Announcements:

• We launched the Strep A Vaccine Fund, a multi-donor effort to accelerate the development of vaccines against Strep A, a pathogen that kills more than 600,000 people a year.

Hiring: 

We're hiring an Operations Coordinator/Associate based in San Francisco or Washington D.C. As always, if your referral results in a hire, you'll receive $5k as a thank you.

New writing:

• We published a blog on how we do remote and in-person work at CG, with reflections from four staff on what working from D.C., SF, NYC, and Brasília is like.
• Deena Mousa was profiled in our latest Day in the Life, walking through what it's like to be a program officer on GHW Cause Prioritization.
• Chris Webster wrote about how CG has integrated AI into our work: what we've built, where AI helps and falls short, and what he's learned rolling out new tools across the org.
• George Rosenfeld shared a personal letter to friends and family making the case that AI could transform the world within years and that the current trajectory is cause for concern.
• Jeremy Klemin wrote about how Georgia Tech engineer Saad Bhamla, working with Thai researchers Kiatichai Faksri and Noppadon Nuntawong, is building a sub-$100 Raman spectroscopy device that could transform TB testing in low-resource settings.

Opportunities:

• We launched a $10M RFP on Alternative Protein R&D — read our EA Forum post about it here. Applications are due August 10, 2026.
• Our RFP for Humane Fish Slaughter Research/Prototypes is open through July 1, 2026. Funding is available for projects that materially improve the welfare of fish at capture and slaughter.
• We also have a variety of other funding opportunities available, including fellowships, scholarships, support for group organizers, and funding for career development and transition.

Coefficient Giving is hiring for several roles:

• Grantmakers and Senior Generalists, GCR (mostly remote; some location preferences vary, apply by May 17)
  • Learn more about the 10+ open roles in our forum post.
• Research Fellow and Strategy Fellow, Cause Prioritization Team (remote, apply by May 17)
• IT Associate/Senior IT Associate (remote, apply by May 28)
• Operations Coordinator/Associate (San Francisco or Washington D.C., rolling)

As always, if your referral results in a hire, you'll receive $5k as a thank you.

New writing: 

• We published three "Day in the Life" posts: one with Caroline Daniell on Legal, another with Olivia Larsen on Partnerships, and one more profiling three GCR grantmakers: Abbey Chaver, Trevor Levin, and Chris Bakerlee.

Opportunities:

• Our RFP for Humane Fish Slaughter Research/Prototypes is open through July 1, 2026. Funding is available for projects that materially improve the welfare of fish at capture and slaughter.
• We also have a variety of other funding opportunities available, including fellowships, scholarships, support for group organizers, and funding for career development and transition.

Coefficient Giving is hiring for several roles:

• Managing Director, Philanthropic Advisory (San Francisco preferred or Remote)
• Global Aid Policy – Associate Program Officer (Washington D.C.)
• Senior Advisor, GCR Partnerships (San Francisco)
• Operations Coordinator/Associate (San Francisco or Washington D.C.)

As always, if your referral results in a hire, you'll receive $5k as a thank you.

We published new blog posts:

• Our 2025 Letter from the CEO, reflecting on directing over $1 billion in 2025 (the most in our history!) and outlining plans for continued scaling in 2026.
• Going Bigger: How We're Scaling Effective Giving & Careers in 2026, detailing our expansion strategy for the Effective Giving & Careers fund, including nearly tripling funding availability and supporting portfolio organizations that moved approximately $300 million in 2025.
• How Three Grantees Are Helping People Find High-Impact Careers, showcasing how Probably Good, High Impact Medicine, and High Impact Professionals are helping individuals transition into high-impact roles.
• What Is Progress Worth?, presenting a model for valuing economic progress and its effects on human welfare, featuring an interactive calculator for estimating how policy changes affecting growth translate into social value.

We published a Q&A with Mark Davis of the Centre for Pesticide Suicide Prevention, "How Banning Toxic Pesticides Could Prevent Over 100,000 Deaths Per Year," examining the case for regulatory action on toxic pesticides.

We published a Q&A with Clare Donaldson, the Lead Exposure Elimination Project's Executive Director, "How LEEP is Eliminating Lead Paint, One Country at a Time."

We also published a shallow investigation into antimicrobial resistance, estimating its health burden, explaining barriers to addressing it, and identifying potential funding opportunities.

We continued our annual tradition of writing about what our Global Health & Wellbeing grantees accomplished in 2025.

Our RFP for Humane Fish Slaughter Research/Prototypes is open through July 1, 2026. Funding is available for projects that materially improve the welfare of fish at capture and slaughter.

We also have a variety of other funding opportunities available, including fellowships, scholarships, support for group organizers, and funding for career development and transition.

Coefficient Giving is hiring for a Grants Associate (remote, $123k) — apply by Monday, February 23rd to be considered. 

We published a new blog post, "Our Approach to Recruiting a Strong Team," a Q&A with Recruiting Lead Phil Zealley that covers our hiring approach and why we invest an unusual amount of effort in finding and evaluating candidates.

We launched an RFP for Humane Fish Slaughter Research/Prototypes. $7M in funding is available for projects that materially improve the welfare of fish at capture and slaughter. Learn more here: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/i8om4DADPX5SfyNwP/request-for-proposals-humane-fish-slaughter-research-and 

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