(cross-posted from the Effective Altruism Forum)

We’ve recently made a few updates to the program page for our career development and transition funding program (recently renamed, previously the “early-career funding program”), which provides support – in the form of funding for graduate study, unpaid internships, independent study, career transition and exploration periods, and other activities relevant to building career capital – for individuals who want to pursue careers that could help to reduce global catastrophic risks (especially risks from advanced artificial intelligence and global catastrophic biological risks) or otherwise improve the long-term future.

The main updates are as follows:

We’ve broadened the program’s scope to explicitly include later-career individuals, which is also reflected in the new program name.
We’ve added some language to clarify that we’re open to supporting a variety of career development and transition activities, including not just graduate study but also unpaid internships, independent study, career transition and exploration periods, postdocs, obtaining professional certifications, online courses, and other types of one-off career-capital-building activities.
- Earlier versions of the page stated that the program’s primary focus was to provide support for graduate study specifically, which was our original intention when we first launched the program back in 2020. We haven’t changed our views about the impact of that type of funding and expect it to continue to account for a large fraction of the grants we make via this program, but we figured we should update the page to clarify that we’re in fact open to supporting a wide range of other kinds of proposals as well, which also reflects what we’ve already been doing in practice.
This program now subsumes what was previously called the Open Philanthropy Biosecurity Scholarship; for the time being, candidates who would previously have applied to that program should apply to this program instead. (We may decide to split out the Biosecurity Scholarship again as a separate program at a later point, but for practical purposes, current applicants can ignore this.)

Some concrete examples of the kinds of applicants we’re open to funding, in no particular order (copied from the program page):

A final-year undergraduate student who wants to pursue a master’s or a P

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