Would Jimmy personally (or the business) ever consider taking a public pledge to give to effective charities, like the 🔸 10% Pledge—a pledge to donate at least 10% of income until you retire to the organisations that can most improve the lives of others?
Prominent pledgers like podcaster Sam Harris, youtuber Ali Abdaal, author and historian Rutger Bregman amongst others have raised awareness of the pledges we offer, as well as the principles of effective charities—and influenced more than 1500 people to take a pledge to give, which we estimate will generate over $100m USD of effective donations over time.
I’ll add this might well be a very doable committment as given this GiveDirectly donation and others of his, he might be already doing it or pretty close...
Would Jimmy personally (or the business) ever consider taking a public pledge to give to effective charities, like the 🔸 10% Pledge—a pledge to donate at least 10% of income until you retire to the organisations that can most improve the lives of others?
Prominent pledgers like podcaster Sam Harris, youtuber Ali Abdaal, author and historian Rutger Bregman amongst others have raised awareness of the pledges we offer, as well as the principles of effective charities—and influenced more than 1500 people to take a pledge to give, which we estimate will generate over $100m USD of effective donations over time.
Another prominent pledger is Chris Anderson, the head of TED, who took the pledge this year and wrote about it in his new book Infectious Generosity.
https://​​www.givingwhatwecan.org/​​blog/​​press-release-head-of-ted-chris-anderson-signs-new-wealth-pledge-to-give-at-least-2-5-of-wealth-to-high-impact-charities-each-year
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I’ll add this might well be a very doable committment as given this GiveDirectly donation and others of his, he might be already doing it or pretty close...