Eon Essay Contest — The Precipice Essay Contest (2024)
Verified$76K
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Eon Essay Contest
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Mar 2024
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[Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building] Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of $76,382 to Eon Essay Contest to support an essay contest on The Precipice by Toby Ord. This contest will award cash prizes to winners, and is open to high school students and young people in other age brackets. This follows our January 2023 support for the previous iteration of this contest and falls within our focus area of Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building.
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