The Forethought Foundation for Global Priorities Research "aims to promote academic work that addresses the question of how to use our scarce resources to improve the world by as much as possible. [They] are especially interested in the idea that the primary determinant of the value of our actions today is how those actions influence the very long-run future. [...]

The Forethought Foundation is a project of the Centre for Effective Altruism, and works in close collaboration with the Global Priorities Institute at Oxford University." (source)

See also Centre for Effective Altruism, Global Priorities Institute, Global Priorities Research, and Longtermism (Philosophy).