Danny De La Torre draws on his year and a half as chief of staff to our COO to explain three things that make someone effective in the role: protect your principal's time, make information gathering cheap, and architect how the work gets done.
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.
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.
The Global Health & Wellbeing Cause Prioritization team thinks about how Coefficient should spend its funding, including investigating new cause areas, incubating and making grants in potential programs, and evaluating our methodology and budget allocation. Deena Mousa, a researcher and grantmaker, shares what a typical "day in her life" looks like.
Coefficient's Comms team sits down with three grantmakers across a selection of our Global Catastrophic Risks (GCR) teams — Abbey Chaver, who specializes in infosecurity; Trevor Levin, who focuses on AI Governance & Policy; and Chris Bakerlee from our Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness fund — to hear about what fills their days, how grants actually get made, and how they ended up at Coefficient Giving.
Olivia Larsen, a Program Officer on Coefficient Giving's Global Health & Wellbeing Partnerships team, shares what a typical "day in her life" looks like.
From driving pedicabs in Austin to conducting mathematics research in Sydney to practicing law at traditional firms, our team members have followed diverse paths to their current roles.
