Britney Budiman

Coefficient Giving has two main offices in San Francisco and Washington, D.C., coworking spaces in New York and London, and staff who work remotely from around a dozen countries. Some of us are in an office most days; others come in mainly for team weeks and retreats. We don’t think there’s one right answer on in-person vs. remote — we’ve tried to set up our policies so that both can work well, while being clear that we lean toward in-person where feasible.

By Britney Budiman Editor’s note: This article was published under our former name, Open Philanthropy. Some content may be outdated. You can see our latest writing here. In October, our longtime grantee David Baker won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for groundbreaking work in protein design. We wanted to take the opportunity to highlight his work and some of its practical applications, such as enabling better vaccines, that we have been supporting Baker and his colleague Neil King in developing.

One day in March 2023, in the district of Wayanad near India’s southern tip, hundreds of villagers lined up for an uncommon service from an unexpected source: a check-up on their lung health, courtesy of Fujifilm. The Japanese company, best known for its cameras, was taking a different kind of picture.