As mentioned in our 15th anniversary announcement blog, we are inviting all of our pledgers to share (or re-share) your stories about pledging, photos from the early days, what the pledge has meant to you, and/or your hopes for Giving What We Can and the 10% Pledge in the future either on social media (or if you don’t have social accounts) via this form.  Â
We’ll then compile a bunch of these stories and photos (and anything else we get) to highlight how powerful it can be to give significantly and effectively. Â
As many of our pledgers are EA Forum users, we also wanted to start up a thread for sharing these stories here – who knows, your contribution might go on to inspire someone else to pledge!
So... If you've taken a pledge: What has the pledge meant to you?
An idea that has always motivated me is the idea of the veil of ignorance — the basic concept being, how would you want society to be if you did not know who you would be in it? A world where people in the top 25% donate significantly to those less well off has always appealed to me and felt right. The GWWC pledge was one of the first long-term charitable actions I took in this direction. I remember signing my paper copy of the pledge with four other friends, two of us taking the further pledge and the others taking the 10%. It felt both important and significant to our group and carried real weight.