GCRI has long been doing excellent work at a small scale. Some recent work is summarized in our blog post on 2018 accomplishments. However, we have been very limited by a lack of robust funding. We could do much more if we had the funding needed to scale up. Therefore, GCRI is now trying to raise a larger amount of funding than in the past. Specifically, we are currently seeking a total of $1.5 million. Anyone interested in contributing to this can do so via …

GCRI may now be at a turning point. We have spent years advancing our understanding of global catastrophic risk, assessing the best role for our organization, and developing the capacity to grow the organization and its impact on the risks. We have established ourselves as leaders of global catastrophic risk scholarship and of the wider community that works on global catastrophic risk. GCRI has an important and distinctive role to play on global catastrophic risk. We believe the time has come for GCRI to scale …

GCRI’s ultimate aim is to develop the best ways of reducing global catastrophic risk. We recognize that global catastrophic risk is a complex and multifaceted issue area, and we do not start with any sweeping assumptions about what the best ways of reducing the risk may be. Instead, we work across a range of risks in order to identify the best opportunities. (In principle, we aspire to work across all of the risks, but at this time we can only work on some.) This is …