To give prospective hires a window into the parts of Coefficient that can be hard to see from the outside, we asked staff members from across the org to tell us about what surprised them most when they arrived.
Our Comms team serves both an internal function — such as advising grantmakers on the risks of potential grants — and an external one, including shaping how we communicate our work and ideas to the world. Sharon Yang, a Senior Communications Officer, shares what a typical "day in her life" looks like.
In December 2025, we committed $175 million for 2026 to GiveWell's evidence-backed, cost-effective recommendations in global health. In partnership with Good Ventures, we're now increasing that commitment to $1 billion. This one-off surge reflects our expectation of significant increases in future philanthropic funding for this kind of work, and it lets us fill cost-effective gaps today while helping grantees scale to absorb far more funding down the line.
Caleb Watney joins Coefficient Giving from the Institute for Progress as our inaugural Managing Director of Public Policy. He'll lead our US AI policy work, the Abundance & Growth Fund, and government relations, as we deepen our efforts to help governments navigate the challenges and opportunities of transformative AI.
Jeremy Klemin interviews Samantha Kagel, CEO of Ambitious Impact (AIM), an incubator that has helped launch around 50 high-impact nonprofits. They discuss AIM's flagship Charity Entrepreneurship program and the lessons it offers for building effective organizations from the ground up.
Saad Bhamla is a key figure in the frugal innovation movement, which seeks to build cheaper versions of existing scientific tools. His latest innovation, a portable device to test tuberculosis and other diseases, could well be another consequential contribution to global public health.
Coefficient Giving announced the launch of the Strep A Vaccine Fund, a multi-donor initiative to accelerate the development of vaccines against Strep A, which kills more than 600,000 people annually. The Fund has raised just over $140 million toward a $200 million goal, with support from Good Ventures, Lucinda Southworth, Adam and Abigail Winkel, and other anchor funders.
Strep A causes over 600,000 deaths per year — a toll comparable to HIV/AIDS and malaria — but attracts a tiny fraction of the research funding. Today, we're launching the Strep A Vaccine Fund: a multi-donor initiative to accelerate the development of Strep A vaccines.
Britney Budiman writes about how we approach remote and in-person work at Coefficient Giving — the tradeoffs that shaped our policies, the co-location bonuses and relocation support we offer, and what day-to-day life looks like for staff in our San Francisco, D.C., and New York offices and around the world.
Our AI Enablement Lead, Chris Webster, shares how we think about AI as an organization, what our team has built, and specific resources he's written to help our staff.
