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Back to Episodes[Linkpost] “Going Bigger: How We’re Scaling Effective Giving & Careers in 2026” by Melanie Basnak🔸, Kearney Capuano 🔸
Description
Overview
The mission of the Effective Giving & Careers fund at Coefficient Giving is to support people to have a greater positive impact through their donations and careers.
We launched the program in 2022. Since then, we’ve made over 60 grants totaling >$30m across four main areas:
- Effective Giving: Raising funds for highly cost-effective global health and development programs
- Talent: Helping people transition into impactful careers
- Incubation: Launching new high-impact nonprofits
- Research: Improving how we evaluate impact in giving and careers
Our early results have been encouraging. In the effective giving area alone, organizations we support have collectively moved hundreds of millions of dollars to cost-effective charities.
Over the past year, we’ve updated toward a broader view of impact. In addition to direct ROI, we’ve seen how this ecosystem can contribute to larger wins by influencing major funders, strengthening policy relationships, incubating organizations that later secure large-scale funding, and building a talent pipeline for high-impact work.
These wins have made us more ambitious about what this program could become.
2025 highlights
We grew our Effective Giving portfolio by running our first Request for Proposals (RFP) for Effective Giving organizations. Following that process, we funded [...]
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Outline:
(00:16) Overview
(01:37) 2025. highlights
(04:21) Our strategy for 2026
(04:51) 1. Scale up existing high-performing grantees
(05:40) 2. Run 2-4 focused RFPs
(06:32) 3. Seed new efforts
(06:52) Effective Giving
(07:40) Effective Careers
(08:31) 4. Support the ecosystem in additional ways
(08:49) Effective Giving Ecosystem
(09:11) Effective Careers Ecosystem
(10:58) A note on incubation and research
(12:24) Key uncertainties
(13:30) What success could look like in 3-5 years
(15:25) We want your feedback
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First published:
March 16th, 2026
Linkpost URL:
https://coefficientgiving.org/research/going-bigger-how-were-scaling-effective-giving-careers-in-2026/
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