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Giving What We Can
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GWWC Anniversary Week Update:
We’re in the middle of celebrating Giving What We Can and the 10% Pledge’s 15th anniversary! Thanks to everyone who has posted their thoughts, pledge stories, or hopes for the future on social so far and/or contributed to our EA Forum thread.We’ve also been posting pledge-focused content on our blog all week (and a bit before) and wanted to highlight a couple great posts to check out:
-The “Progressive Pledge” by Phillip Popien and Alana HF (a unique way to gradually increase your pledge percentage that takes into account decreasing marginal utility of money)
-The Virtues of Virtue Signaling by Martin Jacobson (an in-depth look at public giving — why it’s sometimes difficult or discouraged, and why maybe it shouldn’t be)
Our Effective Giving Global Coordinator and Incubator Luke Moore also posted a great piece on how Peter Singer’s ideas transformed his life!
Of course, don’t let these more in-depth examples dissuade you from posting your quick thoughts on what the Pledge has meant to you — even just a few sentences is great! :)
Can’t wait to share the compilation of anniversary week posts and thoughts at the end of the week!
The project is continuing to hibernate for 2023!
Giving What We Can is also happy to sponsor donations for participants who’d like to do a giving game! Generally $10 or $20 for each adult! More info: https://www.givingwhatwecan.org/en-US/events/guides/giving-games
We also offer a trial pledge where you can pledge 1%-10% of income for a custom length of time, so you can see how pledging and giving feels!
That’s so nice to hear :)
Welcome to the community and please feel free to reach out if we can help you at all! - Grace
Who is your favourite GWWC team member? :)
Photo of where Grace is a Weavers Fields Playground (on the facebook event) if you like to join before we go to Newspeak House just before 12.30: https://www.facebook.com/events/178963095069220/?active_tab=discussion
Don’t forget this event is today! Grace from the team will be at Weavers Field playground from 11.30am in case anyone wants to bring their kids! and then at Newspeak house from 12.30!
Don’t forget to bring something to eat
Hi Ben,
The donor lottery should be run again at the end of 2023.
As far as we’re aware this is the only donor lottery occurring.
And yes, the GWWC team took over the donor lottery from EA Funds at the end of 2021.
Thanks,
Grace
Update: The 2022 Donor Lottery has been drawn!
The draw for the donor lottery took place on January 24th and no winner was drawn for all 3 lotteries—meaning that the ‘benefactor’ was selected.
View the draws here:
$2M lottery: No winner
$500K lottery: No winner
$100K lottery: No winnerThis means that the funds will stay in the pot and will have the chance to be won in the next lottery.
This year, there was a high chance that the ‘benefactor’ would have won each of the lotteries and this is what occurred. The probability ranged from 74% for the $100K to 96.6% for the $2M. You can view the probabilities and payouts of past lotteries.
Thank you to those who entered the lottery, and best of luck if you choose to enter in the future!
I’ve added a bunch of Giving What We Can’s videos under the different sections of your list!
We’ve had feedback from group leaders in the past that some of our videos have been helpful for introductory content for their groups. - Grace
Also between FB, LinkedIn and EA Forum about ~1000 people have responded to the event!
We already have a bunch of community members involved in the main event (they’ll be sharing about their giving onscreen) but there will be a chance for everyone to discuss during the gathertown event afterwards!
We’ll also be prompting people to let us know in the chat during the YouTube event!
It’s unclear to me when the match will begin exactly. In the past the match has started in Eastern Time—so I would assume ET is when the match will begin but this could be inaccurate.
Thanks Will! Just want to publicly acknowledge that we’d like to chat with you more about it.
I agree that there’s still a chance for EAs to shift a good amount to effective charities through the match, but I think in general there’s less of a need for the level of coordination than previously.
Looking forward to seeing what we can work out together! - Grace
Yes, we think that’s right. We’ve just quoted directly from Meta above about the match.
We’re also trying to seek clarification about some thing from Meta but they are unlikely to respond based on past experience.
Hi Tyler, I saw your email but I’m just having some technical issues responding via the tech stack we have set up at the moment, am hoping to resolve very soon! It looks like Giving Multiplier aren’t current set up to receive donations via Facebook so this would mean that we can’t include them for now—if they get this set up, then we would be happy to include them.
Sorry for the delay in responding, I’m working on this project on top of my normal work for GWWC and this is already the busiest period of the year for me.
-Grace
Hi Kevin, we’d probably be able to arrange for someone to speak if there was an audience of 10 or more! Obviously the bigger the better :) Or we could try and combine several smaller groups for a virtual event!
In honor of Pledge Highlight Week, here’s a list of some resources we recommend for people who are considering taking a pledge.
Articles/FAQ related to pledging
Why pledge (even if you already donate)
5 things you’ve got wrong about the Giving What We Can Pledge
Can money buy happiness? A review of the data (newly updated!)
Pledge FAQ
Videos featuring @Luke Freeman 🔸 :
Why make a public giving pledge?
How change happens
How much to donate to charity: Finding a good standard for giving
Pledgers sharing their experience
Case studies page
“People who give effectively” video playlist
Giving What We Can blog
Introductory videos about effective giving & the ideas behind the pledge
The story behind the 10% Pledge (featuring Toby Ord and released last month!)
You’re richer than you realise (Grace interviews people on the streets of London!)
And of course, our “How Rich Am I” calculator tool where you can see where your income puts you on a global scale.