#EffectiveVentures

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Nick Beckstead American philosopher, Open Philanthropy program officer and Effective Ventures director who ran the FTX Foundation and Future Fund, was sued and then dismissed by the FTX debtors, and co-founded Secure AI Project.

80,000 Hours Career-advice organization founded in Oxford in 2011 by Benjamin Todd and William MacAskill, hosted by the Centre for Effective Altruism's charity until 2025 and funded with at least 39.4 million dollars by Open Philanthropy.
Centre for Effective Altruism Oxford charity company incorporated in 2012 under MacAskill, Ord and Beckstead, with a US twin that Bankman-Fried served as treasurer and director, renamed Effective Ventures in 2022 and investigated after FTX's collapse.
Effective Ventures Effective Ventures was the umbrella charity that legally housed the central effective-altruism organizations, took roughly 27 million dollars from Sam Bankman-Fried's FTX in 2022, repaid all of it to the FTX bankruptcy estate in a 2024 settlement, and then resolved to spin out all of its projects into independent bodies.