Four Lessons From $4 Billion in Impact-focused Giving

The CEO of Coefficient Giving reflects on more than a decade of pursuing their distinct approach to philanthropy.

Photo by Frames For Your Heart via Unsplash In 2011, when we began what would eventually become Coefficient Giving, we set out to explore a big question: If someone had billions of dollars to give, what should they fund to make the greatest positive difference? Previously called Open Philanthropy, we started as a partnership between Good Ventures , the foundation of Cari Tuna and Dustin Moskovitz, and GiveWell , a nonprofit dedicated to finding and supporting evidence-backed charities that save or improve lives the most per dollar. Our goal was to expand GiveWell’s focus on cost-effectiveness

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