Giving What We Can is celebrating our fifteenth birthday! · Giving What We Can

Since Giving What We Can was formally based in 2009, with simply 23 founding members, the group has grown considerably – and we’re approaching 10,000 10% Pledgers (hopefully within the subsequent couple of months)! The group because it stands at present has now donated over $250 million and is predicted to donate over $1 billion throughout the lifetimes of our members.

In case you’re a pledger, be part of us in sharing tales this week:

To rejoice our group’s affect during the last 15 years, we’re hoping to mild up the web for the subsequent week with everybody’s tales and quotes. We’re inviting all of our pledgers to share (or re-share) your tales about pledging, photographs from the early days, what the pledge has meant to you, and even your hopes for Giving What We Can and the ten% Pledge sooner or later. We’ll then compile a bunch of those tales and photographs (and the rest we get) to focus on how highly effective it may be to present considerably and successfully.

This isn’t solely a good way to replicate in your giving and the group but additionally to indicate your folks and networks what the Pledge is all about – and hopefully encourage a few of them to hitch us throughout subsequent month’s Pledge Week (December Sixteenth-Twenty second) as we close to 10,000 lifetime pledges.

get entangled:

• Put up on social media tagging Giving What We Can and share your ideas/story about pledging (something from what motivated you to take the pledge to the story of the way you discovered about it and the way it’s impacted your life up to now!) alongside together with your hopes for the way forward for Giving What We Can. (Bonus in case you embrace a photograph of you holding your pledge and/or carrying your pin – you may take a present one or share one thing from the previous!)
• In case you don’t use social media, submit a quote and photograph to this type so we are able to share your story on our weblog and social media.

You will discover some instance put up concepts and extra info right here

Don’t neglect so as to add a diamond to your LinkedIn or X accounts to indicate you’re a pledger! A number of new pledgers have talked about the diamonds as one of many causes they’ve pledged!

And most significantly, we hope you take pleasure in seeing recollections and reflections from throughout the group throughout this thrilling anniversary.

The final 15 years have proven that there are literally thousands of people who find themselves prepared to take giving to the best charities severely, and who’re prepared to present a major quantity of their revenue away in pursuit of making a greater world for these now, and sooner or later.

We hope the subsequent 15 years will deliver us vital development, and present that giving successfully and considerably can really turn into a cultural norm.

Thanks in your continued giving, and in your continued assist of Giving What We Can.

P.S. Right here’s a throwback to the GWWC web site in 2010 – that Toby Ord coded himself!