise to provide tailored technical support to youth entrepreneurs.

This integrated approach ensures that youth are equipped with the skills, support, and market access needed to succeed in their ventures and actively participate in their communities.

Program Activities

Signing MOU with partner Vocational Schools

We work in partnership with Vocational Training Institutions. Once we identify a viable Vocational Institute, we reach out to the leadership and speak with them about the Program. The institute is required to expressions interest through filling out an expression of interest form. Once selected we sign the MOU and signals formal partnerships, and we proceed to engage the Youth of the vocational Institute.

Youth Outreach, Call for Applications and Selection: 

The purpose of the youth outreach is twofold. Firstly, it aims to raise awareness and generate excitement among young people about the program and its value proposition. Secondly, it seeks to facilitate their application to participate in the programme. During the outreach sessions, interested youth are informed about the program, its purpose, benefits, and format, and encouraged to participate. Application forms are distributed for the youth to apply, and mentors provide support to assist youth with the application process. 

ii. Design and Preparation: 

The design and preparation of the training and mentorship phases is a crucial step in ensuring that the programme's goals are met. Tailored training materials are designed to ensure that the trainers have all the necessary resources needed to deliver the training. The training materials are designed to be interactive, engaging, and tailored to the needs of the participants.

 iii. Training Sessions: The sessions are a set of experiential learning sessions that seek to empower young people with the skills and knowledge for life and work and to develop innovative business ideas. The training is entirely action oriented and youth-led, with mentors on hand to introduce new tools and methods. The young people are responsible for all decision-making and define and design the elements of their ideas and enterprises. The trainings are entirely about learning by doing. This approach allows for focused attention on each group of participants, ensuring that they receive the necessary support, guidance, and mentorship to develop innovative solutions to address community issues. 

 iv. Mentorship and linkages: The Mentorship program consists of multiple phases that aim to identify young people with the potential to create community change projects. During the first phase, teams focus on ideating and planning well thought-out solutions and committed teams. Teams and mentors will go into the field to meet target audiences, stakeholders, partners, suppliers. At the end of this phase, the 1st pitch will be organized to select and ward the teams with well-thought-out ideas. In the next phase of mentoring, the goal is to turn ideas into action. Youth build out their solutions. In addition, youth with enterprises will be organized in business improvement groups and receive tailored technical support from both in house staff and outsourced expertise over two-year period. 

v. Awards: The Wezesha Impact Skill and Enterprise awards is a platform where young people can showcase their innovative ideas and enterprises. The aim is to bring together young people from diverse backgrounds to exchange ideas, learn from each other, and celebrate their achievements. Judges are invited from different stakeholder groups, including government, civil society organizations, private sector, and academia. The judges evaluate the presentations based on the innovativeness of the idea, impact, feasibility, sustainability, and scalability. The awards recognize the hard work and innovative thinking of young people and encourage them to continue developing their initiatives. The above activities are co-implemented in conjunction with Youth Business Fellows from Wezesha Impact and Instructors from Vocational Institutions.

For the next 3 years (2025-2027) we plan to implement the following Goals and activities,

Key Result 1: 7,000 youth in vocational training secure dignified employment through starting a business or finding jobs. 

We will equip youth in their final year of vocational training with skills and tools for entrepreneurship. The program experience is delivered in established vocational training centres as an add-on to the hard skills training offered by the vocational training centres. The program experience is delivered weekly (4 hours of teaching and mentoring) in the final year of vocational training, then followed by 6 months of individual mentoring. 

Key actions will include:  

a) Building partnerships with formal and informal training centers to deliver Wezesha Impact’s practical learning experience through Social Innovation and    Entrepreneurship Clubs. 

b) Training vocational instructors and youth business fellows to mentor youth. 

c) Organizing youth competitions and exhibitions. 

d) Linking youth to market information. 

Key Assumption: We assume a minimum 50% success rate. Thus, in 2025 to 2027, we will work with a total of 14,000 youth in vocational training and ensure that 7,000 (50%) secure dignified employment.

Key Result 2: 3,000 out-of-school youth secure dignified employment through starting a business or finding jobs. 

We shall equip out-of-school youth with skills and tools for entrepreneurship. The program experience primarily caters for out-of-school youth who are unemployed. The programme is delivered for youth in community-based youth groups or groups of youth that we mobilize individually. The program experience is delivered weekly (4 hours of teaching and mentoring) for 6 months, then followed by 6 months of apprenticeship with a local artisan and then followed by 6 months of individual mentoring. 

Key actions will include: 

a) Building partnerships with artisans and community-based organizations to deliver Wezesha Impact’s practical learning experience. 

b) Training community mentors and youth business fellows to mentor youth. 

c) Organizing youth competitions and exhibitions. Linking youth to market information. 

Key Assumption: We assume a minimum 50% success rate. Thus, in 2025 to 2027, we will work with a total of 6,000 out-of-school youth and ensure that 3,000 (50%) secure dignified employment. 



Wezesha Impact

We want to make life better for wild animals.

We are dedicated to finding evidence-backed ways to improve the lives of animals in the wild.

We depend on individual donors to help us make life better for wild animals. To a small nonprofit working hard on a big problem, your support is more crucial now than ever!

Wild Animal Initiative

A refreshingly simple data-driven game engine built in Rust. Free and Open Source Forever! 

Our mission is to promote, protect, and advance the free and open source [Bevy Engine](https://bevy.org/) and related open source projects. We coordinate and promote its continued maintenance and development, educate and train members of the general public in its usage, and conduct research and development to advance the state of the art of creating real-time applications and simulations.

In short: **we exist to develop Bevy and teach people how to use it!**

Bevy will always be free and open-source, but it isn't free to make! Because Bevy is free, we rely on the generosity of the Bevy community to fund our efforts. If you are a happy user of Bevy or you believe in our mission, please consider donating!

**Bevy Foundation** currently uses donations in the following ways:

- **Hiring Maintainers:** Maintainers are technical experts that facilitate the development of Bevy by reviewing, adjusting, and merging changes from the Bevy community, reviewing and developing designs, and choosing project direction. They are technical experts that contribute their own changes to Bevy, as well as social experts that ensure the Bevy community is a pleasant and effective place to work. Maintainers serve as public representatives of the project. Our bar for maintainership is high. See our [Bevy Organization](https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/blob/main/docs/the_bevy_organization.md#maintainer) document for details.
- **Infrastructure:** The foundation will pay present and future hosting costs, such as hosting the Bevy website and continuous integration (CI) to validate our code. Currently these costs are low, but we expect them to increase over time.
- **Operational Costs:** Keeping a nonprofit organization compliant and operational takes time and money. These costs are currently very low, but we expect them to increase over time as we grow. Our goal is to minimize these costs as much as possible as our goal is to maximize the amount we spend on actually building Bevy and accomplishing our mission.

Bevy Foundation

To promote software literacy within the visual arts, and visual literacy within technology-related fields.

The Processing Foundation promotes creative coding through open-source tools like [p5.js](https://p5js.org) and [Processing](https://processing.org), educational programs, and global community initiatives. Our goal is to empower people of all backgrounds to learn programming and create with code, especially those who might not otherwise have access to these resources. **Your donation helps keep p5.js and Processing thriving, inclusive, and accessible for learners and creators worldwide.**

Processing Foundation

Prevention, control and treatment of malaria and other communicable diseases among vulnerable populations.

Malaria Consortium US, Inc. (MC-US) is a registered 501(c)(3) public charity and shares the mission of Malaria Consortium, a globally recognized organization committed to reducing deaths and illnesses caused by malaria and other preventable and treatable diseases across Africa and Asia.

Our mission is to save lives and improve health in Africa and Asia through evidence-based programs that tackle malaria and other priority diseases while advancing universal health coverage (UHC). In the US, we build partnerships with foundations, donors, and philanthropic organizations to ensure that every contribution makes a lasting impact for those most in need.

As a leader in malaria control and elimination, our work focuses on interventions such as seasonal malaria chemoprevention (SMC), malaria vaccines, disease surveillance, and integrated child health services. We work in collaboration with governments, communities, and health systems to improve access to essential healthcare and strengthen delivery of services in underserved and hard-to-reach areas.

As a leader in interventions such as chemoprevention and vector control, we rely on evidence and our expertise to deliver established interventions, influence other effective interventions and guide new strategies to reduce the burden of malaria, pneumonia, dengue, malnutrition and diarrhea. We work with communities and all levels of the health system to improve access to and demand for primary healthcare services and overall quality of care.

Our tailored interventions seek to improve equity by providing quality, affordable health services to marginalized populations (particularly women and girls and those living in hard-to-reach areas). To ensure barriers to achieving UHC are addressed and to encourage sustainability, we work closely with governments to integrate our programs within existing health systems and structures in the countries in which we work.

We promote disease surveillance as a core intervention to engage communities to improve the quality and accessibility of routine health information by using digital tools and approaches that strengthen the linkages between case-level data and national health information systems. We combine capacity development at community level with the use of innovative tools and platforms to enhance local capabilities to interpret and use these data most effectively.

All of our work is informed by our core values: accountability, integrity, dignity and equity.

Malaria Consortium

Spritely Institute builds, researches, and standardizes networked technology which put people and communities first.


Centralized social media is harmful to society. We are building a gatekeeper-free decentralized system. Our mission is “social media done right”, to put people in control of their own identity and build the technology that would enable a shift to collaborative and intentional security models prioritizing active consent. To accomplish this, we will build a new architecture for the internet: removing the necessity of client-server architecture, replacing it with a participatory peer-centric model.

Spritely’s technology is being released as free and open source software aiming for multiple programming language implementations and eventual open standardization. All of our work, ranging from decentralized identity, peer-to-peer user agents, decentralized social networks, encrypted and portable storage, and distributed object programming infrastructure is being built to enable a gatekeeper-free path where users and content are not tied to a specific server.

Spritely Networked Communities Institute

MATS is an independent research and educational seminar program that aims to grow AI alignment, transparency, and security.

The MATS Program is an independent research and educational seminar program that connects talented researchers with top [mentors](https://www.matsprogram.org/mentors) in the fields of AI [alignment](https://www.ibm.com/think/topics/ai-alignment), [transparency](https://www.ibm.com/think/topics/ai-transparency), and [security](https://www.ibm.com/think/topics/ai-security). The program runs for 12 weeks with in-person cohorts in Berkeley and London, where MATS fellows conduct research while attending talks, workshops, and networking events with other members of the AI research community.

MATS aims to find and train talented individuals for what we see as the world’s most urgent and talent-constrained problem: reducing risks from [unaligned artificial intelligence](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_alignment) (AI). We believe that ambitious researchers from a variety of backgrounds have the potential to meaningfully contribute to the field of alignment research. We aim to provide the training, logistics, and community necessary to aid this transition. We also connect our scholars with financial support to ensure their financial security.

MATS Research

Supporting research on the welfare of neglected animals.

There are millions of known arthropod species. There are doubtless millions more. And there may be quintillions of individual arthropods.

We know little about most of these animals and, as a result, little about how their welfare might be improved in contexts where humans use, manage, or otherwise affect them.

The mission of the Arthropoda Foundation is to support research on the welfare of arthropods. We value both basic and applied projects. We are particularly interested in research with a clear path to impact, whether by shaping future science or informing real-world decision-making.

Arthropoda Foundation

Communicating the best research and data to understand big global problems and make progress against them

Poverty, disease, hunger, climate change, war, existential risks, and inequality: The world faces many great and terrifying problems. Our World in Data focuses on communicating the best research and data that helps us understand and find solutions to the world’s largest problems.


Our World in Data publishes an open-access publication where users can understand the state of the world today, where we are making progress and where we are falling behind. Through interactive data visualizations we can see how the world has changed; by summarizing the scientific literature we can understand why. We cover everything from global poverty to natural disasters, education and health, democracy; we have over 13,000 charts across hundreds of topics.


Our World in Data is free, open-source and provided as a public good. It has millions of users every month, and is cited in research and media across the world every day. This allows millions of people to understand the large problems the world is facing, and how we can solve them.

Our World in Data

Our School's global impact would not be possible without the crucial support of our community of committed donors and friends. 

The London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) is renowned for its world-leading research, postgraduate studies and continuing education in public and global health.

With your help, we can increase the number of scholarships we are able to offer. We receive thousands of applications every year, with funding only available to support a small number. 

Our diverse student body is what makes our community so special. Each year, your support funds our LSHTM Fund Scholars, enabling exceptional students to study at our School. We receive thousands of applications every year, with funding only available to support a small number. Without support, many brilliant students like this year's LSHTM Fund Scholar, Judy Baariu (MSc Public Health for Development, 2023) would not have been able to study with us.

LSHTM has over 3,500 staff conducting research in more than 100 countries, with core hubs in London and at the MRC Units in The Gambia and Uganda. Our outstanding, diverse and committed staff make an impact where it is most needed - deploying research in real time in response to crises, developing innovative programmes for major health threats, or training the next generations of public and global health leaders and researchers.

We help shape health policy and translate research findings into tangible impact. We are uniquely placed to lead on transformative approaches to global health and have 120 years of experience tackling big challenges. We are focused on finding new solutions to complex problems and acting upon this knowledge.

We work in collaboration with friends, partners, and supporters to achieve large-scale, long-term impact. Researchers at LSHTM explore all aspects of health challenges, from fundamental laboratory science to policy appraisal and analysis, encompassing statistical, clinical, laboratory, epidemiological and social science research globally.

Our aim is to build strong and dynamic leadership, push the frontiers of knowledge and make an impact where it is most needed. Philanthropy helps us achieve our mission; to improve health and health equity worldwide; working in partnership to achieve excellence in public and global health research, education and translation of knowledge into policy and practice.

London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine

CETI is a nonprofit org applying advanced machine learning and gentle robotics to listen to and translate whale communication. 

Founded in 2020 as a TED Audacious Project, the organization’s science team is made up of the world's leading artificial intelligence and natural language processing experts, marine biologists, cryptographers, linguists, roboticists and underwater acousticians. CETI’s research is taking place off of the island of Dominica in the Caribbean.

In the late 1960s, scientists, including Dr. Roger Payne, a principal advisor of CETI, discovered that whales sing to one another. His recordings, Songs of the Humpback Whale, sparked the “Save the Whales” movement, one of the most successful conservation initiatives in history. The campaign eventually led to the Marine Mammal Protection Act that marked the end of large-scale whaling and saved several whale populations from extinction. 

All this by just hearing the sounds of whales. Imagine what would happen if we could understand them?

WHY WHALES 
Sperm whales specifically share traits strikingly similar to humans. They live in matriarchal and multicultural societies and share dialects and strong multigenerational family bonds. Sperm whales have the largest brains of any species and have higher-level functions such as conscious thought and future planning, as well as speech and feelings of compassion, love, suffering and intuition. Their vocalizations, among the loudest animal sounds on the planet, have a Morse code-like structure that shares the hallmarks of a highly-evolved language. Our understanding of these animals and their dialects is still in its infancy. Only in the last fifteen years have we begun to learn how some of their vocalizations are used for communication.  
WHAT CETI IS DOING
CETI is:
-Developing non-invasive robotics to listen to a population of whales in the Caribbean and put their sounds into context.
-Deploying a “Core Whale Listening System,” an innovative hydrophone array, underwater robotic gliders, custom bioinspired whale tags and other technology to gently study the whales.
-Building on substantial data on the whales’ sounds, social lives, and behavior already obtained by the Dominica Sperm Whale Project. 
-Creating a bespoke, big-data pipeline to examine the recorded data and decode it using advanced machine learning, natural language processing and data science.
-Publishing a series of academic papers beginning with the CETI roadmap.
-Collaborating with the National Geographic Society, including their Exploration Technology Lab, and amplifying the project across National Geographic’s storytelling and education channels.
-Implementing community-based programs like the Dominica Marine Conservation Fellowship, a community-based 10-month multi- module training program for young Dominicans interested in marine science, that was developed in partnership with National Geographic.
-Launching various communications projects to tell CETI’s story including a public interface for the citizen science community, resources for educators and children and arts programs.

IMPACT
Now, for the first time in history, it’s possible to use artificial intelligence to identify and interpret deep structure within animal communication. Using these technologies, CETI is building on the legacy of the “Save the Whales” movement with the goal of having an impact by contributing the following:
Interspecies Communication - A new data set of unprecedented size to the rapidly expanding field of interspecies communication and a roadmap of how humans could translate the communication of any other species
Marine Biology - A substantive contribution to the field of whale research within marine biology that opens gateways for future research initiatives. 
Policy - New information about whales that can bolster policy efforts to protect marine mammals and ocean habitats. Policy advances in this area are crucial as six out of the 13 “great” whale species (the largest whales) are still endangered (World Wildlife Federation). To ensure impact in this area, CETI plans to build out policy campaigns and initiatives. 
Perspective - It is widely endorsed that connectivity with nature can improve mental health. By sharing its journey and findings with the public, CETI hopes to contribute to a feeling of increased wonder and connectedness to whales and the ocean that can inspire action. CETI will build out arts and childrens’ initiatives in support of this impact goal.
Conservation - CETI’s first phase of research is taking place in Dominica in the Caribbean, a region that is one of the world’s greatest centers of diversity. By carrying out its research in partnership with local stakeholders, CETI hopes to contribute to regionally-led research and conservation efforts.

HOW CETI IS SUPPORTING DOMINICA
-CETI’s capacity-building initiative, Dominica Marine Conservation Fellowship is a 10-month, nine module training program for young Dominicans interested in marine science) in partnership with National Geographic.  The program has three 2022/2023 fellows and partnerships with the Dominica National Youth Council, Dominica State College and Dominica’s Ministry of Education. The program’s curriculum (co-created with National Geographic) includes modules on marine science, scientific research/techniques, water and vessel skills and storytelling and leadership among other topics.
-All research and findings by CETI in Dominica are all open-source and will be available for Dominica. The organization’s sailing research vessel (CETI-1), a Rigid Inflatable Boat (CETI-2) and Dominican made boat (CETI-3) are in operation in Dominican waters; these boats along with other CETI equipment will be donated to the local entity at the completion of the project.
-A temporary field station has been established in Dominica and has the capacity to host 10-12 researchers, fellows and students. In the long-term, CETI plans to build a permanent field station in Dominica 
-In 2023, CETI will continue local engagement and presentations with primary and secondary schools, development of video content for use in classrooms, collaborations with local artists and collaborations with local stakeholders such as marine and dive operators, civil society organizations and schools.



Project CETI

MAPS works towards a post-prohibition world by advancing research, changing policies, and shaping culture. 

Since our founding in 1986, the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS) has been the leading organization building the movement to foster evidence-based approaches to psychedelics and the people who use them. When used safely and responsibly, psychedelics have the potential to promote personal growth and well-being and treat various mental health conditions. Three pillars guide our efforts: advancing research, changing policies, and shaping culture. 

[Advancing Research](https://maps.org/advancing-research/)

MAPS spent decades developing MDMA-assisted therapy for the clinical utilization of psychedelic-assisted therapies. With the road paved for the next generation of research and drug development, MAPS now stewards the research landscape we helped cultivate.

We are dedicated to fostering new research directions that prioritize public benefit, supporting international researchers and pilot programs, and ensuring the accessibility and culturally appropriate integration of psychedelics as a tool for individual and community wellness. We center research that contributes to knowledge in the public domain.

[Changing Policy](https://maps.org/changing-policy/)

The cultivation, use, and trade of psychoactive substances — including psychedelics — has been a consistent aspect of human history, but prohibition, criminalization, and militarization — and their inherent oppression — have led to drastic consequences. The ongoing, global War on Drugs has been justified by bad science, racism, and fear for too long: it has led to mass incarceration; erosion of civil liberties; ecological damage; economic waste; and the public health polycrisis of adulteration, poisoning, and overdose. Many of these harmful effects have disproportionately impacted the most historically exploited and oppressed communities. Consequently, we believe societies worldwide have an obligation to account for and repair those harms, to the extent possible. 

MAPS envisions a post-prohibition future based on Consciousness, not Criminalization.

[Shaping Culture](https://maps.org/shaping-culture/)

For psychedelics to be most safely integrated into society, we need to be honest about the implications. MAPS recognizes the importance of a comprehensive understanding of their risks and potential benefits, teaching people how to navigate altered states of consciousness and how policies impact individuals and communities. 

We create cutting-edge education for professionals and the public, provide expert support for the psychedelic and drug policy movement, and convene people who share our vision—all to lay the groundwork and create the guardrails necessary for responsible social transformation. 

As psychedelics become more mainstream and an increasing number of people seek to use them for healing and personal growth, we are more dedicated than ever to making resources available for people and communities to safely and responsibly integrate psychedelics into medical, legal, and spiritual contexts.

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Open Source Endowment

Zig Software Foundation Inc

EA Long-Term Future Fund

Longevity Escape Velocity Foundation

Odylia Therapeutics

Open Source Endowment

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