How worth you think it is community builders emphasizing GWWC as a milestone/next step? I’m also curious about how your view on this evolved over time (my sense is that it was a more emphasized milestone in the past)
While I wouldn’t ever want people to feel pressured to donate or to take a giving pledge, I honestly think it’s a real missed-opportunity that isn’t emphasised much within the EA community anymore (especially compared to where it once was). For so many people giving will be the main way they stay engaged (of which some will eventually find other ways of having an impact) and for many it’ll be their biggest contribution. Also for many people pursuing direct work this can be incredibly high variance whereas giving can be a nice stable part of their impact journey.
One thing that I’d love to see more celebration of is significant giving milestones (we’re starting to do this at least with the 1 and 10 year GWWC pins, but I’d love to see annual celebration events where the community celebrates wins including things like significant giving milestones for people within the community).
I quite like the pins and agree celebrations have the potential to boost adhere (or at least make adherence more public/legible) – cool that you’re working on this!
How worth you think it is community builders emphasizing GWWC as a milestone/next step? I’m also curious about how your view on this evolved over time (my sense is that it was a more emphasized milestone in the past)
Thanks Renan!
While I wouldn’t ever want people to feel pressured to donate or to take a giving pledge, I honestly think it’s a real missed-opportunity that isn’t emphasised much within the EA community anymore (especially compared to where it once was). For so many people giving will be the main way they stay engaged (of which some will eventually find other ways of having an impact) and for many it’ll be their biggest contribution. Also for many people pursuing direct work this can be incredibly high variance whereas giving can be a nice stable part of their impact journey.
One thing that I’d love to see more celebration of is significant giving milestones (we’re starting to do this at least with the 1 and 10 year GWWC pins, but I’d love to see annual celebration events where the community celebrates wins including things like significant giving milestones for people within the community).
Thanks, Luke.
I quite like the pins and agree celebrations have the potential to boost adhere (or at least make adherence more public/legible) – cool that you’re working on this!