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Phil Buchanan

Phil Buchanan is the president of the Center for Effective Philanthropy, a nonprofit that produces data and research on philanthropic effectiveness. The organization hired him as its first chief executive in 2001. He wrote Giving Done Right: Effective Philanthropy and Making Every Dollar Count (2019), hosts the Giving Done Right podcast and co-founded YouthTruth, a CEP initiative that gathers student feedback for educators and funders. He studied government at Wesleyan University and earned an MBA at Harvard Business School.

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Statements by Phil Buchanan

Phil Buchanan

Role at the time: President of the Center for Effective Philanthropy

Mixed or conditional

Statement summary

Phil Buchanan, president of the Center for Effective Philanthropy, tells the Associated Press that he welcomes Anthropic's commitment and is hopeful about it. He says he will not get too excited until he sees evidence of what is actually happening.

“I guess I’m hopeful ... but I’m not going to get too excited until I see some evidence of what’s actually happening.”
Open source (opens in a new tab)Ahead of massive IPOs, AI companies are sketching plans to share their wealth · Associated Press
Why we used this label

Buchanan welcomes the commitment and says he is hopeful, but he withholds judgment until he sees how the fund is used, and he cautions Anthropic against assuming that business expertise carries over to philanthropy. His support depends on what the fund later does, so we used the mixed or conditional label.

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